Social workers to be placed in schools post-lockdown
Social workers will work alongside teachers to help identify children at risk of neglect and abuse as children return to school following lockdown restrictions, the government has announced.
Education secretary Gavin Williamson has unveiled £6.5m funding to involve more than 150 schools in a project that will place social workers in schools to work with [...]
Working From Home - with kids!
I have always said I am the magnet to my children’s iron filings. If I’m sat down, they want to sit on me – which is lovely. But if I’m cooking, they want to be in the kitchen with me. If I’m in the shower, it seems to be a spectator sport. And if [...]
“Some vulnerable children at risk of exploitation are thriving in lockdown”
WillisPalmer has previously reported on the pressures facing frontline social workers in lock down.
Frontline social worker Rita Long* told us how her team were under-staffed with two vacancies and two social workers self-isolating due to underlying health conditions and they were operating with no PPE although they could request it if they were [...]
Re-opening primary schools could be a life-line for vulnerable children
Clare Jerrom on why returning to school could be a life-line for disadvantaged children
The question of primary school children starting a phased return to school from 1 June may have divided ministers, teaching unions, schools and parents across England but it is undoubtedly in the best interests of many vulnerable children.
Government ministers including education [...]
Government will publish paper on group-based CSE
The government will publish a paper into group-based child sexual exploitation later this year to better understand the characteristics of this type of offending and safeguard vulnerable children.
The Home Secretary announced that the paper will provide insights gained from the work and outline how agencies can learn lessons to help deliver justice for victims. [...]
Children’s directors respond to charities’ concerns over their ability to cope following lockdown
Children’s services leaders have responded to claims made yesterday by a group of children’s charities that they are ill-prepared for the pressures they will face post lockdown.
Years of under-investment have resulted in children’s services fire-fighting and unprepared for the “torrent of extra challenges” posed by COVID-19, the charity’s Barnardo’s. Action for Children, The Children’s [...]
