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 2025 Asian & Pacific Islander Social Work Educators Association (APISWEA) International Conference

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Call for Abstracts: 2025 APISWEA International Conference on Social Work and Social Sciences May 16-19, 2025 Jakarta, Indonesia Welcome to the 2025 Asian & Pacific Islander Social Work Educators Association (APISWEA) International Conference on Social Work and Social Sciences, proudly hosted by the University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta (UMJ). This years conference is centered on the theme, Global Transformation and Challenges in Social Work and Social Sciences Toward Achieving the 2030 Sustai

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Child welfare in Maine: Some lawmakers want to strengthen a law that prohibits doctors from thinking.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Its taken more than half a century but slowly, some people in family policing (a more accurate term than child welfare) are realizing that mandatory child abuse reporting laws were a huge mistake. These laws force many professionals who deal with children, and, in some states, everyone, to report their slightest suspicion of whatever state law considers child abuse or neglect.

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Migrant health and care workers deserve better than this | Letters

The Guardian

Readers respond to an article by John Harris in which he reflects on a bitter absurdity at the heart of British life John Harriss article mentions the March 2024 rules banning new migrant care workers from bringing dependants ( In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them theyre not wanted, 16 February ). Less well known is that thousands of health and care workers who arrived before this date have also been prevented from bringing their children most of them si

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