Equal Access Childcare

Families’ needs involve treating families with dignity and respect, no matter what the allegations against them are, and including them in decisions that affect them and their children. Also by using a strengths perspective with families as foster care workers work with them to determining intervention plans for their child(ren), and giving them the same access to resources and services s those available to foster parents. The operative goal of communities is to work with communities to protect children and support families and taking into consideration community safety issues when determining the intervention plan for a child and family.

This takes action to ensure children and their families know what their rights are and how to put this entitlement into practice. Children are empowered to secure their rights and make their voice heard. Young children can be represented by an advocate to speak and interpret on their behalf.

1, Understand the importance of promoting equality and diversity in work with children and young people.

It focuses on support to families and carers for effective parenting, fostering or child care.

page 5 - 1.2 - Describe the importance of supporting the rights of all children and young people to participation and equal rights.

Working together to Safeguard Children (2010) sets out how organisations and individuals should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in accordance with the Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004. Working Together is addressed to practitioners and frontline managers who have particular responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and to senior and operational managers in:

Purpose; Child Welfare Information Gateway is a site the provides information in order to connect child welfare and comprehensive resources for professionals in order to protect and strengthen families. This site is provided by the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Their site provide publications , state resources including a national foster care and adoption directory, ways to report child abuse or neglect, free subscriptions, and a listing of news and events provided by the Children’s Bureau. The information and resources available on this site concentrate on focus areas including child abuse and neglect, adoption, foster care, child and family services review,

Services and supports are tailored to meet the needs of the individual child and family being served with the ultimate goal of maintaining the family or when this isn’t possible, transitioning the child or youth to a permanent family and/or preparing the youth for a successful transition into adulthood.

Community Support Systems. There are many community support systems within Ottawa that work to support and work with adoptive families. There a different agencies

This thesis addresses the evaluation of preservice foster parents training. To determine its value, effectiveness, and outcomes, the thesis is divided into two separate studies. Where the focus is on providing empirical evidence on how preservice training improves the quality of parenting and its contribution to the care of children once they leave their natural home environment. Specifically, the thesis addresses the ability and the validity of preservice training in providing potential foster parents with the knowledge of five competencies that represent the core of the training program. At the beginning of the thesis, the researcher has defined the term "foster parent" as "resource parent." Reflecting the need to expand the term to include the foster parent, kinship carers, and adoptive parents. Moreover, the thesis is developed as a research study with the approval and sponsorship of the Ontario Association of Children 's Aid Societies (OACAS). Consequently, the thesis, as a research study, has followed the models, rules and regulation of OACAS anticipating to address the purpose of the study. Specifically, the purpose of the study was adopted and implemented in the year 2005 by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. In addition to, it was defined as, "…to meet the needs of children and families being referred to child welfare agencies more effectively" (p. 8). Furthermore, the thesis was divided into two separate exploratory studies using multi-method

However the community is faced with some developmental issues, amongst these issues I have highlighted two issues I would like to work on if privileged.

This macro action project paper will focus on the unmet need which involves the lack of support among foster parents. This is a vital problem at First Home Care and needs to be addressed. This paper will focus on and discuss this unmet need at the micro level and explain why it should be addressed at the macro and mezzo level. I will describe how I came to identify this need and explain it from the perspective of the clientele system experiencing this problem. Foster parents are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain necessary support, which in fact directly affects the children, the agency and the community. In this paper I will find research that recognizes the need and discusses how the interventions were used to tackle the unmet need.

My specialization will include working with foster children who are survivors of sexual trauma. Therefore the group which I propose is a multicultural and anti-racism educational group for the foster parents who will care for these children. This group will be made up of a diverse audience, as foster parents come from all walks of life. The professionals presenting the information are foster care developers who have been trained by a licensed clinician.

Child care is not a one-size-fit-all service. Because of this, families seek outside care for their children based on their needs, philosophy, knowledge, and

In 2000 the National Development Plan in Ireland allocated funding to the development of childcare with the specific aim of improving the quality, and increasing childcare provision and places through the introduction of a more coordinated approach. As a result thirty three County Childcare Committees, (CCC) were formed in the Republic of Ireland, each with an agreed set of objectives for the various county/areas. They are