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. So the government called back Laming to review progress on child protection since his 2003 report.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding. Barriers to implementation Participants reported challenges and barriers to adoption and implementation of digital safeguarding at both national and local level.
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Community Care
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
John Pearce told Community Care that these should include a calculated fair cost for care and rules on provider behaviour, in an interview at this year’s National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC). “Both the CHA and the LGA have made the government aware of the impact of the lack of sufficient funding in this sector.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Disappointment with national government policy commitment to children’s services (25%). The college said this meant the government needed to tackle the “negative effects of multiple government departments generating policies around children” and improve funding for new duties for councils. This is within your gift.”
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Citing the wider body of research into the practice, it said local authorities had generally adopted agile working to make efficiency savings, not in response to social workers’ needs. The final year’s survey included questions on the impact of Covid-19. Pause National Care Service legislation, urge leaders.
Community Care
OCTOBER 9, 2023
The Foundations study, based on survey responses from 80 councils (52% of the total), interviews with staff from 35 of these and round table discussions with 31 kinship carers, examined how far authorities provided support to the different types of kinship carer. ” . ”
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Non-social work staff handling ‘complex safeguarding’ However, Ofsted found that for children who went missing from home or care, return home interviews were not held consistently or in a timely fashion, and often lacked sufficient analysis of the child’s circumstances, meaning they did not contribute to safety planning.
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