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Community Care
MARCH 7, 2024
This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come. Photo: Community Care The early years Social work had always been close to Mark’s heart.
Community Care
APRIL 11, 2024
Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love.
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Community Care
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Among the inadequate-rated councils, the inspectorate particularly highlighted improvements at Surrey and Newham, found disabled children’s services had recovered since a visit last year West Sussex, and said progress was “modest but fragile” at Medway. from reserves to tackle children’s social worker shortage. Related articles.
Community Care
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Boost to social worker numbers despite funding constraints helps council improve Ofsted grade. An increasing number of children were placed with adopters, special guardians and long-term foster carers, with the latter being described as “appropriately assessed, trained and supported”. Latest Ofsted reports.
Community Care
MARCH 31, 2022
Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. By Professor Judith Harwin and Lily Golding. Related articles.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 28, 2023
One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It The Imprint reports on federal legislation that would help protect children of disabled parents from being needlessly removed from their homes or otherwise surveilled by the family police. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2023
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.
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