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Children adopted from care falls to lowest in 21 years, government figures show

Community Care

The DfE figures also showed the number of children entering and leaving care both fell sharply, by 8% to 28,440 and by 6% to 28,010, respectively, their lowest levels in nine years. In 2021, the average time between a child entering care and being placed for adoption was a year and four months. Adoptions taking longer.

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Ethnic disparities in care proceedings: what the data says

Community Care

It used population-level data from Cafcass relating to 105,334 children from different ethnic groups who appeared in care proceedings for the first time between 2016-17 and 2021-22, and included an analysis of their demographic characteristics and legal outcomes. Are children being supported at the right time?

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Growth in number of asylum-seeking children drives latest rise in care population, show DfE figures

Community Care

The number of asylum-seeking children in care, 5,570, was the highest ever recorded, 10% above the 2020 level, following a fall in 2020-21 that appears related to the pandemic. The number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in care has grown by 34% over the past year, driving the latest increase in the care population.

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Latest rise in care population driven by growth in number of asylum-seeking children, show DfE figures

Community Care

The number of asylum-seeking children in care, 5,570, was the highest ever recorded, 10% above the 2020 level, following a fall in 2020-21 that appears related to the pandemic. The number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in care has grown by 34% over the past year, driving the latest increase in the care population.

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What part of “no evidence” does this child welfare “scholar” not understand

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

You know, the wonderful people who created the child welfare surveillance state that tears apart at least 200,000 families a year and subjects more than half of all Black children to traumatic child abuse investigations based on reports that are almost always false. I have not tried to correct the typos in those tweets.

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

for example, 20% of individuals recall meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) at some point in their lives (Hasin et al., 2021; Cuijpers et al., In the United States (U.S.), In the United States (U.S.),