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Stepfather adoption: the pros and cons

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Added by Alison J Stevens on February 19, 2018 at 16:30 — No Comments

Plans published for The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory

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Added by Alison J Stevens on February 19, 2018 at 16:00 — No Comments

Guidance to family courts: payment for intermediaries and intermediary assessments

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed188107

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 16, 2018 at 20:00 — No Comments

Supreme Court decides habitual residence issues in Abduction Convention case

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed188104

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed188063

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 16, 2018 at 20:00 — No Comments

What new research tells us about telecare use in English local authorities

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2018/02/16/new-research-tells-us-telecare-use-english-local-authorities/

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 16, 2018 at 20:00 — No Comments

What place, and meaning, does resilience hold in frontline social work practice?

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2018/02/16/place-meaning-resilience-hold-frontline-social-work-practice/

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 16, 2018 at 20:00 — No Comments

Dispensing with Independent Reviewing Officers would put vulnerable children at risk

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed188108

http://www.nagalro.com/system/site/uploads/content/docs//2018%2002%2012%20Nagalro%20Press%20Release%20Government%20Review%20Puts%20Vulnerable%20Children%20at%20Risk.pdf…

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Added by Alison J Stevens on February 16, 2018 at 19:30 — No Comments

Podcast: Lyn Romeo on strengths-based practice

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2018/02/15/podcast-lyn-romeo-strengths-based-practice/

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 15, 2018 at 19:00 — No Comments

Divorcing couples may clash over Bitcoin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43070849#

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 15, 2018 at 19:00 — No Comments

Average social worker caseloads: the highest and the lowest

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2018/02/15/average-social-worker-caseloads-highest-lowest/

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 15, 2018 at 19:00 — No Comments

Case Law, Northern Ireland: Arthurs v NGN, no reasonable expectation of privacy in father’s criminal convictions – Ciaran O’Shiel and Charlotte Turk

https://inforrm.org/2018/02/15/case-law-northern-ireland-arthurs-v-ngn-no-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy-in-fathers-criminal-convictions-ciaran-oshiel-and-charlotte-turk/#more-39315

VIA INFORMS BLOG WITH THANKS.

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 15, 2018 at 18:30 — No Comments

Rise in caseloads for children's social workers

https://www.cypnow.co.uk/cyp/news/2004897/rise-in-caseloads-for-childrens-social-workers

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/681546/SFR09-2018_Main_Text.pdf

The powers to be are saying that Government austerity has…

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Added by Alison J Stevens on February 15, 2018 at 18:30 — No Comments

New private law cases received by Cafcass in January up 11% on a year ago

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed188071

https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/about-cafcass/research-and-data/private-law-data/

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 15, 2018 at 18:30 — No Comments

ADOPTION PRACTICE

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2018/01/19/social-work-ethics-routinely-used-inform-adoption-practice-enquiry-suggests/

I know of a recent Case, where the Mother was told that her Son had been forcibly adopted, 

And she came to find that her Son had not even been adopted.

THE FACT IS THAT HE WAS ON A FULL CARE ORDER, AND IF THE PLACEMENT HAD…

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Added by Alison J Stevens on February 15, 2018 at 18:00 — No Comments

Why policy on contact with children and birth families needs a rethink

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2018/02/13/policy-contact-children-birth-families-needs-rethink/

KINCARE CLAUSE YET AGAIN.

If the Local Authority's used the Kincare clause by placing Children with immediate Family Members  such as Grandparents in the first instance or even Aunties and Uncles, this would be the far cheaper option than placing Children into Foster…

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Added by Alison J Stevens on February 15, 2018 at 17:30 — No Comments

Social care allowances are confusing – the government must offer clarity

https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2018/feb/15/social-care-allowances-clarity-government-reform

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Public law cases received by Cafcass in January up 3% on a year ago

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed188072

https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/about-cafcass/research-and-data/public-law-data/

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 15, 2018 at 16:30 — No Comments

Obituary Of Former PAIN Advocate PAULINE REDDICK

With the greatest of sadness i announce that My Former Co Worker at Parents Against Injustice Pauline Reddick has passed away today after a short battle with a very aggressive form of Cancer.

Pauline has been a complete inspiration through out the late 1980s and 1990s,…
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Added by Alison J Stevens on February 14, 2018 at 21:59 — No Comments

Council tax rises on the way as local authorities try to stay afloat

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/08/local-authorities-plan-council-tax-hikes-to-stave-off-financial-disaster?CMP=ema-1696&CMP=

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 14, 2018 at 20:30 — No Comments

Government must act to halt crisis in social care recruitment

https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2018/feb/08/government-must-act-crisis-social-care-recruitment?CMP=ema-1696&CMP=

Added by Alison J Stevens on February 14, 2018 at 20:30 — No Comments

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