CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

Promoting equity and working through an equity lens is an intentional and necessary practice to ensure services and practices are built with multiple perspectives, not just a select few. To this end, CISU created, A Guide to Promoting Equity During Evidence-Building Initiatives: Resources for Consideration.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Unfortunately, there seems to be little to no interest on the part of the federal Children’s Bureau, Members of Congress, advocates, or the media in whether such services are actually being provided. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

It has been implemented in fostering, adoption and residential care placements in a number of local authorities. Regarding her honour for services to children and families, Beek said: “Throughout my working life I’ve been inspired and supported by so many brilliant and committed colleagues, foster carers and adoptive parents.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services. Currently kinship care is wedged uncomfortably into systems designed primarily for fostering and adoption and is often the poor relation in a hierarchy of rights and support.”

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Relias

MAY 21, 2024

Trauma-informed care is an approach to health and social services that recognizes the impact of trauma on people’s lives. 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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? Great news, Missouri parents: The state Department of Social Services says you are now free to smoke marijuana, as long as you’re away from the kids! – Or haven’t been reunited with them? Particularly black and brown communities."

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Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

The issue in this case was which of two local authorities was responsible for providing and paying for “aftercare services” under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (“MHA”) for a particular individual. What does section 117 say? However, the DHSC changed its mind and challenged its own guidance. of the guidance).

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Approaches in which people are not allocated a fixed desk and work at different times and locations depending on need have become increasingly common, but practitioners are consistently negative about them, found a five-year study into newly qualified social workers published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). .

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The sector continues to face challenges from years of chronic underfunding in social services.”. Cases are defined as any person allocated to a case-holding child and family social worker, including individual children – so siblings are treated as multiple cases – and carers, for fostering and adoption practitioners.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) agreed that this meant the likelihood of the policy being implemented in October 2025 was “quite low” Commenting on the Labour manifesto, the IFS was also critical of the lack of detail on its plan for a national care service.

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Community Care

JUNE 10, 2024

New DoLS prioritisation tool Against this backdrop, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has adopted a new tool to help councils prioritise DoLS applications that was developed by West Midlands ADASS.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Adoption and special guardianship: the number of children adopted from care in 2022-23 fell by 2% on the previous year, to 2,960. Placement stability: 69% of children had one placement during 2022-23, the same proportion as in 2021-22, with ten per cent experiencing three or more placements, as in 2021-22.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

In an effort to clear beds, the government has provided £700m from December 2022 until March 2023, mostly for the NHS, though chiefly to fund social care services, with the latest £200m tranche of this – announced last week – reserved for care home provision. Risks of ‘poor or potentially illegal practice.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. These checklists provide social workers with a visual, step-by-step guide to meticulously track, address, and resolve any issues related to the patient’s safety and living conditions. In most cases, no.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Munro saw the role as serving three overarching functions: Providing professional advice to government, including on the challenges in delivering social work services and the profession’s contribution to achieving local and national outcomes.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And while 8% of children who presented following an initial contact with a council housing or homelessness team were accommodated under section 20, this was true of 19% of those whose referrals came via social services. “Children are being presented with care under section 20 or section 17 as a choice,” the report said.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

” ‘Deeply disappointing’ In its response, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) , focused on the absence of funding Sunak provided to help social care services through the winter, beyond the £162.5m 7m to improve support for adopted children and their families.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2023

DCS turnover rising and below that for adults’ chiefs Turnover among DCSs had also risen from 2022-23, while the numbers leaving the role were higher than for directors of adult social services (DASSs) and council chief executives, the research revealed.

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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

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.

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The Guardian

MAY 26, 2022

A review of social services’ role before the murders of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes rightly avoids pinning blame on individuals There were 536 incidents involving serious harm to a child, where abuse was a factor, in the year to March 2021 in England. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article?

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 8, 2025

New York law requires local departments of social services to investigate all fatalities from maltreatment. The states Office of Children and Family Services is required to review each local fatality investigation and issue its own report within six months of the local investigation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Of course, most non-native foster parents who adopt native children are not accused of abusing them. Video is now available of the Family Integrity and Justice Works event documenting the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act: ? But Karin Brulliard of The Washington Post proved me wrong. ? In other news: ?

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CO4Kids

JANUARY 31, 2025

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Section 117 of the MHA is a duty to provide aftercare services to people who have been detained under sections 3, 37, 45A, 47 or 48 of the MHA and who then cease to be detained and leave hospital. A local social services authority can also request a review of a determination by the secretary of state.

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Mental Health Hospitals After Care Adoption 58

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A bill that would have barred both was vetoed by Newsom last year.) ● He also signed a bill concerning residential treatment, The Imprint reports the new law requires the state Department of Social Services to publicly report how often and why children have been physically restrained or sent to seclusion.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Since he qualified in 1972, he has seen the sector through many changes while wearing different hats: social worker, academic, director of social services, independent reviewer and, notably, the unofficial social work spokesperson on the Peter Connelly (Baby P) case. It would bring the focus back to the community.

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Relias

MAY 20, 2024

Shockingly, studies reveal that one-third of child protective services workers exhibit symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder. Given the prevalence of vicarious trauma among social services professionals, effective leaders and supervisors within organizations prioritize its recognition and management among their staff.

Psychology 52

Psychology Communication Adoption Mental Health 52

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, because of serious case reviews arising from the unfortunate death of service users over the last decade, there has been a massive pressure on the social work profession to adopt some more robust strategies when working with service users (Payne, 2014). Theories for Direct Social Work Practice (2nd ed.).

Social Worker 52

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine!

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

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 But, the crossbench peer says, some of that outstanding work has been lost.

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All For Kids

MARCH 12, 2025

Bove argued that because the family is a citizens primary source of education and socialization, the problem of absentee fathers must be addressed to build healthy communities. Mitigating Risks What can be done to tackle these concerns? We all have a role in ensuring every child in our nation is loved, safe, nurtured, and cared for.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Motto of the conference: Advancing human rights in global social work profession The conference is dedicated to 18 years work of Georgian Association of Social Workers. How can social work researchers, program developers lead in engaging community and influencing social policy?

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“These rulings are a step backward for social work, social justice and all the things we’ve been fighting for.” Some see a common effect stemming from the court’s Roe ruling last summer and its three decisions this summer.

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Social Worker LMSW Mental Health Social Services 52

The Guardian

JULY 22, 2022

My friend John Small, who has died aged 74, was a social worker who rose to be deputy director of social services at the London borough of Hackney before returning to his native Jamaica to work as a lecturer at the University of the West Indies. Continue reading.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

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