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Social work hits Coronation Street

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Have you seen this woman (the one on the left)? Well you will do on Thursday if you watch Coronation Street. She is the social worker who is coming to assess whether Kylie and David...

Published 30 Aug 2011 3:36 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: children and young people, children in care, social work, social workers, television programme
Children's minister stands up for social work

Children's minister Tim Loughton used a speech at the Conservative Party Conference tonight to champion the importance of social workers. "I have enormous respect for social workers," he said at a fringe event called the Family Room reception...

Published 4 Oct 2010 10:26 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: child protection, children and young people, children in care, local authorities, social work, social workers, Tim Loughton, workforce
Social worker cautioned for failing to alert police to missing child

A residential social worker who failed to inform police an eight-year-old child in her care had run away has been cautioned by the General Social Care Council. Jillian Outterside was due to collect the child from Paignton Community College, Devon, on...

Published 3 Mar 2010 12:55 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Care Homes, children and young people, children in care, conduct, General Social Care Council, Service users, social work, social workers, workforce
Former Calderdale chief pleads not guilty to sexual assualt of boys

Former Calderdale Council social services chief Rod Ryall has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of indecently assaulting three boys, all under 16, when he was a live-in house master at Aycliffe Approved School in the 1960s and 70s. Ryall was director of...

Published 15 Feb 2010 10:41 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: child protection, children and young people, children in care, conduct, social work, social workers, workforce
CWDC creates online children's centre

The Children's Workforce Development Council has created a new online children's centre on the DirectgovKids website for children , which aims to inform five to 11-year-olds about social workers and foster carers. It tells children: "There...

Published 10 Dec 2009 4:18 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Care Homes, child protection, children and young people, children in care
Suffolk Council accused of "kidnapping" newly born babies

Tim Yeo, Conservative MP for South Suffolk, has accused Suffolk Council of "kidnapping" newly born babies in cases where the birth parents do not wish to give them up for adoption. Writing ahead of last night's adjournment debate on the...

Published 26 Nov 2009 9:12 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Care Homes, care leavers, child protection, children and young people, children in care, safeguarding, social work, social workers
Swansea Council may close two children's homes

Two children's homes in Swansea could close under plans to restructure the council's child and family services. The department is expected to have a £6.5m overspend this financial year, with nearly half relating to children in the council's...

Published 18 Nov 2009 2:36 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Care Homes, children and young people, children in care, social work, workforce
Gordon Brown will apologise to children in care sent abroad

Gordon Brown to apologise to former child migrants: Care leavers charity wants more apologies from UK government As reported by World News Australia , Gordon Brown is to issue a formal apology next year to thousands of Brits who were put into care as...

Published 16 Nov 2009 8:00 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: camilla pemberton, care leavers, Care Leavers Association, child migrants, children in care, Gordon Brown, Kevin Rudd, Will Macmahon
Lords fail to decriminalise child prostitutes

Moves by the House of Lords to decriminalise child prostitution have failed. Peers voted by 80 to 68 to retain the current position on Friday night. Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer tabled an amendment to the Policing and Crime...

Published 9 Nov 2009 2:34 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: child protection, children and young people, children in care, children's services, Ruth Smith
National Care Leavers' Week 2009: 25th - 30th October

This week is National Care Leavers' Week . Organisations such as the Care Leavers' Association , Voice and the National Care Advisory Service are hoping to raise awareness of the issues (still) facing young people as they leave care - like finding...

Published 27 Oct 2009 4:00 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: care leavers, children in care, young people
'Foster Care the movie' - special showings

Hell's Pavement , starring Pauline McLynn , otherwise known as Father Ted's Mrs Doyle, is a feature film that tracks the life of a young girl in foster careplayed by Keeki Bennett (above). The makers of the film have arranged a series of special...

Published 16 Oct 2009 6:02 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: children and young people, children in care, television programme
Time for government to learn lessons on data protection

By Bronagh Miskelly Even the most pig-headed amongst us eventually learn from our mistakes. We learn that ploughing on with a set of actions that repeatedly end in problems is a bad idea. Not so in Whitehall - or so it would seem from the latest ContactPoint...

Published 25 Mar 2009 10:57 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: child protection, children and young people, children in care, ContactPoint, data protection, health, Politics, safeguarding
Laming report "leaked" to the News of the World

By Maria Ahmed, Deputy News Editor Lord Laming's review of child protection ordered after Baby P appears to have been leaked to the News of the World ahead of its official publication on Thursday. Whether or not the content reported by the paper is...

Published 9 Mar 2009 12:34 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, child protection, children in care, David Cameron, ed balls, Gordon Brown, Haringey, lord laming, the news of the world, The Sun, victoria climbie
Neglected children often ignored

An interesting piece of research has been published by charity Action for Children, which shows a quarter of 1,000 people surveyed had been worried that a child they knew was being neglected. But 38% had not reported their concerns to anyone. Worrying...

Published 25 Feb 2009 10:54 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: charities, child protection, children and young people, children in care, safeguarding
Why it is important to keep track of looked after children

by Derren Hayes A report published last month by the Care Leavers' Association highlighted how hundreds of children being looked after by local authorities go missing each year, and the increased dangers this poses for this vulnerable group. Read...

Published 28 Jan 2009 1:49 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Care Homes, care leavers, child protection, children and young people, children in care, crime, derren hayes, Feature articles
Smoking out unsuitable foster carers

By Derren Hayes Shock horror, Barak Obama is a smoker. "A smoker" I hear you cry. That's right. Surely, this must call into question whether he is fit to take office? Read More...

Published 11 Nov 2008 10:58 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: carers, children and young people, children in care, foster care, health, local authorities, looked after children, smoking
Safeguard children from flip-flopping politicians

by Bronagh Miskelly Young people in the UK have, admittedly unknowingly, been subject to a tidal wave of children's policy over their lifetimes. The funding and initiatives intended to help them grow up are barely established before they are reversed...

Published 18 Sep 2008 1:01 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Action for Children, Bronagh Miskelly, charities, charity, child protection, children, children and young people, children in care, legislation, NCH, policy, Politics
Something borrowed, something blue - the Tories' vision for children in care

By Maria Ahmed Warning to all diehard red social workers who think (or hope) they have gone away - the Tories are at it again . A new report today, published by the Tory centre for social justice - headed up by Iain Duncan Smith - slams Labour's record...

Published 10 Sep 2008 4:05 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: care matters, children and young persons bill, children in care, social workers, tories
High profile director leaves Surrey

One simple phrase springs to mind in response to the sudden departure of high-flying family services director Andrew Webster from Surrey council - how are the mighty fallen! Webster resigned more than two months ago, shortly before publication of an Ofsted...

Published 6 Aug 2008 12:00 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: child protection, children, children and young people, children in care, children's services, education, families
Woolly thinking leaves council services at mercy of vocal minority

by Bronagh Miskelly It was with a muted fanfare that communities secretary Hazel Blears launched the white paper on community empowerment - Communities in control: Real people, real power . But then petitions and housing associations probably aren't...

Published 10 Jul 2008 12:31 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: accountability, Bronagh Miskelly, children and young people, children in care, children's services, communities, local authorities, local politics, Politics, service planning

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