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Licensing Investigations: Suggestions from Social Workers Who Received Sanctions

Social Work Blog

This phenomenological study was based on in-depth interviews designed to gain a better understanding of the lived experiences of 13 licensed social workers who participated in licensing investigations and received sanctions by a state licensing board for violating state laws, rules, or ethical standards.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

This is because they develop treatment plans to address mental illness and substance abuse problems, often holding supervisory roles and advocating for human rights within the criminal justice system. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents.

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Agile working failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland, finds study

Community Care

It involved five annual online surveys, which were answered by between 78 and 157 of the 404 practitioners who qualified in 2016, interviews with a sample of participants in years one, three and five and focus groups in years two, three and four. The final year’s survey included questions on the impact of Covid-19.

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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

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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Agencies not equipped to protect children from sexual abuse in family, find safeguarding leaders

Community Care

Ensuring that criminal justice and safeguarding agencies work together to robustly assess and manage of people who present a risk of sexual harm and who have contact with children. ‘Robust strategy needed’ “The systemic issues identified in this report are longstanding,” said panel chair Annie Hudson.

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How the government plans to reform the Mental Health Act 1983

Community Care

This exclusion does not apply to part 3 patients (those in the criminal justice system). It also introduces an “opt-out” system, whereby hospital managers and others are required to notify advocacy services about qualifying patients and those services must then arrange for patients to be interviewed to find out if they want an IMHA.

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The Atlantic reminds us of the horrors of family separation – at the Mexican border. It was even worse than we thought.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It took 18 months of reporting, more than 150 interviews, and a lawsuit to obtain relevant documents. In no place in the American criminal-justice system, he reportedly testified, would it be considered either ethically or legally permissible to keep children from their parents for punitive purposes after their legal process is completed.