A review of the care system which was launched last year and has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation, is now calling for the views of family members whose children have experienced social care or care proceedings.
The review, also known as the Care Crisis Review, is a response to the ever growing number of children finding themselves inside the care system, which is now at its highest level since 1985.
Child welfare participants include the president of the Family Division, Sir James Munby; the chief executive of Cafcass, Anthony Douglas; the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), Alison Michalska; the children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield; and a selection of academics, directors of children’s services and policy advisers.
The review, which has been organised by Family Rights Group, now includes a survey for families, which you can access here.
There is also a survey for child welfare professionals, for individuals working in legal, social work and other sectors which involve themselves in child protection.
You can also access a summary of the review, here.
Legal Action For Women has also submitted its own evidence to the review, which you can see here.
Please do share the surveys with anyone who you feel might be interested.
The deadline for completing the surveys is Sunday 11 February 2018 (at midnight).
Researching Reform 
Forget the rights and wrongs for a moment.What is the most costly and illogical course of action that our Social services pursue?
Well when a pregnant mother flees the UK to have her baby in another more merciful country such as France,Ireland,Spain,or Italy the “SS” pursue her without mercy! “Never let a baby escape our clutches” seems to be their motto ! They are never content to leave the baby in the country in whch it was born for social services there to deal with ;Damn the expense of trips abroad luxury hôtels for pursuing UK social workers, and numerous costly court cases; the UK baby snatchers will pursue that baby to the ends of the earth ,or certainly to places such as Uganda,Trinidad,Canada,and Laos just to add one more forced adoption to their official “scorecards !
I do hope readers who are also taxpayers take note of how their money is spent !
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It seems we take one step forward only to take another back. All move so slowly with little benefit to children, and much frustration to parents, with the only winners being time and those who get paid by the minute.
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Achieving best outcomes for LAC: In a nutshell, OUTLAW undue influence and blind judicial rubber-stamping of untested opinion evidence. ie, ensure balances and checks required by due process in theory actually STOP social workers lies in practice!
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I have spoken to 100s of kids from care many living on the streets all they want is to be loved and wanted not told for years your family did not want you that was why you was in care, the bloody SS need investigating they are Britains 4th army to rule the Nation, and kids in care have many different social workers, OH yes the social workers are moved around so they are not available for comment on the child or the case, every kid i have spoken to said they lived in fear, wish i could face all MPs and Lords then they would know but it would fall on closed ears with more meetings and more millions of pounds because that is all kids are today money money money.
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WHERE THE MONEY GOES AND WHY THEY KEEP SNATCHING YOUR BABIES!
foster payments now £590+ per week per child!Most fosterers double this by taking in two children ! As advertised on the back of a bus….
Despite all these wonderful descriptions of overpaid foster carers, 10,000 children went “missing” from care, as you will see from the article below:
Joint Inquiry into Children Who Go Missing from Care
Extract (point 9):
In June 2012, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults and the APPG for Looked-after Children and Care Leavers published the report of their joint inquiry into children who go missing from care.
The report argued that the Government was under-reporting the number of children going missing from care. While the official figure for 2011 was 930, the report argues that, according to police data, an estimated 10,000 individual children went missing. The report cited that this high number was symptomatic of a care system which was far from being fit for purpose and in need of an urgent rethink.
nationalfosteringagency started by two social workers made profits of£10 million/year
———- STOP PRESS !The agency was sold for £130+million!
Some of the most vulnerable “looked after” children in the country are being failed by privately owned residential homes that are contracted to care for them, it has been claimed.
Undercover reporters secured jobs as care staff at residential homes in Shropshire run by the two largest commercial providers of care for looked-after children: Cambian Group, which runs more than 160 homes, and Keys Group, which runs close to 90.
Children’s homes fear closure in face of back pay for carers’ sleep time
In covert filming for an ITV documentary that airs tonight, they found evidence of understaffing, inadequate training, and an admission by Cambian employees that poorly performing homes are temporarily closed to avoid failing their Ofsted inspection. The documentary, Who Cares? Children’s Homes Undercover, also shows money being given to underage children to buy tobacco, goading and public humiliation of a teenage boy, and a physical intervention classified by a child protection expert as “restraint” which is played down and then recorded as a less serious form of intervention.
https://www.theguardian.com/amp/remote.html?1512677960104
A school in Shropshire run by Cambian for looked-after children attending its homes – recently rated by Ofsted as “good” – is also reported to be in chaos. One pupil repeatedly escapes on to a roof, and a member of staff admits on camera that “it’s awful. I don’t know why they even call it a school. They don’t do anything.”
Another employee says: “I don’t think they’re learning anything here.”
At the end of March this year, there were more than 8,000 children living in residential homes. Children are not placed in institutions except as a last resort, so it is likely that, for the majority of children in residential care, multiple foster placements will already have broken down as a result of their early childhood experiences of neglect and abuse.
Tanya Byron described a careworker publicly shaming a teenager in one episode as ‘everything you shouldn’t do’.
Tanya Byron described a careworker publicly shaming a teenager in one episode as ‘everything you shouldn’t do’. Photograph: Antonio Olmos for the Observer
These young people often have complex needs and may require urgent therapeutic support. However, child psychologist Professor Tanya Bryon, commenting on one episode where a care worker publicly shames a 13-year-old boy in a restaurant, questions the training and expertise shown, describing it as “an example of everything you shouldn’t do when working with vulnerable children”.
https://www.theguardian.com/amp/remote.html?1512677960104
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.
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if 10,000 kids go missing a year from care, i dont think so most maybe dead or sold
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I’m looking for a solicitor that will help me with discharge of care order
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Hi, if you’re happy to email me some details about your case (where you are based, some general details about your case), I can ask my network on Twitter if anyone can help. Please don’t reply here, if you would like me to ask who might be able to help, please email me at Sobk13 at gmail dot com. Natasha, Researching Reform.
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