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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending July 11, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In comments dripping with condescension, people at a center that institutionalizes these infants for days or weeks after hospital discharge don’t like this one bit. Yet when adoptive parents want to cut children off from any and all contact with their birth parents, those birth parents usually have no recourse.

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Reinstate hospital social workers to improve discharge outcomes, PSWs urge Barclay

Community Care

The DHSC has also said that social workers and other social care staff should carry out “limited assessments” on wards prior to discharge.

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World Social Work Day: lived experience informs the very best social work

Social Work With Adults

This year's theme focuses on social workers' capacity to adopt innovative and community-led approaches. Before that I was in a short-stay MDT setting for assessments and reablement for adults following hospital discharge or community referral and other varied roles in the sector.

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No funded social care commitments in Labour manifesto

Community Care

Labour will develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge. Labour will work with local government to support children in care, including through kinship, foster care, and adoption, as well as strengthening regulation of the children’s social care sector.