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Generating and championing actionable evidence that improves services to support family relationships.

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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: https://t.co/bPszouC4BM

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Our newsletter is out! 📨 Dive into Foundations' latest news, blogs, and think pieces in this end-of-summer reads edition. https://t.co/U2ly9ApKgh

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NEW BLOG ✍️ What does a parent need when they are going through a process of reunification with their children? Jess (not her real name) writes about her experience & what she would like to tell social care leaders and parents in her situation. Read: https://t.co/KjOF5QxPVE

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WE'RE HIRING 💼 We're recruiting for two roles to help us generate evidence that can strengthen support for children and families.

Senior Evaluation Officer ➡️ https://t.co/275YJmkzV7

Evidence and Evaluation Officer ➡️ https://t.co/B3fWcIecnT

🗓️ Close: 12pm, Monday 14 Sept

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NEW BLOG ✍️ What can we learn from the Reflective Fostering Study, the largest impact evaluation of a parenting programme with kinship and foster carers conducted in the UK to date? Dr Karen Irvine (University of Hertfordshire) outlines its findings and what they mean for children & families. Read 👉 https://t.co/o6qXT7Wc5l

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NEW BLOG ✍️ Nilushka Perera, Senior Race Equity Fellow, shares her reflections on how our anti-racism transformation plan is shaping our work programme & bringing us closer to better outcomes for racially minoritised children and families.

Read now ➡️ https://t.co/mWIXEFtVPH

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Curious about what we’ve been up to at Foundations? 💭

At the end of each month, we share updates in our newsletter including insights into our work and future plans, new publications and resources, events, and opportunities to partner or work with us.

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Explore the Foster Care Practice Guide: https://t.co/vuiFaZVDuo

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Want to find out more about providing the most effective support to foster carers? Watch our webinar on the #FosterCare Practice Guide, where we go through the evidence-based key principles & recommendations on the most effective interventions for foster carers.
▶️ https://t.co/dZ9E1SPvpP

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Calling all senior local authority leaders & practice supervisors 📢 Help us ensure that our website, guidance & tools are as useful and accessible as possible by taking part in a 1.5-hour structured online focus group. Find out more: https://t.co/9l0h36TZen

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Our newsletter is out! 📨 We take a deep dive into the Reunification Practice Guide, which we published earlier this month. Explore the Guide's contents and the resources supporting commissioning, design and delivery.
Read our Reunification Practice Guide deep dive 👉 🧭 https://t.co/Xv4CuigldG

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Deadline extended 📣 🗓️ The deadline to apply for our domestic abuse workforce programmes evidence fund has been extended to 10am, Tuesday 22 September 2026.

Find out more & apply ➡️ https://t.co/fvS1CE5wPh

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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
🔗https://t.co/y9h4SIIu2L

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Our Deputy Director @donnamolloy_ will be speaking at @cypnow's #EarlyHelp Conference on 30 September 🗣️ She will talk about how evidence can support the local early help offer and what we are doing to close evidence gaps & turn evidence into practice. Find out more 👉 https://t.co/PPSoWLkmba

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About the call 🔎 Strengthening evaluation capacity of By and For Orgs. We want to support these orgs to strengthen evaluation practice, to help improve workforce responses to minoritised ethnic families affected by #DomesticAbuse

Closes 🗓️ 12pm, 19 August 🔗 https://t.co/lUO7C5RGwP

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WATCH ▶️ Foundations’ Senior Development Adviser Harpreet Ahdan unpacks 5 ways the Reflective Tool can help local authorities action the evidence-based key principles & recommendations of the Reunification Practice Guide 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Check out the Tool 🔗 https://t.co/NU4afiCweS

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We are working with @researchIP to share available evidence and actionable recommendations on children’s social care & how to put them into practice, enabling uptake and use of evidence about what has been shown to improve outcomes for children. Read 👉 https://t.co/C8wpchbhMT

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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.

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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 🔗 https://t.co/NU4afiCweS

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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: https://t.co/rQONqVlZcL

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🗨️ 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 👉 https://t.co/eQlalVlgfm

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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 🔗 https://t.co/A8BbKAJ5YP

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.