NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

As we noted in that previous post: For some reason, the federal database known as the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System has a whole category for “institutions” Similarly, this excellent database from ChildTrends includes “Group Home or Institution” under “Placement settings and stability for children in foster care.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From The Conversation : An exploration of another group that faces discrimination in the family policing system: the disabled. But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A Kennedy was born July 14, 2014, and was adopted in November 2018. Some even are celebrated. And again a reminder: The U.S.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

The 13th edition of Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies, including those adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2024. The Delegate Assembly, NASWs key policymaking body, meets every three years.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

When the agency sought to persuade the foster parents to adopt, here’s what the foster father says he was told: “Family will come out of the woodwork when we do this. It’s the third time since 2019 that governors have caved-in to the state’s powerful middle-class adoptive and foster parent lobby and vetoed the bill.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Let’s start by looking ahead to Saturday – it’s time for National Adoption Day! If termination of parental rights is child welfare’s equivalent of the death penalty, then what is Adoption Day but a macabre celebration of family executions ? Balloons at the courthouse! They tried to shut out opponents like J.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

Revised guidance on disabled children’s assessments The DfE has also strengthened guidance on the assessment of disabled children and their families after this was backed by two-thirds of respondents. The commission started its review in October 2023.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The family police took the noble concept of permanence and confused it with permanence in only one form – the paper permanence of formal adoption by strangers. It opted for the paper permanence of adoption, in which often a child is cut off from Mom and Dad to the point of doing everything possible to eradicate them from that child’s life.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

And they have adopted (though without credit) the language of Joyce McMillan, founder of JMAC For Families , declaring that "There has been a growing national awareness and interest in encouraging mandated reporters to become 'mandated supporters.'" . That's certainly a step forward. Family policing is one of America’s ugliest exports.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

There was also recognition for current or former directors of children’s and adults’ services and a leading disability campaigner. It has been implemented in fostering, adoption and residential care placements in a number of local authorities. I know my work stands (or sits!)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled. This comes on the heels of AP’s revelation that the most far-reaching – and most highly-touted – such algorithm of all, the one in Pittsburgh, is under investigation by the U.S.

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Jaeran Kim

AUGUST 11, 2017

I was fortunate to be asked to present at the Pact adoption family camp. I presented a keynote about school issues based on the article I published with Pact’s Executive Director Beth Hall for the book Transracial and Intercountry Adoption.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It The Imprint reports on federal legislation that would help protect children of disabled parents from being needlessly removed from their homes or otherwise surveilled by the family police. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The others will cover support for families in adversity with children aged 11-19, parents or carers of children with disabilities or severe mental illness and adoptive and foster parents.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It will also track the proportion of council children’s services rated inadequate, school absence rates for children in care, take-up of, and outcomes from, its Supporting Families programme for households with multiple needs, and the number of children waiting over 18 months to be matched with an adoptive family. Myopic focus on adoption’.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? Would you permanently separate us as a family and prevent five siblings from having a life and future together?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

And we wound up with hideous laws like the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. But sometimes, being “nice” is just passive aggression – as when presenters at a garden party “conversation circle” took almost the entire time for themselves and disabled the chat. We’re not making that mistake again.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2022

A London borough has agreed to pay £2,500 to a disabled boy and his adoptive mother after issuing care proceedings on “incomplete and flawed information”.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As with her social care ministerial predecessors, Tolhurst’s brief will also encompass other issues concerning disadvantaged and vulnerable children, including special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and early help.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Shared Lives is a community-based service offering accommodation and support to adults with learning disabilities and/or other social care needs. We can build on the collaborative efforts and energy of so many people this year and encourage local decision makers, to adopt Shared Lives as a framework for mutually beneficial support."

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias. That same algorithm now is reportedly under investigation by the U.S. The only thing stopping that is a family police agency’s equivalent of a pinky-swear.

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Relias

MAY 21, 2024

Building a trauma-informed organization and practice After integrating a trauma-informed approach into your own work, you may be ready to help others adopt this approach. For successful adoption, your staff needs education on trauma-informed care approaches and techniques tailored for their specialty or area of practice.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Leaders had adopted a grow your own approach to the workforce including through a social work academy – whose training was valued by staff. Ofsted said this demonstrated the “corporate priority that is given to children’s services” at the borough. Related articles.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Among the inadequate-rated councils, the inspectorate particularly highlighted improvements at Surrey and Newham, found disabled children’s services had recovered since a visit last year West Sussex, and said progress was “modest but fragile” at Medway. Support for disabled children improving.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Through in-home family strengthening services, foster care, adoption, mental health treatment, disability services, and children’s mental health hospitals, we’re giving people hope and helping children and families thrive. Thanks to our team and supporters, KVC positively impacts approximately 75,000 people’s lives every year.

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, a child in need is one who is unlikely to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of development without intervention, whose development is likely to be significantly impaired without intervention, or who is disabled. And though 27.5% ”

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

During the pandemic, despite risk to themselves, they continued to go out every day to ensure older and disabled people could live safely and well at home, acting as a lifeline for many.”

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Community Care

MARCH 19, 2024

No other country, including any signatory to the ECHR, has adopted the approach mandated by Cheshire West. The recent decision of Mrs Justice Lieven in Re SM (Deprivation of Liberty; Severely Disabled Child) [2024] EWHC 493 casts doubt on the ‘nuanced acid test’ for children set out in Cheshire West.

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Relias

MARCH 5, 2024

Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away. Offer flexibility with support For some employees, such as family caretakers and some people with disabilities , working from home constitutes a welcome accommodation to their needs.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love. Laming tells me of a severely disabled young adult who, until the age of 18, had been well supported by children’s services.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We need to move towards larger regional and/or national structures to operate the care system and take responsibility for adopter and foster carer recruitment,” he said. 152 local authorities working separately are never going to join up effectively to do this.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 15, 2024

Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice. Titles range from burnout, self-care, and meditation to ethical standards in social work, digital practice, economic well-being, social entrepreneurship, and mentoring women for leadership, to name a few.

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Relias

AUGUST 22, 2022

The struggles for racial equality and women’s rights continued alongside increased awareness of additional dimensions of diversity, such as sexual orientation and gender identity, disability status, immigration status, and other marginalized identities. In the decades since then, rapidly changing U.S.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. On 3 April 1974, the first ever issue of Community Care was published.

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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

Parents of disabled children who need constant care may be exhausted. It also involves greater investment in voluntary and community services, such as Sure Start, Home Start and family centres with an expanded age range, and in respite care for families with a disabled child.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Our golf tournament in Nebraska helps to fund our KVC Nebraska Resource Family Conference (RFC) , which provides the opportunity for foster families and families caring for people with disabilities through our Shared Living program to receive a weekend of inspiration and training. . Our local teams across the U.S.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

It supports adults over the age of 18 who have a learning disability by signposting individuals with care and support needs to the relevant resources. To be eligible for services, an adult over the age of 18 must have a learning disability which should have occurred before adulthood.

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