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Councillors have blamed each other after watchdogs found South Gloucestershire social services are leaving some children at risk of “significant…

How South Gloucestershire Council is investing in social work to improve outcomes for children.

Foster carers are needed in South Gloucestershire Foster Care Fortnight takes place from 10 to 23 May and the national campaign aims to raise awareness of fostering and show how foster care transforms lives. In South Gloucestershire alone there are over 220 children and young people in care at any one time. Fostering offers children and young people a home when they are unable to live with their birth family. South Gloucestershire Council desperately needs more foster carers for brothers and sisters, teenagers, young parents and their babies and children with complex needs. Sometimes ch...

Woodleaze A new supported living scheme, which will provide homes for 18 young people in a converted former older persons’ care facility in Yate, is now complete and has welcomed its first new residents. South Gloucestershire Council has worked with Solon South West Housing Association, 1625 Independent People and young people to design and build the new accommodation. The former care home at Woodleaze has been converted to provide 18 self-contained studio flats for young people, with common spaces and facilities to allow a range of support services to be delivered on site. The youn...