Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

“However, we are concerned that the strategy falls victim to the same timid ambitions that are holding back the government’s wider plans for children’s social care.” ” Further boost for foster care recruitment and retention Alongside the kinship strategy, the DfE has also announced an additional £8.5m

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

At long last the federal government has released state and national foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022. It’s not clear if they’re violating regulations the federal government won’t enforce or if the states actually have found a loophole.) When we curb needless foster care, children get safer!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Here’s what happened: The family police (a more accurate term than “child protective services”) were forced to step back, community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up and the federal government stepped in with the best “preventive service” of all, no-strings-attached cash. There are two standard measures of child safety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Her son was cared for by his grandmother – until the husband took the child by force and also made his way to the United States. The husband wound up in Massachusetts – and the boy, Ricardo, wound up in foster care – because the father was abusing him too. Olga settled with a relative in Florida.

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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. “If the government were minded there are things they could do to manage and sort that.”

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

While many foster and other carers do not pay tax on the payments they receive from their provider for their role due to the so-called qualifying care relief (formerly ‘foster care relief’) scheme, the benefit this provides has been frozen for 20 years. The increase would be worth 3.88% to 6.4%

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The results reveal a worsening picture for fostering since the release of last year’s figures, when Ofsted national director for social care Yvette Stanley warned the sector would reach “breaking point” if more carers weren’t recruited. Fewer enquiries leading to applications.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

But before getting to what else Font got wrong, let’s look at the two things she got partially right: ● She’s right about the enormous emotional harm foster care inflicts on children. She’s even right that the more time a child spends in foster care the greater the risk of harm.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The federal government has released state-by-state data for the number of children taken from their parents in FFY 2021 (yes, they always run about a year late). Nationwide, entries into foster care declined by five percent. And NCCPR has updated our rate-of-removal index. You remember, right?

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Community Care

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Currently unregulated services for 16- and 17-year-old children in care and care leavers would be inspected a third as often as children’s homes, once requirements for them to register with Ofsted come into force next year, under government plans. Claire Coutinho (photo: HM Government).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The algorithm doesn’t tell investigators when to tear children from the arms of their families and consign them to foster care; that’s left to humans. She’s still in foster care. *-In The investigators can’t be biased by this because they don’t even know the risk score.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Sector bodies have heavily criticised the government’s provision of one-fifth of the resources called for by the care review to reform social care in its response today. ” Children in care and young care leavers’ charity Become also responded similarly. Today’s announcement does not provide that.”

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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. As of March 2021, 10- to 15-year-olds accounted for 39% of children in care, and those over 16 23%, according to government statistics. Horror stories’.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Have a look: The only good news for the family police came from the fact that, apparently, only a minority of respondents agreed with the statement “Overall, the foster care system harms more than helps the children in its care.” But while Gallup reveals how many agreed with the statement, it doesn’t say how many disagreed.

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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. ● That is the real danger to children.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

The study looks at every step of the process, from investigations to how often a caseworker claims a case is “substantiated” to entries into foster care to termination of children’s rights to their parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It is incredibly traumatic when government agents enter a person’s home and there’s the looming threat of a child removal,” [founder David] Shalleck-Klein told the Law Journal. And of course, the harm is enormous when government agents do remove a child from a parent … sometimes in the middle of the night, in incredibly traumatic ways.

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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 latter charge has been rejected by agency leaders.

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 2, 2023

It is also far worse for youth with special needs, such as LGBTQ youth and youth in and aging out of foster care. Experts report that as many as 80 percent of youth with foster care experience have significant mental health issues , compared to 18 to 22 percent of the general population.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. Under the latter, a child is placed in foster care with prospective adopters, while the council also considered if they may be reunified with their family.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in foster care. Legal experts say it is particularly rare for groups of parents, such as those in the Gould case, to seek systemic changes to the investigation and surveillance process, asserting their rights before a foster care removal.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

The review said councils had weak oversight of providers, and planning for placements was insufficiently co-ordinated between councils and poor – citing a What Works for Children’s Social Care study showing many authorities lacked up-to-date strategies to secure sufficient placements.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

There was also recognition for the former chief executive of social work charity Frontline, Josh MacAlister, who recently led a government-commissioned review of children’s social care. Pamela and Peter Frickleton (MBE), foster carers with Plymouth council (MBEs).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

As Sankaran and Church point out: any public reporting of the number of adopted children who once again enter foster care is likely an underestimate. Even with these limited data, a recent study found that more than 66,000 adopted children ended up back in foster care between 2008 to 2020, an average of 12 a day.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

S he describes her own experience of retaliation after she complained about one of the private foster care agencies with which ACS contracts, offers an overview of how “predictive analytics” makes things worse, and makes clear we need to dig deeper into how ACS is using it. ? government representatives – all of which they evaded. ?

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Better relationships with children’s social workers is a key factor in tackling a foster carer recruitment and retention “crisis”, says The Fostering Network. 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The foster/adoptive parents, who initially reported the child as missing, have been charged with murdering the child. Despite the pleas of relatives, Isabella’s siblings are still in foster care with strangers. We also know that abuse in foster care is widespread , and we know that agencies often turn a blind eye to such abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. Of all the cases of children forced into Massachusetts foster care in 2021, 63% did not even involve an allegation of substance use.

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

On receiving the CBE, she said: ‘This award is further recognition of the importance of social care and social work research. “This award recognises the substantial investments being made by government in social care and social work research and its multiple achievements.” Well deserved. —

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Social care leaders from across local and central government and provider bodies have been recognised in the New Year Honours as the sector battles one of the toughest winters in many years.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Survey reveals critical shortage in placements with government accused of ‘relying on goodwill of carers to supplement the state’ Ministers are facing demands for a comprehensive overhaul of foster care after Britain’s most comprehensive assessment of the service revealed low morale, funding shortfalls and poor support has fuelled a critical shortage (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing.

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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. Considering that roughly 50,000 children were in New York City foster care every year a generation ago, this cumulative burden alone is severe. Much of this loss and pain has been directly fueled by government policy.

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The Guardian

JUNE 26, 2022

Report suggests half of all foster carers are looking after a child with complex needs Foster care in Britain is facing a “mental health crisis” because the government is failing to meet the needs of mentally ill children in care.

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