Adoption Consultation Disability Government 
Community Care
JANUARY 14, 2024
Case for opening up child in need role In its consultation on the plans, the DfE suggested this would enable staff already working with families – including family support workers, drug and alcohol practitioners, domestic abuse workers and youth workers – to take on the lead practitioner role.
Community Care
APRIL 11, 2024
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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Social Care
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
Yet, providing unpaid care to someone who has a health condition, who is older or who has a disability, can have a profound impact on their health, wellbeing, paid work and relationships. People don’t see themselves as unpaid carers but as partners, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, and close friends first. Image created by freepik.com ].
Community Care
MARCH 31, 2022
A draft report and best practice guidance from the supervision review will go out for consultation later in the year. Domestic abuse, mental health problems and substance misuse predominated and a third of the children had special educational needs and disabilities. There is an urgent need for this review.
Social Work With Adults
DECEMBER 1, 2021
I am so pleased to be writing this blog, celebrating the publication of ‘ People at the heart of care ’, the Government's adult social care reform White Paper. At least £150 million to support adoption of technology and digitalisation. Increasing the upper limit of the Disabled Facilities Grant. Funding the vision.
MQ Mental Health
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
Ask this question to yourself - are people with lived experience in the room (consulted) when you are forming policies and programs for them? They must be meaningfully involved in every domain of mental health activity including service delivery, research, training, and governance. Nothing about us without us" -Niharika.
Community Care
MARCH 8, 2024
The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. Promoting improvements to social work, including the adoption of evidence-informed practice.
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