Parents Against Injustice

October 2017 Blog Posts (244)

Family Drug and Alcohol Court and councils to receive £6m+ from social impact bond

http://localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32869:2017-10-18-10-08-41&catid=1:latest-stories

Added by Alison J Stevens on October 18, 2017 at 15:00 — No Comments

PAIN PODCAST ALISON STEVENS

https://app.box.com/s/07qjbuilsuayrl4gq0t1

Added by Alison J Stevens on October 18, 2017 at 14:35 — No Comments

Should children be heard in English family court cases?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41603236#

Children's voices are heard very little within the Family Court arena.

The CAFCASS Children's wishes and feelings pack is very rarely filled in with regards to our Public Law cases.

Recently we have had two Public Law Cases where Children have contacted PAIN Solicitors themselves in their own right under Gillick to be represented themselves by their own choice of Solicitor within…

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Progress at inadequate council 'too slow', Ofsted warns

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ALISON STEVENS PODCAST PAIN

https://app.box.com/s/9dk0j1tqef1me36b837k

Added by Alison J Stevens on October 18, 2017 at 14:26 — No Comments

Council's child protection failings 'put children at risk'

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Call for national foster care recruitment drive

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FLOTENCE BELLONE SPECIAL RADIO PRIZE

https://app.box.com/file/7348377219

Added by Alison J Stevens on October 18, 2017 at 13:56 — No Comments

HCPC Registration SOCIAL WORKERS

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/hcpc_registration_social_workers_17#incoming-1055397

Added by Alison J Stevens on October 18, 2017 at 13:30 — No Comments

In the matter of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (Cases P, Q, R, S, T and U) (No 2)

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2017/2532.html

Added by Alison J Stevens on October 17, 2017 at 17:00 — No Comments

How the NSPCC uses nine core principles to scale up children's services

https://www.theguardian.com/nspcc-childrens-services/2017/oct/10/how-the-nspcc-uses-nine-core-principles-to-scale-up-childrens-services?CMP=ema-1696&CMP=

Added by Alison J Stevens on October 17, 2017 at 16:00 — No Comments

THE STATE OF OUR CARE SERVICES A WORKER DISCLOSES HER CONCERNS

https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2017/oct/13/what-i-wish-i-could-tell-my-boss-i-felt-unsafe-about-returning-to-work?CMP=ema-1707&CMP=

Our loved ones are left at risk of GOD KNOWS WHAT, DEATH AND EVERY ASUNDER.

OUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS.

Added by Alison J Stevens on October 17, 2017 at 15:30 — No Comments

The quicker older people get out of hospital, the less likely they’ll end up in residential homes or back on a ward

https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2017/oct/10/home-first-model-aims-to-stop-patients-being-stranded-on-hospital-wards?CMP=ema-1696&CMP=

THAT IS IF YOU CAN GET THEM HOME IN THE FIRST PLACE.

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME.

AN OLD LADY WAS SENT HOME IN A TAXI WITH MY HUSBAND, IT IS NOT THE TAXI…

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Many disciplines, one goal: a new way to care for children and families

https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2017/oct/13/multi-discipline-social-work-children-families?CMP=ema-1696&CMP=

Added by Alison J Stevens on October 17, 2017 at 15:30 — No Comments

A ROBOT KNOCKING YOUR DOOR SOMETIME SOON

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a_robot_acts_as_a_social_worke

The new Social Worker knocking at Your door sometime soon.

Dear Southend on Sea Borough Council,

Could you please answer the following Questions with regards to this Freedom of Information request. …

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Added by Alison J Stevens on October 17, 2017 at 14:30 — No Comments

Meet Pepper the robot – Southend's newest social care recruit

https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2017/oct/16/pepper-robot-southend-social-care-recruit?CMP=ema-1696&CMP=

Where the Care System is in dire straits up and down the UK, Local Authority's are very happy to waste money on this kind of thing a Robot,

While many Local Authority are starved of cash, in some cases…

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How rap therapy workshops help foster children tell stories

https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2017/oct/17/rap-performance-therapy-foster-children?CMP=ema-1696&CMP=

It is a pity that Local Authority cannot use this money to work with Families to keep them together, but instead they use Foster Care, millions of pounds wasted at the tax payers expense, when they could use this money to try and…

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