极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Should parents have a right to advocacy during child protection cases?

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Alec Fraher

Alec Fraher — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:05:56 +0000

There’s some way to go in the UK Andy.

Get this!

You-Turn UK, Voice North East, Hope North East are but a small number of parents’ advocacy CIC’s that have been set up and, then, rather cruelly closed down. AND by the professionals too uncomfortable with tipping the power away from themselves.

The hostility was mind boggling actually with the threats against professionalism treated as being subversive and countered by adverts and in, then, PSW.

This said number of ex-teachers now working in Advocacy Services is a tell-sign that the power balance is structurally out of whack.

That ‘advocacy’ is being removed from the bread and butter of Social Work equally worrying but I am not convinced that such initiatives will be undertaken with the rigours needed to ensure anything more meaningful than an appearance of doing something. For example, what will the information sharing rights be?

Thoughts …

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Andy Bilson

Andy Bilson — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:47:46 +0000

The experience in New York is that, when parents have advocacy from a trained parent with experience of the child protection system, less children enter and stay in care and parents are more able to engage with the system. There’s a review of the research at https://bettercarenetwork.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/BCN_Parent_Advocacy_In_Child_Welfare.pdf

It’s great that the majority of social workers recognise the need for advocacy.

I’m a little saddened that there’s a belief that there is competition in rights.

For the child’s rights within the Convention on the Rights of the Child to be upheld there is a requirement for effective participation by both parents and the child. It is then the job of the child protection conference to weigh up contributions by all parties and make a decision in the best interests of the child. Where the system does not help parents and children to effectively participate it cannot make the best judgements about the child’s best interests.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Alec Fraher

Alec Fraher — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:21:50 +0000

s20 accommodation of adopted children is, perhaps, one of the toughest ~ it’s genuinely heart breaking territory and with no easy ways through the disruptions; the idea that the State can and should be approached for help becomes test-bed of the integrity and veracity of the system as a whole ~ increasing adversarial advocacy may not be helpful if weighed across the life-span of the child.

Advocacy, as a concept and practice, requires closer attention if it’s going to achieve lasting positive outcomes ~ if there’s a case for socio-legal representation then say this ie what are the issues about (i) ‘legitimate expectations’ (ii) ‘rights to be heard’, (iii) issues of ‘reasonableness and rationality’ and (iv) administrative fairness …

More thought needed, no?