Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 8, 2025

This blog was published on the website of Lives Cut Short on January 6, 2025. On January 17, 2020, eight-year-old Thomas Valva died of hypothermia in the freezing garage at the home of his father and his fathers live-in fiance. It soon came out that school staff had made multiple calls to the state child abuse hotline during the 16 months before Thomas death, describing how he and his brother were starved, beaten and forced to sleep in a garage and urinate upon themselves.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

By Tim Spencer-Lane The Childrens Wellbeing and Schools Bill was introduced in Parliament on 17 December 2024. Part 1 of the bill contains reforms to childrens social care. Part 2 makes provision relating to education in England. Most of the social care reforms were foreshadowed in the policy paper, Keeping children safe, helping families thrive , which was published in November 2024.

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International Federation of Social Workers

JANUARY 8, 2025

The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), in collaboration with IFSW, co-hosted the 2022 global summit Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind.

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Swhelper

JANUARY 8, 2025

Youth homelessness is an urgent issue in the United States with an estimated 4.2 million young people experiencing homelessness annually. These vulnerable youth face significant challenges that go far beyond the lack of stable housing, they are at higher risk for substance abuse, mental health disorders, and exploitation.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 8, 2025

Architect of previous attempts at reform says government could announce what it wants to do by end of 2025 UK politics live latest updates Downing Streets plan to spend three years preparing a blueprint to overhaul Englands social care is inappropriate given the urgency of the crisis facing frail, ill and disabled people, a leading care expert has told MPs.

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CCRC

JANUARY 8, 2025

A number of fast-spreading wildfires were burning Wednesday in Los Angeles. Propelled by high winds, at least four major blazes were prompting evacuations and producing very unhealthy air quality. As a result, CCRCs Sylmar and Chatsworth offices, as well as Head Start sites, were closed Wednesday. We are monitoring the situation and will provide updates on this page as they become available.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 8, 2025

Prime minister says any new inquiry into child abuse would delay progress as Kemi Badenoch says be a leader, not a lawyer Reform UK has also tabled a reasoned amendment to the childrens wellbeing and schools bill motion tonight. It says: That this house declines to give a second reading to the childrens wellbeing and schools bill because the secretary of state for the Home Department has not launched a UK-wide public inquiry into grooming gangs and has not committed to updating Members of this H

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