With a feeling of hope at lockdown restrictions lifting, incoming Association of Directors of Children’s Services president Charlotte Ramsden says this year “feels like the...
Archive for month: April 2021
Special Guardianship Needs More Recognition and Support
In an article published in The Conversation, Professor Judith Harwin of Lancaster University, considers the importance of, and increase in, use of special guardianship orders,...
Public Attitudes to Children in Care and Care Leavers
To mark the first Care Experienced History Month UK, the findings of a new Coram survey on public attitudes to children in care and care...
LGSCO: Children’s Statutory Complaint’s Procedure New Guide luanched
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has launched a new guide to help local authorities handle complaints under the children’s services statutory complaints process. The guide...
Guide for Social Workers: Working with Domestic Abuse, Substance Use and Mental Ill Health
Community Care Inform has published a free guide for social workers on working with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health. The guide briefly...
The UN wants to hear from young people with alternative care experience
In September 2021, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Day Discussion will focus on alternative care. Right now, they’re gathering views...
Improving Responses to the Sexual Abuse of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Children – England & Wales
The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse commissioned the Race Equality Foundation (REF) to explore the perspectives of professionals working with children from Black, Asian...
Care Review Contract Shows that Recommendations must be “Affordable” – England
A Community Care article looks at responses to the publication of the contract between the Department for Education (DfE)and Josh MacAlister, Care Review lead, which states...
Special Guardianship Training Film Launched – UK
A new training film on special guardianship for sector professionals was launched on 15 March 2021. The film, ‘Special Guardianship – an agenda for change’, was made...
The Childhood Commission: Review of the Future of Childhood Launched – England
The Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza has launched the ‘Childhood Commission’, a review of the future of children which will identify the barriers preventing...
Child contact services – consultation
The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on child contact services regulation in relation to the Children (Scotland) Act 2020. The consultation is seeking views...
Online abuse
The NSPCC has released figures on online abuse on social media. The figures, drawn from responses from 35 police forces across the UK on the...
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