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Social care leaders hailed in New Year Honours

Community Care

Care staff ‘showing utmost compassion and commitment’ Townson said her honour was “humbling” and that supporting and representing home care through the pandemic and beyond had been an “absolute privilege” She added: “May the spotlight shine on all home care workers, managers, and leaders, who dedicate themselves (..)

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Keeping Families Strong

Shelter, Inc

Including kin and extended family members in case planning expands placement and permanency options for children and youth when in-home care is not feasible. Maintaining relationships with relatives and kin can help provide a sense of belonging for young people in care. View State of Illinois Foster Care Requirements .

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Recent happenings

Jaeran Kim

I was fortunate to be asked to present at the Pact adoption family camp. I presented a keynote about school issues based on the article I published with Pact’s Executive Director Beth Hall for the book Transracial and Intercountry Adoption.

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

KVC

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. Instead, “Children grow best in families.”

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Funding boost for councils not enough to address ‘disastrous’ state of social care, warn sector bodies

Community Care

More on adult social care pressures. Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’. CQC joins call for care staff pay boost to prevent ‘tsunami of unmet need’. Experienced care staff earn 6p an hour more than newcomers. 7m to improve support for adopted children and their families.

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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As their statement explains, the study will use only data officially reported by family policing agencies using two federal databases, the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), and the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS). And why are they doing it this way?