For February 2017 Policy PressĀ are making theirĀ most read articles of 2016Ā free to read. You've got until the end of February 2017. Be quick! Critical & Radical Social Work Promoting activism through critical social work education: the impact of global capitalism and neoliberalism on social work and social work education Assisted dying: the search for a … Continue reading Free journal articles for one month – Policy Press
This project undertaken by the ISOS Partnership and commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA), has sought to answer two central questions: What are the key enablers of (and barriers to) improvement in local children's services? How can the system as a whole facilitate and support improvement in local children's services? The final report sets … Continue reading Action research: Improvement in local children’s services – LGA
New report from CORC, NSPCC and Loughborough University, Improving Childrenās Social Care Services: Results of a feasibility study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. TheĀ report can be downloaded at source here. It sets out the findings of a feasibility study that aimed to understand how to define āgoodā childrenās social care services and how to assess … Continue reading Improving Childrenās Social Care Services: Results of a feasibility study
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
The Court of Appeal has reaffirmed the interpretation of the word 'abscond' in terms of escaping indefinitely from an imposed regime. This ruling will have a significant impact upon local authority applications in future ... 'There are two criteria for the making of a secure accommodation. The first being that the child has a history … Continue reading The deprivation of a child’s liberty – Family Law
