National Casa Gal
JANUARY 18, 2024
Read More. The post The WellSky® Foundation gifts $100,000 to the National CASA/GAL Association to support court-appointed special advocates for children experiencing abuse or neglect appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
University of Connecticut
JANUARY 18, 2024
Rachel West-Balling, MSW Saturday, March 2, 2024 In-person 9:30 am – 4:00 pm 5 CECs Location: UConn Hartford Times Building, Room 220, 10 Prospect St, Hartford, CT – use Front St entrance Directions will be included in your confirmation email Registration Fee: $125 10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and Current SSW Field Instructors Group Work in the school setting serves as a dynamic platform for students to develop essential and social emotional skills.
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Community Care
JANUARY 18, 2024
A lack of specialist teams, strategy and resources are hampering councils’ efforts to reunify children in care with their birth families, a study has found. While most councils would like to do more to support reunification – both on principle and to save money on care placements – the government wasn’t supporting them to prioritise it, said the NSPCC and Action for Children.
Nnatasha Tracy
JANUARY 18, 2024
Recently, I've had days when I was useless due to bipolar disorder. My brain became a rock. I couldn't get a thought through it if I tired. And thanks to my brain's inability to think , I also couldn't work. Trying to do anything -- and I mean anything -- brought about nothing but crushing overwhelm. And all of this lack of productivity brought about a lot of self-flagellation.
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The Guardian
JANUARY 18, 2024
Inflated compliance ratings spark concerns providers are being prioritised and families misled Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Almost 150 aged care homes that did not meet minimum standards for safety and care were awarded four- or five-star compliance ratings last year, leading to concerns families are potentially being misled.
Social Care
JANUARY 18, 2024
With enormous thanks to current and former Chief Social Workers for Adults , Lyn Romeo and Mark Harvey, the Social Care blog is pleased to share this fantastic blog from Southend Museums ' Ciara Phipps. She and her team have been exploring different ways to work more closely with social care council colleagues, to help more people understand and value the role arts, culture and heritage play in fostering good health, wellbeing and inclusive communities.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 18, 2024
● You hear it from family police agencies all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. This investigative report from WABE Public Radio in Atlanta and ProPublica could have been called: Like hell they don’t! It documents hundreds of cases in which Georgia family police tore apart families for lack of housing – and nothing else. Read it and watch how, paragraph after paragraph, the madness of the system unfolds.
The Guardian
JANUARY 18, 2024
It is not clear who is to blame for tragic events in Skegness. But social workers and the families they support are under huge pressure The death of a two-year-old boy from dehydration and starvation in Skegness, Lincolnshire, has rightly prompted shock, sadness and anger. Bronson Battersby died because his father and main carer, Kenneth Battersby, was killed by a suspected heart attack and there was no one else in the home to look after him.
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