Local authorities and organisations are supporting carers during Foster Care Fortnight. Picture: Pressmaster/Adobe Stock To mark Foster Care fortnight (15-28 May), Wakefield Council has announced a 12 ...

Every adult social care worker in Wakefield ... ensure all carers will be paid above the living wage in Wakefield. Jo Webster, who is chief of Wakefield CCG and also Wakefield Council's service ...

A council’s children’s services department which was rated “inadequate” by Ofsted in 2018 has achieved the highest rate of foster care to adoption conversions in West Yorkshire. Wakefield Council ...

Wakefield Council's children's services were rated "inadequate" in 2018 but have since been completely transformed, Ofsted said "Immoral" agencies have left a West Yorkshire council struggling to ...

The couple's family reported carers arrived late ... Workers from a home care agency hired for the couple by Wakefield Council arrived late and "failed to treat them with dignity".

director for children's social care at Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council. “It will provide two beds for children in advance of matching and moving them along to foster carers. The aim is to ...