• About
    • Privacy Policy
  • GSW
  • In Dad’s Shoes
    • An Overview
    • Invitation
    • Media
    • Photos
    • Press Release
    • Soft Launch
    • Speeches
    • Summary
  • Media Coverage
  • Parliamentary Debates
  • Voice of the Child Podcasts

Researching Reform

Researching Reform

Daily Archives: August 12, 2019

Survey for Parents and Relatives With Experience of the Scottish Care System

12 Monday Aug 2019

Posted by Natasha in Research, Researching Reform

≈ 2 Comments

A survey has been launched by Scotland’s Independent Care Review, which aims to get in-depth information on the care system from parents and other family members. 

The Scottish government’s review of its care system which began in 2017 is now into its third stage and looking for feedback from parents and relatives of children who are or have been in care.

The survey asks the following questions:

  1. Were you included in decisions being made about your child?

2. Did you receive reports and invitations voluntarily to meetings at least 7 days in advance?

3. Were you given an opportunity to share your views before and during key meetings?

4. Did you feel treated with respect and dignity by social workers and other professionals involved in the child protection case?

5. Did the child protection investigation lead to financial hardship?

6. Has the child protection investigation affected your ability to work or future career options?

On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being not at all, 10 being completely) how much did you feel you could trust the social worker working with your family?

Any further comments regarding your experiences?

For instance did the child protection investigation affect your feelings of self-worth?
Did the investigation affect your health?
Is there enough support for parents during such investigations?
What could be different?

Removal and Return

  1. Have your children been removed from your care?

2. How long has or was your child in care?

3. Were your children placed with a family member?

4. Have your children been separated from each other?

5. Were you given clear reasons for removal?

6. Please tick any of these official reasons for removal that were given (8 options are listed including abuse, risk of harm, poverty, poor engagement with social workers, medical reasons and violence).

7. Has your child been returned to your care?

8. Was there any support following the removal of your child?

9. Was there any support following the return of your child?

10. Has your child been adopted?

11. If your child was adopted do you have contact and if so what form does this take?

How well are social work services assisting contact between children and their families?

1. Do you have/ did you have contact with your ‘looked after child’?

 2. How frequent is/was this?

 3. Is/was contact meeting the needs of your child?

 4. Are/were contact facilities suitable for you and your child, e.g. premises, catering, travel to and from?

 5. Is/was your contact supervised?

 6. Did your contact change over time? Increase or decrease?

 7. Was contact cancelled regularly by the local authority or regularly disrupted?

8. Do you have ‘indirect contact’, that is not face-to-face? 

9. Does your child have contact with any siblings from whom they are separated?

 Any further comments regarding your experiences of contact? What would you change? What would you keep, or want more of?

Access to support during care proceedings 

1. Have you had legal advice and support?

2. Did you have legal advice and representation pre- removal proceedings (court)?

 3. Did you have legal advice and representation after removal proceedings (court) commenced? 

4. Do you feel you had adequate and effective legal support?

5. Have you had an independent supporter or advocate for you?

 6. Were they helpful?

7. Would you have benefited from such support earlier?

Any further comments regarding your experiences of support during care proceedings, or lack of it?

The next section is an invitation to tell us more if you wish.

Is there anything that we have forgotten or extra that you would like to tell us about your contact with social services?

You can complete the survey here. 

SCR

Share this:

  • WhatsApp
  • Pocket
  • Telegram
  • Share on Tumblr
  • Email
  • Print

Like this:

Like Loading...

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 7,954 other followers

Contact Researching Reform

Huff Post Contributer

For Litigants in Person

Child Welfare Debates

August 2019
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Jul   Sep »

Children In The Vine : Stories From The Family Justice System

Categories

  • Adoption
  • All Party Parliamentary Group on Family Law and The Court of Protection
  • Articles
  • Big Data
  • Bills
  • Case Study
  • child abuse
  • child abuse inquiry
  • child welfare
  • Children
  • Children In The Vine
  • Circumcision
  • Civil Partnerships
  • Consultation
  • Conversations With…
  • Corporal Punishment
  • CSA
  • CSE
  • Data Pack
  • Domestic Violence
  • Encyclopaedia on Family and The Law
  • event
  • Family Law
  • Family Law Cases
  • FGM
  • FOI
  • forced adoption
  • Foster Care
  • Fudge of the Week
  • Fultemian Project
  • Huffington Post
  • Human Rights
  • IGM
  • Inquiry
  • Interesting Things
  • Interview
  • Judge of the Week
  • Judges
  • judicial bias
  • Law to lust for
  • legal aid
  • LexisNexis Family Law
  • LIP Service
  • LIPs
  • Marriage
  • McKenzie Friends
  • MGM
  • News
  • Notes
  • petition
  • Picture of the Month
  • Podcast
  • Question It
  • Random Review
  • Real Live Interviews
  • Research
  • Researching Reform
  • social services
  • social work
  • Spotlight
  • Stats
  • Terrorism
  • The Buzz
  • The Times
  • Troubled Families Programme
  • Twitter Conversations
  • Update
  • Voice of the Child
  • Voice of the Child Podcast
  • Westminster Debate
  • Who's Who Cabinet Ministers
  • Your Story

Recommended

  • Blawg Review
  • BlogCatalog
  • DaddyNatal
  • DadsHouse
  • Divorce Survivor
  • Enough Abuse UK
  • Family Law Week
  • Family Lore
  • Flawbord
  • GeekLawyer's Blog
  • Head of Legal
  • Just for Kids Law
  • Kensington Mums
  • Law Diva
  • Legal Aid Barristers
  • Lib Dem Lords
  • Lords of The Blog
  • Overlawyered
  • PAIN
  • Paul Bernal's Blog
  • Public Law Guide
  • Pupillage Blog
  • Real Lawyers Have Blogs
  • Story of Mum
  • Sue Atkins, BBC Parenting Coach
  • The Barrister Blog
  • The Magistrate's Blog
  • The Not So Big Society
  • Tracey McMahon
  • UK Freedom of Information Blog
  • WardBlawg

Archives

  • Follow Following
    • Researching Reform
    • Join 7,954 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Researching Reform
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    loading Cancel
    Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
    Email check failed, please try again
    Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
    %d bloggers like this: