SEN shake-up receives positive feedback
SEN shake-up receives positive feedback
Parents of children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) are largely positive about changes being introduced by the government to give them more choice over the services they use, a report has found.
Under the Children and Families Act 2014, from 1 September, children and young people with SEN, and their [...]
Social worker suspended after ‘flawed’ risk assessment of knife incident
Social worker suspended after ‘flawed’ risk assessment of knife incident
The HCPC suspends social worker who failed to call police when contacted by mother about knife-weilding daughter.
A social worker who made a “flawed” risk assessment of a situation where a daughter attacked her mother with a knife has been suspended from practice.
The decision [...]
New civil prevention orders could improve child safeguarding practice
New civil prevention orders could improve child safeguarding practice
Councils and Local Safeguarding Children Boards described as best places to enforce new and improved civil prevention orders.
Councils have been urged to establish new arrangements between family courts and police to better protect children from sexual harm.
In a research article published by respected journal [...]
Gyimah handed role to strengthen children's mental health services
Gyimah handed role to strengthen children's mental health services
Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has been handed responsibility for strengthening Department for Education links with child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
Liaising with CAMHS teams was previously an unofficial element of children's minister Edward Timpson’s role, as part of his remit covering special educational needs and adoption.
Former [...]
Do social workers understand probation and youth offending roles?
Do social workers understand probation and youth offending roles?
Inspection found children's social workers do not recognise the child safeguarding expertise that probation staff possess.
Children’s social workers do not properly understand the role of probation trusts and youth offending teams when it comes to child safeguarding, an inspection has found.
The joint inspection, carried out [...]
Family system 'woefully behind' in treatment of vulnerable
Family system 'woefully behind' in treatment of vulnerable
Family judges are to receive guidance on dealing more appropriately with children and other vulnerable witnesses.
The interim report of a working group set up by Sir James Munby, head of the Family Division, says the family system ‘lags woefully behind’ the criminal justice system in this regard.
The group, lead [...]
