Dorset Council is raising awareness of private fostering arrangements to help protect vulnerable children. Private fostering involves a child under 16, or under 18 if disabled, living with someone who ...

Private Fostering Week (19-25 January) was organised to promote awareness of a form of child care with major implications for child protection. Ruth Lewy reports on the issues Thousands of children ...

Advocates say a major storm is brewing that could overwhelm the state’s child foster care system.The problem is legal liability insurance, or, more specifically, the lack thereof.Insurance companies, ...