The New Social Worker

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The University of Iowa School of Social Work conducts an annual, nationwide poetry contest for social workers. Submissions for the 2025 contest will be accepted between Nov. 1, 2024, and Jan. 31, 2025.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Multicultural family embraces new experiences together Three years ago Victoria was working as a technology teacher at a school in Colorado Springs when she learned three of her students who had always been “a ray of sunshine” in her day would be leaving to go to a foster care placement in Denver. After talking it over with her husband Aaron, they decided to become a kinship foster care placement for the sibling group.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Providers say they will have to cut jobs and reduce the amount of care they deliver because of the increased costs imposed by the Budget, a survey has found. Almost two-thirds (64%) of organisations said they would need to make staff redundant, while 57% said they would have to hand care contracts back to councils and NHS commissioners, reported the Care Provider Alliance (CPA).

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

My mother, Janie Thomas, a social worker and lecturer, who has died aged 95, became a leading light in the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), of which she was president from 1984 to 1986. She began her career in 1955 at St George’s hospital, central London, before working with children and families at the London county council (LCC) and then the borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social care must be protected from the “catastrophic” impact of increases in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs), the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) said today. ADASS revealed that, by its calculations, local authorities would face £1.8bn in extra costs in 2025-26 due to increases in employers’ NICs and the national living wa

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