Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

by Patty Flores I am grateful to be publishing this essay by a gifted and needed young voice in the child welfare space. Liliana “Patty” Flores, MSW is a clinician, researcher, advocate, educator, and motivational speaker. Her intersectionality and affiliation with marginalized identities such as being an undocumented Salvadoran female, LGBTQ+, foster youth, homeless, and cycling in and out of juvenile jails, have shaped the way she sees social issues.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social work practice changes are needed to engineer a shift towards much greater direct contact between adopted children and their birth families, experts have said. The call came in a report that urged an overhaul of the current “outdated” approach to post-adoption contact in order to enable more face-to-face time between children and their birth relatives.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While the NHS has been given an exemption to the NIC increase, health services commissioned outside the health service have not, says Greg Fell Your article outlining the extra strain on council budgets that the rise in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) will cause highlighted the likely impact on adult and children’s social care services ( Adult social care in England needs urgent help from ministers, say bosses, theguardian.com, 6 November ).

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CCRC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Understanding Key Stages and Activities Early childhood development is critical to a child’s future physical and cognitive abilities. Research shows that the early stages of a child’s development impact education and relationship outcomes in their later life. One of the most important areas of early growth is a child’s cognitive development.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

● It’s always a good time to hear from Jerry Milner, who ran the federal Children’s Bureau during the first Trump Administration. But it’s an especially good time now. Fortunately, he’s the guest on The Imprint podcast. His thoughts on policy begin at about 22:30 in. ● President Biden has apologized for what “child welfare” did to Native Americans in decades past.

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