Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Image: WWNY This essay was original published on the website of Lives Cut Short , a project to document child maltreatment deaths in the United States since 2022. I serve as Senior Project Associate on the project and worked on this essay. Jahmeik Modlin was found in a skeletal condition in a Harlem apartment stocked with food. He died the next day, and his three older siblings were hospitalized with severe malnutrition.

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CO4Kids

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Back to Blogs Community Blog November Proclaimed Homeless Youth Awareness and Action Month November is proclaimed National Homeless Youth Awareness and Action Month to build awareness of the issue of youth homelessness, including its causes and potential solutions, and highlight the need to work to prevent homelessness among children and teens. Since 2007 November has been a time to elevate the issue of youth homelessness; applaud the efforts of businesses, organizations, and volunteers dedicate

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We suggest that the National office for the Court-Appointed Special Advocates program use this item from The Daily Show as a training video In 2018, r esponding to former Today Show anchor Megyn Kelly’s appalling attempt to justify blackface, (for which she has apologized) her colleague Craig Melvin noted that, as a CNN story put it, “this controversy is an opportunity to inform people — but [Melvin] said most people already knew how offensive blackface is.

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CCRC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Child care providers in eligible programs who are attending community college are a priority for funding through a new grant. Apply here. The Child Development Training Consortium program provides support for specific educational expenses to students attending California Community Colleges. Students pursuing a career in early childhood or child development, may be eligible to apply for the Educational Support Grant.

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Shelter, Inc

OCTOBER 31, 2024

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Social Work.Career

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring almost 45 free webcasts that we could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest to you, […] The post Free Mental Health Webinars, November 2024 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.

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Child Care Aware

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This year’s Leadership Institute—Strong Leaders, Strong Child Care—was all about putting a firm stake in the ground on the essential role child care resource and referral leaders play in creating strong child care. Attendees did not disappoint! They came full of energy, ready to ask the hard questions, and fired up to be bold and loud. One theme that emerged over the two days is that it’s up to us claim our space.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 27, 2024

“My Rite of Passage takes place in the midtown Social Security office.” The poem “Entry Level” is excerpted from Jane Seskin’s book Older, Wiser, Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65 (2024).

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Beginning in January 2025, the MasterTrack Certificate (MTC) program, currently available on Coursera, will change its name and platform. The same great content and curriculum will be available as the Social Work Essentials Certificate (SWEC) and will replace the MTC as our School’s certificate program. It will be hosted on Canvas and maintained by our own social work program.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Building Evidence and Scaling Impact: The Role of Logic Models in Colorado’s Child Welfare Efforts Since the fall of 2022, the Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) has been partnering with communities across Colorado to support the development, implementation, and evaluation of child welfare/maltreatment prevention services/programs.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Rules curbing English councils’ use of agency social workers in children’s services come into force today, with the implementation of statutory guidance on their use. Under the policy, authorities will be expected to agree regional pay caps on locums’ hourly rates, refrain from hiring early career practitioners – or staff who have recently left permanent roles in the same region ̵

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By Sekou “Koe” Murphy Sekou “Koe” Murphy Financial security is a top concern for most of us, and it creates a lot of stress the older we get. Making matters worse, some employees are the main breadwinners in their households and may live in multi-generational homes, where financial security becomes even more critical. Years ago, the attractive retirement benefit was a defined benefit plan.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In a recent column , Emily Putnam-Hornstein and Sarah Font claimed that “there remains strong resistance among child welfare scholars, advocates and national leaders to discussing maltreatment fatalities.” I have followed these issues for nearly 50 years, first as a reporter and for the past 34 as an advocate. I coordinate one listserv for grassroots family advocacy organizations and another for professionals in the field, and I participate in the discussions of three other advocacy coalitions.

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CO4Kids

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Back to Blogs Child Welfare Blog Building Evidence and Scaling Impact: The Role of Logic Models in Colorado’s Child Welfare Efforts Since the fall of 2022, the Colorado Implementation Science Unit (CISU) has been partnering with communities across Colorado to support the development, implementation, and evaluation of child welfare/maltreatment prevention services/programs.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The government will provide £44m for kinship and foster care in this week’s Budget, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. The funding will enable up to 10 areas to test providing kinship carers with allowances to cover some of the costs of care, encouraging more family members or friends to come forward. It will also lead to the extension of regional fostering recruitment hubs to all council areas, to help them recruit more carers.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Guardian investigation revealed scale of penalties for unwitting breaches of carer’s allowance earnings limits Budget 2024: key points at a glance The earnings limit placed on people who claim government support for taking care of disabled, sick and elderly loved ones will rise by £45 a week, the chancellor has announced, after a six-month Guardian investigation into the carer’s allowance scandal.

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Children’s Defense Fund

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

By Marian Wright Edelman “On March 7, 1965, a group of us attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to dramatize to the nation that people wanted to register to vote. One young African American man had been shot and killed a few days earlier, in an adjoining county called Perry County. and because of what happened to him, we made a decision to march.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

● At long last, the United States has officially apologized for 150 years of trying to use “child welfare” and children’s “best interests” to eradicate Native America. You can watch President Biden issue the apology here. ● The Imprint has the reaction of tribal leaders, who praised the apology but noted that the words must be followed by action. The story cites, among others, Jonathan W.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The £600m for social care announced in today’s Budget risks being swallowed up by wage and employer tax increases, leaving little or nothing to address spending pressures, sector leaders have warned. Both council and adult care provider bodies sounded the alarm over the impact of next year’s 6.7% rise in the national living wage (NLW) – which will benefit many thousands of

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Care providers, GPs and pharmacists warn increased costs will cause cuts and job losses Services that support some of England’s most vulnerable people have warned that tax increases in the budget will lead to cuts and closures that could devastate the charity sector. Although the NHS and councils are protected from the impact of the rise in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) announced in Wednesday’s budget, charities that provide services say the increase means they will face “ex

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social care services will receive an extra £600m at least in government grant funding next year, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in today’s Budget. The package was part of a settlement for local authorities in England that will see their available budgets rise by an estimated 3.2% in real terms in 2025-26, compared with this year.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Social Work England has set out its expectations of graduates on joining the profession in England. It has published 82 statements covering the knowledge, skills and behaviours the regulator believes that newly qualified social workers should possess at the point of registration to enable them to meet its professional standards. Social Work England consulted on the statements in 2022.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. “Chronic” Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) backlogs are leaving many people without the human rights protections the system was designed to provide, the Care Quality Commission has warned. People will continue to be failed without “urgent action” to overhaul a system that “has needed reform for over 10 years”, the CQC said, in a damning verdict on

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Most social workers have less time for learning than they did 12 months ago, research for Community Care Inform has found. The trend has been driven by high caseloads and team vacancy levels, and has affected practitioners’ career development, confidence and resilience. The Learning Landscapes 2024 study also identified a gap between the time practitioners felt they needed for learning each week and the time they had available, leading almost a fifth (18%) to consider leaving their current emplo

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Community Care

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Many thousands of care workers will get a 6.7% pay rise next April after the government announced the 2025 increase in the national living wage (NLW). The wage floor for UK workers aged 21 and over will increase from £11.44 to £12.21 per hour, while there will be a steeper rise in the national minimum wage for those aged 18-20, from £8.60 to £10.00 an hour, a 16.3% boost.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Further delay to the reform of children’s social care will prolong the “crisis” the sector is in and increase costs, charities have warned in response to the Budget. The Children’s Charities Coalition issued the message after the government indicated that “fundamental reform” of the sector would be implemented from April 2026 at the earliest, in its Budge

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Rachel Reeves made funding the NHS a priority, but people working in other areas said they were disappointed Rachel Reeves’s first budget emphasised raising taxes to help the NHS, as the health service tries to cope with huge waiting lists and an ageing population. Funding the NHS was a top priority, but people in other sectors – from universities to social care – feel the budget was a missed opportunity to deal with impending crises or bring in desperately needed reforms in their areas.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 31, 2024

PM says budget just ‘first step’ after watchdog said measures would make no difference to growth over five years Rachel Reeves is now being interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. She is being interviewed by Ed Balls , the former Labour shadow chancellor who is now a TV presenter. He asks her to confirm that workers will end up losing out because of the employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) increase.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Union group urges chancellor to better fund health, social care and childcare to get staff back to work and boost productivity UK businesses are losing staff working time because of waits for healthcare or caring duties due to underfunded public services, according to a poll of managers before Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget. More than half of 500 UK business leaders polled for the TUC said workers had to take time off in the last year because of problems accessing public services.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Rachael Dodgson of Dimensions says the budget adds to the pressure not-for-profit social care providers already face. Richard Robinson and Andrea Nicholas-Jones of Hourglass call on the chancellor to think again The budget is alarming for not-for-profit social care providers because it will put us under pressure to meet the increases in tax costs across our workforce.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Lib Dem leader says rise in employers’ contributions risks worsening NHS crisis UK politics live – latest updates The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to exempt the social care sector from the increase in national insurance in Labour’s budget, as an organisation representing many smaller care providers warned that the impact would be substantial.

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