Somerset Safeguarding Children Board and Safeguarding Adult Board have published their review into Deaths of Vulnerable Young Adults.Ā It concludes with questions aboutĀ whetherĀ we need to develop systems in the UK that would enable the corporate parent to continue to provideĀ supportĀ beyond the scope of the leaving care service? Extract: "In recent years there has been a growing … Continue reading Somerset Learning Review into Deaths of Vulnerable Young Adults
The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts hasĀ published a report on funding for disadvantaged pupils which examines the impact of the Pupil Premium. A concern is thatĀ Government distributes core funding for schools on the basis of an old formula which results inĀ inequalities in the core funding received by schools with very similar levels of … Continue reading School leadersā highest ambition is to close disadvantage gap
Statistics on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2014 to 2015. From: Department for Education First published: 1 October 2015 Part of: Statistics: looked-after children Applies to: England The DfEĀ has published the Statistical First Release (SFR) for Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) for … Continue reading Statistical data release: looked-after children
New online resourceĀ to help care leavers access higher education. PleaseĀ spread the word! Propel, established by The Who Cares? Trust, gives care leavers and professionals information about what support care leavers can get in higher education. ArticleĀ byĀ Luke StevensonĀ in Community CareĀ onĀ October 6, 2015 about this new online resource: Website launched to help care leavers access higher education … Continue reading Website launched to help care leavers access higher education
A very interesting blog about this complex area of practice. It was first posted on August 27, 2015 by ROSALIND ENGLISH on UK Human Rights Blog site.
London Borough Tower of Hamlets v B [2015] EWHC 2491 (Fam) 21 August 2015 ā read judgmentĀ
When a judge waxes lyrical about a child, garlanded with starred GCSEs, their intelligence, their medical school ambitions, you wonder what is coming. Itās the judicial equivalent of those blurred reproductions in the press of murder victimsā Ā graduate portraits. In this case, a sixteen year old girl āBā, the subject of a careful but nevertheless alarming judgment in the Family Division, turned out to be one of the many girls groomed by their family for exodus to Syria; all of whom appear to be:
intelligent young girls, highly motivated academically, each of whom has, to some and greatly varying degrees, been either radicalised or exposed to extreme ideology promulgated by those subscribing to the values of the self-styled Islamic State.
B herself seemed unoppressed by the situation she was in and indeed wroteā¦
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Came across another great blog by suesspiciousminds. This oneĀ involves judicial criticism of the IRO and Looked After Child review process. Link to the judgement:Ā Re X (Discharge of Care Order) 2015 Suesspicious minds blog: Discharge of care order (IRO takes a kicking)Ā Posted onĀ June 29, 2015 Comment The IROĀ is intended to be a robust mechanism designed to … Continue reading Re X (Discharge of Care Order) 2015
Source: suspicious minds Date posted: September 24th, 2015 āDo foster to adopters have a stake within care proceedings and can make their arguments just as any other interested party, or ought they stay out of it and just wait for the Court to decide whether this is an adoption case at all?ā The Court of … Continue reading ConcurrentĀ affairs
"In a recent case in the High Court in which a mother battled relentlessly for years to recover her daughter from the care system, a judge has ruled that Article 8 rights, the right to a private life and family life, cease upon the creation of an adoption order." Originally posted on: Researching Reform Author: … Continue reading High Court: Family Rights Between Biological Parents And Their Children End Upon Adoption
Alison O'Sullivan | ADCS President | Director for Children and Young People, Kirklees Council | Blog post originally posted on ADCS website: 18 September 2015 Alison comments: "I think it's time we all took two steps back to consider how we want to ensure that there is a clear set of arrangements in place to … Continue reading Children’s Services Improvement work
A MUST READ. Please discuss and share with colleagues.
[There are some VERY IMPORTANT rulings about section 20 in this judgment, which was in the High Court. Practitioners, particularly social workers or those who advise social workers are urged to read it in full. I will put a huge IMPORTANT flag on the key passages]
This story came to my attention via The Guardian
The bare bones of this story were that a Hackney family had eight children removed from their care by the police, that the main issue was home conditions that could be fixed very quickly, and that the parents successfully sued Hackney under a variety of methods (including the one thatās always popular Beneath the Line here with commenters, āmisfeasance in public officeā ) and won on the Human Rights Act part of the case, receiving Ā£10,000 compensation each.
The report is good, clear and compelling, and accurate.Ā Ā [The author has clearly read the judgmentā¦
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