Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The care population in England has fallen for the first time in 16 years but remains at historically high levels, Department for Education (DfE) data has shown. The number of looked-after children in England fell by 0.5%, from 83,760 to 83,630, in the year to March 2024, the first reduction in the care population since 2008.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Exclusive: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked disease The UK’s growing addiction to unhealthy food costs £268bn a year, far outstripping the budget for the whole NHS, the first research into the subject has found. The increased consumption of foods high in fat, salt and sugar or which have been highly processed is having a “devastating” impact on human health and Britain’s finances.

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Children’s Defense Fund

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

By Marian Wright Edelman On Veterans Day, November 11, the state of Maryland posthumously named Harriet Tubman a one-star brigadier general in Maryland’s National Guard. Many people know about Harriet Tubman’s legacy of liberation as she freed herself from slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and then returned to the South more than a dozen times, risking her own life and freedom each time, to lead groups of family members and friends to freedom too.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor President-elect Donald Trump recently announced his nomination of Tom Homan — former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — to be his “border czar.” This position will be responsible for overseeing the southern and northern borders, as well as maritime and aviation security. More importantly, Homan will be responsible for deportation efforts — a central part of Trump’s agenda.

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Children’s Defense Fund

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

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