Sat.Dec 07, 2024 - Fri.Dec 13, 2024

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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

By Marie Cohen Working in the field of child protection, it is sometimes hard to avoid the feeling of living in some type of alternate reality, where bizarre statements are accepted and obvious questions go unasked. A case in point was a hearing on the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) that took place on May 22, 2024 under the leadership of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, one of the original sponsors of the FFPSA.

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Keeping Kids Safe During the Holiday Season

Center for Child Protection

As the holiday season approaches, it’s likely that your focus will be shifting towards family, traditions, and making lasting memories. Its also a time when busy schedules and gatherings can create unique challenges for keeping children safe. By planning ahead and staying mindful, you can ensure the season remains both joyful and secure for the children and teens in your life.

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IFSW statement on the 2024 International Human Rights Day by Hillary Weaver

International Federation of Social Workers

On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, Hillary Weaver, the IFSW Global Indigenous Commissioner, delivers the Federations Human Rights Day message.

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‘Families first for children’ model to be rolled out to all councils, says chief social worker

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The families first for children (FFC) model currently being tested in 10 areas is set to be rolled out to all local authorities, the chief social worker for children and families has said. The planned nationwide expansion of the approach – which involves enhancing early help for families, involving family networks more in decision making and establishing specialist child protection te

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Nikki Giovanni

Children’s Defense Fund

By Marian Wright Edelman When poet, essayist, scholar, and activist Nikki Giovanni passed away on December 9, the world lost a singular voice. Young readers especially adored the dozen books she created for children, including beloved works like the Caldecott Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award-winning Rosa, illustrated by Bryan Collier. In a 2022 interview with the Washington Post, when asked what she believed the role of childrens literature was, she answered: Childrens literature is the f

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The School of Social Work Welcomes Greer Hamilton

Michigan Social Work

Greer Hamilton is a place-based researcher who examines how systems of oppression are embedded into the built environment and how they thus impact individuals health, well-being and use of public spaces. As a researcher, she uses community-engaged and arts-based approaches to understand study participants experiences with places. Prior to her work as a researcher, she worked in Buffalo, New York for nonprofits focused on health inequities and community capacity building.

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97% of social workers retain right to practise following latest registration renewal round

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Record numbers of social workers have retained their right to practise following the latest registration renewal round, the regulator has reported. Social Work England said 102,888 practitioners renewed their registration following the 2024 renewal period, up from 100,495 last year.

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Social Workers Bring Hope to the Holidays

Swhelper

The time has come for the holiday spirit to infuse almost every part of our lives. Festivity surrounds us, whether at the town square or the local grocery store.

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The School of Social Work Welcomes M. Candace Christensen

Michigan Social Work

M. Candace Christensens research takes a critical feminist approach to community-engaged, qualitative, arts-based research methodologies that prevent and respond to gendered, racial and anti-LGBTQ+ violence. Their commitment to this approach is grounded in their positionalities as a Femme genderqueer, poly-sexual, artist-activist and survivor of sexual violence.

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NCCPR in the New York Daily News: Can ACS stand up to foster care panic?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

In 2011, Joette Katz stepped off the Connecticut Supreme Court to take a far more difficult job: running the state Department of Children and Families, Connecticuts equivalent of the New York City Administration for Childrens Services. Within months, the death of a child known-to-the-system made headlines. As happened at least twice previously, there were calls to tear apart more families, and enormous pressure on Katz to tell her workers to do just that.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

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.

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Practitioners struggling to respond to extrafamilial harm to children, finds analysis of serious cases

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Practitioners are struggling to respond to extrafamilial harm to children, with little evidence that interventions are keeping them safe, an analysis of serious case reviews has found. Social workers and multi-agency colleagues are failing to identify children at risk by not picking up on early indicators, such as missing episodes, said the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, in its 2

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Down by the sea: poverty brings Blackpool life expectancy to UK low

The Guardian

Resort town struggles with squalid housing, poor nutrition for children and now, statistics show, earlier deaths It is a league table that no one wants to top. For the first time in 20 years, Blackpool, a once-glamorous seaside resort, this week overtook Glasgow to have the lowest average male life expectancy in the UK. Men born in Blackpool will now live until just after their 73rd birthday on average, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) study , six years less than the average

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Hooked on Video Games?

Gary Direnfeld

They kept trying to negotiate and talk their son out of his video game addiction. It didn’t work. They were loathe to disconnect him, to just cut off his supply. They feared violence. Rightly so. It wouldn’t be the first time he would have destroyed stuff in the house or threaten to kill himself. They didn’t want a repeat. Thing was, he certainly wasn’t going to change voluntarily.

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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending December 11, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

You may need to read this excerpt from a story by The Marshall Project and Reveal twice, because the first time you may think: Wait that cant be right. Oh yes it can: Across the country, hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for those very same substances on subsequent drug tests, an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal has found.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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Council to vote on bringing children’s services back in-house

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. A council is to vote on taking back control of children’s services from an external provider. Reading council’s policy committee will consider officers’ recommendation that it insource services from Brighter Futures for Children (BFfC), at a meeting on 18 December 2024.

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Teresa Smith obituary

The Guardian

My wife, Teresa Collingwood Smith, has died after a short illness, aged 82. Like her father, RG Collingwood, a philosopher and archaeologist, and her grandfather, WG Collingwood, an artist, writer and secretary to John Ruskin, Teresa is hard to pigeonhole. She was a successful Oxford academic, and also an experienced community organiser and activist with the ability to act as a catalyst for others.

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Sometimes You Just Have to Accept It

Gary Direnfeld

Sometimes the answer is “radical acceptance.” It’s built into the serenity prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” Its about truly accepting those things over which we have no control, coming to terms with that. With that we no longer fight.

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Sara Sharif case review begins after father and stepmother convicted of murder

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. A case review has begun after 10-year-old Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother were convicted of murdering her. After a 10-week trial, a jury found Urfan Sharif, 42, and Beinash Batool, 30, guilty of murder, and Sara’s uncle, Faisal Malik, 29, guilty of causing or allowing her death.

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Get Connected: Using Social Media for Social Work Success

Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

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Labour needs the will to solve social care crisis | Letters

The Guardian

A free adult social care system modelled on one already in operation in a London borough is achievable, according to Sally Powell and Stephen Burke. Plus a letter from John Ransford A royal commission on the future of social care ( Editorial, 3 December ) would be yet another example of how successive governments have kicked the care can further down the road.

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Changing Your Traditions This Holiday?

Gary Direnfeld

There comes a time for most when they seek to set their own holiday tradition. It comes after years of towing the line, being part of what their family of origin has done virtually all their life. Now, however, you have your own family and whether or not things go well at your parents’ gathering, you just want something for yourselves. You express your decision, it doesn’t land well.