Community Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Councils have been warned that charging parents for taking children into care will undermine safeguarding and increase costs. The Family Rights Group (FRG) delivered the message after Derbyshire council set out plans to charge parents who agree to have their children accommodated under section 20 of the Children Act 1989.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Did you know that while only 10% of professionals across industries report experiencing disruptive behavior in the workplace, healthcare professionals report rates that are three times higher? In fact, horizontal violence — also known as lateral violence or workplace bullying — is alarmingly prevalent in nurse-to-nurse interactions, with estimates suggesting that between 46% and 100% of nurses experience or witness this behavior at some point in their careers.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

[div class=”127″] The government has cut £115m from planned funding for adult social care training and development this year. As a result, far fewer care staff will be able to gain baseline qualifications in social care and no funding will be ploughed into continuing professional development (CPD) for regulated professionals, such as nurses, working in the sector.

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MQ Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fussy eating is mainly influenced by genes and is a stable trait lasting from toddlerhood to early adolescence, finds MQ supported eating disorder research at UCL, King’s College London and the University of Leeds. The study, published in the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry compared survey results of parents with identical or non-identical twins in England and Wales from the ages of 16 months to 13 years.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Exchange program between the School of Social Work at McGill University and the Japan College of Social Work organizing International Study Exchange Seminar Series : Exchanging information and news of social welfare system and social work practice between Quebec and Japan. Please register and you will receive an email notice every month when a video is uploaded to the Japan College of Social Work YouTube Channel ( [link] ).

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Professor William Elliott III spoke with the Washington Post for an article about the new Brilliant Futures program, a child savings account program for two cohorts of students in Prince George’s County in Maryland. Elliott discussed how college savings programs can give participants long-term hope. “Oftentimes when we think about poverty, we only think about the starving kid who can’t eat, not understanding that the additional problem and very significant problem with being poor is that you

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Social Work With Adults

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I am delighted to announce the appointment of a new Chief Social Worker and a Mental Health Social Work lead to the Department of Health and Social Care. Chief Social Worker Sarah McClinton will be joining us in January 2025 as the Chief Social Worker. As Chief Social Worker, Sarah will be the head of profession, the public face of adult social work in England and a senior leader within the Department.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Recent developments in California and New York make it clear: Foster care is now known to be so harmful to children—and there is so much abuse in foster care—that agencies providing it are becoming uninsurable. Private foster care agencies are, of course, portraying this matter as a crisis. As a result, they’re seeking various forms of immunity from liability for the horrible things done to some children on their watch.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor The Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, in recent weeks has found itself at the center of a storm fueled by baseless rumors and misinformation about the absurd notion Haitians were capturing and eating dogs and cats. This unfounded claim soon spread on social media, resulting in a series of threats and harassment, leaving many Haitian residents fearful for their safety.

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