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Overcoming the barriers to contact between siblings separated by the care system

Community Care

By Kirsty Hammonds, Coram In my role as child placement consultant in Coram’s activity days team, I come across many siblings who will not be able to live together permanently. This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care.

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Supervision orders face overhaul to improve effectiveness in supporting family reunification

Community Care

The plan, which would be co-produced with parents and subject to regular review, forms the centrepiece of proposed best practice guidance from a sub-group of the Public Law Working Group (PLWG), set up to investigate longstanding concerns about the use of standalone supervision orders to support family reunification following care proceedings.