Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

A clutch of social workers have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list, announced this week. The recipients included a past and present principal social worker (PSW), the co-founder of the secure base model of therapeutic caregiving and a retired practitioner who used to support Holocaust survivors.

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Children’s Defense Fund

MARCH 25, 2025

Provide free childcare for childcare workers. Provide full tuition and cost coverage at Ohio universities and colleges to students who have experienced foster care. Increase the state minimum salary for Ohio teachers from $35,000 to at least $50,000.

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Swhelper

JANUARY 11, 2023

After helplessly watching her sister try to navigate the international adoption process, Felicia Curcuru launched Binti in an effort to reinvent foster care and adoption. The software Binti creates helps social workers […]. View Full Article - Technology and Entrepreneurship in Social Work.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

Christina has been a licensed foster parent in the state of Washington for six years and has adopted one child from the foster care system. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years. by Christina Faucett I am honored to publish this essay from Christina Faucett.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Foster Mom Works Around the Clock to Care for Medically Fragile Children Vera Garyeazon has a very busy schedule and often works around the clock to care for the medically fragile children in foster care who live in her home.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Social workers can use the printed word, books, and poetry to empower clients, promote social justice, and offer hope By Heather Rose Artushin, LISW-CP People have long understood the healing power of words. 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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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Ensuring that Black children in care are placed in environments that acknowledge and celebrate their cultural identity is crucial. This includes training foster parents and social workers in cultural competency and actively recruiting more Black foster families. In child welfare, representation matters.

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KVC

MARCH 24, 2021

March is National Social Work Month and KVC is honoring the incredible ways that social workers, clinicians, and other professionals improve the lives of children, adults and families. They bring compassion, knowledge, and care to their work and this makes a powerful positive impact in our communities every single day.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

KVC Health Systems’ largest subsidiary, KVC Kansas , has been a foster care case management provider on behalf of the Kansas Department for Children and Families since 1996. In this case, the data has been de-identified and will only be analyzed for children who are no longer in foster care.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Specialist social workers will be appointed to lead child protection cases while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers, the government has said in its response to the care review.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

By Sue Coyle, MSW Every year, more than 20,000 young adults age out of the foster care system. They are between the ages of 18 and 21, some having chosen to voluntarily remain in care after 18. Easing that transition often falls to social workers and social work organizations.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

They thrive when their environment is safe, permanent with continuous loving adults and caregivers who actively convey a sense of responsibility, love, and care on a permanent basis. Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted from Foster Care. Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care .

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Champions of asylum-seeking children and anti-racist practice, respectively, were among social workers recognised in the New Year Honours. 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.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Better relationships with children’s social workers is a key factor in tackling a foster carer recruitment and retention “crisis”, says The Fostering Network. That was among the findings from its latest State of the Nation’s Foster Care report, this year based on a survey of 3,352 carers and 99 fostering services.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2022

A lack of oversight caused by frequent changes of social worker led to a toddler suffering significant harm, a case review has found. Community Care Inform Children subscribers can improve their skills and knowledge on neglect by accessing our knowledge and practice hub on the topic , last updated in 2021.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A council criticised by inspectors for high caseloads has improved to a good Ofsted rating after hiring more social workers to reduce workloads. The council’s full-time equivalent of social workers rose from 345 to 368 between 2017 and 2020, during which time average caseloads fell from 19.5 Direct work praised.

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Community Care

MAY 5, 2022

Foster carers feel “cut adrift” by social workers when facing allegations about their behaviour towards children in their care, Fostering Network research has found. In the instances where the children in foster care were removed, 78% of the allegations were deemed unfounded or unsubstantiated.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

A student contacted me recently wanting tips on how to write on the topic; ‘why I want to be a social worker’ I explained the great benefits of being a social worker. I also embedded myself in this task and wrote with my own experiences and views on why I became a social worker in an essay format.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Families facing investigation by the state family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, get a lawyer, a social worker who can come up with alternatives to the cookie-cutter “service plans” issued by DCF, and a parent advocate, usually someone who’s been through the system himself or herself.

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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. How is Form K different?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Investing in social workers in the face of “extremely challenging constraints in funding” has helped a council improve its Ofsted grade from inadequate to requires improvement. Boost to social worker numbers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The state could have responding by not taking away so many children so the children who really must be in foster care would have placements that are not cruddy. Shut up," yelled the social worker. "I I can do it because I can." ? That still begs the question: Why is this horrendous practice legal in every other state? ?

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

Social workers spend a tremendous amount of time and resources developing interventions to help serve disadvantaged families and individuals. Social services use is a critical aspect in the field, and the current study seeks to better understand the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and social services use.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

At CoramBAAF , we hear from local authority social workers and managers who are passionate about providing much needed support to kinship families. Some carers are raising children in informal arrangements with no court order, let alone a social worker involved to help the family to access support. This needs to change.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The government has vowed to continue with work initiated by its predecessor to tackle workloads among local authority children’s social workers. The Labour administration has also indicated it will continue reforms started by the Conservatives to improve early help for families and boost the recruitment of foster carers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And, by the way, because foster care is so expensive and because, in many cases, the federal government will pay half the cost, this approach also saves money. This also would free up caseworkers to spend more time investigating cases, increasing the chance that they will find the very few children in real danger.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Does anyone still believe the lie that at least the whole process is overseen by kindly social workers? If so, please read this New Republic story, aptly titled Defund Social Workers: They’re often just cops by another name. ? But many children are in foster care because their parents don’t have housing.

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Community Care

JULY 4, 2024

By Zoe Ash and Toni Mayo Many statutory social workers find themselves in an uncomfortable dilemma when carrying out their duties. For some children, foster care, residential care or care by someone within their extended network is considered necessary for their immediate or longer-term safety.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Children are staying longer in the care system due to inequalities in payments to kinship carers, a report has found. However, there was a far smaller rise in the number of children leaving kinship foster care for an SGO over this time, with this figure rising by 10%, from 2,270 to 2,500 over this time.

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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? By the way, Councilmember Oh’s child was interviewed separately and told the social worker what happened – just like Dr. Goldman’s children. Two trips to the E.R. in a week, and one required a child to get stitches?

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Swhelper

JANUARY 21, 2022

After helplessly watching her sister try to navigate the international adoption process, Felicia Curcuru launched Binti in an effort to reinvent foster care and adoption. The software Binti creates helps social workers […]. View Full Article - Technology and Entrepreneurship in Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As Kathleen Creamer put it in this story from The Imprint “No one has done more than Marty to move this field towards justice — even when no one seemed to care about justice.” ? California becomes the latest state to curb the practice of making parents pay ransom to get their kids back from foster care.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2024

Free Loaves on Fridays , a new anthology containing letters, stories and poems by 100 care experienced children and adults, was launched last week. Speaking at the launch, Pierre said she hoped Free Loaves on Fridays humanised care leavers and challenged “the stigma and stereotypes that still exist”. “I

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

Remember the scandal over “hidden foster care” in one county in North Carolina? (If Social workers are supposed to have a judge’s order but a WBTV investigation found two local counties where that’s not always the case. If you don’t, here’s a reminder.) Turns out it’s not just one county.

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