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Rid children’s services of needless bureaucracy
by Judy Cooper, children’s editorIn an exclusive interview with Community Care Professor Eileen Munro explains how her child protection review will focus on more than just bureaucracy-busting. It is...
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Care system crisis needs urgent action
By Bronagh MiskellyEvery few weeks we hear from one body or another about the perilousstate of the care system. But when judges, lawyers, charities,fostering organisations, the Local Government...
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Munro review: Clarity and sense, now we need solutions
by Bronagh Miskelly“A concern with doing things right versus a concern for doing the right thing.”If one line from Professor Eileen Munro’s interim report on her review of child protection services...
View ArticleSpending review live coverage starts at 12.30
So, today the waiting is over and at 12.30 the comprehensive spending review starts. Community Care will be providing live coverage of the announcement and analysing what it means for social care....
View ArticleGovernment must step in to prevent children cases going unallocated at councils
Vulnerable children are being left without an allocated social worker because councils do not seem to have the capacity to cope with the numbers on their books.Community Care’s Freedom of Information...
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Pickles’ Amazon ratings could undermine social care
Not all council statutory duties are equal, whatever the impression given by communities secretary Eric Pickles’ consolation on abolishing duties to free up local authorities to meet local needs.To...
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Don’t sacrifice quality of care plan for more speed
by Bronagh MiskellyThe recommendation, in the interim report from the Family Justice Review, that judges no longer scrutinise care plans can be seen as being in line with the Munro Review aims of...
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Child protection practitioners face having to ignore child abuse
Every so often it pays to step back and reflect upon what really matters. Most of us would rate our family, friends and health above any job. But what about wider society, what values are important?...
View ArticleFuture of children’s homes not so bleak after all
The future of local authority children’s homes is not quite as bleak as is assumed. But Community Care‘s investigation of all mainstream children’s homes owned and run by councils shows the sector is...
View ArticleMichael Gove: ‘judges must not second guess social workers’. Music to our ears…
The final report of the Family Justice Review is expected early next month. If the indications from the National Children’s and Adults Services Conference are anything to go by, ministers look set to...
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