Coronavirus (COVID-19): implementing protective measures in education and childcare settings

UK Department for Education

This advice seeks to support staff working in schools, colleges and childcare settings, to care for children in the safest way possible, focusing on measures they can put in place to help limit risk of the virus spreading within education and childcare settings. 

Safe working in education, childcare and children’s social care settings, including the use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

UK Department for Education

This guidance explains the strategy for infection prevention and control, including the specific circumstances PPE should be used, to enable safe working in education, childcare and children’s social care settings in England during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

The role of complexity theory and network analysis for examining child welfare service delivery systems

Marianna L. Colvin & Shari E. Miller - Child & Youth Services

In response to the ongoing call for a complex systems approach for understanding and informing child welfare practice and policy, this article presents a context-specific conceptual framework that combines complexity theory and network analysis.

The impact of complex and unwanted feelings evoked in foster carers by traumatised children in long-term placements

Andrew S Browning - Adoption & Fostering

The manner in which foster children present and the frightening feelings this may trigger can overwhelm the foster carers’ capacity to sustain a nurturing stance in relation to the children and jeopardise the placement. In this article, two case studies chart such a dynamic and show that if carers are able to reflect upon the painful and unwanted feelings evoked in them, and acknowledge and take responsibility for what has become enacted in the placement, there may be an opportunity for this harmful dynamic to be processed and repaired.

The Adopting Together Service: how innovative collaboration is meeting the needs of children in Wales waiting the longest to find a family

Katherine H Shelton, Coralie Merchant, Jane Lynch - Adoption & Fostering

This article describes a major development in child care practice in Wales that has occurred over the past two years. The Adopting Together Service (ATS) involves a unique, innovative and multi-layered collaboration between the voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs – non-governmental charities) and regional adoption teams (statutory agencies) to secure permanence for children who wait the longest to find families.