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The first Knowledge and Evidence Event organized by the Association of Professors of Social Work (APSW) and supported by CSWIR About this Event The Association of Professors of Social Work (APSW) is delighted to announce a series of Children’s Social Work and Social Care Knowledge and Evidence Events. These hour long, online briefing events are … Continue reading “Children’s Social Care Knowledge and Evidence Event”

With guest speaker: Carole Brooks, Author: ADCS Safeguarding Pressures research. Who are the sessions for? NIROMP is a no-fee leadership group for Independent Reviewing Officers and IRO Managers. Our Community of Practice (CoP) programme is open to local authority Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) and IRO Managers. Our community brings together IROs and IRO leaders and … Continue reading NIROMP Communities of Practice – ‘Safeguarding Pressures’ session

Author: Dr Cynthia Okpokiri Article featured in British Journal of Social Work On 15 December 2020 This important article focuses on Nigerian parents’ experiences of the British child welfare system. It provides a helpful insight into the factors which influence families interaction with the British child welfare system and calls for safeguarding professionals to adopt … Continue reading Parenting in fear: Child welfare micro strategies of Nigerian parents in Britain | @DrCunOkpokiri @BJofSW

The matter of T & R Re (Refusal of Placement Order) [2021] EWCA Civ 71 (28 January 2021) involved an appeal by a local authority and children's guardian against a decision to refuse to approve placement orders in respect of two children, T (a 3 year old boy) and R (a 2 year old girl). The … Continue reading T and R, Re (Refusal of Placement Order) [2021] EWCA Civ 71 (28 January 2021).

New research helps to build a more complete picture of the fathers who lose access to their children because of concerns about child neglect or their ability to provide safe care. A Nuffield-funded research partnership between the University of East Anglia and Lancaster University has published the first analysis of fathers’ involvement in care and … Continue reading Building a picture of fathers in the family justice system in England | Nuffield Foundation

This new page on the ADCS website hosts a series of practical resources, such as templates, tools and practice guidance which will be of interest to anyone working in the family justice system. Many of these resources have been produced by sub-groups made up of sector representatives involved with the President of the Family Division’s … Continue reading Family Justice Resource Hub

Guidance and recommendations aim to divert more families from the courts and ease practitioners’ workloads through better use of pre-proceedings and section 20, and streamline cases that do go to court. Longer term, the report recommends refocusing the role of independent reviewing officers (IROs) and conference chairs to offer additional oversight outside of proceedings to … Continue reading Family justice overhaul bids to limit number of care proceedings

Many have experienced their own Black Lives Matter moment in the last 12 months, a sharp realisation of entrenched prejudices and inequalities that still exist in our society.In the family justice system that moment came last October when a black barrister, Alexandra Wilson, was mistaken for a defendant three times in one day.And yet, more … Continue reading Unequal chances? Ethnic disproportionality in child welfare and family justice | Family Law

Protecting children’s rights in institutional settings 21 & 28 April 2021, 10am-1pm (two half-days via Zoom) – LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE15 & 22 September, 10am-1pm (two half-days via Zoom) – PLACES AVAILABLE “[This course] will definitely change my approach when visiting residential care homes as it will make me consider further the conduct of the staff, … Continue reading Protecting Children’s Rights in Institutional Settings