By Liane Davey. Originally published on January 31st, 2017. Source: Harvard Business Review There’s no point in collaboration without tension, disagreement, or conflict. https://t.co/0L3af2ZeUz — Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) 1 February 2017 Collaboration is crumpling under the weight of our expectations. What should be a messy back-and-forth process far too often falls victim to our … Continue reading Collaboration: ‘If Your Team Agrees on Everything, Working Together Is Pointless’
The role of the IRO is to review and improve care planning, to challenge drift and delay and to ensure that the right permanence plan is achieved. Good planning and review is essential to achieving timely permanence and the right care for looked after children. The chance to build a trusting long-term relationship with a carer who shows their love, … Continue reading Reunification: Children’s return home from care
The Department for Education (DfE) launched the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme to act as a catalyst for developing more effective ways of supporting vulnerable children. The programme is seeking to inspire whole system change to improve the life chances for children receiving support from the social care system, to provide stronger incentives and mechanisms … Continue reading Innovation News – large-scale projects to transform children’s social care
Send Views to Committee Any person with relevant expertise and experience or a special interest in the Children and Social Work Bill [Lords] can submit their views in writing to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee which is considering this Bill. The Committee will stop receiving written evidence at the end of the Committee stage on Tuesday … Continue reading Children and Social Work Bill #CSWB
Family Drug and Alcohol Courts - an alternative approach to care proceedings - new article by Jo Tunnard: https://t.co/r1fB4a2Caf — Research in Practice (@researchIP) 6 December 2016 By Jo Tunnard via Research in Practice. Twitter @researchIP Lancaster University has now published the full findings of two research studies that provide new evidence to support the unique way … Continue reading Working with parents in a problem-solving way: new evidence about Family Drug and Alcohol Courts
Safeguarding Pressures Phase 5 ADCS Safeguarding Pressures research has provided evidence of trends in safeguarding activity and the provision of services to children and their families based on information from local authorities in five phases spanning 2007/8 to 2015/16. Through each phase, significant increases in safeguarding activity have been reported together with the range of … Continue reading The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) Safeguarding Pressures research
Visit https://t.co/qIu4FolXUK to find out how you can make a read difference to the way we practice social work. pic.twitter.com/AjEGX1Adbm — AllKindsofBirmingham (@BCsocialcarejob) 2 December 2016 Welcoming Statement by Debbie Currie, Assistant Director, Child Protection, Performance & Partnership: 'I’d like to welcome you to this careers hub for the Child Protection Review and Independent Reviewing … Continue reading Featured post: Birmingham Children’s Services Career Hub for the Child Protection Review & Independent Reviewing Officer service
By Edward Timpson. First published in Community Care on December 5th 206. Edward Timpson sets out the government's plans for its children and social work reforms: [...] I have heard the concerns raised over the clauses on the power to innovate and today, in response to these concerns, I will tell the House that we plan to … Continue reading Children’s minister: We will amend the Children and Social Work Bill
Children and Social Work Bill [HL] 99: analysis for Commons 2nd Reading Source: Commons Briefing papers CBP-7800 Authors: Tim Jarrett; Hannah Cromarty; Nerys Roberts; Douglas Pyper; Rachael Harker; Paul Bolton This paper analyses the Children and Social Work [HL] ahead of Commons Second Reading due on 5 December 2016. The Bill concerns children in care … Continue reading Children and Social Work Bill: Commons 2nd Reading #CSWB
Family Justice Innovation Working Group About the group The group has brought together a range of front line practitioners working in public law. In particular, the group has been looking at post proceedings support for parents and parents reunited with children following public law care proceedings – considering the issues and problems at stake and opportunity … Continue reading Calling all IROs and IRO Managers to complete our survey please
