Charity commission to investigate Kids Company
The Charity Commission has launched an investigation into Kids Company. The independent charity regulator will look into concerns about the administration, governance and financial management of the...
View ArticleWebsite launched to help care leavers access higher education
A new online resource to help care leavers into higher education has been launched today. ‘Propel’, will list the pastoral and financial support available to care leavers at each UK higher education...
View ArticleLandmark asylum age assessment guidelines launched
“Long-awaited” guidance for social workers carrying out age assessment interviews with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people has been published. The new practice guidance, released by...
View ArticleCouncils review almost 2,000 former Kids Company cases
Local authorities have been assessing the cases of around 1,900 children affected by the collapse of Kids Company, the National Audit Office has revealed. In a report published today, the spending...
View ArticleChild sexual exploitation: support for 16- and 17-year-olds must improve
Social workers have been urged to improve their support for 16- and 17-year-olds affected by child sexual exploitation in a week where new figures showed huge under-reporting of sexual offences among...
View ArticleSigns a child could be drawn into youth violence or gangs visible from age seven
Social workers should target diminishing resources on school-based or family-focused programmes to prevent young people being drawn into youth violence or gangs, according to research. A literature...
View ArticleMotivational interviewing: “Now I listen more before jumping in with a...
“You are the first person to really listen and not criticise me” This is a comment a social worker halfway through a motivational interviewing programme received from a young person in Merton....
View ArticleDeprivation of liberty and young people – what social workers need to know
by Neil Allen, barrister at 39 Essex Chambers The significance of deprivation of liberty for children’s and transition services became clear in March 2014 when the Supreme Court delivered its Cheshire...
View ArticleBucking the trend: How North Yorkshire curbed the need for child protection...
By Vicky Metheringham, head of safeguarding and looked-after children, North Yorkshire County Council The number of children subject to child protection plans has reduced significantly in North...
View ArticleMunby: changes needed to encourage more children to give evidence in family...
Family courts should become more open to hearing the views of children, the chief judge Sir James Munby has said. In a judgment handed down last week, Munby said there had been a “sea-change” in...
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