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Social workers can find identifying and working with families where there are concerns about sibling sexual abuse especially challenging. Anna Glinski shares some practice advice from a new report Read full piece at source: Responding effectively to sibling sexual abuse

Ofsted will allowing providers to register children’s homes with up to four buildings in order to help tackle capacity pressures in the system. The regulator said the plan would make it easier to find tailored, often single-bedded, placements in an emergency for children who would otherwise be placed in unregistered accommodation. Providers and councils welcomed … Continue reading Ofsted to let providers register multi-building children’s homes to tackle capacity pressures

A little while ago my colleagues and I led a seminar for The University of Birmingham on strengths-based social work. It’s clearly a hot topic – we …- Alex Fox Read full piece at source: Strengths Based Working: a challenge to Social Work?

Kinship has published findings from their annual survey looking at what life is like for kinship carers in England and Wales. Responses to an online survey of 1,651 kinship carers caring for 2,538 children show that: 62% of carers believed that their children had long-term physical and mental health needs; 36% of children in kinship … Continue reading Kinship care

NHS Digital has published a report looking at the mental health of children and young people in England in 2021 and how this has changed since 2017. Findings from a sample of 3,667 children and young people aged between 6 and 23 years old include: 39% of children aged 6 to 16 experienced a deterioration … Continue reading Child mental health

Farrer and Co have published a blog discussing the recent Court of Appeal judgement in the case of Bell v Tavistock. The blog looks at: the decision of the Divisional Court; the Court of Appeal judgment; and the safeguarding implications for schools who are educating children with gender dysphoria. Read at source: Transgender issues in … Continue reading Transgender children and young people 

Local authorities should cede responsibility for children in care to a new national service, a fostering charity has argued in its submission to the care review. TACT urged the review to recommend the creation of a National Care Family (NCF) to take over fostering, adoption, and kinship, residential and secure care provision, and also provide … Continue reading Councils should lose responsibility for children in care to national service, says fostering charity

National review into babies seriously harmed or killed by their father or male carer. Today the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel published their third national review, which looks at safeguarding children under 1 year old from non-accidental injury by their father or male carer. The key findings show that while maternal health and wellbeing are, … Continue reading New review notes the key leadership role of child protection conference chairs and independent reviewing officers

The National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum (NLCBF), part of Catch22, responds to the Department for Education’s consultation on ‘Introducing new national standards for independent and semi-independent provision for looked-after children and care leavers aged 16-17’. Read full piece at source: Responding to national standards for unregulated accommodation