Family Rights Group have facilited a seven month sector-led Review into the care crisis. The Review is supported by stakeholders within the child welfare and family justice system. The Review's aims: to examine the reasons for the rise in care proceedings and number of children in care to at all times retain a focus on … Continue reading New: #carecrisisreview report
Published date: 24 February 2018 |Please read NIROMP's full response to the review of Fostering in England: NIROMP briefing & comment on - Fostering in England - February 2018 Introduction This briefing considers ‘Foster Care in England’, a report of the independent review of foster care by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers’. The report … Continue reading NIROMP Briefing & Comment – Foster Care in England 2018
Family Rights Group is facilitating a sector-led Care Crisis Review which: is examining the reasons for the record number of care order applications and high numbers of children in care; aims to identify specific changes that can safely reduce the number of care cases coming before the family court and avert the need for children … Continue reading #CareCrisisReview – online survey closes Sunday 11 February 2018
Anne Longfield OBE, Children’s Commissioner for England, has publicly challenged Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England for trying to denigrate findings from research about children’s inability to access mental health support. She suggests Stevens has sought to ignore the reality of children’s experiences and the frustrations of their parents. Publication of the research coincided with World Mental Health … Continue reading Anne Longfield’s public challenge to Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England
NIROMP is delighted to offer up to 50 free invites to this key event for practising Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs). It is to be held on 17th October 2017 at Tooley Street, London. This key event for IROs should provide an opportunity to network, to engage with key messages from research and to critically reflect … Continue reading IRO Conference – Not to stop questioning …
By Neil Puffett | Originally published 30 August 2017 | Children & Young People Now A senior director of children's services (DCS) has called for Education Secretary Justine Greening to take urgent action to improve the way children's services are inspected, claiming the current system fails to aid improvement and is "phenomenally wasteful". Andrew Webb, … Continue reading Call for Greening to overhaul ‘deeply flawed’ Ofsted system | Children & Young People Now
Guest post by Nikki Ledingham of Every Child Leaving Care Matters | August 2017 Every Child Leaving Care Matters (ECLCM) is an independent, non-funded organisation that is not affiliated with any political party, however the organisation has almost 50 cross party MPs pledge of support. As a care experience adult and having also experienced homelessness, … Continue reading Guest post: Every Child Leaving Care Matters #ECLCM
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Children (APPGC) is undertaking a new Inquiry that will explore the causes of different threshold levels for accessing children’s social care services. This follows APPGC's Inquiry in 2016/17 ‘No Good Options’ which found significant variation in the number of children accessing children’s social care services across the country. To … Continue reading Call to action all social workers: please use this opportunity to share your perspective
Source: The Children’s Society Date: 17 August 2017 Unaccompanied and migrant children The Children’s Society in partnership with the University of Bedfordshire has published a report looking at the impact of excluding separated and migrant children from legal aid. The report finds that the safety net Emergency Case Funding is not working, stating that there is … Continue reading New report finds too much discrimination in the ‘system’
The Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) and the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) published a joint protocol in February 2017 advising court guardians and social workers to work more collaboratively to speed up cases, and where possible divert them from court. The agreement was criticised by the guardians' association … Continue reading A lesson in collaborative working & conflict: ADCS & Cafcass Joint Protocol axed as unlawful
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