Child Welfare Monitor
JULY 8, 2024
Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. They seem to have forgotten that reductions in foster care were supposed to be accompanied by increased services so that children could be safely maintained at home.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 9, 2024
It turns out, Paris Hilton knows more about "residential treatment facilities" than at least one self-proclaimed "child welfare scholar." (Photto by Peter Schäfermeier, via Wikimedia Commons) In a previous post , I noted the increasing desperation of Richard Barth. The former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and self-proclaimed “child welfare scholar” seeks to run from the fact that the system he’s done so much to build and maintain – the family policing system – has fail
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Social Work Blog
JULY 9, 2024
By Rachel Boyer, MSW, LMSW Ahead of the 2024 NASW National Conference, more than 200 social workers from 36 states and one U.S. Territory attended 172 meetings with Congressional offices in both the U.S. House and Senate on June 18, 2024. The purpose of these meetings was to build bipartisan support for key legislation that will expand access to care and assist the social work workforce.
International Federation of Social Workers
JULY 12, 2024
On the 9th July the IFSW UN Commission team in North America hosted a side event at the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.
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Social Work.Career
JULY 7, 2024
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Community Care
JULY 12, 2024
By Sorcha Morgan, head of service, CFAB Recently, I closed Baby Leo’s case. His mother had been unable to care for him due to her substance misuse and consideration was given to him being cared for by his maternal grandmother in Italy, who had been identified as a potential carer earlier in proceedings. The local authority had initially sought an assessment through the Central Authority for the Hague Convention 1996 (see box) but the standard of reporting and analysis was too brief and so the lo
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Beyond Advocacy
JULY 11, 2024
On Sunday, July 21, 2024, at 2:00 p.m., family and friends of former Congressman Edolphus “Ed” Towns will gather at the Berean Baptist Church to celebrate 90 years of a life well lived. He will share his big day with his son, Darryl C. Towns, whose 63 rd birthday falls on the same day as his father’s. He is a longtime member of the church at 1635 Bergen Street in Brooklyn, New York, 11213.
The International Association Of Schools Of Social
JULY 10, 2024
Editors are currently scoping the possibility of creating a book focusing on the challenges associated with the increasingly widespread use of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Digital Technologies in the welfare, social work and human services and society more generally. We are aware that the emerging transformative technologies and algorithmic governance and artificial technologies are introducing serious challenges for the future of these professions and their ability to remain relevant
The Child and Family Corp
JULY 8, 2024
Key takeaways for caregivers Decades of research points to specific ways parents can build resilience that can help protect children from the challenges of adverse experiences and stress. Strategies include parent-focused tips such as practicing self care, reflecting on one’s own past experiences, and developing emotional control. Additional strategies focus on ways to navigate relationships with children, including being a source of unconditional love and support, communicating, supporting chil
Community Care
JULY 8, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Stephen Kinnock has been appointed as the minister with responsibility for adult social care in the new government. The Labour MP for Aberavon in Wales becomes minister of state for care in the Department of Health and Social Care. His appointment comes despite him never having held the portfolio as a shadow minister, in which capacity he had oversight over the Asia and Pacific region, the
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Nicole Clark Consulting
JULY 9, 2024
Saying yes to a partnership signals that you’re ready to be in collaboration with other organizations to solve a community need, and examining whether your organization should have a role in a partnership allows you to think thoughtfully and strategically. What role does your organization typically play in a partnership? Do you find yourself bringing [.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 8, 2024
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The Guardian
JULY 6, 2024
I was there through their infirmity, incontinence, our cohabitation - and suddenly I was fired Like an organised criminal, my mother no longer communicates by phone. Visiting her can be convoluted, but it beats the days when I thought I might never get away. That’s what I tell myself, anyway. Her, I tell very little, until I arrive. Plans and possibilities weigh heavily on Mum’s mind, raising questions whose answers she cannot remember, stranding her in her own inquiries.
Community Care
JULY 10, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Labour’s return to power last week was greeted with a chorus of welcomes from adult social care organisations in England – along with a chorus of demands of the new government. Broadly, these were for significant investment in, and reform to , the sector to address issues including unmet need, workforce shortages and inadequate care.
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Beyond Advocacy
JULY 8, 2024
November 5, 2024, looms as a defining day in the struggle to preserve democracy in the United States. Democrats seek to fend off Donald Trump’s quest to usher in his brand of authoritarianism. The Supreme Court has set the stage with its determination that the President is immune from or presumed to be immune from illegalities emanating from “official acts.
Community Care
JULY 12, 2024
New chairs have been announced for the two principal social worker networks that represent PSWs in England. Cheshire West and Chester Council’s Gavin Butler and Kate Concannon, the PSW in Southampton, will take the helm of the Adult Principal Social Worker (APSW) Network for the next two years. They succeed Sarah Range (Southend) and Hannah Scaife (South Gloucestershire), and will be supported by new vice-chairs Vanna Changlee (Waltham Forest), Seanna Lasseter (Walsall) and Coleen Simon (C
The Guardian
JULY 6, 2024
Workers in healthcare, education and justice are battling crumbling systems. They told us what actions they want to see from the new government Keir Starmer opened his first cabinet meeting on Saturday with the words: “We have a huge amount of work to do.” From the NHS to schools and prisons, the public sector is battling chronic underfunding, staff shortages and record demand for its services.
The Guardian
JULY 6, 2024
The prime minister has reminded the country that politics can be a force for good and change people’s lives It could not come soon enough. After 14 years, Britain at last has a government motivated by re-energising a sluggish economy rather than channelling lucrative state contracts to wealthy friends. A government keen to close the gap between young people from different backgrounds rather than impoverishing children.
Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.
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The Guardian
JULY 10, 2024
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London Soulful anthems with hard-knock lyrics cover 150 years of British care system history in a sophisticated show from Lung theatre company We’re a long way from Annie. The Children’s Inquiry is a questing musical about kids in care – there are no moppet antics or life-changing benefactors. Instead, the pioneering theatre company Lung pursue the changing British care system over 150 years, exposing the heartbreakingly arbitrary way in which children’s fates can b
The Guardian
JULY 12, 2024
Readers respond to Michael Aylwin’s article about his wife’s dementia I am not ashamed to say that I wept while reading Michael Aylwin’s article ( ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s’, 9 July ). He has articulated so many of the feelings and experiences that my wife and I have encountered across the more than 10 years since her diagnosis.
The Guardian
JULY 8, 2024
I have been left in limbo after I told the Department for Work and Pensions a temporary job had pushed me over the earnings limit I was interested to see your story on 3 June about the person who spent more than four months trying to get their carer’s allowance restarted by the Department for Work and Pensions after a temporary job took them over the earnings threshold.
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