Center for Child Protection

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A Community United in Hope and Healing This year marks a special milestone for the Center for Child Protection – the 20th anniversary of our Guardian Angel Society. Launched in 2004 with just 20 supporters, this remarkable giving program has blossomed into a powerful network totaling 400 dedicated donors in 2024. Guardian Angel Society Co-Chair, Nicole Grupp, said the philanthropic gifts from members for the past two decades have played a crucial role in the “successful outcomes thes

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Kicking off on 1 October with the United Nation’s International Day of Older Persons (UNIDOP2023) and concluding on 10 October in conjunction with the World Health Organization’s World Mental Health Day, this 3rd […]

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of fitness to practise (FtP) cases lasting at least three years has doubled since 2023, Social Work England figures have shown. While 150 cases had been open for more than three years as of 30 June 2023, this had grown to 294 a year later, showed data published in a report to the regulator’s July 2024 board meeting.

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Children’s Defense Fund

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Banned Books Week, which is typically observed the last week of September and this year is September 22-28, brings together the entire book community – including librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers of all ages – to support the freedom to read. It was first launched in 1982 and its importance is urgently clear today. The nonprofit PEN America’s latest research counted more than 10,000 book bans in the 2023-2024 school year.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The government has appointed Social Work England’s interim chair to the role on a substantive basis. Andrew McCulloch, who has overseen the regulator since Lord Patel’s resignation in February 2023 , has been made chair for the next three years. The Department for Education has also reappointed Adi Cooper and Sue Ross – both registered social workers – to the regulator’s board, also for a three-year term.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Magic Notes tool records and analyses face-to-face meetings and suggests follow-up actions Hundreds of social workers in England have begun using an artificial intelligence system that records conversations, drafts letters to doctors and proposes actions that human workers might not have considered. Councils in Swindon, Barnet and Kingston are among seven now using the AI tool that sits on social workers’ phones to record and analyse face-to-face meetings.

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