Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

A new report by the Senate Finance Committee concludes that children in residential treatment facilities routinely suffer harms like sexual and physical abuse, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, and lack of needed therapy. Further, it concludes that these harms are endemic to residential care itself. While the fact that some residential care facilities are substandard and cause harm to children is undisputed, the SFC’s study is poorly designed and should not be used as the basis of policy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Photo by Alan Levine When children are taken from their parents forever and those children are adopted by strangers, the parents often want to leave their children something to remember them by, perhaps a cherished keepsake or a family photo from happier times. So they give these personal effects to the family police agency to pass on to the children.

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Beautiful Voyager

JULY 21, 2024

Techniques to lessen pain and quell anxiety Hello reader! I’m Meredith Arthur. I work as a Chief of Staff for Pinterest’s product incubation studio and am the founder of Beautiful Voyager , a content and community site for overthinkers, people pleasers, and perfectionists. I first started my journey into mental health research in 2015 when the neurologist treating my migraines diagnosed me with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

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The Child and Family Corp

JULY 22, 2024

Key takeaways for caregivers Social exclusion harms individuals of all ages, leading to feelings of loneliness, decreased self-esteem, and even changes in brain activity. Humans’ ability to recognize and react to social exclusion emerges early, suggesting the importance of considering and addressing ostracism even when caring for very young children.

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JULY 22, 2024

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Safe Kids Worldwide

JULY 22, 2024

How to Stay Safe in a Rip Current from Someone Who’s Been There (twice) Facebook Like Google Plus One Tweet Widget Pinterest By the age of 12, I had experienced being caught in rip currents on two different occasions. Both incidents occurred in the presence of others, in front of a lifeguard stand, and under a yellow flag (signaling moderately rough currents).

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Social Work Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Article by Kim M. Simpson, Connect to End COVID-19 Communications Lead. During the COVID-19 pandemic, social workers, like most helping professionals, ramped up quickly under intense circumstances to help individuals and families to make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. As part of a national response to the pandemic, Connect to End COVID-19 is a $3.3 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded initiative to help social workers and their clients to ma

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Community Care

JULY 25, 2024

The Care Quality Commission is “not fit for purpose”, health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has declared, after a damning report found significant failings within the regulator. These were hampering its ability to identify poor performance at the services it regulates, residential homes, nursing homes and domiciliary care providers, found the interim report of Dr Penny Dash’s review of the CQC.

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The Guardian

JULY 26, 2024

Former politicians pay tribute after files show ‘Labour’s most successful leader’ was forced to consider selling legacy to pay for his dementia care Margaret Thatcher described him as “the most skilful of politicians” and Tony Blair thought him “Labour’s most successful leader ever”. Such elegies on the death in 1995 of Harold Wilson, 79, the twice Labour prime minister who had Alzheimer’s and colon cancer, betray nothing of the reality of his later years – spent in the unforgiving grip of demen

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N.A.H

JULY 21, 2024

This post is the sixth of a seven-part series on understanding multipartiality in Intergroup Dialogue, as explained by Roger Fisher. In... The post Understanding Multipartiality in Intergroup Dialogue Part 6: Complicating Factors appeared first on Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

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Health & Social Care Workforce

JULY 23, 2024

Maureen Crane, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London. It was with deep sadness I heard about the death on 27 May 2024 of Jeremy Swain. He was a key figure in tackling homelessness and particularly rough sleeping for decades.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 24, 2024

By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor The Nebraska legislature recently restored the voting rights of 7,000 people with felony convictions who have already completed their full sentences. However, two days before the law (Legislative Bill 20) was set to go into effect, the state’s Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued a formal opinion asserting that the legislature violated Nebraska’s Constitution, claiming the law infringed on the executive branch’s exclusive authority to restore civil rig

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The Guardian

JULY 25, 2024

Study predicts overall economic cost of cancer, heart disease, dementia and stroke will rise by 61% The cost of England’s four biggest killer diseases could rise to £86bn a year by 2050, prompting calls for a crackdown on alcohol, junk food and smoking. The ageing population means the annual cost of cancer, heart disease, dementia and stroke combined will go from the £51.9bn recorded in 2018 to £85.6bn in 2050 – a rise of 61%.

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N.A.H

JULY 21, 2024

This post is the seventh of a seven-part series on understanding multipartiality in Intergroup Dialogue, as explained by Roger Fisher. In... The post Understanding Multipartiality in Intergroup Dialogue Part 7: Frequently Asked Questions appeared first on Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 26, 2024

Two recent news stories aptly illustrate what Missouri children “at risk” of maltreatment need — and what they don’t. What they need is concrete help for their families, so their family poverty is not confused with “neglect” and they are not torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. To his great credit, Missouri Republican U.S.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 25, 2024

The political landscape appears to be a swirling sandstorm with Kamala Harris’s ascension to the top spot of the Democratic ticket. After agonizing weeks of waiting to see if President Biden would accept the bleak prognosis for his reelection, he finally gracefully capitulated and gave a full-throated endorsement of his vice president. I was attending the 90 th birthday celebration for former Congressman Edolphus “Ed” Towns when the news broke.

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The Guardian

JULY 25, 2024

Health secretary’s comments follow finding that Care Quality Commission struggling to identify performance issues in hospitals and care homes Wes Streeting has called England’s healthcare watchdog “not fit for purpose” after an interim report found significant failings were hampering its ability to identify poor performance at hospitals, care homes and GP practices.

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N.A.H

JULY 21, 2024

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N.A.H

JULY 21, 2024

This post is the second of a seven-part series on understanding multipartiality in Intergroup Dialogue, as explained by Roger Fisher. This... The post Understanding Multipartiality in Intergroup Dialogue Part 2: Facilitation Styles appeared first on Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian.

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N.A.H

JULY 21, 2024

This post is the third of a seven-part series on understanding multipartiality in Intergroup Dialogue, as explained by Roger Fisher. This... The post Understanding Multipartiality in Intergroup Dialogue Part 3: Counternarratives appeared first on Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian.

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N.A.H

JULY 21, 2024

This post is the fourth of a seven-part series on understanding multipartiality in Intergroup Dialogue, as explained by Roger Fisher. One... The post Understanding Multipartiality in Intergroup Dialogue Part 4: Cultural Exploitation appeared first on Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian.

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The Guardian

JULY 23, 2024

Consumer expert writes to chancellor outlining four changes to help remedy financial injustices Rachel Reeves must overhaul the allowance that has resulted in thousands of unpaid carers being saddled with life-changing debt, and in some cases threatened with criminal prosecution, the consumer finance expert Martin Lewis has said. Lewis has written to the chancellor, identifying four measures that he says are possible to enact without great cost to the taxpayer that would remedy financial injusti

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The Guardian

JULY 26, 2024

Acasia Welburn pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual activity with child by person in a position of trust A school worker has been jailed for sexually abusing an autistic boy who was under 16 at the time, police said. Acasia Welburn, now 26, had been working at a school in North Yorkshire in a “trusted care position” when she abused the child. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

JULY 21, 2024

Head of child protection says intimate images should be reported to tackle ‘tidal wave’ of online sexual abuse Parents of under-18s should be monitoring their children’s phones for nude pictures, according to the police chief for child protection, in order to tackle a “tidal wave” of online sexual abuse cases. The new lead for child abuse investigations at the National Police Chiefs’ Council, assistant chief constable Becky Riggs, told the Sunday Times parents needed to report any intimate image

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