Stand Up, Speak Out: 50 Years of Pride
Guest Blog: By Lily Hopkins
In life, it’s not always easy to share difficult life experiences, not only because of the feelings that this can evoke, but because people worry about how they will be perceived. I never thought I would be someone to write a guest blog but if it can create even the smallest [...]
Pride Month: How adoption and fostering has evolved for prospective applicants from the LGBT+ community
Interview with Satwinder Sandhu, a fostering and adoption expert.
Satwinder SandhuIt has been both ‘energising and exciting’ gaining equal opportunity for prospective foster carers and adopters from the LGBT+ community, says Satwinder Sandhu, a fostering and adoption expert social worker.
While acknowledging that prejudice still exists towards people from the LGBT+ community, Satwinder says that seeing [...]
Ofsted and CQC launch consultation on SEND
A consultation setting out proposals for a new joint framework for inspecting provision for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) within a local area has been launched by Ofsted and The Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The new inspections will be introduced in early 2023 and the new framework will focus [...]
Children’s commissioner sets 100% attendance target saying education and care system is not working for every child
With one in four children being persistently absent last term, the education and care system is not working for every child in England, the children’s commissioner has warned.
Rachel de Souza said that while some parents choose to educate their children from home for philosophical reasons and because they have the ability and resource to [...]
Social workers meet families for first time at crisis point due to lack of early intervention
Social workers are frequently meeting families for the first time at crisis point, a survey by UNISON has found.
Social workers who took part in the survey carried out by the public sector union repeatedly said their first point of contact with families was often only at crisis point because they have no time for [...]
Campaigners concerned over Safeguarding Panel’s refusal to publish details of 48 serious incidents involving children in care
Campaigners have expressed their dismay at the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s decision not to publish a report which analysed 48 separate incidents where children in care died or were seriously harmed.
Annie Hudson, Panel chairA coalition of organisations led by Article 39 requested the report to be made public in order to “collectively learn [...]
