Shift from crisis to prevention needed in self-harm services
There should be a system shift away from the current reliance on crisis interventions in tackling self-harm towards a more preventative model of support is the overriding message from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention.
Respondents to their inquiry made clear that the single most impactful change to improve the support available to [...]
Christmas exacerbates anxieties among children
Many parents are wishing they could cancel Christmas while children fear an unhappy family time, a study by Action for Children has found.
A poll of parents found that one in six would cancel Christmas if they could, rising even higher for those on Universal Credit for the first time this year. A survey of children [...]
Referrals to children’s services rise following first lockdown
More than 600 vulnerable children a day were referred to local authorities’ children’s services in the months following the first lockdown, it has emerged.
The County Councils Network reported that 630 young people a day were referred to children’s services in the months after the first lockdown, which began in March 2020, as local authorities reported [...]
Standardising Remote Working in challenging times
If at any point last year, we would have been presented with the idea that during 2020 we would be operating social work teams on skeletal staff with many social workers self-isolating, legislation changes reducing the pressures on local authorities’ requirements to visit children in care as frequently and everyone wearing face-masks and hand sanitizing [...]
Why social work can’t become too remote
Chief Executive of WillisPalmer Mark Willis on remote working within social work
‘Remote working’ has become the go-to phrase in many industries throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Whole office blocks in London and other major cities remain deserted since March. The three big London investment banks HSBC, Citi and Goldman, having previously instructed staff [...]
More court days for family cases this year despite restrictions
There have been more court sitting days taking place on family cases this year than in any previous year, despite the lockdown, the president of the family courts division has said.
In his ‘View from the Chambers,’ Andrew McFarlane said this level of activity is necessary as it is not possible to conduct as many cases [...]
