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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 8, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DOJ has issued a letter ruling that when judges ban such treatment they are violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. The Imprint’s weekly podcast features a fascinating interview with Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child. ? Now the Department of Justice has stepped in.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 27, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● You can learn more about how that happened, and the ongoing fight, at this webinar on June 29 from Narrowing the Front Door.

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Recent happenings

Jaeran Kim

The first is an article written from my research on adoptive parents who placed an intercountry adopted child in out-of-home care due to the child’s disability. Abstract: Increasingly, intercountry adopted children have special needs similar to children adopted from foster care in the United States.

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Office of Research and Scholarship Update – Winter 2022

University of Connecticut

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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Council improves to ‘good’ after increasing social worker numbers to cut caseloads

Community Care

It also said the council needed to improve “variable” levels of practice with disabled children to achieve a consistently high quality. But Ofsted said the council needed to improve support for care leavers, who faced too many changes of personal adviser and, for whom, transition planning did not start early enough.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

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. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 7, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from foster care. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled. Now the family is suing. ●