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Chapter 1 SETTING THE SCENE Background to legislation and policy If a society's maturity is judged by the value placed on the care and protection of children then the period 1950-2000 has to be one of particular significance and importance in Northern Ireland. During this time the recognition of the needs of children, and the responsibility both collectively and individually to meet these, has moved increasingly to the forefront of modern society. Prime importance is now given by the legislators and specific statutory and voluntary organisations to ensuring that children, with a range of social, physical and emotional needs have access to services to enable them to achieve their full potential. Increasingly this right is being enshrined in legislation. Children are now seen as individuals who have the right to be heard and to participate in decisions, which affect their life opportunities and well-being. Alongside these legal developments the period has experienced major improvements in the range of children's services provided. Some of these have emerged through the energy and vision of particular groups and organisations; others, through reports on the deaths, serious injury or abuse of children caused most often by abusive adults. There is now universal child welfare services in place throughout the country. The focus of these is to promote better care of children within the family. Where this is not possible, it is ensured that every effort is made to place children in a form of substitute care which will provide a loving and supportive environment. This has been achieved through the enactment of new and improved legislation, an increase in resources and the dedication of a skilled workforce. The public has played its part with its expectations of higher standards in the provision of care for vulnerable children. Back in 1950 most of this could not have been contemplated. The United Kingdom had just emerged from a World War and was in the throes of major change - political, economic and social. Legislation which would form the foundation of a modern 'welfare' state had just been passed. This would affect the lives of all citizens but it was to have a major impact on the lives and well-being of children. These 50 YEARS OF CHILD CARE IN NORTHERN IRELAND 7
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Page 41 and 42: Chapter ADOPTION Introduction From
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3 Adoption legislation, the social
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3 • place a statutory duty on HSS
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3 Table 3 - Numbers of children who
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3 Table 5 - Age of children who wer
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immediate future must take account
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3 also provides advice to Entry Cle
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3 extent that birth relatives who a
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3 behalf of the participating Trust
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adoption now clearly on looked afte
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Chapter 4 RESIDENTIAL CARE Resident
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4 The 1946 Public Health and Local
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4 • requiring the approval of the
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4 • it advocated the establishmen
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should also issue guidance to Board
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4 homes had remained "little change
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4 • "The Report of the Committee
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4 introducing pay parity between re
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The commencement of the Children Or
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4 largely provided by the voluntary
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4 Between 1963 and 1966 all volunta
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4 Essentially, it endorsed the incr
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4 Table 8 - Retraction of the volun
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support, training, status, and the
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4 The availability of a high propor
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5 makers. There was a desire to be
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5 service away from the moral impro
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5 medical treatment where a qualifi
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5 orders being made in the 1970s an
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5 Published figures show that, with
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5 deal with them separately from ad
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5 Under the provisions of Part IV o
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5 • there is a need to develop an
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5 could also be developed as part o
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6 Services for disabled children pr
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6 • giving instruction at home an
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6 Thus, until the introduction of t
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6 Education legislation and schooli
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6 The most radical reforms, however
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6 More recently alternative perspec
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6 • a grant for the provision of
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6 Figure 1 - Disabled children and
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6 1980s when a number of small grou
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6 facing school leavers. There was
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6 them to see a school that was cle
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6 as can be ascertained, the Outset
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development without the provision f
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• an increase in the number of di
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6 • co-ordinated assessment arran
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7 Once a person had been convicted
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7 During the time that the Curtis C
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The welfare authorities in Northern
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7 During the 1980s the media, publi
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7 the ACPCs were to ensure improvem
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7 Table 10 - Percentage of children
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7 The report 'An Abuse of Trust' is
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2. By the late 1980s the need for d
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7 placed on treatment etc. for abus
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8 reading of the Welfare Services B
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8 old and young people would be ass
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8 regulate the first common , unifi
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8 Table 11 - Comparison of Northern
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8 Between them, these 3 partnership
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8 This review provided a strong bas
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8 areas of social work, the momentu
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Chapter 9 INTO A NEW CENTURY The pr
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9 high resourcing mainly due to the
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9 Northern Ireland. Following the p
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9 provision of children's services
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9 century has been laid. The Northe
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• Daly, E. ‘Mister, are you a P
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• Kelly, G. and Coulter, J. ‘Th
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• Sebba, J. & Sachdev, D. ‘What
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