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Third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties – research

Community Care

A third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties, research has found. However, in most cases, parents’ conditions were only identified at the court stage, in part because social workers lacked the time and training to do so. “It was not prioritised.”

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

Community Care

This is despite a 2017 literature review by Oxford University’s Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education indicating that outcomes for children placed with siblings in foster care were mostly better than for those placed apart from siblings. We received funding from the Hadley Trust to develop a pilot event in Leicestershire.