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• read more about What Works for Children’s Social Care partners with Frontline on new social work leadership programme
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  What Works for Children’s Social Care partners with Frontline on new social work leadership programme

  11 July 2022

  The Department for Education has awarded a contract for the new social work leadership programme to children’s social work charity Frontline. What Works for Children’s Social Care is partnering with Frontline and North Yorkshire County Council to deliver this programme, which will allow us to bring a focus on evidence-based practice to the leadership development […]

  
• read more about Understanding formal kinship care
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  Understanding formal kinship care

  8 July 2022

  When keeping a child with their family isn’t possible, social workers will first look within a child’s network for alternative care options. Known as ‘kinship care’, this can be a temporary or permanent plan for a child that avoids the potential trauma of moving to live with carers they don’t know. The Independent Review of […]

  
• read more about Early Intervention Foundation and What Works for Children’s Social Care announce decision to merge
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  Early Intervention Foundation and What Works for Children’s Social Care announce decision to merge

  7 July 2022

  The two boards of trustees have agreed in principle to join forces to create a single what works centre on children and families covering both early intervention and children’s social care. The merger of the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) and What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) will bring together two what works centres to […]

  
• read more about Joining forces with the Early Intervention Foundation: How the decision to merge puts us all on a strong footing
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  Joining forces with the Early Intervention Foundation: How the decision to merge puts us all on a strong footing

  7 July 2022

  Jenny Coles, Chair of Trustees, WWCSC and Professor Nick Pearce, Chair of Trustees EIF Jenny Coles, chair of trustees at What Works for Children’s Social Care, and Professor Nick Pearce, chair of trustees at EIF, share their thoughts on the boards’ decision to merge organisations to form a new what works centre on children and […]

  
• read more about Understanding Residential Care
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  Understanding Residential Care

  30 June 2022

  Although the poor outcomes for children in residential care are widely recognised, far less is known about who these children are and what their experiences are of the care system. If we want to improve these children’s outcomes, we need to have a better understanding of these young people’s lives, so we can develop interventions […]

  
• read more about Supporting LGBTQ+ young people in social care
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  Supporting LGBTQ+ young people in social care

  29 June 2022

  To celebrate Pride Month, we look at LYPSA, a study we've been doing in collaboration with the University of Birmingham to explore the experience of LGBTQ+ young people in care.

  
• read more about Children in Need – Understanding Service Provision in England
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  Children in Need – Understanding Service Provision in England

  24 June 2022

  Despite huge numbers of children receiving support from a social worker each year, in research little is known about these children, why they receive support, how it is delivered and what it achieves. Director of Research Aoife O'Higgins considers our latest report and the influence it could have on improving support for these children.

  
• read more about Refugee Week and Healing
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  Refugee Week and Healing

  22 June 2022

  To celebrate Refugee Week 2022, we look at an important initiative that provides unaccompanied asylum seeking children with the help needed to begin healing.

  
• read more about Special guests visit SWIS programmes
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  Special guests visit SWIS programmes

  31 May 2022

  We were thrilled earlier this month to have some special guests join our staff during their visits to three of the schools taking part in the Social Workers in Schools (SWIS) programme.

  
• read more about Reflecting on the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the National Safeguarding Panel’s Reviews
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  Reflecting on the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the National Safeguarding Panel’s Reviews

  30 May 2022

  Last week marked a significant milestone for children’s social care with the publication of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the National Safeguarding Panel’s Review of Child Protection in England, in relation to the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson. The reports have recommended seismic changes to the way services are funded, […]

  
• read more about Independent Review of Children’s Social Care: an opportunity for evidence-led reform
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  Independent Review of Children’s Social Care: an opportunity for evidence-led reform

  23 May 2022

  Today’s publication of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care presents the opportunity for future reforms of children’s services to be research-led and evidence-generating. As part of our remit to create and promote evidence-based practice in children’s social care, What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) were pleased to provide independent research support to the […]

  
• read more about Joint statement on prospective merger of Early Intervention Foundation and What Works for Children’s Social Care
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  Joint statement on prospective merger of Early Intervention Foundation and What Works for Children’s Social Care

  23 May 2022

  The Boards of the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) and What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) have begun conversations about a merger that would create a new ‘go-to’ what works centre on children and families covering both early intervention and children’s social care.