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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Oct. 1, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

From The Conversation : An exploration of another group that faces discrimination in the family policing system: the disabled. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to stop county family police agencies from stealing foster youth’s Social Security survivor benefits. But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A

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Social workers honoured in King’s birthday list

Community Care

The recipients included a past and present principal social worker (PSW), the co-founder of the secure base model of therapeutic caregiving and a retired practitioner who used to support Holocaust survivors. It has been implemented in fostering, adoption and residential care placements in a number of local authorities.

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6 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care

Relias

Trauma-informed care is an approach to health and social services that recognizes the impact of trauma on people’s lives. These groups may face barriers to accessing and receiving culturally appropriate care and may mistrust and fear mainstream health and social systems.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● 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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The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. “It

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Social care leaders hailed in New Year Honours

Community Care

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.” Vic Rayner (@vicrayner) December 31, 2022.

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Seven lessons for practitioners from the review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland

Community Care

It is not possible to provide service stability and strong positive cultures if there is heavy reliance on agency social workers; Northern Ireland has already taken action to curtail their use in its statutory social services. Parents of disabled children who need constant care may be exhausted.