Community Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Few can boast a long career in social work these days. Ray Jones, emeritus professor of social work at Kingston University, is one of the rare ones with more than 50 years of experience. Jones recalls his teams at Wiltshire council, where he was a director of social services in the 1990s, as an example. “We

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

She described the award as a “real shock”, adding: “I am proud to be recognised like this, but not just for myself, it’s for the council, for the work it does and also recognition for the social care industry and how important a role we have.” I am delighted to receive this wonderful honour,” said Finlay.

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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

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

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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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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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

. ● And finally, from WRAL-TV: State and Smithfield police are investigating a report from a 7-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted inside the Johnston County Department of Social Services building by a 17-year-old boy. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. That’s where Arabella died.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. 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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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). Social Justice and Social Work. SAGE: London.

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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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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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