Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

It confirmed its support for authorities appointing designated social care officers (DSCOs), in its improvement plan for SEND and alternative education provision (AP). In the improvement plan, the government said the role would “provide the capacity and expertise” to improve social care input into SEND provision.

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Government Disability Interventional Social Worker 242

Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The High Court has ruled that local authorities can usually arrange for children in their care to have Covid-19 and flu vaccines even when parents object. The local authority was satisfied that it was necessary to do so to safeguard or protect the child’s welfare. No ‘carte blanche’ for authorities.

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Welfare Administration Government Schools 307

Community Care

MARCH 10, 2023

Social work and children’s organisations have united against government proposals that would increase the detention and deportation of children and seemingly leave many unaccompanied young people outside the scope of the children’s social care system.

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Government Social Worker Child Welfare Recovery 246

Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Allowance boost for some kinship carers Currently, only family and friends foster carers, among kinship carers, are entitled to a financial allowance. The national minimum fostering allowance is currently worth £154 to £270 per week, depending on the child’s age and the location of the placement.

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Foster Care Adoption Government 181

Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The government must invest in specialist placements to reform a care system not working for vulnerable teenagers and protect them from exploitation. The commission’s report said these statistics were likely to be “the tip of the iceberg”, while it also highlighted the growth in the number of older children entering care.

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Youth Worker Government Schools Foster Care 240

Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The number of children adopted from care fell to its lowest level in 21 years in 2020-21, Department for Education (DfE) figures show. Delays in family court proceedings during Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the latest annual decline in adoptions, but the number has fallen each year since a peak of 5,360 in 2014-15.

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Adoption Government 359

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. All the figures will be uprated each year in line with the government’s consumer prices index measure of inflation.

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Disability Social Worker Government Foster Care 325

Community Care

MAY 27, 2022

The number of council child and family social workers in England quitting children’s services altogether rose by 22% last year, suggest government figures. Care review urges national social work pay scales to reward expertise and boost retention. of social workers of this age leaving in 2020-21 – up from 17.6%

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Social Worker Government Administration Case Management 288

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As busy and as difficult as one’s job may be, that person may never know the challenge of needing to go to the bathroom with kids of an age or need, that require continuous supervision. To help, do instead of talk. Get instead of tell. Be there is deed and action. If not, you are missing many more posts!

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Social Worker 147

Community Care

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The national DoLs court received 237 applications in July and August to authorise the deprivation of liberty of a child or young person using the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court – which is designed to safeguard vulnerable people where there is no statutory provision to do so. Get up to speed on deprivation of liberty.

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Mental Health Government 246

Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 6, 2022

If I recall correctly, maybe about twelve-years-of-age. He did this as it was the only means of food for his family. This was an industrious kid taking care of himself and parents. He would quickly run back to his family. His parents although disabled, were still caring. The case involved a young boy.

Disability 182

Disability Private Practice Mental Health Counseling 182

Community Care

MAY 11, 2022

Ofsted noted that “an increase in staff turnover means that a small number of families experience too many changes of social workers”, but highlighted leaders’ efforts to recruit social workers and keep caseloads manageable amid fast-rising child protection demand. over the same period. Exceptional’ direct work.

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Social Worker Diversity Mental Health Government 254

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Following an inspection in July, Ofsted found children and families were receiving a much better service at Luton since it was last inspected in 2020, when inspectors found serious decision-making failures across child protection in the context of significant workforce instability. Boost to social worker numbers.

Social Worker 221

Social Worker Adoption Foster Care Disability 221

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Sarah Font is telling foster youth boils down to this: You can have a free college education – as long as you forego any chance that there will be a family cheering you on at graduation. After following issues involving foster care for decades, I’ve gotten used to the extent to which people in the system hate birth parents.

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Adoption Foster Care Child Welfare Self-harm 98

Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

‘Serious reform’ is needed to cut the number of children in care placed out of area, MPs and peers have said. The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on children in care and care leavers said new legislation and binding targets may be needed to tackle the adverse effect of being placed far from home.

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Government Social Worker 341

Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

Croydon council was wrong to overturn its original decision to assess Kyrell Matthews in May 2019 without informing the referrer, after he was taken to hospital with a head injury and bruising to his face, found a child safeguarding practice review. Kemar Brown, found guilty of murder. Crisis-led safeguarding system’. Nurse’s concerns.

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Hospitals Government Engagement Social Worker 242

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. Evidence gap. Main route to reunification.

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Interviewing Social Worker University Government 261

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Professionals must be under a legal duty to report child sexual abuse, and face criminal sanctions for not doing so, to tackle the systemic under-acknowledgement of CSA. Mandatory reporting requirement.

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Government Social Worker Healthcare Social Services 291

Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

But at its latest inspection, carried out in late 2021, the inspectorate said workloads had reduced despite increased demand, in part through increasing social worker numbers, and that was resulting in children receiving good services. to 17, show the latest Department for Education workforce statistics.

Social Worker 282

Social Worker Foster Care Interviewing Diversity 282

Community Care

AUGUST 26, 2022

The vast majority of respondents to a Community Care survey asking about the effects of the crisis said it was hitting individuals and families they support hard. Some warned that local food banks were running out of supplies due to sharply increasing demand and the wider public no longer being able to afford to donate as much.

Social Worker 292

Social Worker Self-harm Schools Mental Health 292

Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care. In each of those periods, the child welfare system saw a significant increase in the number of children moved into foster care.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Human Services 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." So why do some of the very judges who order a family "executed" preside over public celebrations of the aftermath? Except in "child welfare." It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. This year it’s happening on Nov.

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Child Welfare Adoption Welfare Foster Care 102

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s the real message behind a monthly newsletter touting “the good stuff in child welfare.” Let’s focus on the “good stuff”: If you happen to be a foster child in Grand Rapids Michigan you can get a free haircut! It’s called “The Good Stuff in Child Welfare” and it comes from The Field Center. But all that is such a downer.

Child Welfare 119

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Schools 119

Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 25, 2023

He hailed from a family where dad abandoned him and his mother, when he was an infant. Grandmother, a widow, took care of him much of the time, feeling guity for his situation. Given his mom was hard working and grandmother aging, as he got older he was simply left much to his own to manage. It turns out both were lovely people.

Counseling 147

Counseling Self-harm Private Practice Mental Health 147

Community Care

JUNE 16, 2022

At about 10:30am, I messaged the manager of one of the assessment teams to ask if she thought a particular family’s situation would progress to a child protection conference and for a quick chat about allocation. Family members of mine worked in settings where Ofsted inspected. Her response: We’ve had the call.”

Interviewing 219

Interviewing Social Worker Adoption Schools 219

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 8, 2023

That danger may be conflict between the parents, alcohol or drug abuse, serious mental illness, the impact of poverty, the early loss of a family member. You needed to figure out if it was it safe. With age, it became your normal. Developed out of necessity. But be careful. Spidy sense. It developed by necessity.

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Social Worker 113

Community Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Inspectors praised the quality of direct work with both children in need of help and protection and those in care. With children in care, social workers completed creative and age-appropriate work that ensured children’s views were central to decision-making. Excellent direct work’. Support for your direct work.

Social Worker 266

Social Worker Foster Care Diversity Disability 266

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

A new poll reveals that even when the questions are rigged, Americans are less likely to buy the snake oil the family police establishment has been selling. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. But there is.

Child Welfare 107

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 107

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 6, 2023

Caring for an aging parent can be fraught with challenges. It is tough when an aging parent makes decisions, not necessarily what you would have chosen, yet decisions they are good with themselves. You don’t have to be manipulated to do their bidding or to be their direct care provider. Two come to mind.

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 113

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? Of all the outcomes for foster youth, everyone knows the worst is “aging out” of the system with no home at all.

Foster Care 98

Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Advocacy 98

Social Work Haven

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Having completed two placements as part of my social work degree, I have gained some experience in working with children and families. The role of statutory social work in safeguarding children involves providing services to the whole family and supporting them to make changes in their day-to-day lives.

Social Worker 97

Social Worker Mental Health Self-harm Diversity 97

Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 4, 2022

The question is about how to manage, particularly with school aged kids at home. Come from a place of caring and concern. You may want to consider sharing or swapping help or services with a friend or another family or extended kin. Trading care or supervision for meal prep or cleaning can meet multiple needs.

Private Practice 130

Private Practice Schools Mental Health Social Worker 130

MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Adults make most of the decisions about a child’s life from where they live, what they eat and when, where they go to school, what clothes they have and much more. From a child’s perspective, they might not feel heard. Adults hopefully make decisions in the child’s best interests.

Mental Health 98

Mental Health PTSD Communication Psychosocial 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The reason McTreatment chains can get away with it was aptly summed up by someone who has worked to expose their abuses for decades, Dr. Ronald Davidson: “These are kids, by and large, who’ve been taken away from their parents,” he said, “so they have no family to watch out for them.” Here’s his acceptance speech. (It

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Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Counseling 83

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

That’s more than double total federal spending on the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. In Rhode Island they just said the quiet part out loud. The state Child Advocate, who exposed the huge problems, agrees! The state Child Advocate, who exposed the huge problems, agrees! Boston.com has more.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare 61

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." So why do some of the very judges who order a family "executed" preside over public celebrations of the aftermath? Except in "child welfare." It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. This year it’s happening on Nov.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Adoption Foster Care 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Consider a recent case involving the family policing system in a county in Pennsylvania. But once home from the hospital, the children still are left in foster care – with foster parents who are eager to adopt. Everything I am about to recount is true except for one detail: Two young children are taken from their mother.

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Disability 128