Source: ADCS Response to HCLG Committee report on children’s services... Originally published: 1st May 2019 Rachel Dickinson, ADCS President: “The Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee, like countless others, has concluded that current funding for children’s services is insufficient ... Read full piece at source: Response to HCLG Committee report on children’s services... Download … Continue reading ADCS Responds to HCLG Committee report on children’s services …
This latest Bright Spots survey, Our Lives Beyond Care, by Coram Voice and Prof Julie Selwyn, focuses on the thoughts, feelings and experiences of care leavers. It has been developed using the same rigorous methodology as the Your Life, Your Care surveys for younger children, drawing on research and focus groups with care-experienced young people. The … Continue reading Our Lives Beyond Care | Coram Voice and Prof Julie Selwyn
Source: Courts and Tribunals Judiciary | Family Justice Council Originally published: 20th March 2019. The Family Justice Council conference and Bridget Lindley Memorial Lecture took place on 12 March 2019. Attendance was by invitation only and the audience comprised a range of stakeholders working in, or with an interest in, the family justice system. Hosted … Continue reading Family Justice Council Conference and Bridget Lindley Memorial Lecture
Originally published: 15 Mar 2019 Source: ADCS Blogs Author: Stuart Carlton, ADCS Honorary Treasurer, and Corporate Director of Children and Young People's Services at North Yorkshire What’s the purpose of auditing casework? What’s the purpose of auditing casework? I have been pondering this for a while. It has a genuine purpose, done well it tells … Continue reading What’s the purpose of auditing casework? | Stuart Carlton, ADCS Honorary Treasurer
Promoting the Importance of Human Relationships: World Social Work Day 2019 (Relationship based practice) In celebration of the World Social Work Day 2019, the Principal Children and Families Social Worker Network has published an e-book with a collection of stories and experiences from practitioners and leaders about human connection and relationships and relationship-based practice. The e-book, … Continue reading NIROMP Chair contributes to World Social Work Day e-book #ECLCM #careexperienced #IROs #wswd19
Language That Cares A glossary of words and terms that aims to change the language of the care system has been published. Language That Cares is a collaborative effort led by adoption and fostering charity TACT (The Adolescent and Children’s Trust) and the charity’s children and care experienced young people, with contributions from 15 … Continue reading Language That Cares | PCF @TACTCare #spreadtheword
Authors: Paul Bywaters, Lisa Bunting, Gavin Davidson, Jennifer Hanratty, Will Mason, Claire McCartan, Nicole Steils First published: 3rd Mar 2016 Source: Joseph Rowntree Foundation This report identifies and discusses evidence about the relationship between poverty and child abuse and neglect. Download to read at source: The relationship between poverty, child abuse and neglect: an evidence … Continue reading FREE to access report on the relationship between poverty, child abuse and neglect via Joseph Rowntree Foundation
First published by the Department for Education on 14 March 2019. A new Policy paper has been published by the Department for Education: Principles to guide HE providers on improving care leavers access and participation in HE Details The guiding principles will support Higher Education (HE) providers to develop their offer for care leavers to … Continue reading Improving care leavers access and participation in higher education
ADCS has published a new position paper 'Building a workforce that works for all children'. To achieve a country that works for all children, we must have a strong and fully resourced workforce: The government continues to invest in new routes into social work and to progress a programme of social work reform. While efforts … Continue reading Building a workforce that works for all children | ADCS
Originally published on 26 February 2019 By: Ofsted and Yvette Stanley Yvette Stanley reflects on the success factors in different models of practice that local authorities use when working with children and families: New ways of working can really support a profession that is striving to improve. What we shouldn’t do though, is forget the … Continue reading Social care commentary: using models of practice successfully | Ofsted
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