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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

courts adopted a rule requiring balance of harms, entries into foster care decreased sharply. The statutes governing termination proceedings require only “reasonable” efforts—not perfect efforts—from DHHS to reunify the family. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But with no statutory duty on councils to provide support for birth families of children taken into care, apart from in cases of adoption, Pause said that they faced a postcode lottery in provision. It also cited previous research that found many such young mothers had been in care themselves.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And in its report on social care last year, the CMA found that councils “can struggle to collaborate successfully due to risk aversion, budgetary constraints, differences in governance, and difficulties aligning priorities and sharing costs”. It concluded this was unlikely to change without action by central government.

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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”. The court did not recommend a care order after Y’s guardian noted that some recommendations for support and intervention had been made but had not implemented.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

The PSW network’s intervention comes on the back of the number of medically fit people awaiting discharge reaching 14,000 in early January – the highest level on record – due to a lack of social care, community health and other services to support them on their return home.

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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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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. It also strengthens post-adoption services. This is the process of functional governing.” It expands access for tribal communities and provides support systems for the 2.5 This is how Congress should work.

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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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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

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

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This would be backed by government funding to finance support services for families identified in the plan. The government should commit to provide the necessary resources to local authorities to enable them to adopt and implement the guidance to the fullest and most effective extent possible.

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Community Care

APRIL 7, 2022

In his inaugural address as president on Wednesday , Crocker called on the government to launch a review into children’s mental health. Councils continue to face social work shortages and Crocker said ADCS would continue to urge the government to begin a national recruitment drive. More foster carers needed.

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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.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“This isn’t about parenting; this is about state intervention into private and family life,” she says. Government guidance from 2006 requires councils to carry out welfare enquiries before evictions take place, to identify “pressing needs”, potentially leading to evictions being delayed while these needs are addressed.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As I embark on this transformative journey, I am committed to adopting a strength-based approach—one that recognises and nurtures the inherent potential within each individual. Strength-Based Approach One of the key aspects of being a social worker is adopting a strength-based approach.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Government appoints commissioner to work with ‘inadequate’ council due to lack of progress. Their progress is held back by wide-ranging inconsistencies in the quality and impact of assessments, plans, interventions and management oversight and supervision.” Related articles. Inadequate-rated council finds £1.1m

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Sector bodies have voiced concerns about the future of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF), with the government having failed to confirm funding beyond March 2025. ” The concerns echo those voiced by the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies (CVAA) in a report published in October last year.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In those instances, we need the care to be delivered in trauma-responsive environments that embrace parent and caregiver engagement throughout the treatment intervention and continually focus on best practice. They are informed by the emerging literature highlighting promising practices in residential interventions.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And it’s important to draw a distinction between that one element of government – the family police – and government as a whole. I think government can play a huge, constructive role in promoting the well-being of children. I am a lifelong tax-and-spend liberal and proud of it. So, how did that work out?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Most assessments had a clear purpose and rationale for intervention, with direct work providing valuable insights into children’s experiences, and their needs being well-considered by plans that also included their wishes and feelings. .” Practice better beyond the MASH.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They lead to interventions, including child protection investigations and taking children into care, which can themselves harm children and families. Pre-mobile infant bruising should not automatically prompt section 47s, say government advisers. Harming children and families. ” Related articles.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. To move away from the ineffective intervention of mandatory reporting, policymakers must decriminalize absenteeism. But the Maine Monitor took a closer look.

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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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Relias

JULY 14, 2023

However, the continued push for improvement from medical entities, government agencies, and private organizations can only help. To target and serve previously neglected communities, prevent patterns from repeating, and stop the downward trend, it will be necessary to adopt new interventions.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2025

BASW called on regulators and employers to issue clear guidance for practitioners and for the government to urgently publish legislative and policy frameworks to govern the use of AI in public services. As with any procurement exercise, you need to think very carefully about the benefits and the risks of adopting a particular project.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

Yet this hypothetical anti-terrorism law already is the law governing the system we call “child welfare.” At the federal level, while right-wing Republican Tom DeLay was a prime mover behind the odious, racist Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, a law that passed almost unanimously, it had an even more powerful backer: Hillary Clinton.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Big numbers Consider these statistics: In England and Wales in 2021/22, there were 125,612 avoidable deaths , defined as deaths from causes considered “treatable or preventable given timely and effective healthcare or public health interventions.” That’s 190 every day or one every eight minutes.

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