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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. Pandemic experience The use of digital communications was inevitable through the pandemic.

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20 Success Stories: Mental Health, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption Support Transform Lives

KVC

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

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Council pays family £2,500 after issuing care proceedings based on ‘incomplete and flawed information’

Community Care

A London borough has agreed to pay £2,500 to a disabled boy and his adoptive mother after issuing care proceedings on “incomplete and flawed information”. It said that there was no record that the council communicated the potential change in the plan for Y to Ms X and neither did it discuss other options for support that were available.

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Teenagers and Mental Health: A Q&A with Tilly’s Life Center

My Brains Not Broken

Our proactive approach uses experiential learning, journal writing, open discussion, and other activities to guide teens in effectively coping with crisis, adopting healthy habits, and reaching their full potential. A big focus of our curriculum is building self esteem and teaching effective communication skills.

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Breaking Free: Navigating The Complexities Of Living With A Toxic Family

Blurt It Out

Here are some key strategies to consider: Establish Boundaries: Clearly communicate your boundaries to family members and enforce them consistently. Some other ways to respond to a toxic family are: Secret Code : Create a secret code language to communicate with supportive family members.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 6, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In 2024, adoptive parents in Kentucky couldn’t handle the behavior problems of their 15-year-old daughter. So they had to turn to the state which offered no alternatives except institutions – and took control of where the boy would live. He ran away from the institution and drowned. Now DHS can explain itself to a judge.

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

Community Care

Looking back now, Laming says poor communication between services was the catalyst behind their failure to save Victoria. It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love. We’ve never had such a means of easy communication as we have now.