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Workloads and lack of supervision undermining child protection practice, find studies

Community Care

Several serious case reviews found that high workloads meant social workers lacked the time to build the effective relationships necessary to exercise effective challenge in families where children were at risk, according to the latest – and final – three-year analysis of SCRs, covering 2017-19. Related articles.

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Finley Boden: professionals should have protected baby murdered by his parents, review finds

Community Care

Professionals should have protected Finley Boden, who was murdered by his parents 39 days after being returned to their care, a local child safeguarding practice review has concluded. In both cases for mental health and substance misuse problems, and in Boden’s for a history of offending, including in relation to domestic abuse.

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Social worker changes undermined engagement with children later convicted of violent crimes – review

Community Care

High levels of social worker turnover undermined engagement with six young people with histories of social care involvement who were later convicted of violent offences, a review has found. The seven young people were aged 15-20 at the time of the 2021 deaths.

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Educational Assistants in Ontario – Important Report of the OWSIAT

Gary Direnfeld

The case involves an Educational Assistant seeking leave for Traumatic Mental Stress owing to an incident with a six-year-old boy. Upon appeal and a more recent hearing through the Appeals Tribunal, the EA won her case. Having reviewed the report, I have two important takeaways. The incident occurred in October 2018.

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How social workers’ role would change under Working Together overhaul

Community Care

Under the proposed revisions, ‘lead practitioner’ would become the generic term for the case-holder across all areas of intervention: early help, targeted early help, child in need and child protection. The 2018 Working Together requires both child protection and child in need cases to be held by social workers.

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Logan Mwangi review sparks government action on safeguarding but no children’s care inquiry

Community Care

Wales remains the only UK nation not to have commissioned a review of its children’s social care services, after the Welsh Government resisted calls to do so following the inquiry into Logan Mwangi’s murder. Logan Mwangi murder: review to probe children’s services’ role in safeguarding boy. ” Related articles. .

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‘Positive signs’ on reducing number and length of care proceedings, says family court head

Community Care

The number of public law cases – most of which are council applications for care orders – have fallen year on year and there are indications further progress is being made, said president of the family division of the High Court Sir Andrew McFarlane, in a note to colleagues issued last week. on the same period in 2022.

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