Last updated: 13 May 2023 NIROMP actions, learning and support resources can be accessed: HERE This work never ends. Our learning resources form part of our continuing call for more action. Scroll down to access a range of learning resources. If we are truly committed to promoting social justice, in society and in relation to … Continue reading NIROMP Anti-Racism and Activism
Last updated: 25 February 2023 NIROMP actions, learning and support resources can be accessed: HERE Position statements and learning resources are provided in this latest briefing as is our continuing call for more action. Scroll down to access a range of learning resources and to make your promise. To quote the words of @NimalJude, ”The … Continue reading NIROMP Anti-Racism and Activism
Last updated: 27 March 2022 NIROMP actions, learning and support resources can be accessed: HERE Position statements and learning resources are provided in this latest briefing as is our continuing call for more action. Scroll down to access a range of learning resources and to make your promise. To quote the words of @NimalJude, ”The … Continue reading NIROMP Anti-Racism and Activism
An informal training event on employment skills for aspiring black, ethnic minority professionals (and students) in social work, social care and allied professions This event is brought to you by the BASW Black & Ethnic Minority Professionals Symposium (BPS) in conjunction with Perrett Laver’s BME Leadership Network (BLN) led by Natasha Attipoe, Senior Consultant at … Continue reading Black & Ethnic Minority Professionals Symposium (BPS): SMASHING the Glass Ceiling – Employment Skills Event | www.basw.co.uk
This latest audit tool has been developed as part of NIROMP’s audit / improvement work - to contribute towards our strategic priority: “Secure Love and Care”. We recommend that this audit tool is used by IROs to support and quality assure the progress of permanence plans presented to the child’s second statutory care plan review. … Continue reading Audit tool to support early and effective permanency planning for looked after children.
NIROMP have produced the following guidance for Independent Reviewing Officers and IRO Managers. It will be kept under regular review by NIROMP to ensure that it reflects the evolving picture and that IROs and IRO Managers have the practice guidance required to support them in their work. COVID-19: Guidance for Independent Reviewing Officers and IRO … Continue reading COVID-19: Guidance for Independent Reviewing Officers and IRO Managers
On Friday 24 April 2020, the Government passed a statutory instrument, the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020, making potentially significant changes to the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review Regulations 2010. These regulations make significant temporary changes to the rights and entitlements of children and young people living in care. They apply to … Continue reading THE ADOPTION AND CHILDREN (CORONAVIRUS) (AMENDED) REGULATIONS 2020
Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s National Director for Social Care, discusses the latest Ofsted Annual Report It’s really pleasing to mark another Annual Report – my second since joining Ofsted – with some positive news. Our latest annual overview reports an increasingly effective response to the most vulnerable children. Almost half of local authorities inspected last year … Continue reading Ofsted’s Annual Report: highlighting some of the big issues for social care
We hope this piece prompts you to ask yourself how you can provide positive help and support to children from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Article 20 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states that “Children who cannot be looked after by their own family have a right to special care … Continue reading THE PRESSURE TO CHOOSE AN EXCLUSIVE IDENTITY
The latest @researchIP blog explores how to work effectively with adolescents and young people when undertaking safeguarding work, recognising that adolescence throws up different issues that don’t simply disappear at age 18. The challenge remains for Children’s Services to learn from adult social care, for example the Making Safeguarding Personal approach to safeguarding, which puts … Continue reading Research in Practice | Transitional safeguarding – bridging the gap between Children’s and Adults’ Services
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