Tag Archives | family courts

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Adults, Children

‘Substituted parenting’ risk used to justify removing children without evidence base, finds study

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Children, Workforce

Cafcass pay deal subject to 5% government ceiling

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: regulation of care leaver accommodation and legal action over children in hotels

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Senior practitioner loses bid to keep court judgment that he abused ex-partner from Social Work England

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Children, Social work leaders

Multiple and complex needs found in backgrounds of children deprived of liberty

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Children, Social work leaders

Children are in ‘extreme crisis’: top judge berates DfE’s six-year failure to tackle ‘gross’ lack of secure units

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Cafcass ‘imposes’ 2.5% pay deal on staff without agreement, say unions

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Children, Workforce

Cafcass staff overwhelmingly reject 2.5% pay offer but government says no scope for improved deal

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Children, Social work leaders

Target needed to cut length of care proceedings with durations far in excess of 26-week legal limit – peers

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Children, Social work leaders

Supervision orders face overhaul to improve effectiveness in supporting family reunification

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Children, Workforce

Cafcass staff offered ‘insulting’ 2.5% pay rise with inflation at 11%

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Cafcass staff may be balloted on industrial action amid absence of pay offer, says union boss

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Children, Social work leaders

Almost 250 deprivation of liberty applications for children in first two months of national DoLs court

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Children, Social work leaders

National DoLs court launched to handle children’s deprivation of liberty cases

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Children, Workforce

Cafcass ‘in serious jeopardy’ regarding social work staffing due to pay constraints

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Children

TV investigation aims to highlight trauma faced by families from wrongful child protection action

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