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IFSW 2023 End of Year Report Now Available

International Federation of Social Workers

IFSW is proud to announce the release of its 2023 End of Year Report, highlighting a year of resilience and commitment to social justice and social work globally.

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Modern slavery in social care surging since visa rules eased

The Guardian

Exclusive: exploitation in sector has soared with more than 10 times as many potential victims as in 2021 Modern slavery is surging in social care since ministers relaxed immigration rules to fill thousands of vacancies, with a growing wave of exploitation leading to workers being ripped off or living in squalor. Unpublished figures show at least 800 people working in care homes or people’s residences were charted as potential victims last year, more than 10 times the number recorded before the

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NCCPR in the Arizona Mirror: No, sex-trafficking satanists have not infested DCS. The real problems are way worse.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Here’s the good news: Contrary to what one state legislator seems to believe, the Arizona Department of Child Safety is not in the grip of a global satanic sex trafficking cabal. Here’s the bad news: The real problems at DCS are way worse. If it were just a few satanists in high places, all we’d have to do is weed them out. But the real problems at DCS are rooted in a culture that has plagued the mostly well-meaning people working in Arizona child welfare for decades: the false assumption that c