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NEW 📢 #Reunification Practice Guide 📢 This Guide includes the best-available evidence on supporting children to return to their families and stay together, after a period in care, with actionable steps for senior local leaders & practitioners: foundations.org.uk/toolkit/practi…

Our Chief Exec @jocasebourne joined partners for an important discussion with Health Minister @SharonHodgsonMP on children’s health and early intervention. Parenting support is one of the most powerful tools for helping children thrive – but we must ensure no family is left behind.

REFLECTIVE TOOL 🔎💭for actioning the #Reunification Practice Guide. The Tool can help translate the Guide’s evidence-based key principles & recommendations into safe & sustained reunification support that works in your local area 🔗 foundations.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

SUMMARY FOR ELECTED & LEAD MEMBERS 📄🗣️ As well as summarising the #Reunification Practice Guide, this handy resource provides a set of key questions to Elected & Lead Members to help them better support the delivery of evidence-based reunification services: foundations.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

🗨️ Hear from sector experts & contributors on why the #Reunification Practice Guide is such a valuable tool in helping senior local leaders & practitioners to plan and implement the most effective support for children & families going through reunification 👉 foundations.org.uk/press-release/…

REMINDER ⏰ Join us this Friday for #FosterCare Practice webinar 📅 Find out how the Practice Guide can be used to strengthen support for foster carers in your local area. Book your spot here 🔗 @15dd5346-9e73-4224-a354-b6fb0bed13b7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d1e43045… The webinars will be particularly useful for: senior leaders across corporate parenting partnerships; Fostering Heads of Service; elected members; commissioners; Panel Advisers; Practice Supervisors; Principal Social Workers; Supervising Social Workers; and voluntary and independent fostering agencies. Foster carers are also welcome to attend. Speakers 🗣️ the Foundations team behind the #FosterCare Practice Guide, with Advisory Group members Kayleigh Wilshaw from @TACT, and foster carer Symone Robinson.

What does a positive #reunification process look like? Writing in CYPNow, Foundations’ Senior Practice Development Adviser Harpreet Ahdan outlines 4 steps to ensure families receive the support they need before, during, and after reunification. 👉 cypnow.co.uk/content/in-dep…

The #Reunification Practice Guide, published today, includes eight Key Principles on the approach local leaders & practitioners can take on reunification 🗝️ They are drawn from the experiences of parents, children, young people, and practitioners. Find out more: #key-principles" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">foundations.org.uk/toolkit/practi…

The #Reunification Practice Guide includes 4️⃣ evidence-based recommendations senior local leaders and practitioners can put into action to support & improve the lives of children returning home to their families after a period in care. Find out more: #recommendations" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">foundations.org.uk/toolkit/practi…

How do families and practitioners feel about reunification? 💭 Throughout the Reunification Practice Guide, published tomorrow, you’ll be able to hear directly from children, families & practitioners who have experienced reunification first-hand, including how they felt & what helped them the most.

Policy shifts are putting #reunification on the agenda as an important option to be actively considered by local authorities for children & young people in care, and their families. Watch ▶️👇 to find out why the Reunification Practice Guide – out tomorrow – is a key resource for local areas.

This week, we are publishing a new Practice Guide on #reunification – the process through which a child or young person who has been in care is reunited with their parents. Watch this video to find out how Practice Guides help senior local leaders, and frontline practitioners 👇 foundations.org.uk/toolkit/practi…

NEW OPPORTUNITY 📢🌟 We’re looking for applications from researchers to work with us as a part of the UKRI What Works Innovation Fellowship, focused on tackling violence against women and girls. 🗓️Closes: 4pm, 8 September 2026 Apply now ➡️ foundations.org.uk/opportunity/uk…

REMINDER 🔔 FOSTER CARE WEBINAR 📅 Join us this Thursday to find out how the #FosterCare Practice Guide can be used to strengthen support for foster carers in your local area. Book your spot for Thursday 👉 🔗 @15dd5346-9e73-4224-a354-b6fb0bed13b7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3b3c41aa…

Our latest newsletter is out! 📨 This month, we talk about the importance of enduring relationships, our new Outcomes Framework & Measures Database, two opportunities to work with us, and two upcoming webinars! Read it here 👉 mailchi.mp/foundations.or…

If you work in #FosterCare then our upcoming Practice Guide webinars are for you 💻👋 Join us online for a deep dive on the Foster Care Practice Guide, and how it can be used to strengthen support for foster carers in your local area. Sign up now (x2 dates): foundations.org.uk/news-and-event…

NEW BLOG ✍️ Senior Policy Adviser, Ava Berry, reflects on the vital role of the workforce in ensuring that children affected by #DomesticAbuse get the support they need, & how generating evidence can help us build a confident & skilled workforce. 🔗 foundations.org.uk/finding-out-wh…

About the call 🔎 Strengthening evaluation capacity of By and For organisations. We want to support By and For orgs to strengthen evaluation practice, to help improve workforce responses to minoritised ethnic families affected by #DomesticAbuse. 🗓️12pm, 19 August 🔗foundations.org.uk/opportunity/st…

About the call 🔎 Domestic abuse workforce programmes evidence fund Effective responses to #DomesticAbuse in families rely on a skilled, confident & well-supported workforce - our call aims to build evidence on promising workforce programmes. 🗓️12pm, 5 August 🔗foundations.org.uk/opportunity/do…