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Education Committee: Foster Care Is All About The Money.

30 Saturday Dec 2017

Posted by Natasha in child welfare, Researching Reform, social services, social work

≈ 18 Comments

A new report published by the The Education Committee, confirms that an alarming number of foster placements are made for financial reasons rather than the best interests of children in care.

Crucially, the report recommends increasing levels of funding for the sector, but offers no evidence that this will improve services and support for children, and does not properly address poor management processes or lack of best practice which are arguably more important than extra funding.

The report also makes other suggestions, which include ways in which to address issues facing foster carers. It also offers solutions to help make the fostering sector more responsive to young people’s needs and stresses the importance of early intervention to help keep families together wherever possible.

Key Recommendations For Children:

  • Allowing children who wish to remain with their foster carers up to the age of 18, to do so under the Staying Put policy
  • Enabling young people who want to live independently of their foster carers but retain contact, to be able to do so
  • Preventing placement breakdowns through better social work practices, and support for carers
  • Giving accurate and relevant information to foster carers and young people prior to the commencement of a placement, and sufficient notice in advance of a placement change;)
  • Placing young people with their siblings whenever it is possible and appropriate to do so, and facilitating regular and meaningful contact when it is not;
  • Ensuring that policies for listening to and engaging with children and young people are being followed in meaningful ways;
  • Keeping young people informed about decisions and developments regarding their care;
  • Providing young people with advocacy services, and explaining their role and availability

Key Recommendations For Foster Carers:

  • Ensure that all foster carers are paid at least the national minimum allowance;
  • Consult on national minimum allowance levels, to investigate the level of funding needed to match rises in living costs and allow carers to meet the needs of those they are caring for;
  • Review and update current taxation rules for foster carers;
  • Review foster carers’ self employed status
  • Foster carers should be treated as the experts in relation to the child they are caring for, and should be treated with respect
  • Better, and ongoing training for foster carers
  •  Launch a government consultation for the potential creation of a national college for foster carers

Key Recommendations For The Fostering Sector:

  • Capacity in the foster care system must be increased. There must be a range of placements options for young people requiring foster care so that they can be assured of the best and most appropriate home;
  • Greater support for children and families before they reach crisis point and need to enter the care system, so that, where possible and appropriate to do so, they are enabled to stay together;
  • Establish a national recruitment and awareness campaign for foster carers in order to find carers in areas which need them the most, and who represent a more diverse range of religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, as well as carers who have a background in specific child welfare skills;
  • The Government must provide local authorities with the resources they need to ensure financial concerns do not take precedence over the needs of the child
  • Double the funding for the government’s Innovation Programme
  • Better guidelines for councils on intervention and family support

The report’s summary offers a helpful breakdown of what the Committee feels are necessary changes the fostering sector needs to make. However, it is the written submissions which make for the most interesting reading.

Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Lamb raises some very serious legal concerns in his submission:

  1. Fostering services are failing to comply with their legal requirement to provide support to and encourage participation in Foster Care Associations (FCAs), preventing FCAs from operating effectively.
  2. Too many children are removed unnecessarily from their established foster placements – often without warning, preparation or consultation, or any substantial evidence of harm or likelihood of harm. This lack of placement stability can have a damaging long-term impact on children’s health and wellbeing, educational achievement, and employment potential.
  3. Foster carers continue to suffer a lack of statutory protection if they blow the whistle on policies or actions that represent a danger of harm to looked-after children, despite calls from experts for the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA) to be amended to cover foster carers.
  4. When a child is removed in response to an allegation, complaint or concern, the foster carer is denied the right to a fair hearing. The unsatisfactory manner in which allegations are investigated is a critical difficulty in recruiting and retaining foster carers.
  5. In Norfolk, a cap on funding for the placement of 18-year olds under the ‘Staying Put’ means that ‘Level 5’ foster carers who, because of their specialist knowledge and experience, receive the highest pay rates for their skills, have to take a substantial reduction in payments if the young person stays beyond their 18th birthday. Young people wishing to remain with their ‘Level 5’ carers are consequently discriminated against solely because of their foster carer’s status.
  6. Fostering is the only profession where the license to practice is completely controlled by the Fostering Provider, rather than a central independent body. This can contribute to an expensive and lengthy recruitment, assessment, training, approval, and supervision process, if a foster carer moves to another part of the country. In Norfolk a significant number of foster carers are currently without any placements. This may be replicated elsewhere. A central register would assist in matching foster carers to children.
  7. Foster carers are coming under increasing pressure from local authorities to take out a Special Guardianship Order, which grants the holder parental responsibility over a child until they reach the age of 18. In some cases, local authorities have even threatened to remove children from foster carers if they did not apply to become special guardians. But foster carers are not trained in the implications of such orders and should have access to independent legal advice.

 

Toni Robinson, a foster carer, describes how social services removed a baby in his family’s care without following proper processes:

“An allegation was made about the baby we had in care, the social workers who had never even met the baby made the decision with their line manager to remove the baby from our care….

I was not told that they were following any type of policy or even that there would be any type of investigation. If social services were following a section 47 there are very strict guidelines that need following before any removal take place- none of [these] requirements were considered or followed…

[The council does] not work in an open and transparent way… it was incredibly difficult to obtain any policies and procedures they follow. Instead they dismiss and become aggressive to anyone who questions the [appropriateness] of their decision making or how they do their job…

I had a number of very unprofessional… emails sent from the Interim Head of Children’s Services…. as soon as I started to do my own research into the law and policies and started to ask for the relevant information the LA became incredibly [defensive] and basically dismissed my requests and started to make their own demands.”

 

Another submission from Susan and Peter Adams, who have been foster carers for 40 years, highlights how the voice of the child is completely ignored in the care sector:

“Social workers too often make and implement decisions without consultation or due regard for the views of the children or their carers. Children are often moved when carers ask for help. Children are moved from Agency carers back into Local Authority care for financial reasons – not for the good of the child…. 

When children are being moved against the wishes of the child and the Carers, the Carers are effectively “gagged”. They are warned not to object or cause a fuss or they may lose other children in placement or will never be offered future placements.

Those Foster Carers who have given up other work to concentrate on fostering dare not disagree, because fostering is their sole income, so objections are suppressed. The determination to prevent Carers from fighting to keep a child can become quite sinister [which we have experienced personally.]..

Foster children who do not want to move are not invited to meetings to express their views and Carers are warned not to get them Advocates and even when they have Advocates, social services prevent their involvement, despite the children’s right to such representation. 

A current Director for Adults’ and Children’s Services stated that it is the child’s responsibility to invite an Advocate to a meeting! Not true of course, but if this is the view of the Director, it is no surprise social workers and reviewing officers do not follow procedure and invite the Advocate, especially if his/her involvement may hinder the social worker’s intended outcome…

The whole area of Foster Care and Care provision needs regulating and monitoring effectively and with transparency. There is considerable duplication of roles in the workings of the Local Authorities and Independent providers…

The requirement to consider the wishes of the child is not necessarily adhered to, especially if the child is likely to object to a move. Many do not have representation from an Advocate because they don’t know their entitlement and Advocates have been unable to perform their function, either by being denied access to the child or not being invited to meetings. We have personal experience of this happening…

Mental health is another problematic area for Carers and foster children. Little regard is paid to separation issues, the effects of abuse and the trauma that Looked After Children suffer to their emotional well being…

Young people in children’s homes are left to wander the streets…

A social work manager expressed surprise that we “cared” for a child who had been part of the family for 8 years.

Looked after children are regarded by carers as children with problems, our experience has demonstrated that Social services and Education departments regard them as “problem children”. This perception makes an enormous difference to the way children are treated.”

 

And here are some selected quotes from other submissions:

“I see every day how Foster Carers are undermined, by passed and treated as glorified baby sitters by Social Workers, teachers, virtual heads and so on, what a shame this reliable and incredible resource of sound knowledge and understanding of these children is so often overlooked, sometimes resulting in the un-necessary break down of placements costing thousands in more misery to unsuspecting young children and great financial loss to the local authority.”

“There appears to be no body which is willing or able to hold Local Authorities to account except the courts. As we had won our case, we were unable to apply for Judicial Review. LAs can ignore their statutory duties and ignore complaints as independent review of complaints can only be triggered through the LA itself. There seems to be little point making new legislation, primary or secondary if it is so easily ignored without consequence to those ignoring it.”

“I object to the term “foster care market.” These are children, often damaged or traumatised, and it should be a carefully managed and supported system.”

Another report on the foster care sector is due to be published in the new year. The National Fostering Stocktake consultation looks at the current state of foster care in England and Wales.

Very many thanks to Maggie Tuttle for alerting us to the Committee report.

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Merry Christmas!

22 Friday Dec 2017

Posted by Natasha in Researching Reform

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2017 was a busy year for child welfare. From consultations, to cabinet reshuffles and in depth media coverage of child protection tragedies, the UK has become more concerned with children than ever.

As always, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for following Researching Reform. A diverse and unique collective, some of our readers are activists, who have been championing the voice of the child for a long time. Many are stakeholders in parliament, child protection organisations, law firms and government bodies working with children. Most importantly, you are also families, parents, children, relatives and individuals who have experienced the family justice system first hand. We value all of your thoughts and comments, and we are deeply grateful for your continued support and engagement.

Researching Reform does not stand alone. With your help, we continue to break important child rights stories, push the government to respond to its failings regarding children and mount campaigns to improve the lives of young people in Britain. It is something we say often, but we could not provide the information we do without your generosity of spirit.

We wish you all a wonderful Christmas, and festive season, and hope that 2018 will bring you good health, adventure and much success.

With love,

Researching Reform

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The Buzz

20 Wednesday Dec 2017

Posted by Natasha in Researching Reform, The Buzz

≈ 4 Comments

The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

  • Met police want to use AI to spot child abuse images ‘within two to three years’ (but it keeps mistaking desert photos for porn)
  • Child Abuse Allegations Up By 31%
  • Child abuse and neglect investigations surge by 60% over 10 years as services reach ‘tipping point’

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Russia’s New Paedophile Law – Question It

18 Monday Dec 2017

Posted by Natasha in Question It, Researching Reform

≈ 8 Comments

Welcome to another week.

Russia’s Supreme Court has approved a bill which will make life sentences mandatory for anyone found guilty of sexually abusing a child under the age of 12. 

The bill also features several other ground breaking measures including:

  • The removal of any statute of limitations for sex crimes against children, making convictions for those guilty, regardless of when the abuse was committed, inevitable.
  • Classifying the sexual harassment of minors perpetrated by people living with them as well as by those in positions of power, as an especially serious crime.

Our question this week then, is just this: should England and Wales introduce a similar bill?

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ITV Exposé – Undercover: Our Kids In Care

16 Saturday Dec 2017

Posted by Natasha in child welfare, Researching Reform

≈ 21 Comments

On Wednesday 13th December, ITV aired a controversial documentary investigating Britain’s privately run children’s homes.

The programme, presented by child psychologist Professor Tanya Byron, looks at the vast amounts of money exchanging hands in these homes and tries to ascertain whether these sums are effectively used to provide children with the love and attention they should be receiving. The undercover investigation ran for a year.

An article in the Guardian offers a good summary of the programme. The piece explains that undercover reporters found serious failings, including evidence of understaffing, inadequate training, and closure of homes before Ofsted inspections were due, to avoid failing the checks.

The documentary also highlights dangerous social work practices and routine emotional and physical abuse of children inside the homes. The Guardian piece also tells us:

“Residential care does not come cheap. The filmmakers confirmed with Cambian Group that one home that employed their undercover reporter charges £4,800 a week. A Keys home that features in the film charged a council £5,100 a week. Meanwhile, care staff are told to keep to tight budgets: one worker quoted £5 a day per child for food. At a Cambian home, the budget per child was said to be £45 for activities, with £50 for meals. The two reporters employed by Keys and Cambian were paid £7.20 per hour and £16,500 a year respectively.”

Whilst this is happening, private equity firms are making large fortunes from failing care homes.  It’s not a coincidence that children in these homes are being short changed, both emotionally and financially.

Child rights campaigner, Jane Doe watched the documentary when it aired:

“I’m just shocked and saddened at how much these homes are paid per child, compared to what the child actually gets. It’s £5,000 a week per child – but each child gets only £119 for basic food, not even therapy or support of any kind. It made me cry.”

At what point is the government going to intervene to stop these practices? It really is time.

You can catch the programme over on ITV’s Hub.

Very many thanks to Jane for alerting us to this documentary.

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Important Child Welfare Stories

15 Friday Dec 2017

Posted by Natasha in child welfare, Researching Reform

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Several important developments have taken place over the last 24 hours, so we’re adding a summary for you:

Australia’s Royal Commission Into Nationwide Child Abuse Comes To An End

A landmark moment in Australia’s history, and for victims of child sexual abuse in the country, as its five year investigation into child abuse draws to a close. As you might imagine, serious failings were highlighted in the Commission’s report. Here are the key messages being featured by the media:

  • Messages from survivors
  • Child sex abuse royal commission final report calls for national strategy
  • Inquiry calls on Catholic Church to stop celibacy demand for priests
  • Australia failed children, abuse a ‘national tragedy’
  • Catholic church dismisses key recommendations from Australian inquiry

Report Urges Greater Scrutiny And Accountability Of Local Authorities

A Committee report has been published today, which urges the government to put proper review and scrutiny procedures in place for local authorities in England and Wales. This has important implications for the child protection services councils offer, and the way in which they deal with complaints about those services, which is notoriously poor.

This is what Clive Betts, Chair of the Communities and Local Government Committee, had to say:

“Scrutiny is marginalised at too many local authorities, which in extreme cases can contribute to severe service failures, letting down council taxpayers and those that rely on services.

Scrutiny of those in power is a vital part of any democratic system and has huge benefits for all. We are calling on the Government to strengthen guidance to make overview and scrutiny committees truly independent of those they are charged with holding to account and to make sure the process is properly funded and respected.

Only by rebalancing the system and ensuring scrutiny is held in high esteem will we see better decisions and the outcomes that residents who pay for council services deserve.”

Useful links:

  • The report in full
  • Conclusions and recommendations
  • Summary

Ministry of Justice And Department Of Education, ‘Cause For Concern’

And finally, another report, this time produced by The Procedure Committee, has highlighted The Department Of Education and The Ministry Of Justice as poorly performing government bodies when it comes to their response rates to Parliamentary Questions. Those of you following these questions in the House will be aware that most of the time, these bodies just can’t answer the questions put before them in good time. And part of that it is to do with their inability to keep basic data.

Chair of the Procedure Committee, Mr Charles Walker OBE MP’s observations:

“The role of Parliamentary questions in the scrutiny of Government policies cannot be overstated, so it is disappointing that some departments continue to provide an unacceptably high number of late answers.

If these departments do not improve this session then our committee looks forward to the Ministers responsible providing an explanation and presenting a clear action plan to ensure improvements.

I am encouraged to see that some departments that have previously had poor response rates have improved their performance in response to the Committee’s scrutiny.

While the timeliness of responses is of importance to Members, the quality of those answers is just as vital. The Committee will be launching an exercise to monitor the quality of answers provided by departments, and we look forward to receiving the views of Members from across the House.”

Have a great weekend.

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The Buzz

14 Thursday Dec 2017

Posted by Natasha in Researching Reform

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The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:

  • Thousands of children ‘put in harm’s way by public institutions'(England)
  • Sexual abuse of children still continuing in institutions, royal commission head warns (Australia)
  • Child welfare agency failed to detect or report hundreds of injuries to children in its care. (US)

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New Video Bullies Parents Into Complying With Child Protection Professionals

13 Wednesday Dec 2017

Posted by Natasha in Researching Reform, social work

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A new video produced by charity Just For Kids Law, under the pretext that it is trying to support parents going through child protection proceedings is thinly veiled propaganda which includes dangerous child protection advice.

The video, which is just under three minutes long, follows a young girl who was once in care and who now finds herself going through child protection proceedings after becoming pregnant. Whilst the animation is really nothing more than an advertisement for the charity’s legal services, it is the way in which it treats young parents that is so offensive – and so wide of the mark that it amounts to bullying.

Entitled, “If I Could Talk To Me”, the story approaches child protection proceedings as if the mother whose case we’re watching has gone back in time to advise her younger self to do things differently. Right from the start, the assumption that’s being made is that this young mother has been difficult, or obstructive, or, god forbid, independent minded in her view of the proceedings.

It’s not a great start.

And using the woman’s older self to sell the ideas in this video is a manipulative tactic designed to give young parents the impression that they would give themselves this advice, and that they should therefore trust what’s being said – after all, ‘they’ are saying it.

As the story progresses, there are vague nods to the prejudices and assumptions child protection professionals may make that will lead to the young mother in the video being stigmatised – and unfairly treated – but these issues are brushed over and the young mum is asked to accept all of those injustices – and potential human rights breaches – as a matter of course. It’s a deeply disturbing three minutes of viewing.

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The video is also filled with dishonest rhetoric. At one point the young mum’s older self tells her, “It’s the process that makes it so hard – not the people.” We know that’s not true. There is an extensive track record today, of child protection professionals making the process unbelievably hard for parents, through all the prejudices the video makes references to – whether it’s assuming a mother or father is unfit to parent because they’ve been in care (how can this starting point ever be allowed in best practice?) or because they’ve been in an abusive relationship. Assumptions are dangerous, and this video unfortunately plays on care leavers’ worst fears, too.

At one point, the mum’s older self asks her not to take “the most personal thing in the world personally.” She is referring to child protection proceedings and the deeply invasive way they work. It’s a ridiculous request, and one which turns the clock back on new and progressive research which shows quite clearly that these processes don’t work if the emotional elements are ignored. Asking young, potentially vulnerable parents to shoulder all of the harsh realities of the system is a disgrace, and should never be part of child protection practice.

Another sentiment made during the film, which is narrated by the young mum’s older self, is that she will be “judged for things in her past that were never her fault.” Another, terrible reality of the system, which here is being openly acknowledged and accepted as the norm. It beggars belief.

It’s with enormous sadness that we write this post. Researching Reform has for a long while, been a passionate advocate of Just For Kids, but we no longer feel that way.

Watch the video for yourself and tell us what you think. Have we been unfair? Is it more balanced than we’ve given it credit for? Let us know.

 

 

 

 

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Mandatory Reporting Of Child Abuse Becomes Law In Ireland

12 Tuesday Dec 2017

Posted by Natasha in child abuse, Researching Reform

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While England is still twiddling its thumbs over whether or not to make reporting concerns about child abuse a legal duty, Ireland has gone ahead and done it. 

The new law means that professionals in Ireland who work with children, including teachers, doctors, nurses and police will be required to report any suspicions of child abuse they have to the Child and Family Agency.

Whilst Ireland’s social workers are panicking about a potential reporting floodgate being opened, which they fear might overwhelm the system, the current research on mandatory reporting offers reassurance. To date, there has been little to no evidence of a mandatory duty to report significantly weighing down child protection systems.

Children’s charity Barnardo’s welcomed the move, and Ireland’s Republican Party Fianna Fáil went one step further, calling for the extension of mandatory reporting to cover suspicions of abuse relating to adults with disabilities.

Ministers, what are you waiting for – and when are you going to publish the findings from our consultation on mandatory reporting, which was launched over a year ago?

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FGM In England – Question It!

11 Monday Dec 2017

Posted by Natasha in Question It, Researching Reform

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Welcome to another week.

New statistics released by NHS Digital on 5th December about the number of identified cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) suggest that whilst newly recorded cases of FGM have dropped slightly, the scale of cases identified is still cause for concern.

The research tells us that in the previous quarter, more than 1,060 cases in the UK were reported, including 20 cases where the procedure itself was undertaken.

Our question this week then, is just this: how can we further reduce the number of FGM cases?

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