For February 2017 Policy PressĀ are making theirĀ most read articles of 2016Ā 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
TheĀ PHE has published two important documents about young peopleās substance misuse. The first is the 2015-16 annual report, which provides data on young peopleās 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
New report from CORC, NSPCC and Loughborough University, Improving Childrenās Social Care Services: Results of a feasibility study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. TheĀ report can be downloaded at source here. It sets out the findings of a feasibility study that aimed to understand how to define āgoodā childrenās social care services and how to assess … Continue reading Improving Childrenās Social Care Services: Results of a feasibility study
Your Family, Your Voice, is an alliance of families and practitioners that has been developed by Family Rights Group to counter the stigma and negative presumptions about families whose children are subject to, or at risk of, state intervention. The Alliance is leading a Knowledge Inquiry to look in detail at one part of our … Continue reading Call to Action – Knowledge Inquiry: Children who come into the care system under a voluntary arrangement
Source: Eight-year-olds Identified in Infancy as at Risk of Harm: Report of a Prospective Longitudinal Study Research Report: July 2016 By: Rebecca Brown, Harriet Ward, Jenny Blackmore, Caroline Thomas and Georgia Hyde-Dryden: Loughborough University About the study Findings from this study raise important questions aboutĀ child protection policy and practice. In particular they raise issues concerning … Continue reading Eight-year-olds identified in infancy as at risk of harm: report of a prospective longitudinal study
Das reBoot ā Court of Appeal find reverse gear (onceĀ again) https://t.co/NSdVWeF7km ā suesspicious minds (@suesspiciousmin) 26 January 2017 A major theme in family case law over the last 2-3 years has been misuse of section 20 ā voluntary accommodation, with all sorts of guidance being provided, culminating in the President of the Family Division giving … Continue reading Misuse of section 20 – suesspiciousminds
Ministers have proposed extending section 25 of the Children Act 1989 so that it covers cases where local authorities in England or Wales have placed children in secure accommodation in Scotland. The legislation, and its Welsh equivalent, currently only cover placements between England and Wales. The changes have been tabled as part of proposed amendments … Continue reading Children Act changes proposed
The Department for Education (DfE) launched the Childrenās 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 childrenās social care
We've had an unpalatable array of news headlinesĀ aboutĀ the significant pressures vulnerable children and families are facing. Not going to pretend, this post doesn't make forĀ pleasant reading ... The Care Quality Commission regulator has warned thatĀ Social care cuts are takingĀ English services to a tipping point. Birmingham city councilās chief executive, Mark Rogers, said in an article … Continue reading News roundup: Social care crisis
