Social Work Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

Julie Incitti, MSW, CAPSW, School Social Work Consultant, Department of Public Instruction, Wisconsin. Ron Avi Astor, PhD, MSW, MA, Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin School of Public Affairs, Los Angeles, California.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? s Child Welfare System Racist? The second thing to note is that the story got a lot of things right.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. The bill says families must be notified of their right to consult a lawyer. Kinship foster care cushions the blow, but the harm of removal is still present.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Roberts discusses her book, and racism in child welfare with Marc Lamont Hill And here with Ali Velshi on MSNBC: ? It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. Velshi refers to Prof. You can read that story here. ?

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

She is currently a member of the DCYF Parental Advisory Group and is passionate about fixing what is broken in our child welfare system to keep Washington kids safe. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and daughter. You can follow her on X at @DCYFWAtch.

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Community Care

MARCH 24, 2025

It added that it was “inappropriate” for experts to be called to give fact-finding evidence of whether alienating behaviours had occurred, though it may be necessary to instruct a psychologist to help the court determine the welfare outcome for the child. The consultation runs until 6 June 2025.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

“Referrals” is the child welfare system’s term for reports to the state child protective services hotline. “We’ve worked to transform New Jersey’s child welfare system to support and strengthen families who are struggling to meet their basic needs rather than separating them.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

It recognized that while social work and social workers may be starting from a different place than other professions, there’s still work to be done, noting: “Given its century-long contributions to social justice and social welfare, the social work field is in many ways far ahead of other disciplines.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

But i nstead of getting more money directly into the hands of poor families, they’re going to give up to $10 million over five years to some consultant or other – to teach mandatory reporters and child abuse hotline operators how to stop confusing poverty with neglect!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

His mother consulted experts and followed their advice to allow him to express himself and not do anything to shame or stigmatize him. Starting when one of her children was three years old, he said he wanted to wear dresses and, sometimes, he wanted to be known by a girl’s name. The child is now 11 and currently identifies as male.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? But things have taken a strange turn in Maine.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

But just two days after the Parent Map story was published, KFMB-TV in San Diego reported this story: A Marine Corps pilot and his wife are suing the County of San Diego after Child Welfare Services took their seven-month-old son from their home for more than a month after the boy head-butted his mother as he played after breastfeeding.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Practitioners should consider all possible forms of contact and balance the welfare benefits for the child against any safeguarding issues. They should then make a recommendation to the court in the final social work statement filed in care and placement order proceedings.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Q: Why did you decide to become a social worker and work in the child welfare arena? A child welfare social worker meets with her clients. NASW’s Social work Blog talked with Williams about self-care and why she decided to write about this issue. Everything has to be accessible and consistent.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

By Sue Coyle In February, Lynn Stanley, LICSW, executive director of the NASW New Hampshire and Vermont chapters, testified before Vermont’s Senate Committee on Health and Welfare. Her testimony came nearly a year after a Vermont social worker—the second in eight years—was killed while on the job.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The three women in the photo are (left to right) the President of IASSW, ICSW and IFSW (International Association of Schools of Social Work, International Council for Social Welfare and International Federation of Social Work) respectively. Environmental Justice at the heart of social justice.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Bringing Innovation & Child Welfare Best Practices. Stephenson and KVC have been on the forefront of child welfare best practices including creating trauma-informed care, reducing residential care of children, and helping children and teens grow up in families through evidence-based family strengthening and mental health services.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Its assessment came as it issued a consultative proposals to introduce mandatory reporting of CSA , which fall short of those put forward by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), in its final report, published last year. The Home Office consultation runs until 30 November 2023.

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Community Care

APRIL 3, 2023

The home secretary said the government would introduce a mandatory reporting duty, subject to consultation, in response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s final report, published last October. This was one of IICSA’s central recommendations, which it said would combat systemic under-identification of CSA.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

You may think you know all about the evil - and that is the word -- inflicted on Native American children by the Child Welfare League of America – but now please read this from The New York Times. The abuses described in the Times story were curbed by the Indian Child Welfare Act. That couple gave her everything money could buy.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Understanding where financial and legal responsibilities, beyond the quality of care and welfare of children, sit within these organisations and companies would determine exactly what regulation is needed at which level,” it said. Consultation on revising interim inspections. The consultation will run until 22 January 2022.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

KVC Health Systems, a nonprofit mental health and child welfare organization headquartered in the Kansas City area, is a national leader in providing innovative, effective and compassionate care. There are many more stories packed into this issue of Thriving. Check it out today! READ IT HERE. Learn more.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

Home visit to Sally for a welfare check. Any risks identified Did you consult or share information with anyone? Agreed to visit Beth again on 07/04/2021 at 2:30pm to start looking at social activities that she could engage with (name, role). Example 2 04/04/2021 at 11:30am. this is the time the call/visit took place). What did you do?

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

While advocates were focused on giving as much power as possible to the child’s views, IROs “come from a holistic position, considering the child’s best interests in the round”, through consulting with families and professionals, said NAIRO.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Currently, in England, Working Together to Safeguard Children says anyone with concerns about a child’s welfare “should make a referral to local authority children’s social care”, doing so immediately in cases of suspected significant harm, such as child sexual abuse. It said 88.6% What the inquiry found.

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Community Care

JULY 11, 2023

The consultation document on the changes suggests that alternatively qualified practitioners could include family support workers, drug and alcohol practitioners, domestic abuse workers and youth workers. Have your say The consultation on the revised Working Together runs until 6 September 2023. consultation@education.gov.uk

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The article, Solution-focused practice and the role of the approved mental health professional, was co-authored by David Watson, principal lecturer at Brighton University, and published in the Journal of Ethics and Social Welfare (Taylor & Francis).

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Finally, social workers should have a strong ethical code of conduct and adhere to professional standards in order to protect the welfare of their clients.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Arrangements should be put in place to ensure all such cases are referred to the service without delay, and that any necessary actions to address children’s welfare are taken by the LADO or team immediately.

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Community Care

MARCH 9, 2022

This is despite this being a requirement of statutory guidance on councils’ Children Act 1989 duty to, as far as reasonably practicable, take steps to secure enough suitable accommodation locally for children in care, consistent with their welfare. Some firms ‘profiteering’ from children’s homes, says minister.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

No refusals The BIA checked for any advance decision which conflicts with the planned deprivation of liberty and made contact with P’s health and welfare LPA however; he did not share any conflicting views on P’s placement (DOLS COP 4.25). 4 (6) MCA) and consulted with family and carers (s.4 4 (7) MCA). 21A of the MCA.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Education secretary Gillian Keegan announced a review of the LADO role , with a view to consulting on “developing a LADO handbook that includes improving handling whistleblowing concerns and complaints in circumstances such as these”.

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Community Care

MAY 24, 2024

However, following concerns during consultation that the reform would disrupt the supply of placements and children’s care, the Labour-run Welsh Government has dropped its original plan to require compliance from all providers by April 2027.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

By definition, a social worker’s role includes safeguarding children, vulnerable adults and the promoting the welfare of young people. To get a prescription for medication, you should consult your doctor or a psychiatrist. However, their role in relation to medication management is often unclear.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

by Marie Cohen Recognizing implicit bias in mandated reporting training is a national focus for addressing racial inequity in child welfare. The video introducing the section explains that implicit bias harms “families of color” in the child welfare system, without providing any evidence of such harm.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. Somehow, the contract to write a so-called “independent ethics review” of the algorithm is given to another “scholar” who also insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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