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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

In its Study of the Root Causes of Juvenile Justice System Involvement ,” the District of Columbia’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council interviewed youth service providers with first-hand experience working with justice-involved and at-risk youth.

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Agile working failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland, finds study

Community Care

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Our findings (consistent over the last five years) indicate that agile working models in Scotland are failing to meet the needs of social workers.”

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Social workers urged to help tackle impact on Gypsy and Traveller families of tougher eviction laws

Community Care

Social workers have been urged to help tackle the impact on Gypsy and Traveller families of increased police powers to evict them from unauthorised camps, brought in this year. “So social workers need to separate those two things. So far, the guidance has been adopted by Wiltshire council and the Welsh Government.

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Yolanda Leon, MSW ’05

University of Connecticut

Yolanda currently is a Social Worker in the Statewide Quality Improvement Division’s Case Practice Review Unit. Yolanda has experience working with families as a Social Worker in the Ongoing Social Work Unit, Sexual Abuse Specialty Unit, Medically Complex Specialty Unit and Permanency Specialty Unit.

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NASW Member Voices: The Democracy Restoration Act is a Civil and Voting Rights Imperative

Social Work Blog

The practice of stripping convicted felons of the right to vote goes back to the beginnings of our nation when the federal government and many states adopted felon disenfranchisement laws based on the idea that voting was a privilege for those who demonstrated “good moral character.” – Breon Wells , CEO The Daniel Initiative.

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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child.

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The Democracy Restoration Act is a Civil and Voting Rights Imperative | NASW Member Voices

Social Work Blog

The practice of stripping convicted felons of the right to vote goes back to the beginnings of our nation when the federal government and many states adopted felon disenfranchisement laws based on the idea that voting was a privilege for those who demonstrated “good moral character.” – Breon Wells , CEO The Daniel Initiative.