NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding. Barriers to implementation Participants reported challenges and barriers to adoption and implementation of digital safeguarding at both national and local level.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Pearce told Community Care that these should include a calculated fair cost for care and rules on provider behaviour, in an interview at this year’s National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC). “Both the CHA and the LGA have made the government aware of the impact of the lack of sufficient funding in this sector.

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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. The final year’s survey included questions on the impact of Covid-19. Pause National Care Service legislation, urge leaders.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

They were based on interviews with 44 parents of 59 children from 13 local authorities in England and Wales. Focus groups put forward parents’ joint recommendations on the reform of supervision orders based on the key recommendations arising from the individual interviews.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Foundations study, based on survey responses from 80 councils (52% of the total), interviews with staff from 35 of these and round table discussions with 31 kinship carers, examined how far authorities provided support to the different types of kinship carer. ” . ”

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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. IROs raised concerns when needed, but managers’ inconsistent responses hindered the effectiveness of the process.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away. In an interview with Social Work Today , John Jay said, “As organizations adapt to and become more accustomed to delivering telehealth, telehealth is going to be more prevalent in behavioral health moving forward.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Government appoints commissioner to work with ‘inadequate’ council due to lack of progress. But it said that data for return home interviews needed to improve to accurately reflect the work undertaken with children. Related articles. Inadequate’ councils three times as reliant on agency social workers as highest rated authorities.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 25, 2025

Ten-year-old Begidu Morris died more than three years ago of horrific child abuse by his parents, who adopted him from Ethiopia. But there was no avalanche of media coverage of his death, no interviews with shocked neighbors saying they had no idea the child even existed. No pyramid of teddy bears and flowers outside his home.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story – especially when a good reporter adds a little context. Kennedy was born July 14, 2014, and was adopted in November 2018. This story from The Imprint has a good summary of Prof.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Disappointment with national government policy commitment to children’s services (25%). The college said this meant the government needed to tackle the “negative effects of multiple government departments generating policies around children” and improve funding for new duties for councils. This is within your gift.”

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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. The report claims that parents have the right to refuse to let their children be interviewed. Source: U.S.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Non-social work staff handling ‘complex safeguarding’ However, Ofsted found that for children who went missing from home or care, return home interviews were not held consistently or in a timely fashion, and often lacked sufficient analysis of the child’s circumstances, meaning they did not contribute to safety planning.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. So the government called back Laming to review progress on child protection since his 2003 report.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Prime minister Rishi Sunak saying social workers ignored victims of child sexual exploitation in areas such as Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford, and fellow Tory MP Flick Drummond saying that practitioners “stayed at home” during the pandemic, in media interviews in April 2023.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation. FAMILY FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE HOMES Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother because they witnessed domestic violence. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The foster parents in this case didn’t do anything illegal – in fact the placement was authorized by a government agency, and the foster parents probably have the best of intentions. But also shortly after birth, her aunt and uncle, Tige and Karen Nishimoto came forward and said they wanted to adopt the girl.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

An adoptive mother is charged with murder, torture, and crimes straight out of a horror film nightmare. They were allegedly adopted to death. The starvation, torture, murder and other horrors all were allegedly orchestrated by Avantae Deven, the foster mother who adopted them. Thats an aberration. And lets not forget this story.

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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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