KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter foster care in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family. KVC is a great place to work!

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Owner of Change Your Narrative consulting and training practice, Nancy S. Scherlong used this approach with children in foster care who had endured what she described as “horrific losses.” Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, PTR/CJT-CM is a licensed clinical social worker and the current president of the IFBPT.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But five states have passed what are commonly known as family Miranda laws, requiring the agency to tell families their rights including their right to consult a lawyer. A lot of CPS agencies want to keep it that way. In Maryland, a bill to do that, HB 223, is called Know Before They Knock."

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2025

By Ann Horne, kinship care consultant, CoramBAAF There are an estimated 132,800 children living in kinship care in England ( Kinship and Centre for Care, 2025 ). In many such cases, family members step in to care for a child without the involvement of social workers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Jahnine Davis’s role will involve supporting and challenging councils to improve practice, amplifying children’s voices and those of under-represented groups and championing kinship care within government policymaking.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Would she feel that way were she fighting to get her child out of foster care? This is a judgment call to quickly consult an attorney about. Two trips to the E.R. in a week, and one required a child to get stitches? Under many circumstances — but not all — you may be inclined to proactively grant CPS access to your child.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A Moving Family Reunification Story After Foster Care. Ashley and Sean’s substance use challenges led to their children being removed from their home and put in foster care. Black Children Are Overrepresented in Foster Care: Here’s How We Can Address This Disparity. Read it now. Read it now.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

However, the system of informal kinship care created by kinship diversion has been called America’s hidden foster care system and nationwide it appears to dwarf the provision of kinship care within the foster care system.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

And in Illinois, a family is suing after their children were thrown into foster care for more than a year, all because of a false allegation from a doctor who allegedly was retaliating because she felt offended and embarrassed by the father. ?

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The long-awaited children’s social care implementation strategy, which will be published today by the Department for Education (DfE), also includes plans to support councils recruit up to 500 social work apprentices and consultative proposals on reducing authorities’ reliance on agency staff.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This is one of several distinctions between the two settings set out in a consultation issued last week on proposed quality standards, inspection arrangements and guidance on meeting regulations for supported accommodation providers. The consultation runs until 16 January 2023. Claire Coutinho (photo: HM Government).

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Owner of Change Your Narrative consulting and training practice, Nancy S. Scherlong used this approach with children in foster care who had endured what she described as “horrific losses.” Scherlong, LCSW-R, CHHC, SEP, PTR/CJT-CM is a licensed clinical social worker and the current president of the IFBPT.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

But this week the court ruled that the government had been entitled to decide that placements in settings such as hostels, shared houses, flats and bedsits, rather than children’s homes or foster care, were suitable for some older children and that there was no legal basis for the court to intervene. Consultation process adequate.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” MacAlister also said that the proposed £25m to improve foster care recruitment and retention over the next two years would not deliver the 9,000 additional carers he said were needed over the next three years.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Kirsty Hammonds, Coram In my role as child placement consultant in Coram’s activity days team, I come across many siblings who will not be able to live together permanently. This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care.

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Community Care

JULY 15, 2024

The number of placements in secure units, children’s homes and semi-independent living grew by 4,530 (to 14,580) from 2019-23, compared with an overall growth in the care population of 5,700 (to 83,840). Over the same period, the numbers in foster care grew much more slowly, by 1,260, to 57,020 ( source: Department for Education).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

His mother consulted experts and followed their advice to allow him to express himself and not do anything to shame or stigmatize him. Starting when one of her children was three years old, he said he wanted to wear dresses and, sometimes, he wanted to be known by a girl’s name. The child is now 11 and currently identifies as male.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

In the Albany Times Union , Madelyn Freundlich, policy research consultant for the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York writes in support of legislation that would replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

There are twice as many children in kinship care in the UK than there are in foster care, yet this type of care remains largely invisible – to the public and policymakers, but often to professionals too. By Dr Lucy Peake. But many are now at breaking point.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The consultations close on 11 May, 2023. As part of this, the DfE will consult on removing the requirement for social workers to lead child in need cases. The DfE will also consult on new multi-agency child protection standards as part of a review of Working Together to Safeguard Children in 2023.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2022

The review found this conclusion was “profoundly influenced” by a report from a consultant community paediatrician, who found that Child Au was “well cared for” though “developmentally behind”. This child is now very settled in foster care and is thriving with support and care.”.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Hierarchy of support Overall, it found that authorities were most likely to support to family and friends foster carers, followed by carers with a special guardianship order (SGO) for the child and then those with a child arrangements order or residence order (CAO/RO) giving them parental responsibility.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Social work training and development: An early career framework will be established to support social workers in the years after graduation, as recommended by the care review. Agency social work: The DfE will consult on reducing local authorities’ reliance on agency social workers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”) But for most of the past two decades, with one exception, the Times has ignored wrongful removal and, sometimes, scapegoated family preservation in ways that were worse than stories in the city’s tabloids.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

By Ann Horne, kinship consultant, CoramBAAF. Their decision to care for a child is often made at times of family crisis, triggering heightened stress and anxiety, with little planning or preparation. At CoramBAAF, my role as kinship consultant is to support and promote good social work practice with kinship families.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

In addition, seven areas are testing providing family support network packages to help extended families care for children and avoid them going into care. Meanwhile, council spending on independent children’s homes more than doubled from 2015-16 to 2021-22, according to research by market analysts Revolution Consulting.

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Community Care

MAY 24, 2024

The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill would permit only not-for-profit organisations and councils from providing fostering, children’s home or secure accommodation placements. The reform would make Wales the first UK country to ban profit-making from both fostering and residential services.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Barnsley’s former DCS, Melanie John-Ross, who is now retired, picked up an MBE, with the same award going to fellow registered social worker Christine Futter, who stepped down last year as chief operating officer at Norfolk & Suffolk Care Support. Pamela and Peter Frickleton (MBE), foster carers with Plymouth council (MBEs).

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

. “We will enhance partnership working across employers, workers, trade unions and government and establish a fair pay agreement in adult social care. Labour will consult widely on the design of this agreement, before beginning the process and learn from countries where they operate successfully.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

I had taken the training several times in the past–first for my work as a social worker with CFSA and later as a mentor to a foster youth. I had my first experience with the updated training last month as part of my preparation to serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in foster care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Oh, and Sean Hughes, a lobbyist and consultant for family policing agencies who has derided the very idea that poverty is confused with neglect is against it, which is always a good sign. --The

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Christopher Church, senior director of strategic consulting at Casey Family Programs, has argued that using the term “civil death penalty” to describe the terminations that come before the cake, ice cream and balloons actually understates the trauma to the child.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

So the public was primed to scapegoat family preservation when Nixzmary Brown died in January, 2006 – leading to a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden increase in the number of children torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. The panic was welcomed by the Times. So did The Imprint.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

The task force says a consultant should draw up the tool and determine how the information obtained from the tools may be used to adjust a treatment plan for the child or youth while they are in out-of-home care. They absolutely do belong in foster care or, far better, in their own homes. And then what?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

An excellent story in The Imprint reveals that, after extensive consultation with an impressive and diverse group of people, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has pulled the plug. So even as predictive analytics proponents blather about consultation and transparency their real approach is different.

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