NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Robert Latham, associate director at the Children & Youth Law Clinic of the University of Miami Law School, who wrote this on his excellent Blog: And lest you think this law has no teeth, the law prevents admission of any statement made by a parent without the notice being given. So we turn for analysis to Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, alleging that UPMC drug tests pregnant women and their newborns without consent, reports the results to the family policing agency and, even if it’s no more than a false positive result for marijuana, the agency automatically investigates.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Family members were commonly used instead, with implications for confidentiality. Pictured: co-author Dr Andrew Jolly, social work lecturer at University of Plymouth / Photo credit: Andrew Jolly. In some cases, there was an absence of professional interpreters even where the parents did not speak English.

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Community Care

JUNE 8, 2022

But Janet Melville-Wiseman, the chair of the Joint University Council Social Work Education Committee (JUCSWEC), said the proposal had raised red flags among academics.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 2, 2023

Learning Objectives (Supervisory Best Practices): Support supervisees in understanding and recognizing signs and symptoms of mental illness in children and adolescents Teach supervisees to comprehensively assess the needs of children and their families in crisis Engage supervisees in collaborating with interprofessional teams to engage appropriate (..)

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Relias

JANUARY 23, 2024

Developed by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative , the bundle consists of four components: universal screening, timely referral, access to treatment, and follow-up. By following these steps, healthcare professionals can help mothers overcome mental health challenges. However, healthcare professionals cannot do it alone.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

“My husband lost his job and my eldest moved back home after university, so money is very difficult in our house. BASW’s Professional Support Service: offers free and confidential peer-to-peer support to all social workers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and BASW members in England. Are you struggling financially?

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Many journal articles are available through university library databases or on the websites of professional associations such as the Community Care. Confidentiality – Social workers should protect clients’ right to privacy by keeping confidential any information they are entrusted with.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This provision of law has never been enforced and is almost universally ignored. There’s also a need to deal with another aspect of reporting: ● Replace anonymous reporting – by far the least reliable source of reports – with confidential reporting. Texas has largely done this.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Court records detail retaliation against attorneys, breaches of confidentiality to benefit the foster parent and an illegal audio recording in open court. Robert Latham, associate director of the University of Miami School of Law Children and Youth Law Clinic. That, in turn, infuriated Prof. He is not a CASA-basher.

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Social Work Haven

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The basic principles of research ethics include; honesty, integrity, objectivity, carefulness, openness, non-discrimination, legality, confidentiality, competence, human subjects’ protection, animal care. It is paramount to hence adhere to the standards of conducting research. What is Tuskegee famous for?

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

All I ask is that you keep our conversations here confidential, to respect other peoples’ privacy. I worked at a university for about ten years. I fretted a lot about my university job and how it had treated me. “You’re welcome just to sit with us and listen. I only have one request.” And yours, of course. Most people nodded.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. In the journal Social Work , Professors Mical Raz and Frank Edwards argue that TPR is not a rare event that universally serves as proxy for parental unfitness.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Rooney had an early mediation hearing with the council before submitting a claim via solicitors in January 2019 for constructive unfair dismissal, non-payment of holiday pay and seeking outstanding expenses, unpaid overtime, and reimbursement of university fees.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. “The only time you need them not to know their rights is when their rights are about to be violated.”

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Clinical Philosophy

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Every year the University of Manchester produces what is now called The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health. This tallies with the findings of the University of Manchester reports. Here's one data source relevant to the UK psychiatric scene.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Decades later, Stacy Torres, now a professor of sociology at the University of California, San Francisco, writes in Vital City that the wounds have not healed. Keep reports confidential but not anonymous, and stop terrorizing already vulnerable children and parents, because this largely happens to poor people.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Editor’s note: This post was written by Melanie Sage from the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a university professor , I do not work with clients directly. Even a vague reference to a client’s trauma might show up in the news and exploit confidentiality.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

"The intention of the law may not have been punitive, but the way it plays out in any particular community or in any particular child welfare office can sometimes feel punitive," said Dr. Marian Jarlenski, associate director of the Center for Innovative Research on Gender Health Equity at the University of Pittsburgh.

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