NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A document from the California Department of Social Services indicates the agency was appropriately appalled by the “ethics review.” 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.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care University 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story – especially when a good reporter adds a little context. Dorothy Roberts has received a MacArthur Fellowship -- the awards that are commonly known as “genius grants.” This story from The Imprint has a good summary of Prof.

Child Welfare 111

Child Welfare Welfare Disability Hospitals 111

All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

An outside source, like an adoption counselor, can help you better grasp all that goes into the adoption process, and can teach you about the benefits of foster care, becoming a foster parent, and adoption. In addition, the cost of foster care adoption is typically significantly lower in this type of system.

Adoption 52

Adoption Foster Care Interviewing Child Welfare 52

Community Care

MAY 24, 2024

The reform would make Wales the first UK country to ban profit-making from both fostering and residential services. “They have very strong feelings about being cared for by privately owned organisations that profit from their experience of being in care.”

Government 55

Government Foster Care Welfare Consultation 55

Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

The review said councils had weak oversight of providers, and planning for placements was insufficiently co-ordinated between councils and poor – citing a What Works for Children’s Social Care study showing many authorities lacked up-to-date strategies to secure sufficient placements.

Government 72

Government Engagement Foster Care Welfare 72

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

While many foster and other carers do not pay tax on the payments they receive from their provider for their role due to the so-called qualifying care relief (formerly ‘foster care relief’) scheme, the benefit this provides has been frozen for 20 years.

Disability 68

Disability Social Worker Government University 68

Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

.” A passion for social work His positive experience is one he shares with the social workers he oversees in Derby council as its strategic director of people, a role that encompasses the statutory positions of director of children’s services (DCS) and director of adult social services (DASS).

Social Worker 66

Social Worker Diversity Adoption Government 66

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. But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services.

Adoption 65

Adoption Social Worker Foster Care Healthcare 65

Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Social care leaders from across local and central government and provider bodies have been recognised in the New Year Honours as the sector battles one of the toughest winters in many years. Vic Rayner (@vicrayner) December 31, 2022.

Adoption 48

Adoption Disability Government Home Care 48

Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler. Pamela and Peter Frickleton (MBE), foster carers with Plymouth council (MBEs).

Social Worker 58

Social Worker Disability Foster Care Government 58

Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Unaccompanied young people made up 21% of the children taken into care in 2022-23 (7,090 out of 33,000), more than double the proportion in 2020-21 (10%). To reduce and, ultimately, end hotel use, the government has offered authorities £6,000 to take in children from hotels or directly from Kent within five days of a notification to do so.

Foster Care 58

Foster Care Government Social Services Social Services 58

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. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker? What skills does a social worker need?

Social Worker 95

Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections 95

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

She became part of a secret docket of pregnant women singled out for intensive government monitoring. Every aspect of her delivery, down to the centimeter, was reported to the government, again without her knowledge. The government attempted to force her to undergo a medical procedure.

Child Welfare 137

Child Welfare Hospitals Welfare Confidentiality 137

Beyond Advocacy

MAY 2, 2023

It is also far worse for youth with special needs, such as LGBTQ youth and youth in and aging out of foster care. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been cited as major factors in the growing problem, as has the influence of social media.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Medicaid Foster Care Schizophrenia 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, it’s also safer. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in foster care could occur. ● In this blog post, I suggest a better idea.

Child Welfare 77

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 77

University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

This scholarship was established in memory of Mary Deane-Scalora, MSW, by her family to provide financial assistance to a master’s level student with demonstrated interest in working with or for the advancement of the poor in a social services agency or educational institution. The School of Social Work Ph.D.

Criminal Justice 98

Criminal Justice Schools Mental Health Social Worker 98

Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

The Labour Party has made no funded commitments on social care in its general election manifesto, published yesterday. The lack of funded commitments on social care is similar to the position put forward by the Conservatives in their manifesto, published earlier this week.

Government 68

Government Hospital Discharges Mental Health Youth Worker 68

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As noted in yesterday’s post, about Putnam-Hornstein’s work in California, the California Department of Social Services declared that The Department believes that “universal-level risk stratification” is unethical and has no intention to use it now or in the future.

Child Welfare 142

Child Welfare Welfare Human Services University 142

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

Child Welfare 109

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 109