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Starmer fails to confirm future of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund as end looms

Community Care

” However, in response, the prime minister merely said the government would “set out the details just as soon as we can”, an answer that has been given repeatedly by children’s minister Janet Daby in response to multiple parliamentary questions. All of those have nothing [come 31 March].”

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Children’s social workers to be measured against new post-qualifying standards

Community Care

However, the SWIP, which would replace the children’s assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE), at least in local authorities, is not certain to go ahead as it is dependent on the Treasury providing sufficient funding in the forthcoming government spending review.

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Children are in ‘extreme crisis’: top judge berates DfE’s six-year failure to tackle ‘gross’ lack of secure units

Community Care

Under section 25 of the Children Act 1989 , such secure welfare placements may only be made if a child either has a history of absconding, would likely abscond from any other setting and, if they did so, would likely suffer significant harm; or would likely injure themselves or others if placed in any other setting.

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Multiple and complex needs found in backgrounds of children deprived of liberty

Community Care

of a set of 11 indicators of need or risk, including mental health issues, disability, self-harm or going missing. Children who had often suffered complex and ongoing trauma and were considered very vulnerable due to overlapping risks and needs primarily related to mental health, self-harming and risk to others.

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In California, “child welfare’s” ACEs evangelists are saying the quiet part out loud

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Even if they know that can do enormous harm, they may feel obligated to do it because they are mandated reporters. Imagine anyone on the Left, let alone anyone prominent in a self-proclaimed “anti-racist organization” saying that “stop and frisk” policing is preventive, not surveillance. Or they might just call the child abuse hotline.

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Highlights from a special issue of Family Court Review

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

So they experience feelings of fear, anger, abandonment, shame, embarrassment, and low self-esteem. He calls it " Commodified inequality: Racialized harm to children and families in theinjustice enterprise." In contrast, a status known as guardianship does not require such a trade-off.

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Councils given guide to evidence on mentoring schemes for children in care

Community Care

Councils have been handed government-commissioned guidance on the evidence base for mentoring and befriending schemes for care-experienced children and those at risk of entering the care system. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.