Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The number of children adopted from care fell to its lowest level in 21 years in 2020-21, Department for Education (DfE) figures show. Delays in family court proceedings during Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the latest annual decline in adoptions, but the number has fallen each year since a peak of 5,360 in 2014-15.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2025

The government has launched a new qualification to enhance social care leaders’ digital skills but has been criticised by a provider body for covering a “tiny fraction” of the sector’s training costs. It has also updated the list of courses covered by LDSS funding.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2025

The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) has expired today (31 March 2025), with no news on its future. And though some regional adoption agencies (RAAs) have developed multidisciplinary teams that deliver therapeutic support, they are not resourced to replace ASGSF-funded provision.

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Community Care

MARCH 10, 2025

Thousands of vulnerable children risk losing access to vital therapy with the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) set to expire at the end of this month. ASGSF support ‘a lifeline’ They called on the government to confirm funding arrangements for the ASGSF urgently for April 2025 onwards.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2022

The decline in the number of adoptions since 2015 is continuing while children are waiting longer on average to be placed despite an expanding pool of approved adopters, official figures show. for regional adoption agencies, from 2022-25, sparking renewed calls for investment in the rest of the care system. Related articles.

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CCRC

JANUARY 21, 2025

CCRC appreciates the Governors proposed budget investments to provide Californias children and families most in need with essential safety nets and timely family well-being supports, said CCRC Government Relations Director LaWanda Wesley. This budget reflects both values and action.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption support agencies.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

If you are considering adoption, congratulations! However, the adoption journey can prove difficult to navigate if you don’t have the understanding and resources necessary to guide you through the child adoption process. What are your feelings on international adoption vs. domestic adoption?

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Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. This was because of an increasing focus on the role of race in identity formation and the challenges of transracial adoptions.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board (ASGLB) will close this month, the Department for Education has confirmed. It was renamed the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board in 2018, as its remit was widened to special guardianship arrangements for children formerly in care. Care review plans .

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

in delayed adult social care innovation funding next week, the government has confirmed. The ARF was set up by the previous Conservative government to support the adoption and scaling up of innovative practice in adult social care, in order to boost choice and control and the quality and accessibility of services. ”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

When I was put into foster care, the government removed me from my Native grandmother and placed me with my white father who was a rapist and pedophile with prior convictions. In The Imprint , Baz Hawk, a Native American survivor of the system writes that Americas Favorite Pastime is Failing Native Foster Youth.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The last Conservative government took up the idea in its 2023 Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy and selected eight local authorities or children’s trusts as “early adopters” to help develop and then test the idea. We found being part of the ECF early adopter programme to be a very positive process.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 7, 2022

Ever since the awful day 25 years ago when what would become the Adoption and Safe Families Act passed the House of Representatives, I’ve known that only one Democrat – Rep. I agree that we all can recite a litany of cases of children who have been abused, and neglected by parents and for whom expedited adoption is fully justified.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The government will assess the percentage of agency social workers in the children’s services workforce as a measurement of how successful its latest spending review has been. Cafcass asks government to fund agency social worker recruitment as staff reach ‘breaking point’. Myopic focus on adoption’. over that time.

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KVC

MARCH 30, 2022

Nearly one-quarter will be adopted, many by their foster parents. On the other hand, more than 15,000 18-year-olds age out of the foster care system each year without reuniting with their families or being adopted. Each year foster homes close due to adoption or personal circumstance. The need for more foster homes continues.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Those who were managers rose to 21.7%, up from 19.9%, a trend described as “concerning” by Josh MacAlister who is leading the government-commissioned children’s social care review. Government examining how councils can take more social work students. Social care staffing situation continues to deteriorate, show latest figures.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 27, 2022

The Council of State Governments (CSG) has drafted interstate licensing compact legislation for social workers that must be adopted by individual states. The compact would give social workers to practice in two or more states, giving the profession much needed license mobility. CSG is also accepting public comment on the legislation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Saturday marked a tragic milestone – the 25 th anniversary of a law that has harmed millions of children, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Mical Raz in The Washington Post: “Our adoption policies have harmed families and children. The Clinton-era Adoption and Safe Families Act passed 25 years ago.

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

The ADCS said family hubs were “viewed very positively” by directors, with three-quarters of survey respondents saying they had set up such services, including some who had not received government funding. Ensuring councils have direct management of staff supplied through agency project teams.

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2025

Shifting balance of income from government to social worker Social Work Englands justification for the increase is to shift the balance of income it receives towards social workers and away from the DfE, whose share rose from 52% to 57% from 2020-21 to 2023-24 to help the regulator deal with rising fitness to practise costs.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The numbers of children leaving care through adoption in 2023-24 (2,980) was similar to 2022-23 (3,000), with the same number leaving the system on special guardianship orders in each year (3,860).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

It singles out for criticism three odious laws, the Adoption and Safe Families Act , the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act. But still … In 2003, I debated Howard Davidson, the first director of the ABA Center on Children and the Law, before the National Center on Adoption Law and policy.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The government is pressing ahead with the use of scientific age assessments of asylum-seeking young people in the face of severe criticisms. It has issued regulations that would permit the use of specified scientific methods to inform age assessments of asylum-seeking young people.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

That false narrative, pushed hardest by those who hate birth parents (and yes, that’s the right word) claims that only adoption guarantees a truly permanent home for a child removed from her or his parents. Partly that’s because adoptions sometimes fail. They also take less time to achieve than adoptions.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Main-streaming Digital and Assessment Tools in Social Work Practice Integrating digital tools into traditional social work settings Evaluating the effectiveness of digital tools in Social Work practice Innovative digital interventions for diverse populations Digital literacy and capacity building for social workers – Ethical Implications and (..)

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Community Care

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Cafcass has issued a new domestic abuse policy to tackle practice deficits that remain four years after it was severely criticised in a government-commissioned report. 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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called “ relational permanence ”) not one, but two schools of social work, and – I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing. But government should never be allowed to become the Wellbeing Police.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

CWLA’s subsequent apology rings hollow, since they continue to support racist laws like the Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.) In Canada, governments are paying reparations to First Nations for what was done to them. Other nations are doing better.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In Kansas, when the state has terminated parental rights and the state is looking for an adoptive home, state law also has an extremely mild preference for kin. It would eliminate even the extremely mild preference for relatives in existing law at any point in the adoption process. In fact, the law goes even further.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

Currently, children’s social care services are run outside of council control in 11 of the 152 English council areas, either because of voluntary decisions by councils or through government imposition. Ofsted commended the council’s improved early help services, partnerships, and fostering and adoption services.

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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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The latest government-commissioned practice guide to what works in children’s social care said interventions for parents of children aged 0-10 could improve parenting practices and child behaviour, lessen levels of stress and support adults mental health.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

As we noted in that previous post: For some reason, the federal database known as the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System has a whole category for “institutions” Similarly, this excellent database from ChildTrends includes “Group Home or Institution” under “Placement settings and stability for children in foster care.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Black and Asian children were less likely to be on an adoption/placement order – the most intrusive form of state intervention in family life – than children from white and mixed or multiple ethnic groups. It is also important to note that mixed heritage children were significantly over-represented in adoption.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 15, 2024

There was also some evidence, from two studies, of navigator programmes helping children to move into permanency, whether through reunification with their parents, adoption or guardianship. The Labour government is yet to confirm whether it will take this forward.

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