Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #childrenincare, aggregated by home.social.
Opposition accuses Queensland government of gagging frontline organisations from speaking out
Queensland’s opposition says it feels like “Trump’s America”, claiming frontline community organisations are gagged from speaking out for…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #childrenincare #davidcrisafulli #funding #governmentfunding #homelessness #jarrodbleijie #lnp #LNPgovernment #meaghanscanlon #queenslandgovernment #stevenmiles
https://www.europesays.com/australia/77315/
https://www.europesays.com/2832670/ Charities urge new MSPs to treat young refugees like any children requiring care #aberlour #AsylumSeekers #ChildrenAndYoungPeople #ChildrenInCare #elections #HolyroodElection #Politics #Refugees #ScottishParliament #ScottishRefugeeCouncil #ThePromise
Further to my post yesterday..#mko represents #Treaties 4, 5, 6 and 10. The #childadvocate is quoted as urging the #mbgovt to do something.
All I see, again , is #nahannifontaine (#ministeroffamilies) showing up to #boujee events looking like a fashion plate, baking cakes, and using trendy songs to clap back at her detractors. We need action NOW. Kids can't wait. What has really been done?
#mbpoli #childrenincare #indigenous #childwelfare #cfs #manitoba #firstnations
Child strip-searched every 14 hours by police in England and Wales, report finds | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/child-strip-search-police-child-q-b2597372.html
#Police
#StripSearches
#Children
#Racism
#Blàck
#ChildQ
#ChildrenInCare
#SexualAbuseVictims
#NPCC
#MET
CW: The article contains disturbing child abuse, resulting in death. #TriggerWarning.
The placement was approved by both #BritishColumbia Ministry of #Children & Family Development & the family service’s department of the boy’s First Nation, but the report says the ministry did not complete #BackgroundChecks or visit the home before the siblings were moved there.
Charlesworth said the lack of communication, #DueDiligence & #DueProcess would “prove to be a massive error” because those in charge of the boy’s safety could have learned the woman had prior involvement with the ministry over physical #abuse of her child & there were documented concerns about her partner’s “conduct with children.”
#BCpoli #ChildAbuse #BCNDP #ChildWelfare #ChildrenInCare #ChildrensRights #ChildrensSafety #BCgovernment #BCNewDeathParty #PreventableDeaths #FailureToProtect #SocialWelfare #ChildrensWelfare #IndigenousChildren #EveryChildMatters
Monetising children in care is morally bankrupt | Social care | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/24/monetising-children-in-care-is-morally-bankrupt
#Care
#ChildrenInCare
#Fostering
#FosteringAgencies
#Monbiot
#ChildrensSocialCare
#Profit
Revealed: hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England | Children | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/13/vulnerable-children-illegal-unregulated-care-homes-england
#Children
#ChildrenInCare
#UnregulatedCareHomes
#ChildrensHome
#ChildrensHomes
#IllegalChildrensHomes
#CareStandardsAct2000
#Ofsted
#DeSouza
#FamilyCourt
#TogetherTrust
#CouncilFunding
#CouncilFundingCuts
#Hunt
#EducationDept
#AssociationOfDirectorsOfChildrensServices
Care homes in England reject vulnerable children to protect Ofsted ratings | Children | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/11/care-homes-england-reject-complex-needs-children-protect-ofsted-ratings
#CareHomes
#Disabled
#DisabledChildren
#Children
#Ofsted
#ChildrenInCare
#AssociationOfDirectorsOfChildrensServices
#ADCS
#SomersetCouncil
My cartoon in today's https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350160709/cartoon-january-29
Oranga Tamariki are in the news again... this time for not knowing how many of the children in care have had their yearly health checks and dental checks. They've had years to find out. And yet, they still can't get their sh*t together!
#OrangaTamariki #EditorialCartoon #PoliticalCartoon #NzPol #ChildrensHealthMinistry #FortuneTeller #MiracleWorker #CrystalBall #Aotearoa #NewZealand #ChildrenInCare #Cartoon
Such heartbreaking quatrain from #NorthernEngland #Ethiopian #poet Lemn Sissay, writing about being a #ChildInCare
"I am the bull in the china shop
And with all my strength & will
As the storm smashed the tea cups
I stood still".
https://www.channel4.com/news/poet-lemn-sissay-on-growing-up-in-the-care-system-racism-and-finding-his-ethiopian-family #childrenincare #children #socialservices #poetry
Global News BC: ‘He was a fighter’: Father of boy who died in horrific foster home abuse demands accountability https://globalnews.ca/news/9832101/b-c-foster-care-abuse-father-speaks/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #MinistryofChildrenandFamilyDevelopment #indigenouschildrenincare #indiegenouschilddeath #fostercareabusedeath #childincaredeath #Fostercareabuse #ChildreninCare #governmentcare #ChildDeath #Indigenous #MitziDean #Crime #Abuse #MCFD
Global News BC: Changes made after B.C. foster kids ‘failed at every level’ in horrific abuse case: Minister https://globalnews.ca/news/9781552/foster-abuse-sentence-mcfd-changes/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #MinistryofChildrenandFamilyDevelopment #indigenouschildrenincare #childabusesentence #IndigenousChildren #ProvincialCourt #ChildreninCare #KidsinCare #Children #Sentence #Justice #Crime #MCFD
BBC News - Children punched and locked out naked in care homes rated 'good'
#ChildAbuse
#ChildrensHomes
#CareHomes
#ChildrenInCare
#Neglect
Children punched and locked out naked in care homes rated 'good'
Former staff and leaked papers reveal shocking abuse claims at three South Yorkshire children's homes.
Global News BC: B.C. inquest hears of Cree teen’s declining mental health, thoughts of self-harm https://globalnews.ca/news/9326547/desjarlais-inquest-mental-health/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #TraevonDesjarlaisinquest #indigenouschildwelfare #TraevonDesjarlaisdeath #BCCoronersService #DesjarlaisInquest #TraevonDesjarlais #Coroner'sInquest #IndigenousYouth #ChildreninCare #Indigenous #Inquest #Health #Crime
Global News BC: Social worker and guardian testifies at inquest into death of Cree teen at Abbotsford group home https://globalnews.ca/news/9312718/social-worker-guardian-testifies-inquest-death-cree-teen/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #TraevonDesjarlaisinquest #indigenouschildwelfare #BCCoronersService #TraevonDesjarlais #ChildreninCare #GroupHomedeath #creeteendeath #deathincare #GroupHome #creeteen #iqnuest #Health #Crime
Today's figures from government:
6% of 19-21 yr olds with care experience are at university.
Compared to 43%.
38% are not in education, employment or training.
Compared to 11%.
Let's this sink in
Taken from tweet by Chris Wild, author in Child Care