Read at source: 'Moving on Up' report by the National Network for the Education of Care Leavers (NNECL) 'Moving on up' - NNECL Extract from source - NNECL website: The 'Moving On Up' report is the first study to provide an overall picture of care leavers in higher education. It explored the educational pathways of all young … Continue reading New study finds more care leavers entering higher education
1.3 million has been awarded to Break from the Children’s Social Care Innovation Fund which aims to develop more effective ways of supporting vulnerable children, specifically those leaving Children’s Homes. More information about the launch of this innovative new project to support young care leavers: Launch of Staying Close, Staying Connected
Source: Ofsted First published: 29 November 2017 Ofsted inspection of local authority children's services is changing in 2018. A new method of inspecting local authority children’s services will begin in January next year, Ofsted confirmed today [29 November 2017]. Inspections of local authority children’s services (ILACS) will look at how well local authorities are supporting and protecting vulnerable … Continue reading New children’s services inspections announced – Ofsted
via Rosie Canning - Aspire to More I can remember when I first went to university in 1993 and was astounded when I began to realise that things in care hadn’t changed. Another twenty years, 2013, I met Ben Ashcroft, Ian Dickson, Lisa Cherry and Ed Nixon and we started the Every Child Leaving Care Matters … Continue reading Rosie Canning – Aspire to More #ECLCM
Safeguarding unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children The Department for Education (DfE) has published a policy paper setting out the government’s commitments to safeguard and promote the welfare of unaccompanied asylum seeking refugee children in England. The new strategy includes: updated guidance for councils on caring for unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern … Continue reading Safeguarding – some policy updates
Children England has put forward the case for a fair, sustainable funding mechanism for essential children’s services stating that it is too urgent and too acute to ignore: We propose the establishment of a Children Act Funding Formula, which would distribute national taxation to all authorities with duties under the Children Act 1989 according to … Continue reading The Case for a Children Act Funding Formula – Children England
Read the Local Government Association (LGA) response to lack of additional children's services funding in #Budget2017 at: Budget 2017: councils react to no extra children's services funding 'We’ve reached a tipping point where this service can no longer be ignored. It is absolutely crucial that the forthcoming Local Government Finance Settlement addresses this funding gap' - LGA. … Continue reading Budget 2017: councils react to no extra children’s services funding – LGA
The Court of Appeal delivered a judgment in Re B (A Child) [2017] EWCA Civ 1579 last month. In it they consider (but do not resolve) the question of how the Family Court should deal with evidence obtained by covert recording. Implication is that covert recordings of both children and adults are admissible in the … Continue reading Covert recordings in family proceedings (Re B (A Child)) – a subjective determination for judges
Cardiff University researchers to drive improvements in social care sector Originally published 16 November 2017 Cardiff University has been chosen as the research partner in a £4.85m initiative to help improve the lives of children who are at risk of abuse or neglect. Read more at source: here Implementing Systemic Models of Social Work 'Sustainable … Continue reading Developments in practice
‘Social work must challenge political and public anxieties about child protection’ Originally published in Community Care on November 15, 2017. There needs to be robust and honest dialogue about the uncertainties and complexities of child protection social work, and the policies needed to achieve real change, says Jo Warner. [...] social work’s mandate to intervene … Continue reading New piece by @JoWarner01 #IROConf17
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