Policy Briefings and Responses

Full list of TACT policy briefings available here.

TACT's response to the Department for Education's consultation on Adoption and Fostering: Tackling Delay

TACT response to Welsh Government Consultation: “When I am Ready Scheme” – continuity of care

TACT response to Draft legislation on Adoption: Early Permanence through Fostering for Adoption and Matching for Adoption

The Adolescent and Children’s Trust (TACT) response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on the Children and Young People Bill

Response to the DfE Consultation ‘Support and Aspiration: a new approach to special education’

TACT's response to the MoJ Consultation ‘Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders’ *as part of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice

Briefing for Education Bill, 2nd Reading

TACT's response to the MoJ Consultation ‘Proposals for the Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales’

TACT's response to the DfE Consultation on Pupil Premiums

21/10/10 Evidence to Education Selection Committee on Behaviour and Discipline in Schools (our link is down- have attached paper)

House of Commons (2nd Reading and Committee stage) and House of Lords (2nd Reading and Report stage) 

 

TACT's response to the Youth Justice Board's review
TACT responds to the Youth Justice Board (YJB)'s consultation of its governance and operating arrangements.

TACT's response to the DCSF's leaving care consultation
TACT responds to the DCSF's consultation - Planning Transition to Adulthood for Looked After Children

TACT's response to the DCSF consultation paper for NMS in Fostering
TACT responds to the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) consultation on revising the National Minimum Standards (NMS) for Fostering.

TACT's response to the DCSF consultation on exemption amending childcare registration requirements
TACT responds to the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) consultation on exemption of childcare arrangements between friends that are not for monetary payment from registration under the Childcare Act 2006.

TACT's response to the Children & Young People Welsh Committee
TACT gives evidence to the Children & Young People Committee of the National Assembly for Wales regarding the arrangements for the placement of children into care in Wales

TACT Children's Rights review
The Adolescent and Children's Trust (TACT) responds to the Joint Committee on Human Rights call for evidence into children's rights.

TACT Adoption Review
TACT written evidence for the Conservative Party.

Response to the Youth Crime Action Plan
Children Law UK (part of TACT)'s response to the Youth Crime Action Plan

 

Press Releases

TACT: 2013 Virgin London Marathon

Join TACT at one of the greatest sporting events on the planet and help give a child in care a future to smile about.

TACT: Climb Kilimanjaro 2013

Following the tremendous response we received for our 2012 Mount Kilimanjaro climb we have decided to set up another trip to take on the world's tallest freedstanding mountain in 2013.

TACT: Local authority adoption services: avoiding the last chance saloon

Yesterday’s announcement about further measures to tackle delay in the adoption system are the most far-reaching this Government has yet produced as part of its agenda of reforming the adoption system. TACT acknowledges that the numbers of children waiting to be able to move in with a new adoptive family justifies a comprehensive review of the adoption system. Continue reading...

TACT: Report on care and crime shows how children in care are being let down

A report by the Inspectorate of Probation, which says children in care who have been in trouble with the law are being failed by youth offending teams, makes for worrying reading. Charity TACTCare comments here.

TACT: Labour conference fringe event - children in care and their forgotten human rights

Come along to our fringe event at the Labour Party Conference. This is being held jointly with The Who Cares? Trust and the topic for discussion is the human rights of children in care.

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