Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 20, 2024

With the capable Lead Organizer, Amani Desamours, and her Student Leadership Team handling Thursday’s virtual Student Advocacy Day, I had the privilege of attending the pivotal Children’s Bureau’s National Convening on Kinship Care. Harnessing the power of media and storytelling, he got the right people’s attention.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Administration Welfare 52

Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

“All of this means we’re on course to have 100,000 children in care within a decade. “All of this means we’re on course to have 100,000 children in care within a decade. The experience of growing up in care is one of the greatest disadvantages someone can face.” Child protection is overwhelmed.

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Government Consultation Foster Care Social Worker 248

Community Care

MARCH 6, 2022

for regional adoption agencies, from 2022-25, sparking renewed calls for investment in the rest of the care system. In 2020-21, the number of children adopted from care fell to their lowest level in 21 years, to 2,870, continuing a year-on-year decline from a peak of 5,360 in 2014-15, showed DfE data released in November.

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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. The review said that £1bn should be made available over the first two years.

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Domestic Violence Government Social Worker Consultation 272

Community Care

MAY 22, 2022

The government must introduce national pay scales for social workers, tied to a “vastly improved” learning and development offer, to boosts skills, reward expertise and retain staff in practice, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care said today. Care review: key social work recommendations.

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Social Worker Government Case Management Interventional 355