Information for Workers

Children Looked After

Web Links

Care Matters: Time to deliver for children in care (launched 26 March 2008)

Green paper boosts prospects for children in care - Article on Every Child Matters website, 9 October 2006, with links to key documents.

Care Matters: Consultation Responses

Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care DfES October 2006

Looked-after Children page on Every Child Matters website

DCSF: Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) year ending 31 March 2007

Publications

Keeiping them in the Family: Outcomes for Abused and Neglected Children Placed with Family or Friends Carers Through Care Proceedings, Joan Hunt, Suzette Waterhouse and Eleanor Lutman, University of Oxford (March 2008)