Community Care
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
of a set of 11 indicators of need or risk, including mental health issues, disability, self-harm or going missing. Children who had often suffered complex and ongoing trauma and were considered very vulnerable due to overlapping risks and needs primarily related to mental health, self-harming and risk to others.
Community Care
JANUARY 31, 2023
Under section 25 of the Children Act 1989 , such secure welfare placements may only be made if a child either has a history of absconding, would likely abscond from any other setting and, if they did so, would likely suffer significant harm; or would likely injure themselves or others if placed in any other setting.
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Community Care
MAY 25, 2023
The number of places contracted to the Ministry of Justice to place children detained by the criminal justice system remained stable, at 105, meaning the drop in capacity fell entirely on local authorities looking to place children on welfare grounds or, more rarely, on remand.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy. But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun.
Community Care
JANUARY 30, 2024
The panel, which examined 393 cases, found an over-optimism concerning parents’ capacity to give safe care and an over-reliance on parental self-report, with missed “opportunities” to triangulate this information with that from other sources.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 17, 2022
I also expressed the hope that we would see more stories about such families and more self-reflection within the system and in journalism. Now he sees how much harm a family policing agency with vast, unchecked power and no accountability can do. So far, it’s not looking good. He wanted to help children.
Save the Social Worker
APRIL 28, 2024
Many of them come from the realms of psychology, business, and self-help. You Yenn’s book offers a critique of the way social welfare is organised in Singapore. Read this book if you want to have your assumptions of social welfare challenged. I believe that reading them can give you a more holistic idea of social work.
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