Thought provoking post By Kathy Evans, chief executive, Children England. Do read and leave a comment. First published in CYP Now on 30th August 'The Children and Social Work Bill is becoming the focal point for important sector debates about whether statutory duties are an impediment to innovation in children’s services. So it feels timely to … Continue reading The rule of law is no rule at all if it changes on demand via @Kathy_CEO_CE
14th View from the President’s Chambers: Care cases: Settlement conferences and the ‘tandem’ model By Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division. Originally published via Family Law on 16th August 2016 via Family Law. This article concentrates on two important initiatives: Settlement Conferences The 'tandem' model Proposal is to deal with other ways to improve how public … Continue reading #Care cases: Settlement conferences and the ‘tandem’ model
Promoting children in care’s emotional wellbeing and recovery from trauma - our latest paper. https://t.co/6kPx6WpY5n — AfC Policy (@AfC_Policy) 12 August 2016 Promoting children in care’s emotional wellbeing and recovery from trauma through a child-centred outcomes framework by Action for Children. The Alliance for Children in Care and Care Leavers held an expert roundtable to … Continue reading Promoting the Emotional Wellbeing of Children in Care
'Government proposals that could see social workers face criminal sanctions for failing to protect children may give the profession an opportunity for a fair hearing, Sharon Shoesmith has said. She said that trials could give professionals the fair hearing which social workers in Haringey did not have during the media storm following the death of … Continue reading Sharon Shoesmith: criminal offences could ensure social workers get fair hearing
E-learning - Gender variance in young people Working in partnership with GIRES (the Gender Identity Research and Education Society), Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has created an e-learning course to help raise awareness of gender variance in young people. The course is free and provides an optional test, as well as a certificate of completion … Continue reading Celebrating diversity – gender variance
'Truly, absolutely shocking. This was a set of care proceedings, transferred up to the High Court before Mr Justice Hayden. A consultant clinical psychologist, Dr Ben Harper, was instructed by the Court to assess the mother. The mother unknown to him, tape recorded their sessions. After the report of Dr Harper arrived, containing words set … Continue reading Tape recording of an expert (a SHOCKING case) @suesspiciousmin
With practitioners needing less paperwork and more direct work, is it time to embrace new ways of recording, asks Social Work Tutor: With voice-to-text software, digital dictaphones and cloud-server software, it seems archaic that in 2016 we still rely on text-based reports being manually fed into outdated computer systems to form the bulk of our … Continue reading ‘I didn’t become a social worker to feed reports into computers’
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children are being preyed upon by traffickers and people smugglers, according to the House of Lords EU home affairs subcommittee report. More than 10,000 children are estimated to have gone missing. Refugee resettlement: are we doing enough? PSE’s Rosemary Collins analyses the recent Home Affairs Select Committee report into the UK’s response … Continue reading #Care of unaccompanied and trafficked children
Emergent themes and strategies for change - couple of good reads [...] responding to the ‘needs’ of vulnerable individuals within a risk-obsessed criminal justice system is perhaps the most impenetrable of the themes to emerge from practitioners'. Read full article at source: Supporting looked after children and care leavers in the Criminal Justice System: Emergent themes and strategies … Continue reading Supporting looked after children and care leavers in the Criminal Justice System
Triennial Analysis of SCRs: Briefing for social workers and family support workers Research in Practice, working with the research teams at UEA and Warwick University, has launched a new open access series of videos and briefings papers about the learning from Serious Case Reviews. These excellent resources will support learning in practice for IROs, Conference Chairs, LSCBs, social … Continue reading Research in Practice – Learning from Serious Case Reviews
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