Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care. After careful planning with the local authority and information sessions with the parents and carers of the children and young people invited, this took place in August 2023.

Adoption 237

Adoption Foster Care Interviewing Social Worker 237

Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It also cited previous research that found many such young mothers had been in care themselves. But with no statutory duty on councils to provide support for birth families of children taken into care, apart from in cases of adoption, Pause said that they faced a postcode lottery in provision.

Adoption 250

Adoption Crisis Intervention Interventional University 250

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The leading authority is R v Barnet LBC ex p Shah [1983] 2 AC 309, where Lord Scarman said: “…‘ordinarily resident’ refers to a man’s abode in a particular place or country which he has adopted voluntarily and for settled purposes as part of the regular order of his life for the time being, whether of short or long duration”.

Mental Health 246

Mental Health Hospitals After Care Social Services 246

Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The government should commit to provide the necessary resources to local authorities to enable them to adopt and implement the guidance to the fullest and most effective extent possible.

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Government Social Worker Consultation Adoption 231