CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Concerned individuals should consult an experienced and trusted immigration law attorney about your situation to verify that what you are doing will be honored by authorities in your state. Will my children be adopted? What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado?

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Human Services 96

Community Care

MARCH 7, 2025

By Ann Horne, kinship care consultant, CoramBAAF There are an estimated 132,800 children living in kinship care in England ( Kinship and Centre for Care, 2025 ). Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Adoption Social Worker Consultation Foster Care 46

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JUNE 30, 2023

Editor’s note: Melissa Freedman, MSW, is a social work educator and consultant specializing in leadership, supervision, administration, and quality management and assurance. And lastly, do you need an external consultant to aid your team in fully writing to the minimum threshold requirements of the accreditation standards?

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Administration Consultation Adoption Anxiety 130

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 22, 2022

IASSW has convened a Task Force of thought leaders to develop ways to support the adoption of the standards as a framework for social work education across the globe. A reminder: IASSW Capacity Building Committee offers Peer Review Consultation services, intentionally and explicitly aligned with the Global Standards: [link].

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Adoption Schools Social Worker Consultation 98

KVC

JULY 20, 2021

and best practice training and consultation that stretches around the world, KVC’s presence in its home region of Kansas and Missouri has expanded. Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Mental Health Welfare Psychiatric 98

Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

Christina has been a licensed foster parent in the state of Washington for six years and has adopted one child from the foster care system. by Christina Faucett I am honored to publish this essay from Christina Faucett. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years.

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Communication Foster Care Child Welfare Advocacy 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

But i nstead of getting more money directly into the hands of poor families, they’re going to give up to $10 million over five years to some consultant or other – to teach mandatory reporters and child abuse hotline operators how to stop confusing poverty with neglect! That's certainly a step forward.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Medicaid Administration 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

In the Albany Times Union , Madelyn Freundlich, policy research consultant for the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York writes in support of legislation that would replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.

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Child Welfare Confidentiality Welfare Human Services 98

Michigan Social Work

MARCH 16, 2023

Ramona Perry, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Psychology, has successfully defended her dissertation "Black During COVID-19: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Adoption of COVID-19 Risk Reduction Behaviors among Black Adults." After graduation, Perry will be co-owner of an evaluation consulting firm.

Psychology 52

Psychology Adoption Consultation 52

KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Through in-home family strengthening services, foster care, adoption, mental health treatment, disability services, and children’s mental health hospitals, we’re giving people hope and helping children and families thrive. Learn more about our leadership , direct services , consulting and training , and more!

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Child Welfare Healthcare Welfare Mental Health 98

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 70

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. The Imprint has a story about it all. Youth Today reports on creation of an independent Office of Family Representation and Advocacy. ­?

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Child Welfare Welfare Adoption Foster Care 76

Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Kirsty Hammonds, Coram In my role as child placement consultant in Coram’s activity days team, I come across many siblings who will not be able to live together permanently. This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care.

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Adoption Interviewing Foster Care Social Worker 53

KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

Child Welfare 52

Child Welfare Foster Care Adoption Mental Health 52

Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Though it has not provided the details of its plan yet, yesterday’s announcement made clear that the government would be, broadly, pursuing the model of mandatory reporting that it consulted on last year. It is vital that young people have safe, confidential spaces to discuss their experiences and talk to a trusted adult.”

Criminal Justice 61

Criminal Justice Consultation Confidentiality Government 61

KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Meet Children Who Need Loving, Adoptive Forever Families. BreAnna, Taniya, Lexi and A’Jaun are children who need adoptive families to provide them with safety, a sense of belonging and unconditional love. Read it now. Could you be the person that will provide them a permanent home? Learn more.

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Psychiatric Foster Care Hospitals Adoption 52

Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

By Ann Horne, kinship consultant, CoramBAAF. They have not made a proactive choice to become a foster carer or adopter, but find themselves in a situation, not of their own choosing, but wishing to safeguard a child they love. This is in a context where more children are leaving care under special guardianship orders than adoption.

Social Worker 51

Social Worker Adoption Anxiety Consultation 51

Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

” DfE wants ‘fairer’ pay In its separate consultation on measures to reduce the use and cost of agency children’s social in local authorities , the department said it wanted to see “greater national consistency and fairness around pay” for practitioners doing the same role in different councils, whether agency or employed.

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Social Worker Consultation Adoption Government 57

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 1, 2023

By adopting the habit of eating slowly, we allow our bodies the time it needs to complete each stage of the digestion process. Let’s prioritize our health and happiness by adopting this simple yet impactful habit. Bailey Consultants helps women live healthy lives through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care.

Adoption 52

Adoption Social Worker Consultation Clinic 52

Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

Currently kinship care is wedged uncomfortably into systems designed primarily for fostering and adoption and is often the poor relation in a hierarchy of rights and support.” But it also means we need specialist kinship care teams – on a par with current looked-after children’s teams and adoption support teams.

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Adoption Social Worker Foster Care Healthcare 64

Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

Lord Meston (crossbench) tabled an amendment which adopted the MCAs functional test but without the need to consider if the inability to make the decision is caused by an impairment of or disturbance in the mind/brain. Consequently, she argued, children may not benefit from the reforms in the bill that depend on competency.

Mental Health 54

Mental Health Disability Hospitals Government 54

Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

In its commentary in Child Maltreatment 2017 (CM2017), New Jersey attributed the one-year drop in children with substantiated dispositions from FFY 2016 to FFY2017 to a revised disposition model it adopted in April 2013. The misuse of data by high officials of New Jersey’s child welfare agency raises an uncomfortable question.

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Child Welfare Diversity Welfare Foster Care 100

Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

Virtual heads are council practitioners responsible for promoting educational outcomes for children with a social worker – whether looked after, in need or on a child protection plan – as well as those who have left care through adoption, special guardianship or a child arrangements order.

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Schools Social Worker School Social Work Interventional 55

Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Barriers to implementation Participants reported challenges and barriers to adoption and implementation of digital safeguarding at both national and local level. Image: Dzmitry/Adobe Stock Addressing these requires policy changes and for the government to adopt a digital safeguarding approach.

Case Management 51

Case Management Communication Self-harm Adoption 51

Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The consultations close on 11 May, 2023. As part of this, the DfE will consult on removing the requirement for social workers to lead child in need cases. The DfE will also consult on new multi-agency child protection standards as part of a review of Working Together to Safeguard Children in 2023.

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Consultation Social Worker Foster Care Government 51

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Before deciding on the methods, home secretary Suella Braverman was obliged to consult the government’s age estimation science advisory committee (AESAC) , which includes experts from relevant medical disciplines, and conclude they were appropriate.

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Government Adoption Social Worker Consultation 51

Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s. He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker.

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Social Worker Diversity Adoption Government 65

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 1, 2023

By adopting the habit of eating slowly, we allow our bodies the time it needs to complete each stage of the digestion process. Let’s prioritize our health and happiness by adopting this simple yet impactful habit. Bailey Consultants helps women live healthy lives through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care.

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Adoption Consultation Clinic Social Worker 40

Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A one-month consultation on its proposals closes tomorrow (30 November), with the group then intending to draw up revised best practice guidance for immediate implementation, potentially ahead of longer-term reforms to the order.

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Social Worker Government Consultation Adoption 58

Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Mixed response to lead practitioner role The proposed lead child protection practitioner role, which the DfE adopted from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care , drew a mixed response from respondents to the consultation on the reforms.

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Social Worker Adoption Diversity Anxiety 63

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

(And CWLA’s long-ago apology rings hollow – since they still support draconian policing laws such as the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.) And see also this story from Searchlight New Mexico, which focuses on a Native American child adopted by a well-meaning white couple.

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Child Welfare Welfare Adoption Administration 40

Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

In 2020, it published five decisions which adopted a radically different approach to determining ordinary residence for the purposes of section 117 (one of which was the Worcestershire case). However, the DHSC changed its mind and challenged its own guidance. She was assessed as lacking capacity to decide where to live. of the guidance).

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Mental Health Hospitals Disorder Adoption 48

Relias

APRIL 18, 2025

Organizations that have adopted personalization strategies have observed a 10% improvement in customer experience within 6 to 12 months. Healthcare facility patient experience trends Hospitals and healthcare facilities are adopting smart technologies to improve wayfinding, reduce noise levels, and enhance patient comfort.

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Healthcare Telehealth Treatment Planning Communication 40

Community Care

MAY 8, 2024

Whether registration fees will rise: the regulator reiterated that it would review the current fee structure during its current strategic planning period (2023-26) and that any increase would involve a full public consultation and engagement with the profession.

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Social Worker Engagement Adoption Mental Health 61

Community Care

JULY 25, 2023

Meanwhile, councils would be encouraged to refer families to FGCs from early help onwards, under proposed changes to Working Together, which are currently out to consultation.

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Social Worker Adoption Interventional Consultation 49

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Citing the wider body of research into the practice, it said local authorities had generally adopted agile working to make efficiency savings, not in response to social workers’ needs.

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Social Worker Criminal Justice Government Adoption 55

Social Care

MAY 6, 2025

Access tools and resources now Finally, delivering these reforms represents many months of work by colleagues in the Department of Health and Social Care, Skills for Care, and our sector partners, including 30 Early Adopters who have helped test and refine the Workforce Pathway.

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