Greenwich council's failure to provide proper immigration advice may have led to the girl losing her right to remain in the UK. Read full story via Community Care: Council to pay looked-after child £5,000 compensation for immigration advice failures Asylum Support More information via Gov.UK: Overview of support Asylum helplines More information, advice and resources … Continue reading Council to pay looked-after child £5,000 compensation for immigration advice failures
By now we should all know of the recent developments in case-law in respect of the use (and misuse) of section 20, Children Act 1989 by local authorities when children are voluntarily accommodated in their care. Now Leicester Designated Family Judge, HHJ Bellamy, has issued local section 20 practice guidance. Read more here via Family Law: … Continue reading HHJ Bellamy issues local section 20 practice guidance
How can children in care be supported to have meaningful and safe contact with siblings, if they want to? The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Looked After Children and Care Leavers held a meeting on 28th October 2015 to discuss this very issue. The meeting was attended by 94 children, young people and professionals. Particular note was given to … Continue reading Protecting & preserving the bond between siblings
International Child Abduction Unit The International Child Abduction and Contact Unit has published a form and guidance notes for local authorities to use in child protection cases to make a request for co-operation to another country. The form is intended to help local authorities check their request is covered by the Regulation or Convention and … Continue reading Care cases with an international element
The Minister for Preventing Abuse and Exploitation Karen Bradley has more recently announced a new policy to tackle gang violence and exploitation. New policy sets out a refreshed cross-government approach to tackling gang related violence and exploitation, and government priorities for the future. It sets out priorities for Government to deal with reducing violence including knife crime, tackling … Continue reading Gang violence & exploitation
Modern Slavery Act 2015 Since November 2015 all public authorities including the police, local authorities and the National Crime Agency, have been required to notify the government where they have reasonable grounds to believe that a person may be a victim of slavery or human trafficking. The duties of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 apply to the … Continue reading Human Trafficking and Slavery
New articles have been added to our Library. Check out the following sections and thank you so much to all the Authors for sharing their publications. Care We are grateful to Jameel Hadi Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford for this article. Jameel is a member of The National Association of Youth Justice and The Howard League. In February … Continue reading New in the Library
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Keeping children safe in education is statutory guidance that all schools and colleges must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. In December the government announced that all schools will be required to put in place strengthened measures to protect children from harm online - including cyber bullying, … Continue reading Package of online safety measures announced
This is a helpful briefing note by Research in Practice. The briefing considers some of the challenges practitioners face when making judgements and important decisions with and on behalf of children and young people about where and with whom they will live. Acknowledgement is given to the careful balancing of priorities, benefits and risks necessary to avoid delay … Continue reading Matching a child with a foster carer or adopter
