Another great blog by suesspiciousminds of interest to all IROs. Extract Her Honour Rowe QC considered this case, where a Local Authority removed a child and placed the child in foster care when at the time, the mother knew nothing about it. It is a decision by a Circuit Judge and thus not any new binding law, but … Continue reading Unlawful removal of a child, compensation paid
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).
ADCS has updated its website
ADCS has updated it's website with lots of useful resource links. See links to ADCS website and some pages of particular interest to IROs below. Go to source: Home page And there's lots more including: Independent Reviewing Officers (IRO) The ADCS policy committee with lead responsibility for independent reviewing officers is the Health, Care and Additional Needs Policy … Continue reading ADCS has updated its website
Couple Cleared Of Child Abuse Campaign For Change In The Law
Another great blog Natasha Phillips, editor at Researching Reform. There have been a number of cases of innocent parents losing their children to the care and adoption system. As a result a number of campaigners are trying to change the law. Extract As Michael Turner QC notes, cases where parents have been wrongly accused of harming their children are … Continue reading Couple Cleared Of Child Abuse Campaign For Change In The Law
Parents’ wish to treat child’s cancer with Chinese medicine overruled by Family Court
This is a reblog from the ‘UK Human Rights Blog’ site. The blog’s editorial team is
General Editor: Adam Wagner
Commissioning Editor: Jim Duffy
Editorial team: Rosalind English, Angus McCullough QC, David Hart QC, Martin Downs.It raises interesting issues re ‘best interests’ decisions. Worth a read.
JM (a child), Re[2015] EWHC 2832 (Fam), 7 October 2015 – read judgment
Mostyn J, ruling in the Family Division that a child should receive surgical treatment for bone cancer against the wishes of his parents, has referred to Ian McEwan’s “excellent” novel The Children Act (Jonathan Cape 2014), which is about a 17 year old Jehovah’s Witness refusing a blood transfusion. The judge noted however that the book was in fact “incorrectly titled”:
a question of whether a medical procedure should be forced on a 16 or 17 year old should be sought solely under the High Court’s inherent jurisdiction, and not under the Children Act.
This case on the other hand concerned a ten year old child, J. The NHS Trust sought permission to perform urgent surgery of a serious nature on his right jawbone, where he has a very rare aggressive cancer. Its medical name is a craniofacial…
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Child & Adult Safeguarding: challenges of inter-professional working & communication
Recommend viewing Youtube of various keynote addresses held as part of the Annual Safeguarding Conference provided by Bucks New University in June 2015. The presentations explore the challenges of inter-professional working and communication in safeguarding practice across both adults and children's safeguarding and includes a presentation by Sharon Shoesmith. Website/source: Bucks New University Twitter: @bucksnewuni Other relevant publications Sharon Shoesmith (2015) Shoesmith: culture of blame has … Continue reading Child & Adult Safeguarding: challenges of inter-professional working & communication
Care leavers – hitting the targets and missing the point
Much to discuss and learn from this thought provoking article by Jameel Hadi (University of Salford). Posted in Discover Society. Posted here courtesy of Jameel. Twitter: @jameel_hadi Jameel Hadi is a lecturer in social work at the University of Salford. He has over 20 years experience as a social worker within youth justice, looked after children and leaving … Continue reading Care leavers – hitting the targets and missing the point
Somerset Learning Review into Deaths of Vulnerable Young Adults
Somerset Safeguarding Children Board and Safeguarding Adult Board have published their review into Deaths of Vulnerable Young Adults. It concludes with questions about whether we need to develop systems in the UK that would enable the corporate parent to continue to provide support beyond the scope of the leaving care service? Extract: "In recent years there has been a growing … Continue reading Somerset Learning Review into Deaths of Vulnerable Young Adults
School leaders’ highest ambition is to close disadvantage gap
The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has published a report on funding for disadvantaged pupils which examines the impact of the Pupil Premium. A concern is that Government distributes core funding for schools on the basis of an old formula which results in inequalities in the core funding received by schools with very similar levels of … Continue reading School leaders’ highest ambition is to close disadvantage gap
Statistical data release: looked-after children
Statistics on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2014 to 2015. From: Department for Education First published: 1 October 2015 Part of: Statistics: looked-after children Applies to: England The DfE has published the Statistical First Release (SFR) for Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) for … Continue reading Statistical data release: looked-after children
Website launched to help care leavers access higher education
New online resource to help care leavers access higher education. Please spread the word! Propel, established by The Who Cares? Trust, gives care leavers and professionals information about what support care leavers can get in higher education. Article by Luke Stevenson in Community Care on October 6, 2015 about this new online resource: Website launched to help care leavers access higher education … Continue reading Website launched to help care leavers access higher education
