International Federation of Social Workers
DECEMBER 9, 2024
On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, Hillary Weaver, the IFSW Global Indigenous Commissioner, delivers the Federations Human Rights Day message.
Center for Child Protection
DECEMBER 13, 2024
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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Community Care
DECEMBER 9, 2024
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.
Children’s Defense Fund
DECEMBER 13, 2024
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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Michigan Social Work
DECEMBER 12, 2024
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.
Social Work Blog
DECEMBER 10, 2024
By Sekou “Koe” Murphy, MBA, BBA What are mission-driven profits? It simply means that an organization doesnt generate profits for profits sake, but those profits are generated for a higher ideal. Such as being used to expand services to the needy, invest in its people (e.g., training or pay equity) or provide for a stronger balance sheet so that the company has enough cash/investments to survive the inevitable downturn in its business.
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Community Care
DECEMBER 13, 2024
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
Michigan Social Work
DECEMBER 12, 2024
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2024
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.
The Guardian
DECEMBER 8, 2024
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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Community Care
DECEMBER 13, 2024
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.
Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 11, 2024
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.
Child Welfare Monitor
DECEMBER 9, 2024
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.
The Guardian
DECEMBER 8, 2024
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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Community Care
DECEMBER 11, 2024
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
Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 11, 2024
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2024
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.
The Guardian
DECEMBER 8, 2024
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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Community Care
DECEMBER 11, 2024
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.
Gary Direnfeld
DECEMBER 11, 2024
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.
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