Sharpen your children’s social care legal knowledge with training from leading barristers Community Care’s forthcoming legal masterclass includes learning on court skills, care proceedings, parental responsibility, asylum...
DfE slims down social work standards following concerns proposals would be ‘overwhelming’ for practitioners Department halves number of knowledge and skills expectations that will be placed on children’s social workers after two years in p...
‘Why so few men feel they belong in children’s social work’ Encouraging more men into children’s social work will help improve services and tackle recruitment and retention problems, says aca...
Care system failings ‘putting hundreds of children at risk’ in unregistered placements Hundreds of vulnerable children are being “regularly put at risk” with prolonged placements in unregistered homes, an influential committ...
Domestic abuse practice not sufficiently child-focused, inspectors find Children often not recognised as domestic abuse victims in their own right, despite this having been enshrined in law in 2021, find joint...
Response to PAC report: Government must fix supply, workforce and commissioning The Children’s Homes Association (CHA) has responded to today’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the financial sustainability of...
