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Jan 23, 2024 · Should the person refuse any action being taken, it would be helpful to reflect on this very important section from 39 Essex Chambers’ Mental Capacity Guidance Note: Assessment and Recording of Capacity: ‘… If you have proper reason to think that the person may lack capacity to take a relevant decision, especially if the consequence of what they are wanting to do is likely to lead to ...

Jan 8, 2025 · Agencies to be required to set up multi-agency child protection teams, under social care reform bill ‘Crackdown on excessive profits’ pledged as government unveils children’s social care reforms Government to legislate to tackle ‘profiteering’ in children’s social care, says minister Number of children’s homes up 44% since 2020 as fostering sector shrinks

Apr 11, 2024 · Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary.. More than 20 years after delivering his report into the death of Victoria Climbié, there is still a quiet sadness about Lord Herbert Laming at the mention of her name.

In August 2007, 17-month-old Peter Connelly was found dead in his cot after months of cruelty from those who were meant to care for him most. His mother Tracey, her boyfriend Steven Barker, and his brother, Jason Owen, were convicted of “causing or allowing” his death.

May 21, 2024 · MacAlister’s 2022 Independent Review of Children’s Social Care was the first review of children’s social care since Munro’s.. It has also led to the most significant reforms the sector has seen in years, through the DfE’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy, which is currently being implemented.. Yet, while being sympathetic to the process of conducting a review, Munro doesn’t ...

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Sep 20, 2010 · An article exploring the role of social workers in a UK context. In 2009, concerned that existing definitions of social work were difficult for the profession and the public to engage with, the government-appointed Social Work Taskforce issued a public description of social work, which was designed to improve public understanding of the profession: ...

Sep 12, 2023 · There is increasing understanding that traumatic events can seriously impact individuals’ psychological and physical health and wellbeing. Being trauma-informed means understanding that those in most need of services may also be the hardest to reach and least likely to engage effectively with services.

Aug 14, 2024 · Reflective practice is more myth than reality? No? This was the view of Schon in 1986 and the forms of words used or ‘thought-forms’ (Laske) to describe what’s written more accurately are missing in the references cited; is the desire to fill the emptiness or void a proof that social work has a formulation of what reflection, is, and …