Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The shortage in children’s social workers in English local authorities is likely to increase over the coming decade, the Department for Education has said. The DfE has raised the level of risk to its objectives posed by there being insufficient social workers from “moderate” to “critical”, according to its annual report for 2023-24, published last week.

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Michigan Social Work

AUGUST 8, 2024

Professor Rogério M. Pinto was featured on Academic Minute, a daily radio segment showcasing academic research on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio. In the segment, Pinto explores how artwork can help white heterosexual men to confront feelings of homophobia and sexism.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. A scheme to tackle racial disparities in councils’ social care workforces has more than doubled in scope. Skills for Care said today that over 50 of England’s 153 authorities would take part in the social care workforce race equality standard (SC-WRES) improvement programme in 2024-25.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 8, 2024

New York must not absolve these institutions of responsibility for actions alleged in Child Victims Act lawsuits. To hear the private agencies that institutionalize foster children in New York tell it, the rampant abuses that went on in their facilities, abuses that have led to more than 800 lawsuits under the Child Victims Act, are “sins of the past,” so they shouldn’t have to pay for them.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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The Guardian

AUGUST 8, 2024

As fewer Britons have children, more will be left to navigate our threadbare social care system and overstretched hospitals alone It was visiting time at the hospital, and the corridors were full of dutiful middle-aged sons and daughters. The woman who held the ward door open for me was balancing a formidable stack of Tupperware boxes: home-cooked food, in case the nurses were too busy to make sure her elderly father ate.

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