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Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show

Community Care

Those who were managers rose to 21.7%, up from 19.9%, a trend described as “concerning” by Josh MacAlister who is leading the government-commissioned children’s social care review. Government examining how councils can take more social work students. Social care staffing situation continues to deteriorate, show latest figures.

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The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year.

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Putting it on (digital) record

Social Care

As part of the plans for reform, set out in the 2021 government white paper, People at the Heart of Care , the digitising social care programme is supporting widespread digitisation across the sector to improve the quality, safety and personalisation of care and support services. If you are one of them, we’re here to help.

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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called “ relational permanence ”) not one, but two schools of social work, and – I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 14, 2021

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 20, 2021

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, desperately wants to keep it that way. Khadijah Abdurahman In other news: ? This really should be obvious: If you don’t know your rights then you don’t really have those rights.

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Child abuse: The “surge” that wasn’t.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As it happens, another part of this group's approach is the blue pinwheel imagery that Pennsylvania's family policing agency was only too glad to adopt for its report cover.) I heard it from the leader of a group that admits to having practiced it. They say they've stopped. It didn’t happen.