Family Rights Group have facilited a seven month sector-led Review into the care crisis. The Review is supported by stakeholders within the child welfare and family justice system. The Review's aims: to examine the reasons for the rise in care proceedings and number of children in care to at all times retain a focus on … Continue reading New: #carecrisisreview report
Hello Colleagues, Please can you circulate within your IRO and social work networks. Social Work England want to ensure good sector involvement relating to re-registration and CPD audit system:Ā Continued Fitness to Practice focus group - invite to join focus group Getting involved in the consultation is a great opportunity to shape the future by sharing … Continue reading Social Work England Continued Fitness to Practice Framework – Sector Involvement.
The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse have published a new paper in their āKey messages from researchā series, focusing on intra-familial child sexual abuse. The paper brings together the existing research on intra-familial CSA into an accessible overview to support confident provision of effective responses. You can read the paper and download PDF … Continue reading Key messages from research | Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse
https://twitter.com/TheCareKid/status/1004591155529633792 No rent, no bills,Ā 365 days a year for 3 years.Ā Ā The Unite Foundation provides scholarship opportunities for young people aged 25 years or under who are care leavers or are estranged from their family. Taking care of a place for the young person to live whilst theyāre at university and leaving them free to … Continue reading Scholarships for care leavers or young people estranged from their family
A brilliant new online resource Ā Rights4childrenĀ has been launched by Article 39.Ā Please share and help publicise thisĀ brilliant new resource for children and young people!Ā Called rights4children, the site is packed with information about childrenās rights, on topics important to them. It has drawn on the expert advise of children and young people (seeĀ Roll of honourĀ ). The … Continue reading A brilliant new online resource for children and young people
The views expressed in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the National IRO Managers Partnership. Guest post by Ian Dickson on June 3, 2018 I am a care experienced person. I am also a social worker, and one who spent years managing and then inspecting residential services. One … Continue reading Guest post | My thoughts on the role of the IRO | By Ian Dickson
Source: Department for EducationĀ Published: May 2018 The Department for Education (DfE) has provided updated guidance and issued new advice onĀ Sexual violence and sexual harassmentĀ between children in schools and colleges. It covers: what sexual violence and harassment is schoolsā and collegesā legal responsibilities a whole school or college approach to safeguarding and child protection how to … Continue reading Safeguarding Update: Sexual violence and sexual harassment
Thanks to Jonathan Dickens and the UEA Centre for Resesarch for this warmest of invites to all IROs: Dear colleague I am pleased to send you the attached invitation to the 2018 annual conference of the UEA Centre for Research on Children and Families, to be held in London on 22 June 2018. The topic … Continue reading 2018 annual conference of the UEA Centre for Research on Children and Families
https://twitter.com/UKRCPR/status/992442983680274435 Thank you to the Journal of Social Work Practice and to Taylor & Francis Online for providing open access to this article. Abstract Professionals working with families in difficulty require a structured space to consider their work. As organisations and the systems within and across them become more sophisticated it seems that less attention … Continue reading Creating reflective spaces
Thank you to Gabrielle Jan Posner and Trinity Chambers Chelmsford for this helpful post which sets out why IRO's views could helpfully be formalised as part of legal proceedings:Ā Getting the Most Out of Independent Reviewing Officers in Care Proceedings NIROMP and Cafcass are working collaboratively to promote greater consistency of best practice - to ensure … Continue reading Independent Reviewing Officers in Care Proceedings
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