Community Care

AUGUST 23, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) referrals hit a new high in 2023-24 but practitioners managed to cut backlogs, official figures have shown. Care homes and hospitals made 332,455 applications to deprive a person of liberty for their own protection last year, up 11% on the figure for 2022-23, according to NHS England’s annual DoLS data.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 23, 2024

On behalf of the editorial board, I am pleased to extend an invitation to you to contribute a research article to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Change and Development. As a distinguished academic in the field, your expertise and insights would be a valuable addition to our journal. The Journal of Social Policy, Social Change and Development is a prestigious Thai journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and fostering dialogue in the fields of social policy, social change, and development

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The Guardian

AUGUST 23, 2024

As the winter fuel allowance is scrapped for many pensioners, we outline some other key benefits • Millions facing ‘cruel winter’ without fuel payments, Labour MPs warn Labour backbenchers are warning that millions of vulnerable people will face a “cruel winter” amid rising energy prices and a reduction in benefits, including the removal of winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners.

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Government University Disability Welfare 14

Children’s Defense Fund

AUGUST 23, 2024

Just as Fannie Lou Hamer’s historic appearance before the credentials committee at the 1964 Democratic National Convention paved the way for history being made right now, this moment has been infused by the groundbreaking legacy of the eternally unbought, unbossed U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm. Rep. Chisholm, the Brooklyn-born daughter of immigrants from Barbados and Guyana, was honored multiple times during this year’s Democratic National Convention for her roles as the first Black woman

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Diversity 40

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!

Behavior Analysis

The Guardian

AUGUST 23, 2024

Rather than free care for all, funding should concentrate on better care for the less well-off, says David Lipsey Alan Walker is right to condemn the “low priority given to social care compared with healthcare” ( Letters, 14 August ). And yet he praises as “brilliant” the job done by the Sutherland royal commission. The Sutherland commission was a disaster for social care.

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Healthcare 12

Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 23, 2024

As I watched the Democratic National Committee’s convention last week and listened to many pundits describe it as flawless, I thought about how much of Motown’s success was due to its meticulous grooming of its artists and the music they presented. You have to be a certain age to appreciate the Motown era that began in 1960. You had the chance to experience it as it unfolded.

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Schools 52