Submitted by Ms Fiona Wells on Monday 27th November 2023
Published on Tuesday 19th December 2023
Current status: Open
Open until: Wednesday 19th June 2024
Current Signatures: 148
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Situate Psychologists in Local Authority Children's Social Care Teams.
The Government should fund psychological consultation and advisory teams within Children Services to guide practice where parents struggle to manage challenging behaviour, due to past adversity & trauma. This could ensure interventions are applied correctly without any blame and shame.
We believe that parents and carers who ask for support can feel punished for not managing challenging behaviour. We believe that our voices, views and experiences are discredited and the crisis continues.
We believe rooted social work practice doesn't fit every family. Psychological oversight could ensure critical alignment with central focus in the child's history, current circumstances and through a therapeutic, trauma expert lens. This could specifically benefit families created through adoption, Special Guardian Orders, Kinship care and other families where Adverse Childhood Experiences, are a key element, (including in utero).
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