The New Social Worker
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
When self-care is conveyed as reward for being good and/or permission to be bad, we erode its essence. We do not need to be good; we do not need to be bad. In caring for self, we simply and powerfully re-claim the essence of being human.
Child Welfare Monitor
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
by Patty Flores I am grateful to be publishing this essay by a gifted and needed young voice in the child welfare space. Liliana “Patty” Flores, MSW is a clinician, researcher, advocate, educator, and motivational speaker. Her intersectionality and affiliation with marginalized identities such as being an undocumented Salvadoran female, LGBTQ+, foster youth, homeless, and cycling in and out of juvenile jails, have shaped the way she sees social issues.
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CO4Kids
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Back to Blogs Parent Partner Blog Couple Embrace Fatherhood Through Adoption from Foster Care Five years ago, in August of 2020, Charlie and Max adopted their sons, brothers Jaden and Tristen, in a virtual adoption. With all their friends and family around them, the boys are finding their stride both socially and academically. Max and Charlie are proud of their sons, now 12 and 10, as they are both finding success in school and with friends.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Indiana counties’ refusal to accept federal funds for family defense shows disdain for overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately Black families The federal government will reimburse family policing agencies and/or the courts for part of the cost of providing lawyers to indigent children and parents when the agency wants to investigate those families for alleged child abuse.
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Nnatasha Tracy
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
I thought for a long time that I could outthink bipolar disorder. I believed that if I just read the right book or learned the right coping skill, I could defeat it with sheer willpower. But here's the truth: bipolar disorder isn’t just in your mind – it’s in your brain. You can’t think your brain into health any more than you can think your pancreas into producing insulin.
CCRC
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Understanding Key Stages and Activities Early childhood development is critical to a child’s future physical and cognitive abilities. Research shows that the early stages of a child’s development impact education and relationship outcomes in their later life. One of the most important areas of early growth is a child’s cognitive development.
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The Guardian
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Exclusive: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission added up cost to NHS and economy of diet-linked disease The UK’s growing addiction to unhealthy food costs £268bn a year, far outstripping the budget for the whole NHS, the first research into the subject has found. The increased consumption of foods high in fat, salt and sugar or which have been highly processed is having a “devastating” impact on human health and Britain’s finances.
Health & Social Care Workforce
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Carl Purcell, of the Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London, reflects on a recent meeting of the Social Work History Network (17 June 2024).
Gary Direnfeld
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
I asked how many therapists they saw before me. She said, “Three. Each only once.” She added that each one kept looking at their clock from about 30 minutes in. She felt rushed and anxious, concerned if she could say everything she needed to before running out of time. Finally, being cut off and asking to settle the payment, it left her with the impression they were all only interested in her for the money.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social work practice changes are needed to engineer a shift towards much greater direct contact between adopted children and their birth families, experts have said. The call came in a report that urged an overhaul of the current “outdated” approach to post-adoption contact in order to enable more face-to-face time between children and their birth relatives.
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Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Helen-Ann Hartley says archbishop’s position is untenable as members of Church of England’s ruling body launch petition A Church of England bishop has added her voice to growing calls for the archbishop of Canterbury to resign over his failure to pursue a sadistic abuser of children when allegations were brought to his attention. Helen-Ann Hartley, the bishop of Newcastle, said Justin Welby’s position was untenable and he should quit.
Children’s Defense Fund
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
By Marian Wright Edelman On Veterans Day, November 11, the state of Maryland posthumously named Harriet Tubman a one-star brigadier general in Maryland’s National Guard. Many people know about Harriet Tubman’s legacy of liberation as she freed herself from slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and then returned to the South more than a dozen times, risking her own life and freedom each time, to lead groups of family members and friends to freedom too.
Gary Direnfeld
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Christmas is coming fast, especially if you are a separated parent with a nar-cissistic ex. You may be taking a run at the courts, mediation or there may be a flurry of emails and text messages all to settle some plans. Remember, even after whatever means of communicating or negotiating you choose and assuming you even reach an agreement, don’t expect it’s going to go as planned.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of mainstream foster care households in England has fallen by 10% over the past three years, despite a rising care population, official figures have shown. As of 31 March 2024, there were 33,745 approved non-kinship foster households, down by 1,260 (3.6%) on the year before and by 3,580 (9.6%) since 2021, revealed the Ofsted data.
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The Guardian
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Financial lifeline could alleviate fears end-of-life services are at risk of closure from tax hike and higher wage bills The government is likely to offer a financial lifeline to the hospice sector amid fears end-of-life care providers are at risk of closure due to the double blow of the employers’ national insurance rise and higher wage bills, the Guardian understands.
Children’s Defense Fund
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) is proud of our legacy of working to improve the health and well-being of children and youth for more than 50 years. With child advocates across the nation, we are building community so young people grow up with dignity, hope, and joy. CDF is not, nor has it ever been, associated with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., or Children’s Health Defense, the organization he created.
Gary Direnfeld
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Trigger warning. This post discusses sexual abuse. —— Sexual abuse. It shouldn’t happen. For some, it does. That can bring psychological and emotional harm. There can be worse. The worse I am speaking of is when a parent is informed and there is an expectation to maintain secrecy and/or not confront and address the incident in a way that holds the abuser accountable.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The care population in England has fallen for the first time in 16 years but remains at historically high levels, Department for Education (DfE) data has shown. The number of looked-after children in England fell by 0.5%, from 83,760 to 83,630, in the year to March 2024, the first reduction in the care population since 2008.
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The Guardian
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Exclusive: Study finds evidence of major gaps in government oversight of foreign workers in care sector Nearly 200 care providers have been given government licences to bring foreign nurses to the UK despite having previously violated labour laws, according to a study that highlights widespread employment problems in the social care sector. The report by the Work Rights Centre shows 177 companies in England have been given licences to sponsor carers, even while publicly available information sho
Social Work Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor President-elect Donald Trump recently announced his nomination of Tom Homan — former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — to be his “border czar.” This position will be responsible for overseeing the southern and northern borders, as well as maritime and aviation security. More importantly, Homan will be responsible for deportation efforts — a central part of Trump’s agenda.
Gary Direnfeld
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
It’s hard seeing your adult child dating who you consider to be the wrong potential partner. You may want to speak up, but should you? Outcomes can depend on the relationship between parent and child. The better the relationship, the more likely such a discussion can be successful. However, discussing the qualities of their potential partner, particularly uninvited, can create tensions that may undermine your relationship with your adult child and their budding partner.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Employers in England have been issued with guidance on implementing recently introduced rules to reduce use of agency staff as well as longstanding standards on how they support their social workers. The Department for Education-commissioned resources, produced by Research in Practice, Essex County Council and King’s College London, are designed to improve support for, and the stabili
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The Guardian
NOVEMBER 9, 2024
Process for interpreting hair-strand tests can be misleading and carries a risk of racial bias, according to campaigners in England and Wales Children are at risk of being wrongly removed from their parents’ care by the family courts because drug tests are being misinterpreted, experts have warned. Life-changing decisions about whether a child should be placed in the care of a local authority can sometimes hinge on the outcome of hair-strand tests, designed to show whether a parent has consumed
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NOVEMBER 14, 2024
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
● It’s always a good time to hear from Jerry Milner, who ran the federal Children’s Bureau during the first Trump Administration. But it’s an especially good time now. Fortunately, he’s the guest on The Imprint podcast. His thoughts on policy begin at about 22:30 in. ● President Biden has apologized for what “child welfare” did to Native Americans in decades past.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
While the NHS has been given an exemption to the NIC increase, health services commissioned outside the health service have not, says Greg Fell Your article outlining the extra strain on council budgets that the rise in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) will cause highlighted the likely impact on adult and children’s social care services ( Adult social care in England needs urgent help from ministers, say bosses, theguardian.com, 6 November ).
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
From afternoon sherry to sex with the handyman in the lawnmower shed, Alan Bennett takes a wry look at lockdown life in a care home Back in 2020, with the country in lockdown, the BBC commissioned updated versions of Alan Bennett’s consummate Talking Heads, originally broadcast in 1988. Ten of the 12 monologues were remade with a new A-list of British actors that included Kristin Scott Thomas, Lesley Manville and Martin Freeman reprising roles played first time around by Eileen Atkins, Maggie Sm
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