Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care. The three-hour session was facilitated by nine professionals, including staff from Coram’s activity days team, social workers and play specialists.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

In addition, using ecomap symbols as part of ecomap creation gives social workers a comprehensive picture of many things. With a social work ecomap activity, social workers can help foster positive working relationships and explore effective intervention strategies to facilitate change.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Families facing investigation by the state family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, get a lawyer, a social worker who can come up with alternatives to the cookie-cutter “service plans” issued by DCF, and a parent advocate, usually someone who’s been through the system himself or herself. In Springfield, Mass.

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Community Care

JUNE 16, 2022

Most of my friends are not social workers and they’re always surprised to hear social care is inspected by Ofsted. There had been a few actions from the audit, one of which the social worker had not completed but was able to that day. So, Ofsted inspections are not alien to me. Week two: the inspectors arrive!

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Recommended Books for Preparing to Study Social Work Recommended Books for Student Social Workers Recommended Books for Newly Qualified Social Workers Recommended Books when working with Adults Recommended Books for Direct Work with Children Recommended Books for Practice Educators Recommended Books for Approved Mental Health Practitioners.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love.

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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 And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof. . Here's one way to do it: In Washington, D.C., Street Sense Media reports on the “Mother Up” guaranteed income project launched by the Mothers Outreach Network.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come. Photo: Community Care The early years Social work had always been close to Mark’s heart.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. By Professor Judith Harwin and Lily Golding. Related articles.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. One local authority-employed social worker said: The view of the public is that social workers are incompetent.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. Social Work in Mental Health Settings” by Kevin J.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Boost to social worker numbers despite funding constraints helps council improve Ofsted grade. An increasing number of children were placed with adopters, special guardians and long-term foster carers, with the latter being described as “appropriately assessed, trained and supported”. Latest Ofsted reports.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Inadequate’ councils three times as reliant on agency social workers as highest rated authorities. from reserves to tackle children’s social worker shortage. But it said that data for return home interviews needed to improve to accurately reflect the work undertaken with children. Related articles.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A DfE spokesperson added: “Our children’s social care implementation strategy sets out ambitious plans to reform the system to improve outcomes for children and families, and our continued support for social workers and their leaders will underpin the success of those reforms in the years to come.”

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Discover the profound wisdom of empowering attitude powerful lion quotes and how it relates to social workers today. A social worker, like the king of the jungle, possesses a lion’s heart and exhibits the lion’s attitude in the face of adversity. ” What is the best quote about a lion?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Agents were also convinced of the subnormal intelligence of most non-WASP and especially non-English-speaking clients; indeed, the agents' comments and expectations in this early period were similar to social workers' views of black clients in the mid-twentieth century…. Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. Oh honey, that’s not how it works,” the social worker told Janell. Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times children’s rights to their parents are terminated.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. A social worker who doesnt want to report kids in dirty clothes to CPS. Heres the surprise: The agencies response boiled down to well yes, youre right. The allegation was unfounded.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 4, 2024

.” In West LA, a “Coach Developer” presented the case to a team of case reviewers with the investigative social worker and supervisor present, and the case reviewers voted at the end of the meeting on the decision to remove the child. The decision would then be conveyed to the social worker and supervisor.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

At almost three years old, and after two straight years in foster care with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. Harmony was returned to her mother at seven months, and removed again at ten months.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The headline on the story is: White West Virginia couple accused of adopting Black children and forcing them to work as slaves. Among the many ways the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act fosters adoption-at-all-costs is a national Adoption Excellence Awards program. Part of her nose bridge was missing.

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