Social work transformation, social services reformation, disruption, positive evolution, restorative practice, childrens services, child protection, family law
One more to share today! A fantastic challenging point of view by "The Millennial Social Worker" graduate of Florida State University @floridastate on youtube https://t.co/4b6bvveeLS
Does anyone find this result shocking? Does no local authority care about how parents and carers feel about the experience of this supposedly "independent" process? Or do they just not want to hear the results?
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@RichardMylan28@GasLighting16 We believe it has become job creation and that half the cases on child protection need not have gone there because no actual services or help are offered at section 17 or child in need which has created a culture of distrust and betrayal
Reminder!
Section 17 ie Child in Need is voluntary!
Under Section 17 the local authority has to provide supportive services. If your child is "in need" what services are you being provided with to help you and your child/children?
Are social workers misunderstanding consequently misusing section 17 of the 1989 Children Act? https://t.co/ZGtxKVDL6X
Child protection worker who writes anonymously in @guardian explores this subject for The Transparency Project @seethrujustice
Is shame and blame also an internal culture within #ChildrensServices? @CommunityCare explores this in an article from Jan 2019 by Associate Professor Liz Frost. Has anything changed?
https://t.co/a3rEWllcZL
Can we add resilience to the banned word list? Workers are resilient - they show up everyday. The people & families we work w/ are resilient - they made it to us. Claiming we need to constantly build resilience ignores the fact that the system needs help. https://t.co/ZXJgP1MPNj
In Leeds we offer a Family Group Conference in all cases where we are considering statutory intervention; including convening a child protection conference. As a result the number of children in a plan has halved and the number of children entering care has reduced. @CathyAshley
New guidelines for #ChildrensServices staff in #Coventry with appropriate language regarding possible cases of child sexual exploitation @covCSCPandCSAB https://t.co/nmCZSV4FGH Surely this implies that blame has historically been placed on the young person #groominggangs#CSE
Sir James Munby addresses the growing criticism of judges in private law family courts and calls for systemic reform to address concerns - new on the blog https://t.co/H6A7heatLe
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About time. Enquiry launching to look into unregulated children's homes, whether they should come under #Ofsted@Ofstednews raised by Deputy Director Lisa Pascoe at the Association of Directors of Children's Services annual conference #GroomingGangs
Dutch broadcaster NOS reports that the government hotline
for forced adoptions from between 1956 and 1984 has had 500 reports since it opened in October. Janene Pieters reports for NLTimes https://t.co/VC4wxE7isd
#forcedadoption#childrensservices
Another way of saying Senior Police Officers and Senior Social Workers have lied and done everything they can to cover up the truth and hoped it would just fade away. We MUST NOT let that happen this time.....
https://t.co/EXsxM6gChE
#TBT Short clip from a 2014 @ITV's "Please Don't Take My Child". Apologies for rough edit. Features retired high court judge the Honourary Sir Mark Hedley talking of #childrensservices & their focus not on service but on risk Has anything changed? Full Doc https://t.co/NiXVafbXsI