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Community Care
MARCH 10, 2023
The Illegal Migration Bill , introduced by home secretary Suella Braverman this week, has been met with stinging criticism from across the sector, with charities warning that it “runs roughshod over children’s rights” and “profoundly undermines” the Children Act 1989.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Child protection is overwhelmed. Family networks — grandparents, aunts and uncles — are systematically overlooked when they could help to raise a child whose parents are struggling. Family networks — grandparents, aunts and uncles — are systematically overlooked when they could help to raise a child whose parents are struggling.
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Community Care
OCTOBER 18, 2022
over this time – this was widely seen as insufficient to cope with rising demographic demand and increasing child protection activity and numbers of looked-after children. This is not right for children and families and only serves to store up problems for the future.”. Jeremy Hunt.
Community Care
MARCH 23, 2022
The report’s authors explained the findings by suggesting safeguarding spending could reflect a failure to deal early enough with family need – often arising from poverty – leading to re-referrals and repeat child protection plans. Link between deprivation and worse Ofsted grades. No association between safeguarding spend and performance.
Community Care
MARCH 18, 2022
The High Court has dismissed a children’s rights charity’s claim that the government’s failure to ban unregulated placements for children in care aged 16 or 17 was unlawful. Children’s rights charity granted judicial review of ‘discriminatory’ unregulated placements legislation. Consultation process adequate. Cruel, callous judgment’.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
But despite the latter being a record figure, Ofsted said the statistics painted a “bleak picture”, with “too few carers with the right skills” to support the number of children needing a placement. We rarely see children coming into care who don’t need to be, but with the right help earlier, some may be able to remain with their families.
Famcare
MAY 18, 2022
As stated in Article 40 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: "Every child in conflict with the law has the right to be treated in a manner that takes into account “the desirability of promoting [his/her] reintegration and [his/her] assuming a constructive role in society.”.
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