Child welfare workers understand that an inability to address these matters seriously hampers their efforts to maintain children in their homes, successfully return children from foster care, or find effective permanent alternatives through Adoption and Legal Guardianship.
Not exact matches
A resource for support
workers and community advocates to help women to better
understand the law around
child welfare.
This failure to recognise extreme
child welfare interventions as markers of social inequalities (and which may sometimes compound social inequalities) is not helped when the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, equates social
workers «
understanding of the impact of social inequalities with robbing «families of a proper sense of responsibility,....
Helping
child welfare workers better
understand and engage non-resident fathers.
This issue brief highlights the importance of
understanding the diverse needs, strengths, and resources of
children and families from rural areas, the challenges, and the cultural sensitivity required of
child welfare workers and agencies.
Our expert advisors have extensive experience in legal and social work practice, they help families to
understand the law and
child welfare processes, as well as better
understand the concerns of social
workers.
The Advisory Committee believes that
understanding these differences is important in assisting
child welfare workers in assessing what types of services are needed to address the individual needs of
children and youth for whom they are striving to achieve permanency.
It is important to note that
child welfare workers need to clearly
understand the difference between severe disturbances and other behavioral disorders that are amenable to different types of intervention.
In this context, it is important for
child welfare workers to
understand the range of disorders and behavioral issues that they may encounter and the different types of services to address these.
For a partnership to be productive, all fatherhood program staff, particularly those working directly with potential or active partners, should
understand the role and perspective of
child welfare workers as well as the mutual goals and benefits involved in working together.