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Backers of a bill that tries to legitimize hidden foster care in Virginia say it creates guardrails. On the contrary; it sends the rights of children and families careening off a cliff.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This process, known as kinship foster care, is usually the least harmful form of foster care. But it’s still foster care. Let me repeat that: Kinship care is foster care. Kinship care is foster care. Kinship care is foster care. Easier than what?

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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

Concerned individuals should consult an experienced and trusted immigration law attorney about your situation to verify that what you are doing will be honored by authorities in your state. What if no family or kin can be identified to provide care for my children? What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado?

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Welsh Government consulting on eliminating profit-making provision for children in care

Community Care

The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. As of March 2021, the rate of Welsh children in care was 115.3 ” Reliance on private sector.

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Adultification bias expert appointed national kinship care ambassador

Community Care

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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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

KVC

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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‘Why social work needs to become more skilled in kinship care’

Community Care

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. They lack understanding of the complexities of your situation and the stress and anxiety it causes.

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No funded social care commitments in Labour manifesto

Community Care

. “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.