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Deprivation of liberty orders placed on children in care have tripled in the last two years, an investigation by BBC News has revealed.
The investigation showed that deprivation of liberty orders are increasingly being used to detain children in homes when suitable accommodation cannot be found.
Director of children’s rights charity Article 39 Carolyne Willow slammed the [...]
Schools should be the last places to be locked down if any local or national lockdown takes place, the children’s commissioner for England has warned.
Anne Longfield argues that if any lockdown takes place, schools should be the last places to be locked down, after pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops.
She says that given what it known [...]
Just two per cent of local authorities in England find it easy to recruit experienced social workers, Department for Education research has found.
The fifth wave of the DfE Children’s Services Omnibus Survey, which looks at senior local authority and Children’s Services Trust’s leaders’ perceptions on, and activities relating to, a range of policy areas, found [...]
Most children in Young Offender Institutions were still locked up for 22 hours a day following four months of COVID-19 restrictions, the chief inspector of prisons has warned.
Following the second young offender institutions short scrutiny visit, Peter Clarke said that despite attempts by local management at HYOI Feltham A and HMYOI Werrington to reintroduce education [...]
The High Court considered a judicial review this week against The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 which were introduced on 24 April 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Children’s rights charity Article 39 brought the judicial review saying the legislation made 65 losses or dilutions of safeguards for children in care, and children [...]
ISW Sylvia McKenzie on her work on cases of non-recent child abuse in care
Despite having successfully been running her own independent social work practice for six years following her retirement from local authority work, in 2016 Sylvia McKenzie felt she may have to take a step back from independent social work.
Awaiting a knee replacement operation, [...]
Deprivation of liberty orders placed on children in care have tripled in the last two years, an investigation by BBC News has revealed.
The investigation showed that deprivation of liberty orders are increasingly being used to detain children in homes when suitable accommodation cannot be found.
Director of children’s rights charity Article 39 Carolyne Willow slammed the [...]
Schools should be the last places to be locked down if any local or national lockdown takes place, the children’s commissioner for England has warned.
Anne Longfield argues that if any lockdown takes place, schools should be the last places to be locked down, after pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops.
She says that given what it known [...]
Just two per cent of local authorities in England find it easy to recruit experienced social workers, Department for Education research has found.
The fifth wave of the DfE Children’s Services Omnibus Survey, which looks at senior local authority and Children’s Services Trust’s leaders’ perceptions on, and activities relating to, a range of policy areas, found [...]
