Adoption Consultation Engagement Government 
Community Care
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
They described how this had worked in the past with children with more complex needs, who did not want to engage face to face. For example, some workers who were interested in gaming and digital activities used these as a tool for engagement, which resulted in positive connections.
Community Care
APRIL 17, 2024
Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s. He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker.
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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.
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. Reform has social work values built in. Social work and social care values are at its core.
Social Work With Adults
APRIL 4, 2023
Meanwhile, I am very pleased the Government continues to fund Skills for Care’s package of support across workforce training and development, which includes specific support for social workers.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 27, 2022
Unfortunately, Maine’s equivalent of the federal Government Accountability Office, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability (OPEGA) did indeed fall for it in a report released last week. As the state data tables available here show, in Maine entries into foster care skyrocketed more than 50% between 2017 and 2019.
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.
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