This House of Commons Library briefing paper provides an overview of the key challenges currently facing local authority children’s social care services in England, including: increasing demand for children’s social care; funding pressures; poor and inadequate services in some areas; workforce challenges; and poor outcomes for children in need.
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Inequalities in the proportions of children from different ethnic groups in the care system must be urgently investigated to ensure services are socially just and fit for purpose and resources are used effectively, academics have said.
A judge called the young people's secure accommodation system a 'distorted sellers' market' after no placement could be found for a mentally ill teenager.
Brigid Featherstone and Amanda Boorman talk about their experiences of respite support and how it might be used to support birth families before a child is removed
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Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (May 3, 2018): No Pagination Specified.
Objective: Caring for children in foster or adoptive care with behavioral health needs can severely stress parents, contributing to adverse outcomes for children and families. Trauma-informed services from the child welfare and mental health sectors may help prevent poor outcomes by helping children and parents identify and understand trauma and its impact on children’s behavioral health and receive effective treatment. To help understand the role of trauma-informed services for the child welfare population, we examined whether trauma-informed child welfare and mental health services moderated the relationship between children’s behavioral health needs and parent satisfaction and commitment.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
This House of Commons Library briefing paper considers ongoing Government consultations and forthcoming policy changes related to social care and child support. It provides summary information, including the original rationale for the consultation, the original date and revised date, and the latest position; for some topics, links to separate Library briefing papers providing further information are included.
Perplexing medical presentations encompass many situations encountered by paediatricians, where a child is reported to have symptoms or disabilities that impact significantly on their everyday functioning, and yet thorough medical evaluation has not revealed an adequate and realistic medical explanation. Unlike in other medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), the parent(s) are reluctant to support a rehabilitative approach to the child and insist on continued investigations. The clinicians dealing with the child are, in addition, alert to the possibility that there may be an unusual and potentially harmful parent-child interaction that is causing or perpetuating the presentation.1 If any of the professionals involved with the child becomes concerned that the child may be suffering (or at risk of) significant harm, and if that concern cannot be quickly and easily resolved, then under current safeguarding procedures a referral should be made to Children’s Social Care. These will be managed under existing fabricated or induced illness (FII) guidelines and procedures...... To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Section 2 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017 requires each local authority to consult on and publish a local offer for its care leavers. This guidance provides information for local authorities on the development of the local offer and an illustrative local offer.
Editorial. The article by Al-Jilaihawi and colleagues1 is an important reminder of the scale of child sexual abuse (CSA), both acute and non-acute. As paediatricians, our understanding and clinical management of ‘historic’ child sexual abuse leave much to be desired. The authors identified clinical characteristics of children and young people presenting with a suspicion or allegation of historic CSA, which they define as ‘within 7 days of the last episode of sexual assault in pubertal girls, or within 3 days for prepubertal girls and boys of all ages’. This definition appears to be based on the timing of forensic samples after the last sexual act. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
A new method of inspecting local authority children’s services will begin in January next year, Ofsted confirmed today [29 November 2017].
Inspections of local authority children’s services (ILACS) will look at how well local authorities are supporting and protecting vulnerable children in their area. The new approach is more proportionate, risk-based and flexible than before, allowing Ofsted to prioritise inspection where it is most needed.