Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 29, 2024

Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 147

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In Arthur’s case , reviewers found that practitioners did not share information with the wider family because they did not have the boy’s father’s consent, meaning they missed the opportunity to reappraise the risks he was facing. ” UK Information Commissioner John Edwards issued a similar message today.

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Confidentiality Consultation 237

Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

Review of social care law for disabled children As set out in its recently published draft children’s social care strategy , the SEND improvement plan confirmed that the government would ask the Law Commission to review social care legislation relating to disabled children.

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Government Disability Interventional Social Worker 244

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The family has been harassed with false reports more than 24 times. Ultimately two different judges had to intervene to curb ACS’ harassment of the family. Reporters are used to the extent to which various laws allow family police agencies to cover up the harm they do to families. This is a link to the law.

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Child Welfare Welfare Administration Interviewing 101

Community Care

MARCH 1, 2022

We as a team have been raising awareness for a long time now about the new law, so I think some families will already be aware that change is coming in Wales. But as a result of the new law, we, and the police, may receive reports we wouldn’t have received before. Hidden impact of physical abuse. Changing minds.

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Social Worker Schools Government 240

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. Gould, who is Black, said her family has been permanently affected by its experience with A.C.S.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Interviewing Domestic Violence 120

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

That newspaper published an excellent commentary from the city’s family defense providers calling on the City Council and/or the State Legislature to pass a “Family Miranda” law – requiring ACS to tell families their rights. Laws can be amended. Because if you don’t know your rights, you don’t have your rights.

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Child Welfare Welfare Administration Family Services 96

Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

According to Cafcass, the average length of time it worked with families in these cases from July to September 2023 was 44 weeks , well above the 26-week target for the duration of proceedings. This is also the judiciary’s ambition through its relaunch of the public law outline (PLO) last year.

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Social Worker Case Management Administration Government 242

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 29, 2024

Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Therapist Counseling 147

Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Supervision orders face an overhaul to improve their effectiveness in supporting family reunification, but experts have concluded they should not be abolished. This would be backed by government funding to finance support services for families identified in the plan. What is the Public Law Working Group?

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Government Social Worker Consultation Adoption 237

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This is where counseling comes in as well as a good consultation from a family law lawyer. The family law lawyer can help you understand what obligations you may have and what limits there may be to those obligations. You need this team. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW. www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice.

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Counseling Private Practice Consultation Mental Health 264

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 29, 2024

Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Counseling 147

Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker 147

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

South Dakota tears apart families at a rate well above the national average. There were two important news stories last week from states that destroy astounding numbers of Native American families every year. In Montana that’s partly because the state family police agency tears apart so many Native families.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Substance Abuse Welfare 111

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

All of the love, compassion and common decency in this case came from people not employed by family police agencies. Abiding by its internal regulations, the Massachusetts [Department of Children and Families] asked New Hampshire to approve the move under a 62-year-old agreement called the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Government 123

Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

Case for opening up child in need role In its consultation on the plans, the DfE suggested this would enable staff already working with families – including family support workers, drug and alcohol practitioners, domestic abuse workers and youth workers – to take on the lead practitioner role.

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Disability Consultation Social Worker Youth Worker 333

Community Care

APRIL 13, 2023

Or being separated from your family, spouse or partner, without an explanation that you understand as to why, or lacking any effective way of challenging this. “This means people are held in places they don’t want to live or face restrictions on where they go, without a legal basis for doing so.

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Government Consultation Hospitals Advocacy 226

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

You could fight us in court, where you’re entitled to free legal counsel if you’re indigent, where federal law requires us to make reasonable efforts to keep your family together and where an actual judge decides if we can take your children away. The bill says families must be notified of their right to consult a lawyer.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Counseling 121

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 8, 2023

To find a therapist with the specialized knowledge necessary for oneself, Google collaborative law, and your city, province or state. You are looking for the local collaborative law association where you can then find a listing of family specialists. These are counselors with additional training to work with separated parents.

Counseling 147

Counseling Private Practice Mental Health Therapist 147

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Private Practice 203

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 203

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Allegheny Family Screening Tool slaps an invisible scarlet number "risk score" on every child whose parents or other caretakers have been accused of neglect. 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. And the U.S.

Child Welfare 122

Child Welfare Disability Foster Care Welfare 122

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Consultation 147

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Last month, the New York Law Journal published an excellent article about the Family Justice Law Center. 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. Those harms stay with children.”

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Justice and Corrections Foster Care Administration Government 109

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 11, 2024

Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 147

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Gothamist has real news about what should be called fake Miranda rights – the notices that New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, will give parents when ACS caseworkers pound on their doors. . But people are learning, and this time, there’s some real opposition.

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Administration Government Child Welfare Foster Care 73

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Two cases illustrate the need for those good, bipartisan "child welfare" laws the Texas Legislature has been passing lately. Two weeks ago I wrote about a news story concerning new laws in Texas that bolster due process for families. None of the laws passed this year does anything to change the standard for removal.)

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Foster Care Child Welfare Confidentiality Welfare 86

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 15, 2024

It seemed that where ever we shopped, everyone looked and sounded like our family. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 147

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 21, 2024

Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Social Worker 147

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 21, 2024

Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Consultation Mental Health Counseling 147

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 9, 2024

Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 147

Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. ” In evidence to the committee, then education secretary Nadhim Zahawi said the DfE agreed, pledging to bring forward proposals to change the law. This would still require registration.

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Adoption Counseling Psychotherapy Therapist 263

Gary Direnfeld

MAY 15, 2022

Here is a recent response I provided a family law lawyer whose client was involved in such a situation: —————– At that age, we don’t know if there is truly a gender issue for the child or if the parents are sensitive about the child’s role playing. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

Private Practice 182

Private Practice Mental Health Therapist Counseling 182

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That and a referral to a competent and reasonable family law lawyer. If you are separated and fearful, seek help from people who understand the dynamics and implications of abuse as well as the dynamics and implications of such behavior in a family law context. However, they never realized it due to fear.

Therapist 147

Therapist Private Practice Counseling Mental Health 147

Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In many of the 26 serious case reviews (SCRs) analysed, practitioners did not understand the implications of families having no recourse to public funds (NRPF) , offering them inappropriate advice or refusing support, it found. Where these were given, they were sometimes extremely low, for example, £65 a week for a family of three.

Child Welfare 278

Child Welfare Welfare Communication Confidentiality 278

Community Care

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The figures, collected by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory , suggest that the number of such cases has continued to rise beyond the 462% increase in applications that the NFJO, using Cafcass data, calculated had taken place from 2017-18 to 2020-21. This, and other resources, are available to Inform subscribers.

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Mental Health Government 252

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

‘Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. Family justice overhaul bids to limit number of care proceedings. Related articles.

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Interviewing Social Worker University Government 265

The Guardian

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The prime minister is due to face questions on his government’s performance from senior MPs Social care leaders felt “blindsided” by recently announced changes to visa rules banning care workers from bringing their families to the UK and have “grave concerns” it could drive people from the sector, the Commons health committee heard this morning.

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Consultation Government 92

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The New York City Administration for Children's Services Uses Highly Coercive Tactics to Illegally Search Tens of Thousands of Families’ Homes Every Year. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services. The family is cooking.

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Administration Schools Government Interviewing 106