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Seven lessons for practitioners from the review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland

Community Care

This was expressed by some young people, but especially by parents, including young parents who were care experienced, parents of disabled children, adopters and mothers who had experienced domestic violence.

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When The Trauma is Extreme

Gary Direnfeld

Amazingly she had already adopted a number of strategies and capacities from those previous helpers. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.