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Councils referring more children from residential to foster care, report agencies

Community Care

Councils are referring more children from residential to foster care, independent fostering agencies (IFAs) have reported. Children making significant progress in residential care due to effective therapeutic interventions, making them ready and willing to move to a family-like setting.

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Lesson from an appalling case in Michigan: If you don’t conform in EVERY way, the family police are gunning for you.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It took the intervention of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to undo some of the damage done to the children at the center of this case. His mother consulted experts and followed their advice to allow him to express himself and not do anything to shame or stigmatize him. The child is now 11 and currently identifies as male.)

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

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. They involve clients in decision-making processes and encourage them to actively participate in setting goals and developing intervention plans.

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Significant disparities in council support for kinship carers revealed by survey

Community Care

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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Turnover of social workers led to toddler suffering significant harm, review finds

Community Care

Child Au is now being cared for by foster parents and, while the review said she was making progress, it added that she needed specialist intervention to deal with the impact of her early experiences. Fluctuating’ interventions meant neglect and abuse of girl ‘kicked across room’ was never tackled. Failure to refer.

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The New York Times rediscovers wrongful removal, class bias and racial bias in child welfare – and gets a lot right. But the story is marred by some glaring errors.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The exception was the Times’ superb 2017 story about foster care as the new “Jane Crow.”) Has ACS ever gone to the legislature and asked lawmakers to change the law to empower it to screen out reports that don’t deserve any “intervention” at all? But that only tells part of the story.

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‘The power of social work has shaped who I am’ – ADCS’s new care experienced president

Community Care

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.