Family courts president calls for innovative ways to manage surge of care applications
New, innovative and better ways to handle the increasing number of care applications should be sought, according to the president of the family courts division.
Sir James Munby has outlined that as there is unlikely to be an increasing set of resources to draw from, new innovative ways of handling the surge in care applications should [...]
Funding announced for perinatal mental health care for mothers
NHS England has launched a £5m Perinatal Community Services Development Fund to help close a gap in the availability of high quality care for women with severe or complex mental health problems after giving birth.
The new programme will help an extra 30,000 new or expectant mums each year who experience serious mental ill health by [...]
85% of local children’s mental health plans need improvement
Analysis shows that recruitment, funding and commissioning are key obstacles to delivering the Future in Mind vision
Eighty five per cent of local children’s mental health plans require some or substantial improvement, according to an analysis of the first year of the Future in Mind programme by the Education Policy Institute's Mental Health [...]
ADCS vice chair warns against independent trusts running children’s services
Alison Michalska says there is little evidence that independent trusts can improve outcomes for children.
Removing children’s services from direct control of local authorities can cause them to lose their identity, the vice chair of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said.
Alison Michalska highlighted that ‘Putting Children First’ sets out [...]
Race discrimination evident in criminal justice system, commission finds
Race inequality remains far-reaching and entrenched in 21st century Britain with unfairness present in many areas of our society, a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has found.
The review into race inequality in Great Britain looks across every area of people’s lives including education, employment, housing, pay and living standards, health, criminal justice, [...]
New chair of Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry is announced
The Home Secretary has revealed the new chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse following the resignation of Dame Lowell Goddard this month.
Dame Goddard announced her resignation saying that when she was approached to chair the inquiry, she knew it was a “difficult step to take” as it meant relinquishing her career in [...]
