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BASW raises concerns over age assessments for UASC

27/10/2021
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

Age assessments of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children must be carried out by social workers and draw on a multi-agency approach, the professional association for social workers has warned.

The Nationality and Borders Bill, which lays out a raft of legislative measures to change the processes for migrants and asylum seekers in the UK, is currently in [...]

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Specialist assessments of parents with a learning disability

21/10/2021
Est. Reading: 4 minutes

PAMS assessments have been synonymous with specialist parent assessments for adults with learning disabilities since shortly after the assessment framework was established in 1998.

PAMS stands for ‘Parent Assessment Manual Software’ and since its introduction it has been used by social workers and independent experts to assess parents when there are child protection concerns. The [...]

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Care figures

Soaring cases in family courts following lockdowns

20/10/2021
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

There has been a rise in the number of cases starting in the family courts as there were 66,357 new cases in April to June 2021, up 14% on the same quarter in 2020, according to Ministry of Justice figures.

The increase was due to rises in most case types: financial remedy (76%), private law [...]

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'Many of the parents with learning disabilities told me how fearful they were of the assessment process'

20/10/2021
Est. Reading: 12 minutes

Sarah Lowe, founder of ParentAssess, explains why she set up the framework.

While it is commonplace to complain about the constraints within which we work, the timescales we have to adhere to, the frameworks we have to use, very few of us, when challenged with the ‘Well why don’t you do something about it?’ actually do [...]

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Blame culture results in risk aversion in social work

19/10/2021
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

A blame culture in social work impacts on risk aversion in the social work profession, some respondents to The Case for Change have warned.

Publishing the Case for Change in June, chair of the independent review of children’s social care Josh MacAlister said: “This Case for Change sets out the urgent need for a new approach [...]

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Teacher and student

Schools dealing with social work issues during COVID pandemic

15/10/2021
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

Schools were forced to step in to support vulnerable families during the COVID-19 pandemic for many issues that were previously dealt with by social workers, research has found.

Schools found themselves helping vulnerable families with problems such as mental health problems, domestic abuse and poverty during the pandemic as more families were turning to schools [...]

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