By Coram Voice July 2022 Over 7,500 children and young people in care share their views and experiences on contact arrangements with their families.Over a fifth of children felt they saw their mums, dads and siblings too littleCompared with foster and kinship care, more young people in residential. care were dissatisfied with how often they … Continue reading STAYING CONNECTED REPORT PUBLISHED – CORAM VOICE
Author: National IRO Managers Partnership (NIROMP)
We are a national leadership group for Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) and IRO Managers. We are made up of an elected Chair and elected Regional Leads who represent their region at a national level (two from each of the nine government regions within England).
UKRAINE: COUNCIL HEADS RAISE SAFEGUARDING CONCERNS AS UK STARTS ACCEPTING UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN
By Mithran Samuel on June 23, 2022 in Community Care ADCS voices disappointment over lack of guidance on councils' role should placements with sponsors break down, while LGA highlights pressures on "already over-stretched" social workers Council leaders have issued safeguarding and resource concerns, after the government opened its Homes for Ukraine scheme to unaccompanied children. Read full piece at source: … Continue reading UKRAINE: COUNCIL HEADS RAISE SAFEGUARDING CONCERNS AS UK STARTS ACCEPTING UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN
Sector lines up against IRO abolition
Date June 18, 2022 Last month Mithran Samuel editor at the Community Care group Community Care approached NIROMP Chair, Sharon Martin, for comment on the recommendations of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care’s final report. You can now view Mithran’s piece, along with the unedited comments submitted by NIROMP Chair. Yesterday, Community Care published ‘Should the IRO role be abolished?’ including … Continue reading Sector lines up against IRO abolition
Children’s services reform needs brave leaders
There’s a lot happening in children’s policy making – not that this gets any airtime in the context of the febrile political atmosphere surrounding Covid and turbulence in government leadership. Source: Children’s services reform needs brave leaders
Creative Connections – A Retreat for Care Experienced Adults
Siblings Together aim to help young people in care initiate and continue to have contact with their siblings, helping them to develop strong family bonds and above all achieve an independent and positive place in society supported by their sibling relationships. Siblings Together provide opportunities for planned, enjoyable, creative and high-quality sibling contact, for children … Continue reading Creative Connections – A Retreat for Care Experienced Adults
INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF CHILDREN’S SOCIAL CARE
Date 14 June 2022 NIROMP Regional Leads met today to discuss the review’s final report. Arrangements for a national meeting of the IRO practitioner and manager networks will be shared in the next couple of weeks. Details will be shared via regional leads. Webinar and video recordings The review ran two webinars in June 2022 … Continue reading INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF CHILDREN’S SOCIAL CARE
Rees Café Affiliations
NIROMP are proud to promote this great Care leavers can request a FREE Rees Guest Card which will get them free drinks and discounted food at Rees affiliated cafes across the country! The Rees Foundation has collaborated with a number of cafes across the country, offering a safe social space for care experienced people in … Continue reading Rees Café Affiliations
“Why don’t we start spreading kindness?”
Source: TEDx event Presenter Satwinder Sandhu Originally published 14 February 2018 Children's social work expert Satwinder Sandhu has made a positive difference to hundreds of children, young people and families. In this TEDx Talk he asks “Why don’t we start spreading kindness?” “Foster carer’s do what many of us cannot - they open their doors … Continue reading “Why don’t we start spreading kindness?”
Disrupting the Routes Between Care and Custody for Girls and Women – new report
A new report by Dr Claire Fitzpatrick and Dr Katie Hunter (both CFJ) and Dr Julie Shaw (Liverpool John Moores University) and Dr Jo Staines (University of Bristol) was published on 4th May. Funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the research explored the neglected experiences of women from care, as well as those of care-experienced girls … Continue reading Disrupting the Routes Between Care and Custody for Girls and Women – new report
Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel backs expert practitioner role
Source Community Care Date 26 May 2022 The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s inquiry into the lessons from the killings of six-year-old Arthur and 16-month-old Star, in each case at the hands of the partner of one of their parents, with those parents’ complicity. In relation to social work, the panel has backed the recommendation of the Independent … Continue reading Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel backs expert practitioner role
