Community Care
AUGUST 22, 2022
The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. Dysfunctional’ care market needs overhaul to tackle high prices and scarce placements, says watchdog. Related reading. Some firms ‘profiteering’ from children’s homes, says minister.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Last week, Virginia’s Director of Social Services, Danny Avula, gave a presentation to the state Commission on Youth. The upside of that is that it keeps our overall numbers of kids in formal foster care low,” Avula said. There’s a term for these kinds of placements – “hidden foster care” (of course).
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Community Care
APRIL 17, 2024
.” A passion for social work His positive experience is one he shares with the social workers he oversees in Derby council as its strategic director of people, a role that encompasses the statutory positions of director of children’s services (DCS) and director of adult social services (DASS).
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.
Community Care
JANUARY 5, 2024
Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler. Pamela and Peter Frickleton (MBE), foster carers with Plymouth council (MBEs).
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.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Unaccompanied young people made up 21% of the children taken into care in 2022-23 (7,090 out of 33,000), more than double the proportion in 2020-21 (10%). To reduce and, ultimately, end hotel use, the government has offered authorities £6,000 to take in children from hotels or directly from Kent within five days of a notification to do so.
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