Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Well, there’s no bigger decision than who gets to run the country. You can register to vote from 17 and that’s something that marks a passage from being a child. As a child, you have a bedtime. As an adult, you get to vote. Where did your passion for upholding the rights of people with disabilities come from?

Disability 312

Disability Social Worker Mental Health Hospitals 312

Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The availability of support differed by locality, whether the child had previously been in care or not and by the type of kinship arrangement or legal order they were cared for under, showed the study by evidence body Foundations, released to coincide with Kinship Care Week.

Foster Care 245

Foster Care Government Interventional Interviewing 245

Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Get up to speed with the PLO Community Care Inform Children is hosting a webinar to help you get up to speed with the relaunched PLO. Guardians reported coming away more informed about these issues and how well the wider family network had been involved in seeking to resolve issues of concern.

Social Worker 236

Social Worker Case Management Administration Government 236

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 14, 2022

We’ll get through this. Therein we may come to terms with the issues of our pain. Therein we come to acknowledge and legitimize our experience and with that, may find acceptance. Heard from a person who follows my professional Facebook page. We spoke of toxic positivity. Think positive thoughts. Seek to keep it real.

Private Practice 263

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 263

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 8, 2021

They finally get the guy in his thirties out of his parent’s house long enough to meet a gal. Poke and prod and his fangs may come out. Woman who may have come from a background where men are not so nice is attracted to the passivity of the fellow. However, the fangs may come out as expectations are increased.

Counseling 264

Counseling Private Practice Consultation Mental Health 264

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Good practice in family group conferencing must not be diluted as the intervention gets rolled out across children’s social care services. FGCs are facilitated, family-led meetings of relatives, friends and professionals involved with a child at risk that are designed to produce a plan to keep the child safe within the family.

Interventional 280

Interventional Confidentiality Government Social Worker 280

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 11, 2024

Once the parent gets a grip on themselves, empathy for the teen is required. ” As you are calm and curious, you are now modeling what you hope the teen to come to as well. Then the parent will escalate threats, usually framed as loss of privileges or resources. Sadly this too only escalates anger, distress and conflict.

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Mental Health Empathy Social Worker 113

Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Specialist social workers will be appointed to lead child protection cases while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers, the government has said in its response to the care review. The DfE seems to have accepted this recommendation with its proposal for a lead child protection practitioner.

Social Worker 325

Social Worker Consultation Government Foster Care 325

Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The flexibility comes despite Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) concerns that breaches would risk undermining national rules on councils engaging child and family social workers, of which the price caps are a part.

Engagement 276

Engagement Consultation Social Worker Administration 276

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 21, 2022

That child, now well into their twenties remains living at home. That child takes refuge in their room and seems oppositional and full of excuses and blames issues outside of themselves for their situation. Try to get them help and they are argumentative. The sad part is, this now is this child’s life.

Self-harm 147

Self-harm Disability Private Practice Hospitals 147

Community Care

APRIL 25, 2023

While the charity said that sometimes a distant placement was appropriate for a child – for example, to keep them safe from exploitation – children were more often being moved because of a shortage of suitable placements in their local area, compounding the trauma they had already experienced in their lives.

Government 284

Government Schools 284

Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It subsequently confirmed it would respond to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s inquiry into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson and the Competition and Markets Authority’s study into the children’s social care market , both of which also reported in the spring of this year, at the same time.

Social Worker 227

Social Worker Government University Foster Care 227

Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

There was a stark reasoning behind her decision to open herself up to the potential for more humiliation by going to court: “Children have been my life and continue to be my life, and for someone to accuse me of being responsible for the brutal murder of a child, that was something that I was never going to stay alive for.

Social Worker 248

Social Worker Psychosocial Hospitals Social Services 248

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The thing about that barrage coming from a narcissist, ask yourself if it is relevant to whatever is being discussed. Instead, either recognize you are not going to get anywhere with this discussion and leave it, or bring the conversation back to the matter at hand. They throw up a lot of nonsense. Emphasis on “throw up.”

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 113

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The response was due in September, but the Department for Education (DfE) said it would now be published later in the year because it needed further time to get the policy right.

Consultation 210

Consultation Social Worker Engagement Government 210

Community Care

JULY 19, 2023

His comments come two years after an inquiry he commissioned, by the so-called Public Law Working Group (PLWG), recommended far-reaching reforms to tackle “overwhelming demands” on professionals involved in care proceedings. Also, Cafcass has recorded a 9.8%

Welfare 205

Welfare Social Worker 205

Community Care

JUNE 16, 2022

They’re coming today.” 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. One child that my team worked with was selected. By a safeguarding team manager.

Interviewing 219

Interviewing Social Worker Adoption Schools 219

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. That’s why a successful class-action lawsuit, Nicholson v.

Domestic Violence 114

Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare Therapist 114

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.

Mental Health 246

Mental Health Government 246

Community Care

MARCH 1, 2022

The Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Act 2020 will remove an archaic legal defence by outlawing the physical punishment of children when it comes into force in Wales from 21 March 2022. ” Our daily practice as social workers won’t change once the legislation comes into force on 21 March 2022.

Social Worker 234

Social Worker Schools Government 234

Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

If you’re already in social work, and you’re wondering about how to get more money, this one is also for you. You will be a civil servant, and that does come with fairly good perks. I’ve worked with child protection officers who have psychology and even a linguistics degree. Rather, it’s to provide a realistic perspective.

Domestic Violence 130

Domestic Violence Social Worker Social Services Social Services 130

Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 5, 2023

If you have come to terms with whatever part you played in this outcome and want to see if you can make it better, consider giving that kid a gift. This is a gift you provide so that your child can now experience feeling valued by you. This is a gift you provide so that your child can now experience feeling valued by you.

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 113

Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The work won’t get done. If or when the parents get wind of the lack of progress, some parents will be angry, some worried and yet some willing to “help” their young adult child meet their academic expectations. At some point your now young adult child will have to take responsibility for themselves.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Schools Counseling Mental Health 147

Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

You face a variety of client needs, ranging from: Family needs often cut across many different types Domestic violence Financial assistance Housing, especially homelessness, or rental flat applications Elderly issues like neglect, care needs like dementia Child issues like child protection, absenteeism from school There’s often no one need.

Social Worker 130

Social Worker Domestic Violence Administration Case Management 130

Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 30, 2023

That is where your power will come from. Taking control of yourself first and learning how to manage the other given however they react and cope themselves, can be key to getting through this and sorting out those pieces as the fall, as best as possible. It will come through considerable disruption though.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Social Worker 147

Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Child protection is overwhelmed. Family networks — grandparents, aunts and uncles — are systematically overlooked when they could help to raise a child whose parents are struggling. Family networks — grandparents, aunts and uncles — are systematically overlooked when they could help to raise a child whose parents are struggling.

Government 231

Government Consultation Foster Care Social Worker 231

Community Care

MARCH 10, 2023

Duty to remove asylum seekers Clause 2 of the bill would place a duty on the home secretary to remove anyone who entered the UK after 7 March 2023, without the right to do so or the right to remain, and without having come directly from a country in which their life and liberty was threatened.

Government 246

Government Social Worker Child Welfare Recovery 246

Community Care

JUNE 21, 2022

Community Care readers have overwhelmingly called for reduced caseloads as the best way to improve child protection in a snap poll. Almost two-thirds (63%) of more than 1,100 readers who answered a simple multiple-choice question – “what would most improve child protection in England?” ” – opted for lower caseloads.

Social Worker 269

Social Worker Case Management Government University 269

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 6, 2023

The child comes back to you angry, hostile and full of lies. They could refer to you by your first name to the child rather than mom or dad. The real strategy for managing this behavior is about managing yourself, not letting it get to you. That parent say horrible things about the other.

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 113

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

With that additional weight, getting through one’s day can be exhausting. Coming to a reasonable understanding of the burden and impact of mental illness and planning accordingly can help ease issues and restore reasonableness to the couple relationship. Depending on the diagnosis and severity, that weight can be significant.

Mental Health 113

Mental Health Counseling Private Practice Social Worker 113

Gary Direnfeld

MAY 20, 2023

That way she was less likely to get distressed as he took time to process his feelings and thoughts. Both persons had come from difficult backgrounds. It can require support to get through it. Sometimes it took a matter of minutes, other times a few hours, on occasion a day or two. His improvement revealed her issues.

Counseling 130

Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker 130

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 4, 2022

It comes back on you. Few others will get it and likely offer you things they think may help as if you hadn’t tried everything. Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice.

Private Practice 202

Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Social Worker 202

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. The caseworker says: We want to take away your child. No lawyer gets to fight the decision, no judge gets to review it. ●

Foster Care 121

Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Counseling 121

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.

Child Welfare 119

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Schools 119

Community Care

AUGUST 16, 2023

But nearly all said such treatment would take too long and thus fall outside of the child’s timescale. One parent’s story One parent from Bath and North East Somerset Council had had her child removed at birth due to being in a severely domestically abusive relationship. We think this illustrates why this is so important.

Psychotherapy 214

Psychotherapy Psychology Psychiatric Therapist 214

Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It doesn’t get in the way of what I have to do. If the child expects all activities and expectations to be pleasurable, that is a set up for either a much indulged child or a very disappointed child. We cope with much in life that comes not of our choosing or our liking. It’s not a problem for me.

Private Practice 113

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 113

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Task Force has agreed that it must first address Colorado’s current definition of child abuse and neglect. Colorado’s current definition of abuse and neglect is too broad and conflates several circumstances – such as poverty – with child abuse. Except, of course, in the 18 states where these laws already apply to everyone.

Domestic Violence 110

Domestic Violence Child Welfare Welfare Disability 110