Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

Revised guidance on disabled children’s assessments The DfE has also strengthened guidance on the assessment of disabled children and their families after this was backed by two-thirds of respondents. The commission started its review in October 2023.

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JUNE 28, 2023

One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It Don't stop me if you've heard this one before: Now it's the National Academy of Sciences out with a comprehensive report showing that government aid to reduce poverty can significantly reduce involvement with the family police.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? Much of this loss and pain has been directly fueled by government policy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

And we wound up with hideous laws like the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. But sometimes, being “nice” is just passive aggression – as when presenters at a garden party “conversation circle” took almost the entire time for themselves and disabled the chat. We’re not making that mistake again.

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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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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2022

A London borough has agreed to pay £2,500 to a disabled boy and his adoptive mother after issuing care proceedings on “incomplete and flawed information”.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Association of Director of Children’s Services (ADCS) said the figures showed government needed to invest in recruiting more foster carers. “A However, without the support from national government this is becoming increasingly difficult as the number of children coming into care continues to rise.”.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As with her social care ministerial predecessors, Tolhurst’s brief will also encompass other issues concerning disadvantaged and vulnerable children, including special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and early help. Sign up with them to train as a social worker here: [link]. Kelly Tolhurst MP (@KellyTolhurst) September 27, 2022.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Social care leaders from across local and central government and provider bodies have been recognised in the New Year Honours as the sector battles one of the toughest winters in many years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. With CJMR there’s no way to protect your family from government agencies taking your most basic, and in some cases, most private data, and turning it against you. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias.

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Despite the focus of current government reforms on intervening early to help children stay with their families, they are insufficiently focused on those on child in need (CIN) plans, said the rights watchdog. And though 27.5% of children in need were on a CIN plan as of March 2022 nationally, the rate varied from 3.6% ”

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Among the inadequate-rated councils, the inspectorate particularly highlighted improvements at Surrey and Newham, found disabled children’s services had recovered since a visit last year West Sussex, and said progress was “modest but fragile” at Medway. Support for disabled children improving. Related articles.

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Community Care

MARCH 19, 2024

No other country, including any signatory to the ECHR, has adopted the approach mandated by Cheshire West. The recent decision of Mrs Justice Lieven in Re SM (Deprivation of Liberty; Severely Disabled Child) [2024] EWHC 493 casts doubt on the ‘nuanced acid test’ for children set out in Cheshire West.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away. Offer flexibility with support For some employees, such as family caretakers and some people with disabilities , working from home constitutes a welcome accommodation to their needs.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The council came under government intervention in 2019 after an inspection found children were not being protected, cases were being “inappropriately closed” and leaders did not understand the extent of the failings. Practitioners were also praised for effectively safeguarding disabled children.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Domestic abuse, mental health problems and substance misuse predominated and a third of the children had special educational needs and disabilities. They were based on interviews with 44 parents of 59 children from 13 local authorities in England and Wales.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Councils’ ‘spending power’ – the maximum amount they have at their disposal – will rise by 3% a year in real terms, faster than from 2019-21, However, this includes £3.6bn for councils to fund the government’s reforms to adult social care, announced last month. average for government departments.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

She has nearly three decades of experience at the center and in government. His efforts led to the adoption of protection of farm workers from excessive heat and overtime pay. Sharon Parrott, MSW ‘92 President of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Parrott is president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

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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. Increasing the upper limit of the Disabled Facilities Grant. Funding the vision.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2023

8% considered themselves disabled. For the first time, the ADCS survey also asked directors about other aspects of identity, finding that: 60% were aged 50-59, 21% were 40-49 and, 15% aged 60-65. 51% said they had no religion, while 37% identified as Christian. 83% of DCSs identified as heterosexual, 11% as gay or lesbian and 3% as bisexual.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Yet, providing unpaid care to someone who has a health condition, who is older or who has a disability, can have a profound impact on their health, wellbeing, paid work and relationships. People don’t see themselves as unpaid carers but as partners, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, and close friends first. Image created by freepik.com ].

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MARCH 3, 2022

At Outwood, a specialist residential service in West Yorkshire, we support individuals with learning disabilities and autism who rely heavily on familiar routines and structures, which their families and external carer givers are very much a part of.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story especially when a good reporter adds a little context. Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. He was institutionalized. He ran away, and he died.

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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. Learning disability and autism exclusion A topic that dominated debates in the Lords was the position of people with learning disability and autistic people.

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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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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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