Your Family, Your Voice, is an alliance of families and practitioners that has been developed by Family Rights Group to counter the stigma and negative presumptions about families whose children are subject to, or at risk of, state intervention. The Alliance is leading a Knowledge Inquiry to look in detail at one part of our … Continue reading Call to Action – Knowledge Inquiry: Children who come into the care system under a voluntary arrangement
By Liane Davey. Originally published on January 31st, 2017. Source: Harvard Business Review Thereās no point in collaboration without tension, disagreement, or conflict. https://t.co/0L3af2ZeUz ā Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) 1 February 2017 Collaboration is crumpling under the weight of our expectations. What should be a messy back-and-forth process far too often falls victim to our … Continue reading Collaboration: ‘If Your Team Agrees on Everything, Working Together Is Pointless’
Source: Eight-year-olds Identified in Infancy as at Risk of Harm: Report of a Prospective Longitudinal Study Research Report: July 2016 By: Rebecca Brown, Harriet Ward, Jenny Blackmore, Caroline Thomas and Georgia Hyde-Dryden: Loughborough University About the study Findings from this study raise important questions aboutĀ child protection policy and practice. In particular they raise issues concerning … Continue reading Eight-year-olds identified in infancy as at risk of harm: report of a prospective longitudinal study
By Dr Bruce Perry, adapted from the Foreword to hisĀ book, Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children,Ā by Richard Rose. EXTRACT A fundamental and permeating strength of humankind is the capacity to form and maintain relationships ā the capacity to belong. It is in the context of our clan, community and culture that we are born and … Continue reading āWithout a life story, a child is adrift, disconnected and vulnerableā ā Dr Bruce Perry on the value and power of the Life Story approach
Headline measures 2,000 children waiting to be adopted at 30 June 2016 has improved:Ā 10% decrease from 31 March 2016 when there were 2,210 children waiting with a placement order not yet placed with an adoptive family. Child timeliness has improved:Ā The time taken between a child entering care and being placed with a family for children … Continue reading Adoption figures fall again
The Department for Education (DfE) launched the Childrenās Social Care Innovation Programme to act as a catalyst for developing more effective ways of supporting vulnerable children. The programme is seeking to inspire whole system change to improve the life chances for children receiving support from the social care system, to provide stronger incentives and mechanisms … Continue reading Innovation News – large-scale projects to transform childrenās social care
ByĀ Louise Mc Grath-Lone, UCLĀ This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article: here Why some children are more likely to go back into care than others Each year, local authorities in England act as corporate parents for the 100,000 children who are placed in care. One important responsibility a parent has … Continue reading Why some children are more likely to go back into care than others
Government proposals to allow councils to apply for exemptions from children's social care legislation have been reinserted into the Children and Social Work Bill following a vote by MPs. 'The controversial so-called "exemption clause" was previously removed from the legislation in November following a defeat for the government in the House of Lords. But members … Continue reading MPs vote to reinstate controversial ‘exemption clause’
A High Court judge has awarded Ā£20,000 damages to a mother and two children whose human rights were breached after ālargely inexcusableā failings during a joint police and council investigation into abuse allegations. 'Cobb concluded the failings from both agencies occurred āwithin a context of individual and departmental professional pressureā. He found no evidence of … Continue reading Children wrongly kept in care after āinexcusableā failings in abuse investigation
Send Views to Committee Any person withĀ relevant expertise and experience or a special interest in the Children and Social Work Bill [Lords]Ā can submit theirĀ views in writing to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee which is considering this Bill. The Committee will stop receiving written evidence at the end of the Committee stage on Tuesday … Continue reading Children and Social Work Bill #CSWB
