Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” MacAlister also said that the proposed £25m to improve foster care recruitment and retention over the next two years would not deliver the 9,000 additional carers he said were needed over the next three years.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family. KVC is a great place to work!

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

But this week the court ruled that the government had been entitled to decide that placements in settings such as hostels, shared houses, flats and bedsits, rather than children’s homes or foster care, were suitable for some older children and that there was no legal basis for the court to intervene. Consultation process adequate.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

They hauled the family into court and threatened to throw the children into foster care. In fact, a major study found that even when children really are born with cocaine in their systems, such children still do better in their own homes than when placed in foster care. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

But i nstead of getting more money directly into the hands of poor families, they’re going to give up to $10 million over five years to some consultant or other – to teach mandatory reporters and child abuse hotline operators how to stop confusing poverty with neglect! One is 16, the other 13.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The consultations close on 11 May, 2023. As part of this, the DfE will consult on removing the requirement for social workers to lead child in need cases. The DfE will also consult on new multi-agency child protection standards as part of a review of Working Together to Safeguard Children in 2023.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Hierarchy of support Overall, it found that authorities were most likely to support to family and friends foster carers, followed by carers with a special guardianship order (SGO) for the child and then those with a child arrangements order or residence order (CAO/RO) giving them parental responsibility.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

In addition, seven areas are testing providing family support network packages to help extended families care for children and avoid them going into care. Meanwhile, council spending on independent children’s homes more than doubled from 2015-16 to 2021-22, according to research by market analysts Revolution Consulting.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

By Ann Horne, kinship consultant, CoramBAAF. Their decision to care for a child is often made at times of family crisis, triggering heightened stress and anxiety, with little planning or preparation. At CoramBAAF, my role as kinship consultant is to support and promote good social work practice with kinship families.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Barnsley’s former DCS, Melanie John-Ross, who is now retired, picked up an MBE, with the same award going to fellow registered social worker Christine Futter, who stepped down last year as chief operating officer at Norfolk & Suffolk Care Support. Pamela and Peter Frickleton (MBE), foster carers with Plymouth council (MBEs).

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Social work training and development: An early career framework will be established to support social workers in the years after graduation, as recommended by the care review. Agency social work: The DfE will consult on reducing local authorities’ reliance on agency social workers.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

There are twice as many children in kinship care in the UK than there are in foster care, yet this type of care remains largely invisible – to the public and policymakers, but often to professionals too. By Dr Lucy Peake. But many are now at breaking point.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Christopher Church, senior director of strategic consulting at Casey Family Programs, has argued that using the term “civil death penalty” to describe the terminations that come before the cake, ice cream and balloons actually understates the trauma to the child.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A Moving Family Reunification Story After Foster Care. Ashley and Sean’s substance use challenges led to their children being removed from their home and put in foster care. Black Children Are Overrepresented in Foster Care: Here’s How We Can Address This Disparity. Read it now. Read it now.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Florida’s family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, has, in effect, confirmed the findings of a USA Today Network investigation that found DCF ignored widespread abuse in foster care. And once again, USA Today reporters trace the origins of the problem to the foster-care panic in Florida starting in 2014. (As

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Christopher Church, senior director of strategic consulting at Casey Family Programs, has argued that using the term “civil death penalty” to describe the terminations that come before the cake, ice cream and balloons actually understates the trauma to the child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Christopher Church, senior director of strategic consulting at Casey Family Programs, has argued that using the term “civil death penalty” to describe the terminations that come before the cake, ice cream and balloons actually understates the trauma to the child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Would she feel that way were she fighting to get her child out of foster care? This is a judgment call to quickly consult an attorney about. Two trips to the E.R. in a week, and one required a child to get stitches? Under many circumstances — but not all — you may be inclined to proactively grant CPS access to your child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

An excellent story in The Imprint reveals that, after extensive consultation with an impressive and diverse group of people, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has pulled the plug. So even as predictive analytics proponents blather about consultation and transparency their real approach is different.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

And in Illinois, a family is suing after their children were thrown into foster care for more than a year, all because of a false allegation from a doctor who allegedly was retaliating because she felt offended and embarrassed by the father. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”) But for most of the past two decades, with one exception, the Times has ignored wrongful removal and, sometimes, scapegoated family preservation in ways that were worse than stories in the city’s tabloids.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

His mother consulted experts and followed their advice to allow him to express himself and not do anything to shame or stigmatize him. Starting when one of her children was three years old, he said he wanted to wear dresses and, sometimes, he wanted to be known by a girl’s name. The child is now 11 and currently identifies as male.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

In the Albany Times Union , Madelyn Freundlich, policy research consultant for the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York writes in support of legislation that would replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.

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KVC

JULY 20, 2021

and best practice training and consultation that stretches around the world, KVC’s presence in its home region of Kansas and Missouri has expanded. See below or click here to see a helpful graphic that shows what our continuum of care is. Many people associate KVC Kansas with foster care. KVC Kansas.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Oh, and Sean Hughes, a lobbyist and consultant for family policing agencies who has derided the very idea that poverty is confused with neglect is against it, which is always a good sign. --The

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2022

The review found this conclusion was “profoundly influenced” by a report from a consultant community paediatrician, who found that Child Au was “well cared for” though “developmentally behind”. This child is now very settled in foster care and is thriving with support and care.”.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Upon graduation, my goal is to work with The Department of Children and Families and continue to work with children in foster care and help aid sibling reunification. I hope to positively impact the field of social work by supporting, advocating, and empowering members in the community. Awards Rollin Williams/Y.C.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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