By: Ewan King, 6 February 2017. Source: SCIE This post features SCIE's Ewan King blogs for the Department of Health on how mental and physical health conditions are not 'magically resolved' on a young person’s eighteenth birthday. Key messages for practice - we need to: Improve our work with young people and families early on, making sure … Continue reading Avoiding the cliff edge: making transitions work – SCIE
This piece was first posted on 13/02/2016. Findings from small-scale research Worth reading this research paper by Sophie Boswell and Lynne Cudmore, child psychotherapists. The paper considers children's attachment and emotional needs and the role of foster carers during the transition from foster care to adoption. The research findings are explored in the light of an attachment and loss in … Continue reading Transition planning : foster care to adoption
This post was first published on 25/10/2015. It raises important issues for practice and therefore merits a re-post. Discord and disruption in adoptive families Dr Julie Selwyn presented this lecture for Cardiff University's Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre in association with the BAAF (British Association for Adoption and Fostering). Read the full report: … Continue reading Beyond the Adoption Order
Source: Family Law Week Author: Cris McCurley, Partner in Ben Hoare Bell LLP and advisory board member of Rights of Women and Women’s Aid. In this article Cris McCurley considers recent developments concerning contact where there has been evidence of domestic violence, and the events which have led to them. In 2004 Women's Aid published … Continue reading Domestic Violence and the Impact on Contact Re-examined
Source – BBC News Campaigners will challenge the government's handling of the arrival of unaccompanied child refugees from Europe, at a High Court hearing later. They say ministers have not worked with local councils to find enough places for vulnerable children. Separately, the daughter of the man called "Britain's Schindler" has criticised the ending of … Continue reading High Court challenge to UK’s child refugee efforts
A merger between two private firms - Acorn Care Education Group and the National Fostering Agency Group (among the largest providers of foster placement services to councils in England, Scotland and Wales), is to be investigated due to concerns it has created a monopoly. Following an initial investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced it will proceed … Continue reading £400m fostering services merger faces investigation
Developed by Family Rights Group in partnership with an expert working group, February 2017 A good practice guide on initial family and friends care assessments has been launched by Family Rights Group. The guide sets out best practice as to how viability assessments should be conducted. It lists what factors social workers conducting the assessment … Continue reading Initial Family and Friends Care Assessment: A good practice guide – Family Rights Group
For February 2017 Policy Press are making their most read articles of 2016 free to read. You've got until the end of February 2017. Be quick! Critical & Radical Social Work Promoting activism through critical social work education: the impact of global capitalism and neoliberalism on social work and social work education Assisted dying: the search for a … Continue reading Free journal articles for one month – Policy Press
The PHE has published two important documents about young people’s substance misuse. The first is the 2015-16 annual report, which provides data on young people’s use of specialist substance misuse treatment services, which form part of the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS). The second, a rapid mixed methods evidence review, commissioned by PHE and undertaken … Continue reading What we know about young people in alcohol and drug treatment
This project undertaken by the ISOS Partnership and commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA), has sought to answer two central questions: What are the key enablers of (and barriers to) improvement in local children's services? How can the system as a whole facilitate and support improvement in local children's services? The final report sets … Continue reading Action research: Improvement in local children’s services – LGA
