Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect. As in the past several years, ACF’s language suggested that child abuse and neglect are decreasing.

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Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2025

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. “Flawed statistics” are undermining councils’ understanding of outcomes for children in care, meaning they are unable to judge whether they are securing the right kinds of provision. That was the message from the South East Regional Care Co-operative (RCC) – one of two bodies set up to test the region-wide commissioning of placements – in a briefing paper on th

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The New Social Worker

JANUARY 27, 2025

Podcasting in Social Work Education opens with a brief history of the podcasting platform and makes a meaningful connection to social work education. Read our book review.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 27, 2025

Wed like to hear from people or anyone in their family who has been evicted from a care home providing specialist care for vulnerable adults due to funding cuts Residential homes providing specialist care to thousands of vulnerable adults with learning disabilities and severe autism have warned they are having to evict residents to avoid insolvency because of tax and wage rises and local authority funding cuts.

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Behavior Analysis

The Guardian

JANUARY 27, 2025

Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet for hours a day she is being left completely alone Last September, I received an email from a reader called Rosy. At just 53, motor neurone disease meant Rosy was losing her body as she knew it, piece by piece. Previously an assistant librarian at the University of Portsmouth, she was now struggling to hold a book.

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