Pride Month: How inclusive is your workplace?
To mark Pride Month, Clare Jerrom speaks to lawyers at Browne Jacobson, which have long been flying the flag for diversity and inclusion in the workplace and recently won the Diversity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year award at the 2021 British Legal Awards.
Browne Jacobson was praised for “doing rather than talking or [...]
LGBT+ History Month: The rights of social workers
Social workers should experience a working environment free from bullying, harassment, victimisation, and unlawful discrimination, the Social Work England’s policy on equality and diversity states.
The social work workplace should promote dignity and respect for all, where individual differences and the contributions of all staff are recognised and valued, the policy adds.
Furthermore, employees liable for [...]
Arthur Review: Learning from significant incidents is not shared effectively with workforce
There is insufficient social work capacity in Solihull’s Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub to effectively deal with presenting need, a joint inspection has found.
The Joint Targeted Area Inspection, carried out by Ofsted, Care Quality Commission and HMI Probation and HMI Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services, was ordered following the death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
Arthur’s step-mother Emma [...]
National Transfer Scheme becomes mandatory
The National Transfer Scheme for supporting unaccompanied asylum seeking children has become mandatory for all local authorities with children’s services.
We revealed back in November that the Home Office had announced plans to make the NTS was made temporarily mandatory to ensure unaccompanied asylum-seeking children receive the vital care they need.
But this week, [...]
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Children in care from BME backgrounds face ‘double whammy’ of disadvantage
Inequalities in the youth justice system regarding ethnic minority children and children in care has intensified with minoritised children in care likely to bear the brunt, according to research from Lancaster University.
Children in care who come from an ethnic minority background can experience a 'double whammy' of disadvantage when it comes to youth justice [...]
