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• Social work opinion split over police involvement in mental health incidents, poll finds

  07-01-2025 14:15
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social work opinion is divided on the police withdrawing from attending mental health incidents, a poll has found.
  This follows approved mental health professionals (AMHP) raising safety concerns over the lack of police involvement since the introduction of the right care, right person (RCRP) policy in 2023.
  Under RCRP, police should only attend mental health callouts to investigate a crime
  
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• Child sexual abuse: professionals to be under duty to report with criminal sanction for failing to do so

  07-01-2025 12:07
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Professionals and others in positions of trust in relation to children will face a duty to report child sexual abuse (CSA), along with criminal sanctions for failing to do so.
  Home secretary Yvette Cooper announced yesterday that the government would be reviving the mandatory reporting policy, dropped by its Conservative predecessors on the eve of the 2024 election.
  The idea was one of the k
  
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• ‘We’re very glad we’ve done it’: the Liverpool couple who fostered more than 40 children

  07-01-2025 06:00
  
  Charles and Dianne Hubbert retired after receiving an MBE for services to foster careShortage of foster carers causing ‘very real’ UK crisis, Barnardo’s warnsOver 23 years, Charles and Dianne Hubbert have fostered more than 40 children in their home in Croxteth, Liverpool. They have just retired, after being awarded an MBE for their services to foster care.The pair became interested in social care after working as adult support workers for people with special needs and learning
  
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• Shortage of foster carers causing ‘very real’ UK crisis, Barnardo’s warns

  07-01-2025 06:00
  
  Charity calls on government to launch national campaign amid rise in number of children entering care homes‘We’re very glad we’ve done it’: the Liverpool couple who fostered more than 40 childrenThe UK is facing a fostering crisis where retiring carers are not being replaced by younger people, while the number of children entering care homes is rising, a charity has warned.The decline in foster carers is due to the impact of the pandemic, the costof living crisis, biologi
  
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