National IRO Managers Partnership / NIROMP Our mission is to help bring about improvements in practice and policy. Holding children at the centre of what we do through our work with and for them, we aim to lead and promote excellent care and services. Official Briefing - Children & Social Work Bill / CSWB Sharon … Continue reading NIROMP – Official Briefing – Children & Social Work Bill
Average social work caseloads vary by as many as 43 cases in different parts of England, new statistics published for the first time today show. Annual workforce statistics produced by the Department for Education have for the first time included detail on average children's social work caseloads in each of the 152 local authorities. While … Continue reading DfE figures reveal massive variation in children’s social work caseloads | Children & Young People Now
Not sure this is the last nail in the coffin of HRA damages claims piggy-backing on care proceedings, but the bag of nails certainly isnāt full any more. Ā The High Court have given judgement ā¦ Read full piece at source: Human rights, damages and costs - important case
First posted December 2015.Ā The Family Justice Council held its 9thĀ Annual Debate and panel discussion on Tuesday 24 November 2015. The topic for debate was adoption. The motion read: āAdoption without parental consent is wrong in principleā The event was chaired by theĀ Rt. Hon. Sir James Munby,Ā President of the Family Division of the High Court, and … Continue reading āAdoption without parental consent is wrong in principleā
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:Ā Ewan King, 6 February 2017.Ā Source: SCIE This post features SCIE's Ewan King blogs for the Department of Health on how mental and physical health conditions are not 'magically resolved' on a young personās eighteenth birthday. Key messages for practice - we need to: Improve our work with young people and families early on, making sure … Continue reading Avoiding the cliff edge: making transitions work – SCIE
This piece was firstĀ posted on 13/02/2016. Findings from small-scale research Worth reading this research paperĀ byĀ Sophie Boswell and Lynne Cudmore,Ā child psychotherapists. The paper considers children'sĀ attachment and emotional needs and the role of foster carers during the transition from foster care to adoption. The research findings are explored in the light of an attachment and loss in … Continue reading Transition planning : foster care to adoption
This post was first published on 25/10/2015. It raises important issues for practice and therefore merits a re-post. Discord and disruption in adoptive families Dr Julie Selwyn presented this lecture for Cardiff University's Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre in association with the BAAF (British Association for Adoption and Fostering). Read the full report: … Continue reading Beyond the Adoption Order
Source: Family Law Week Author: Cris McCurley, Partner in Ben Hoare Bell LLP and advisory board member of Rights of Women and Womenās Aid. In this article Cris McCurley considers recent developments concerning contact where there has been evidence of domestic violence, and the events which have led to them. In 2004 Women's Aid published … Continue reading Domestic Violence and the Impact on Contact Re-examined
Developed by Family Rights Group in partnership with an expert working group, February 2017 A good practice guide on initial family and friends care assessments has been launched by Family Rights Group. The guide sets out best practice as to how viability assessments should be conducted. It lists what factors social workers conducting the assessment … Continue reading Initial Family and Friends Care Assessment: A good practice guide – Family Rights Group
