Social Care In Depth
Professionals prepare to cut delays as 26-week care case limit looms
Local authorities, family lawyers and the court system are gearing up to confront radical changes to the care proceedings system in a bid to ensure the majority of children can be found a home within six months.
Skills for the Job: Be aware of ‘sexting’
Understanding how young people share sexually explicit material via their phones is vital if practitioners are to address the problem
Research Report: The pre-proceedings process for families at the edge of care proceedings
Researchers examine to what extent pre-proceedings meetings succeed in finding alternatives to care proceedings or in speeding up the court process.
The seasoned campaigner
Gabriella Józwiak talks to David Holmes, chief executive of Family Action.
Good Practice Case Studies
How teens share lessons in becoming a parent
Young parents are getting back into education by teaching other teenagers what effect bringing up a baby can have on their lifestyle
Participation in Action: Young people find their voice to take control of life in care
Children in care can feel that they have little influence over important decisions affecting their lives. In 2005 the London Borough of Southwark decided to address this through a programme that gave looked-after children and care leavers a say.
How mediation resolves family conflict
Young people are being helped to mend relationships with their families to prevent them becoming homeless
Parents’ classes improve children’s conduct
Educational psychology forms the basis of a programme to enable parents in Somerset to deal with their children’s problem behaviour
How parent champions raise service take-up
Project helps increase access to childcare, early learning and children’s centre services, and leads to better outcomes for children
Latest Social Care News
- Voluntary sector consortium becomes DfE strategic partner
- Daily roundup: Carrie quits, childcare savings, and Devon criticism
- Sex education must cover porn, says children’s commissioner
- Damning report calls for safeguarding improvements in Rochdale
- Associations criticise care placement decision making
- Oakhill STC inspection raises safeguarding concerns
- Councils rise to minister's challenge on care leaver support
- Girls in gangs ‘face greater mental health risks’
- Minister announces foster care support for councils
- Fast-track social work programme to recruit top graduates
