Community Care
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding.
The Vintage Social Worker
AUGUST 10, 2020
The prevailing political dogma was that fostering and possibly adoption were the best option and significantly easier on the purse strings. If it does not… it is likely to harm their interests either directly or indirectly. Our standardised interviewing techniques certainly do not allow exploration of many of these issues.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? The errors go in all directions, and all of these errors harm children. ? Another criterion: “The degree of harm alleged to the child.” There are numerous scholarly articles regarding the potential harm of removal. She is dangerously wrong.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
More than a decade ago I first wrote about how states use federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds – which are supposed to help poor people become self-sufficient – to investigate those same poor people and take away their children. In 2021 ProPublica published a superb expose of this practice.
The Critical Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
It means active listening – letting the service user speak (or communicate in whatever way they find easiest), and becoming an active part of their account, reflecting their thoughts and helping them use their own perspective to improve their own self-knowledge and self-efficacy.
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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