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World Mental Health Day: Young People’s mental health services must be transformed

The legacy of COVID combined with the cost-of-living crisis will be a tsunami of mental health problems emerging across the country among children and young people unless systems are put in place to ensure that people with mental ill health get the right support at the right time.

As we mark World Mental Health Day, [...]

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Research launched into experiences of kinship carers from ethnic minorities

The charity Kinship is to lead major new research on the experiences of kinship families from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, it has been announced during Kinship Care Week.

During the week Monday 3rd to Friday 7th October there has been celebration for the amazing role that kinship carers across England and Wales play [...]

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“Not enough being done” to ensure children are safe online

The children’s commissioner for England has said that she is “simply not satisfied” that enough is being done to keep children safe online.

Dame Rachel de Souza

Dame Rachel de Souza’s comments were made after it emerged in an inquest into Molly Russell’s death that unsafe online content contributed "in a more than minimal way" to [...]

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Family support encouraged as deprivation of liberty cases involving children soar

There have been 237 applications to the national deprivation of liberty (DoLs) court in the first two months of its operation seeking authorisation to deprive children of their liberty – 101 applications in July and 136 in August.

The President of the Family Division launched the DoLs court based at the Royal Courts of [...]

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How to become an Independent Family Support Worker

Family support is an integral part of what we do at WillisPalmer as it enables families to stay together where it is safe to do so. Not only is this better for the children and families who get support in their parenting skills and communication and enables them to deal more effectively with short-term [...]

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Sixty Second Interview with Andrea Goddard

Independent Social Worker Andrea Goddard has more than 20 years’ experience working with vulnerable children and families including 12 years frontline child protection work.

What three words best describe you?

Thoughtful, disciplined, snowflake.

If you were stuck on a desert island, and could take one person and one object, who and what would they be?

My Kevin, with [...]

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Black History Month 2022 Lecture:

24/10/2022

‘The War Babies of Black GIs and White British Women: racism, exclusion and the search for belonging’

Lucy Hopkins, Head of Practice

I recently attended a lecture as part of Black History Month facilitated by the University of Essex history department. The title was 'The War Babies of Black GIs and White British Women: racism, exclusion [...]

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Why I became an independent social worker

18/10/2022

Czeslaw Polakowski tells Clare Jerrom why he became an Independent Social Worker and how being bilingual is beneficial in his chosen profession.

While becoming an Independent Social Worker after working in a local authority for many years can appear daunting or risky, it is a decision that experienced social worker Czeslaw Polakowski is very happy [...]

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Children no longer know how to play post-COVID resulting in inappropriate behaviour at school

16/10/2022

Children’s inappropriate behaviour in schools is escalating in schools as young people no longer know how to play together, a headteacher has warned.

Paula Derwin, headteacher at Hazelmere Junior School in Colchester, said that following the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns where children spent months being taught at home and out of the school environment, [...]

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