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Self-Care A-Z: What I Know for Sure About Self-Care, And…I’m Still Learning (Part 2)

The New Social Worker

Self-care is universal and individualized. Self-care is serious and superficial. Self-care is an integrated lifestyle and requires special attention. Power up your self-care with the power of and.

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Unpaid carer to challenge DWP allowance overpayment penalty in court

The Guardian

It takes the little people to stand up, says Andrea Tucker, who was told to repay 4,600 after caring for mother for 15 years An unpaid carer is to challenge in the courts an unfair and nonsensical demand by welfare officials to repay 4,600 in carers allowance overpayments, five years after being advised by the same department she was following benefit rules correctly.

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NCCPR in Honolulu Civil Beat: Hawaiʻi Foster Care Numbers Are Down. But Not Down Enough

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In a comprehensive story about a new report from the Child Welfare Services Branch, Civil Beat posed an important question: Can the decline in the number of children Hawaii holds in foster care be attributed to a shortage of caseworkers? The answer is no. Because shortages dont work that way. Even at their best, family policing systems (a more accurate term than child welfare systems) are arbitrary, capricious and cruel.