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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

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Sensitivity to ‘bruised’ staff needed for effective DfE intervention in ‘inadequate’ services, finds study

Community Care

Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. Clarity of roles in the context of there being multiple people involved with authorities in intervention. Child protection improvements.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

The assessment process enables you to appreciate your client’s perspective on their situation, identify their priority areas for intervention, and recognize the strengths they bring to the therapeutic process. Informed Consent: Social workers get informed consent from clients before initiating any interventions or services.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Unfortunately, Maine’s equivalent of the federal Government Accountability Office, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability (OPEGA) did indeed fall for it in a report released last week. The report claims that parents have the right to refuse to let their children be interviewed. isn’t reassuring.

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Eileen Munro on the legacy of her child protection review

Community Care

Our interview with Eileen Munro is part of a series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary. And there are chief social workers for children’s and adults’ services within the government and principal social workers for each service in every local authority.

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55,000 on waiting lists for child sexual abuse support services, estimates research

Community Care

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) found that just half of services were able to meet demand for services including one-to-one therapy or counselling, group-based interventions, helplines or advocacy for child or adult victims/survivors and family members.

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Significant disparities in council support for kinship carers revealed by survey

Community Care

The Foundations study, based on survey responses from 80 councils (52% of the total), interviews with staff from 35 of these and round table discussions with 31 kinship carers, examined how far authorities provided support to the different types of kinship carer. ” . ”