Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That was among the findings from its latest State of the Nation’s Foster Care report, this year based on a survey of 3,352 carers and 99 fostering services. This chimes with Ofsted’s annual fostering statistics , which found “too few carers with the right skills” to support the number of children needing placements.

Social Worker 294

Social Worker Communication Government Foster Care 294

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon. Department of Justice has found the state regularly violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by needlessly institutionalizing children with mental health problems. Yet little public or private funding is devoted to repair.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Case Management 98

Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The directors’ body pointed to one authority where the average cost for a children’s residential placement for a 16-year-old was about £5,000 per week compared to around £1,200 per week for a younger adult with learning disabilities. No evidence profit-making reduces quality’.

Foster Care 298

Foster Care Government Disability 298

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.

Child Welfare 103

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 103

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in foster care are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Self-harm 98

Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It also said the council needed to improve “variable” levels of practice with disabled children to achieve a consistently high quality. Ofsted also found cases of children being in placements with connected carers who had not been approved, for whom Warwickshire needed to improve oversight and decision-making.

Social Worker 282

Social Worker Foster Care Interviewing Diversity 282

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● You can learn more about how that happened, and the ongoing fight, at this webinar on June 29 from Narrowing the Front Door.

Child Welfare 70

Child Welfare Foster Care Disability Confidentiality 70

Community Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

To help support you in your direct work with children and families, check out Community Care Inform’s direct work knowledge and practice hub. It includes a directory of useful tools, specific guidance on working with disabled and older children and advice on recording direct work. Bedrock of stability’.

Social Worker 270

Social Worker Foster Care Diversity Disability 270

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. It will challenge systemic abuses of government power that lead to the illegal separation of children from their families. Lots of news this week, but one story stands out above all: ? In New York City family defense is going on offense.

Child Welfare 76

Child Welfare Criminal Justice Welfare Administration 76

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

But sometimes, being “nice” is just passive aggression – as when presenters at a garden party “conversation circle” took almost the entire time for themselves and disabled the chat. There was nothing "respectful" or "inclusive" about that, but the garden party presenters did it "nicely," speaking softly and smiling.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Administration Adoption 98

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. This includes defending individuals’ rights and addressing issues such as poverty, mental health, domestic violence, disability rights and substance abuse.

Social Worker 95

Social Worker Treatment Planning Justice and Corrections Interventional 95