Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS)
represents all directors of Social Services in England,
Wales and Northern Ireland.
CONSULTATION RESPONSE
30 January 2007
Green Paper: Care Matters
TRANSFORMING THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN CARE
SCIE welcomes the opportunity to comment on the proposals set out in Care Matters.
We are in no doubt that there are a number of areas that require significant
improvement in the way we provide services for looked after children. We support the premise for the proposals that our goals for children in care should be the same as our goals for our own children.
The introduction of “Children First the Northern Ireland Childcare Strategy”.
in
1999 requires each of the 4 Child Care Partnerships in Northern Ireland to prepare
a 3 year Child Care Plan which sets out how the Partnership will plan and deliver
childcare services. This Child Care Plan covers the period from 1st April 2002 to
31st March 2005. The Plan will be reviewed on an annual basis during the 3 years
of its life span.
A Better Future
50 Years of Child Care
in Northern Ireland
1950-2000
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
NGO ALTERNATIVE REPORT
ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE
RIGHTS OF THE CHILD IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
SUBMITTED TO THE UN COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF
THE CHILD ON 15TH MARCH 2002
BY
CHILDREN IN WALES (PLANT YNG NGHYMRU)AND SAVE THE
CHILDREN (ACHUB Y PLANT CYMRU)
CHILDREN’S LAW CENTRE AND SAVE THE CHILDREN IN
NORTHERN IRELAND
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR ENGLAND
SCOTTISH ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
THIS REPORT WAS COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY DR URSULA KILKELLY ON
BEHALF OF THE AGENCIES LISTED ABOVE.
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER
FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
BUREAU DU COMMISSAIRE
AUX DROITS DE L´HOMME
Strasbourg, 8 June 2005 CommDH(2005)6
Original version REPORT BY
MR ALVARO GIL-ROBLES,
COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS,
ON HIS VISIT TO THE UNITED KINGDOM
4th – 12th November 2004
for the attention of the Committee of Ministers
and the Parliamentary Assembly
Commission on Families and the Wellbeing of Children
Executive Summary
Families and the State
Two-way support and responsibilities
An inquiry into the relationship between the state and the family in the
upbringing of children April 2004
In April 2002, the Western Area Children and Young People’s Committee published its second Children’s Services Plan, for the period 2002-2005.
The Children’s Services Plan 2002-2005 has described, in some detail, how need has been assessed, reports agreed, inter-agency strategic objectives, and identifies a number of key result areas related to these objectives. This publication is intended to be a working document.
Care Work
Current understandings and future directions in Europe
National Report, United Kingdom
WP3
Mapping of Care Services and the Care Workforce
Claire Cameron
Peter Moss
January 2001
Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education University of London
EDUCATION AND SKILLS AUTHORITY: DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN’S
SERVICES
Purpose
1. The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of the
Ministerial announcement on 22 November 2005 that contained a
reference to the appointment of a Director of Children’s Services
within
the ESA.
Eamon McTernan WHSSB. Hardiker
Children's Services Planning in Northern Ireland
Developing a Planning Model to Address Rights and Needs
Authors: Eamon McTernan - Eamon McTernan is Assistant Director of Family and Childcare for the WHSSB;
Ann Godfrey - Ann Godfrey is Children's Services Planner for the Southern Area Children & Young People's Committee
Every Child Matters:
Change for Children
in Social Care
Every child matters, the Government’s vision for children’s services,
was published in September 2003.
It proposed reshaping children’s services to help achieve the outcomes children and young people
told us are key to well-being in childhood and later life.
● Be healthy
● Stay safe
● Enjoy and achieve
● Make a positive contribution
● Achieve economic well-being
ENNISKILLEN AT NIGHT
An Integrated Approach
Executive Summary
Enniskillen’s evening economy is generally considered to be ‘a problem’ and the
town is described as almost being a ‘different place’ at night. The result of this is
that the town centre has become more than just a focus for leisure, entertainment
and cultural activity for people of all ages. It has specifically become a focus for
young people, with all the adherent problems that this may attract.
To address this, the approach suggested by Fermanagh District Policing
Partnership (DPP) and Fermanagh Community Safety Partnership (CSP)
In April 2002, the Western Area Children and Young People’s Committee published its second Children’s Services Plan, for the period 2002-2005. The Children’s Services Plan 2002-2005 has described, in some detail, how need has been assessed, reports agreed, inter-agency strategic objectives, and identifies a number of key result areas related to these objectives. This publication is intended to be a working document. It provides an Executive Summary
of Children’s Services Plan 2002-2005, and an Action Plan – specifying how the strategic objectives can be taken forward in the year 2002-2003, and how progress can be measured.
This document contains agreed codes of practice for social care workers and employers of social care workers describing the standards of Code of Practice for Social Care Workers
within which they should work. This introduction, which is also reproduced in the Code of Practice for Social Care Workers, is intended to help you understand what the codes are for and what they will mean to you as a social care worker, employer, service user or member of the public. The General Social Care Council began its work on 1 October 2001, at the same time as the Northern Ireland Social Care Council, the Scottish Social Services Council, and the Care Council for Wales. The Councils have a duty to develop codes of practice and have worked together in developing these codes as part of their contribution to raising standards in social care services.
RESIDENTIAL CARE
Residential child care prior to 1950
Prior to 1947 the care of children was governed by the Poor Relief Acts which empowered Boards of Guardians to care for children in workhouses or to have them boarded-out (fostered). The functions of the Boards of Guardians in relation to children transferred to the newly established welfare authorities on 1 November 1947. At that time the Ministry of Home Affairs recommended that the 8 welfare authorities established under the Public Health and Local Government (Administrative Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1946, established homes to provide for persons in need, including children. Almost 80 per cent of children in care lived in institutional placements (Table 6).
April 2005
This is the third Children’s Services Plan developed by the Western Area Children and Young People's Committee.
It sets out the main issues affecting children and young people regarded as vulnerable or in need and the key result areas which the Plan seeks to address. The planning process has drawn together a wide range of knowledge, skill and expertise from the voluntary, community and statutory sectors, and has gained from increasing consultation with children, young people and their parents about what makes a difference to them.
RESPONSE TO
RISK & GOVERNANCE REVIEW
MARCH 2005 ~ JANUARY 2006
July 2006
The Review
Chronology of the Service Review
Acute and Community Children’s Services Review
Chronology of key milestones within the Trust
Action Plan in response to key recommendations
Performance, Accountability and Monitoring
The Trust has over this past 15 months been subject to considerable detailed review from a number of external and professional bodies. The review brought to the Trust’s attention significant deficits in service provision and as a result a set of actions were put in place to address the deficits. This report details the sequence of events from March 2005, the specific issues that were brought to the attention of the Trust and the Trust’s response to these issues.
In April 2002, the Western Area
Children and Young People’s Committee published its second Children’s Services Plan, for the period 2002-2005. The Children’s Services Plan 2002-2005 has described, in some detail, how need has been assessed, reports agreed, inter-agency strategic objectives, and identifies a number of key result areas related to these objectives. This publication is intended to be a working document. It provides an Executive Summary of Children’s Services Plan 2002-2005,
and an Action Plan – specifying how the strategic objectives can be taken forward in the year 2002-2003, and how progress can be measured. The Action Plan will be used by the Western Area Children and Young People’s Committee to monitor and assess progress, and will be the basis on which the Children’s Services Plan is reviewed annually.
Western Area Children’s Service Plan Review April 2006 This is the first Annual Review of the 2005-2008 Children’s Services Plan.
Strategic Context
Developing and Monitoring the Children’s Services Plan –
WACYPC
on the Strengths of Families
Children and Young People in Public Care
Children with a Disability
Children with Emotional, Behavioural, Psychological or
Psychiatric Difficulties
Children in Need of Protection
Youth Justice
Homelessness – Children and Families
Sixteen Plus
The Western Area Child Care Plan
Domestic Violence – Children and Young People
Children & Young People in the Travelling Community
Children & Young People’s Health and Health Services
STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND
DRAFT
2006 No.
HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES
The Western Health and Social Services Trust (Establishment)
Order (Northern Ireland) 2006
Made
2006
Coming into operation
2006
Your Shout!
A Survey of the Views of 706 Children
and Young People in Public Care
by Judith E. Timms and June Thoburn
NSPCC Review of Legislation
Relating
to Children in Family Proceedings
NSPCC Your Shout!
The Hurt Inside
The imprisonment of women and
girls in Northern Ireland
PROFESSOR PHIL SCRATON and DR LINDA MOORE
People held in detention, whether in prison or otherwise, are particularly
vulnerable to breaches of their human rights. The ‘closed’ nature of prison
regimes makes it very important that they are open to inspection and
investigation by a range of bodies concerned with the care and human rights
of those inside. This is all the more crucial because many people who are in
prison, especially women prisoners, were vulnerable prior to their detention,
through factors such as mental health problems, educational difficulties, drug
and alcohol related issues and sexual abuse.
This leaflet tells you how the new Family Law Act can help you. It explains who can apply for an order, describes what you need to do and tells you what will happen once the court receives your application.
This leaflet deals only with applications that are made at a county court.
How can the Family Law Act help me?
This new Act, which became law in October 1997, protects victims of domestic violence with two different types of orders:
• A Non-Molestation Order - which prevents another person from harming you or a child.
• An Occupation Order - which will indicate who can live in the family home and can direct another person to leave the home.
Framework for the Assessment of
Children in Need and their Families
Guidance Notes and Glossary for:
Referral and Initial Information Record,
Initial Assessment Record and
Core Assessment Record
Department of Health
Framework for the
Assessment of
Children in Need and
their Families
Guidance Notes and
Glossary for:
Referral and Initial Information Record,
Initial Assessment Record and
Core Assessment Records
Framework for the Assessment of
Children in Need and their Families
Department of Health
Department for Education and Employment
Home Office
i
Department of Health
Department for Education and Employment
Home Office
Framework for the
Assessment of
Children in Need and
their Families
Social Care Group
The Social Care Group is one of four business groups in the Department of Health.
It is jointly headed by the Chief Social Services Inspector and the Head of Social Care
Policy. It supports Ministers in promoting high quality, cost effective services through
· national policies
· support to external social care agencies
· inspection
The Social Services Inspectorate is a part of the Social Care Group. It is headed by the
Chief Social Services Inspector who is the principal professional advisor to Ministers
on social services and related matters.
Corporate Plan 2005 - 2008
Foreword 2
The Ulster Community & Hospitals Trust 3
The Planning Context 4
Statement of Purpose for the Trust 6
Goals 8
Conclusion 18
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