Mon.Mar 24, 2025

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Use of unregulated experts in family courts to be curbed following ‘parental alienation’ concerns

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The use of unregulated experts in children’s family court cases is to be curbed, following concerns about their use in cases involving so-called “parental alienation” The courts would not be able to permit the instruction of an expert who was not regulated or on an accredited register other than in exceptional circumstances, under a proposed change to the Family Procedure

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Managing Our Own Fixing Fantasies

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Most of us who become psychotherapists want to help people feel better, so we are primed to want to fix their problems as quickly as possible. It is reasonable that couples come to us wanting to feel better as quickly as possible. Most of them want to keep their relationships, although they are often afraid that this might not be possible. They are looking to us for hope, and they want us to stop the painful patterns that they have been repeating with each other.

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‘How social workers can prepare for a case review and why involving them promotes better outcomes’

Community Care

By Donna Ohdedar Social workers are often the focus for blame when a tragedy occurs. When practice falls short of what was expected, leaders are under pressure to show accountability. But where this leads to more compliance measures and defensiveness, were not creating the conditions for workers to do what they do best. With high caseloads and overwhelm, a more supportive approach would encourage openness, ownership and, inevitably, a better outcome that doesnt result in more time-consuming proc

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‘Hospices are in retreat’: funding crisis squeezing UK palliative care providers

The Guardian

St Catherines hospice in West Sussex says it has been forced to leave beds empty despite the demand for end-of-life care At the end of 2023, St Catherines hospice near Crawley, West Sussex, moved to a new purpose-built, state-of-the art building. Twenty-four private rooms with en suite bathrooms and French doors leading to individual terraces were designed to make the final days of a patients life as peaceful as possible.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

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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Disastrous Plan to Eliminate the Department of Education

Social Work Blog

The Trump administration has followed through with its not-so-secret threat to eliminate the Department of Education. The first to reaching that objective was the recent confirmation of Betsy DeVos a well-known advocate for eliminating the Department of Education to head that agency. Once done, DeVos immediately announced that nearly half (1315 people) of DOEs current employees will be immediately laid off.