Last updated: 14 May 2021 First posted by NIROMP June 2020 and regularly updated with more resources. We start with a reminder of the report by The House of Commons House of Lords Joint Committee on Human Rights (November 2020) ‘Black people, racism and human rights’, which points to: The failings of successive governments to … Continue reading RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION – EDUCATION & ACTIVISM
Sharon Martin, Chair of the National IRO Managers Partnership (NIROMP), said: “I am delighted to throw NIROMP's support behind the work of the A National Voice, to make sure the voices of more children and young people in care and leaving care are heard. It is crucial that the Children's Social Care review team hear … Continue reading NIROMP Call to Action: Independent Review of Children’s Social Care
Source: Alliance for Youth Justice First published 21st April 2021 In January 2021, Agenda and AYJ published the Young Women’s Justice Project literature review, mapping the evidence-base around young women (aged 17–25) in contact with the criminal justice system and identifying gaps in knowledge to inform the direction of future work. Girls’ experience of the transition … Continue reading Falling Through the Gaps: Young Women’s Justice Project Briefing
Call for participants and collaboration partners! Mental wellbeing study with care-experienced adults Petra Göbbels-Koch is a PhD Candidate from the Royal Holloway, University of London, supervised by Prof Anna Gupta and Dr Katrin Bain. Her background is in social work and psychosocial counselling. She worked in an intercultural youth organisation, a psychiatric service for children … Continue reading Mental wellbeing study with care-experienced adults | @Petra_GoebbelsK @rhulsw
By Zoe Thomas. Originally published in The Conversation on 9th September 2020. Skin and hair can be integral to a young black person’s sense of self. Yet in the UK, black children and young people face discrimination about their bodies. It’s not just schools sending black children home because their hair is deemed contrary to uniform codes. … Continue reading Hair and skin are important to a black child’s identity – but many social workers don’t understand this | Zoe Thomas
No More Exclusions (NME) is an abolitionist grassroots coalition movement in education. Their mission is to bring about an end to the persistent race-disparities in school exclusions in the next five years and to affect change at legal, policy, practice and cultural level in education and society as a whole over the next ten years. … Continue reading No More Exclusions @NExlusions
ExChange Wales has launched a Spring conference series with the theme reducing the need for children to be in care. Included in the conference is a webinar on 13 May 2021discussing the NSPCC Reunification Practice Framework, an evidence-informed framework to make safe permanence decisions for children in care. The series also includes a blog discussing the … Continue reading Reducing the need for children to be in care
White children’s services leaders must take greater responsibility for tackling racial inequalities in management posts, the head of the sector’s leadership development organisation has said. Jo Davidson, principal of the Staff College, made the comments after the Association of Directors of Children’s Services released data showing that 6% of directors were from Black or ethnic … Continue reading White children’s leaders ‘must play bigger role’ in tackling racial inequalities in management
The task facing practitioners working with young people, whether in a safeguarding role or a justice role, is not simply to assess or manage risk – nor is it to only ‘keep them safe’. Rather it is to prepare and equip them with the skills, relational connections and self-belief to lead safe, fulfilling lives. This … Continue reading Transitional safeguarding for girls and young women – Dez Holmes
Baroness Doreen Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE said: “We want to inspire children to dream freely without barriers” In commemoration of Stephen Lawrence’s life. Stephen Lawrence Day is celebrated every year on 22 April. https://youtu.be/tk-Tc2g5hSc 2021, in particular, it is a chance to show the small changes we can all do make a difference. At NIROMP … Continue reading Stephen Lawrence Day #SLDay21 #ALegacyForChange #ChallengeAccepted
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