This BASW England position statement has been formulated based on the feedback of members, social work academics, practitioners, managers, and students.
The panel discussed lessons learned during Covid-19 for improving child safeguarding and explored the future of virtual social work - a fantastic opportunity to ensure the social work voice and experience is shared with policymakers.
Amid concerns over the financial state of private children's homes, Claire Barcham says its time to reinvest in therapeutic-focused local authority-run places
Children’s homes in England have been put in the spotlight in a series of critical reports.
And the children’s commissioner for England has published a plan of action for reforming children’s homes amid “overwhelming evidence that the system is not meeting the standards we should expect”.