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Your Life Your Story is delighted to invite you to this expert by experience event with thanks to ARTIFACTS and Saira-Jayne Jones. About this event Your Life Your Story is a small charity that brings together both care experienced adults and caregivers together in recognition of the value and importance of those shared connections. Saira Jayne … Continue reading BETWEEN THE LINES-Trauma Informed Practice Recovery & Post Traumatic Growth

Next month, councils will be banned from placing children in care aged under 16 in unregulated placements, the first stage of a planned reform of such ‘independent’ and ‘semi-independent’ accommodation. Stage two concerns the vast majority of such placements, for those aged 16 and 17, for which the government has proposed national standards, backed up … Continue reading Sector split on unregulated placements overhaul as under-16s ban looms

This article comprises excerpts taken from a podcast on Community Care Inform about neglect, poverty and affluence. The full podcast includes discussion of poverty-aware practice, how neglect might present in an affluent family, and why we need to talk about power and control in the relationships between social workers and parents, and is free to … Continue reading Podcast: Neglect, poverty and affluence

The head of the children’s social care review has urged ministers to prioritise early help, and additional placements and mental health services for looked-after children for “urgent investment” over the coming years. Josh MacAlister’s call came in a letter to education secretary Gavin Williamson and chief secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay designed to influence … Continue reading Care review lead urges ministers to prioritise early help, placements and mental health for extra cash

This Community of Practice (CoP) session was hosted by NIROMP chair, Sharon Martin in July 2021. We are very thankful to our Guest Speaker Carole Brooks. NIROMP provides a rolling programme of Community of Practice sessions for Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) and their Managers. You can watch a video recording of the session below: https://youtu.be/EaQG1ubvDv0 … Continue reading NIROMP Community of Practice: Safeguarding Pressures 2021

Source: Just For Kids Law First published 30th July 2021 LONDON: The Court of Appeal has today ruled on a case brought by the children’s legal charity Just for Kids Law, who successfully argued that the failure by local authorities in London to provide appropriate alternative accommodation for children arrested and held by the police is unlawful. … Continue reading Court of Appeal rules the lack of secure accommodation for children in London is unlawful | Just For Kids Law

https://twitter.com/HulmesAllison/status/1289861305134792711?s=20 short documentary - travellers' times Source: Traveller Times On the 2nd of August - Documentary by Travellers' Times https://vimeo.com/299025519 Please visit the Travellers' Times Online for more information: travellerstimes.org.uk/ A range of useful resources A range of resources to support the development of anti-racist practice when working with Romani and Traveller families can be … Continue reading Today is #RomaHolocaust Memorial Day. Holocaust Remembrance is essential to honour Roma and Sinti victims, but also to keep historical memory alive. #RomaGenocide #NeverAgain

Hertfordshire County Council applied to the Department for Education for the innovation fund in 2015, and was awarded a grant to create the family safeguarding model. Hertfordshire’s family safeguarding model has been described as a ‘real strength’ by Ofsted and was cited in ‘The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care – The Case for Change’ as … Continue reading “The family safeguarding model gives families the platform to tell us who they are – not what they are”

This article comprises excerpts taken from a podcast on Community Care Inform about neglect, poverty and affluence. The full podcast includes discussion of poverty-aware practice, how neglect might present in an affluent family, and why we need to talk about power and control in the relationships between social workers and parents, and is free to … Continue reading Podcast: Neglect, poverty and affluence