Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

“Local government already has a national pay spine which includes job descriptions and grading for child and family social workers to help achieve consistency, transparency and fairness in pay and progression,” the DfE said. “We do not intend to create new DfE-led pay scales.

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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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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

With the right strategy and proper investment, kinship care offers the potential for better outcomes for children and considerable savings for local authorities and national government. 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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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This would be backed by government funding to finance support services for families identified in the plan. 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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The consultations close on 11 May, 2023. Social worker pay : The DfE has rejected the care review recommendation for national pay scales for social workers on the grounds that this risked destabilising the local government pay system for insufficient benefit. A report proposing reforms to agency social work.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Unfortunately, Maine’s equivalent of the federal Government Accountability Office, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability (OPEGA) did indeed fall for it in a report released last week. As the state data tables available here show, in Maine entries into foster care skyrocketed more than 50% between 2017 and 2019.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

That much is clear to anyone who bothers to look at the data that New Jersey shares with the federal government through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) and which the federal Children’s Bureau shares through its annual Child Maltreatment reports.

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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.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

At the same time, the Local Government Association released research showing authorities as a whole were on course to exceed their approximately £4.7bn care placement budgets by £680m (14%), following a similar overspend last year. Inflation on supplies and salaries have been significant.

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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. Pause National Care Service legislation, urge leaders.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. Promoting improvements to social work, including the adoption of evidence-informed practice.

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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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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Under section 22C of the Children Act 1989, councils should prioritise these placements over all others for children in care, where adoption is not being considered. “This isn’t inevitable, but it demands action, leadership and funding from government. ” . ”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. 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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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

A draft report and best practice guidance from the supervision review will go out for consultation later in the year. We have recommended that there needs to be a bespoke IRO role and service and that the government should set up and finance a national, fixed-term ‘supervision orders support fund’, akin to the adoption support fund.”

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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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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For my latest article, we consulted four sets of parents who had been investigated because of bruises in pre-mobile children and found not to have harmed their child. Pre-mobile infant bruising should not automatically prompt section 47s, say government advisers. Harming children and families. ” Related articles.

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Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I am so pleased to be writing this blog, celebrating the publication of ‘ People at the heart of care ’, the Government's adult social care reform White Paper. At least £150 million to support adoption of technology and digitalisation. Reform has social work values built in. Social work and social care values are at its core.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Our resources focus on important carers’ rights that are almost universal – including the right to an assessment, eligibility for a free flu jab, asking GP practices to identify them as carers, and the right to be identified and consulted before a relative is discharged from hospital. "We Image created by freepik.com ]. Working and caring.

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Social Care

APRIL 21, 2023

We knew care staff were facing unprecedented challenges and we wanted to make sure they had the basic technology infrastructure to support video consultations with health professionals and to make sure residents could stay in contact with friends and family while visiting was restricted.

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Social Work With Adults

APRIL 4, 2023

Meanwhile, I am very pleased the Government continues to fund Skills for Care’s package of support across workforce training and development, which includes specific support for social workers.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2025

Keir Starmer has failed to confirm the future of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF), with the scheme to provide therapy for children and families just days from ending. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

While the party said it would introduce a fair pay agreement for adult social care workers and indicated it would implement the current government’s adult social care charging reforms, it did not allocate any resources to either, prompting criticism that the policies would trigger cuts elsewhere.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

It is important to remember that the government does not have a majority in the Lords and could be defeated on particular votes. She argued that the government did not want the MCA to be a loophole, back door or anything of that nature. Principles The bill does not insert principles onto the face of the MHA.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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