Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This bill would reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to strengthen child welfare services and expand the availability of prevention services. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, which held a hearing on the legislation on July 24, following a year-long review of child welfare programs.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

The number of places contracted to the Ministry of Justice to place children detained by the criminal justice system remained stable, at 105, meaning the drop in capacity fell entirely on local authorities looking to place children on welfare grounds or, more rarely, on remand.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The sharp rise in child protection enquiries follows the final report of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, which warned that the system was “increasingly skewed to crisis intervention” and needed to be rebalanced towards early help and family support. Care review concerns .

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

There are a wide range of job positions available in various settings, including healthcare, education, mental health, government agencies, private practice, counseling centers, research organisations and more. Case Manager–This role involves assessing, planning and implementing interventions to help meet the needs of clients.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

Under section 25 of the Children Act 1989 , such secure welfare placements may only be made if a child either has a history of absconding, would likely abscond from any other setting and, if they did so, would likely suffer significant harm; or would likely injure themselves or others if placed in any other setting.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Practitioners from the communities have produced a guide to carrying out welfare enquiries to help social workers and others support families affected by the measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This isn’t about parenting; this is about state intervention into private and family life,” she says.

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Brightpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

That family—especially if they are black or brown–might find themselves a couple of steps away from a foster care intervention when what they really needed were options that money can literally buy, like clothing, food, and child care. [5]. We’re also monitoring child behavior and parental stress levels for families in both groups.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Across multiple disciplines, women have built and maintained organizations, created social justice movements, governed with compassion, and brought order where there was once chaos. Women are no strangers to leadership. During these challenging economic times, social workers have an opportunity to empower those at risk.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Tokenism about racism Children’s Rights is a group that once actually claimed, in a fundraising pitch, to be “driving a national conversation about the urgent need to end unjust government intervention in the lives of Black children and families.” That makes especially offensive how that whole issue is handled in this McLawsuit.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 10, 2023

By bringing together internationally recognised authors and expertise to focus on an array of issues and concerns this series will reinforce social work as a global profession contributing to the significantly important area of social and welfare policy, education, and practice. tannt@suss.edu.sg tannt@suss.edu.sg

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week. Ongoing LADO review Meanwhile, the government’s review of the LADO role is ongoing.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

By definition, a social worker’s role includes safeguarding children, vulnerable adults and the promoting the welfare of young people. Monitor interventions Social workers monitor interventions that have been put in place to ensure they are helping the person and their family. Who can prescribe medicine?

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

In terms of what membership of this level could achieve, she sees BASW having better relationships – and, by implication – clout with government, as is the case with professional bodies in areas such as medicine. Increased clout. Focus on lived experience and equalities. Back to her social work roots.

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All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

Family Resource Centers (FRCs) are community-based hubs that provide a range of prevention and early intervention services to families. FRCs typically get funding from government grants, private donations, and partnerships with local businesses. Reduced involvement with the child welfare system. What Is a Family Resource Center?

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Social workers can work in different settings, such as schools, hospitals, non-profit organisations, government agencies, and private practice. Policy development, research, and evaluation are also areas where social workers contribute to improving social welfare systems and enhancing understanding of social issues.

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2024

As an illustration, I am reposting my 2022 review of Roberts’ most recent book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer Worl d. child welfare system. ” Those who liked Shattered Bonds will likely love Torn Apart.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

The best interests assessment training gives you the chance to update your skills in practice interventions and deepen your knowledge base about current research and policy in contemporary social work practice. In hindsight, this meant that there was a no refusal and other assessments could proceed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After decades of expanding the child welfare surveillance state to the point that more than one in three children and a majority of Black children will be forced to endure the trauma of a child abuse investigation by the time they turn 18, some states have noticed: Theyve been doing the same thing over and over and getting the same lousy results.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit. This would be an overreach in the roles and responsibilities of a government agency. Emphasis added.]

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In those instances, we need the care to be delivered in trauma-responsive environments that embrace parent and caregiver engagement throughout the treatment intervention and continually focus on best practice. They are informed by the emerging literature highlighting promising practices in residential interventions.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

When NCCPR released a comprehensive report on Colorado child welfare in September 2023, we included a section called Tapeworm in the System. The report makes no mention of the fact that, in other child welfare contexts, such tools have an ugly history of bias. And what, exactly, does that mean?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Councils should stop automatically triggering child protection enquiries under section 47 of the Children Act 1989 in response to bruising in pre-mobile infants, government advisers have said. This was despite researchers finding that accidental bruising of pre-mobile infants was not rare. Panel’s recommended procedure.

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Shelter, Inc

MARCH 12, 2025

Focus on Prevention and Intervention Prepare communities to recognize red flags and how to respond effectively. These coalitions bring together law enforcement, nonprofits, schools, hospitals, and government agencies to share information, improve victim identification, and strengthen response efforts, states Santa Maria.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

Child Welfare Social Worker vs. Social Services Specialist III) Organization Type: (Government, Non-profit, For-profit, Outside social services) Setting: (School, Clinic, Hospital, etc.) My classes in social welfare policy help me navigate healthcare systems and advocate effectively for my patients’ needs.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Here’s what you’ll find in it: PREFATORY MATERIAL Editor’s Note—Growth in Unprecedented Times, Nicolás Quaid Galván Foreword—Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well Being, Nancy D. I have a blog post about why that’s a problem, and why so much of the journalism of child welfare has failed. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? And it’s important to draw a distinction between that one element of government – the family police – and government as a whole.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? In South Dakota, it's when a child's "environment is injurious to his welfare." Poverty is confused with neglect!

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

They found that rates of child in need interventions linked less robustly to increases in poverty than higher-level actions. Despite wider evidence linking families’ socioeconomic conditions to child welfare and child protection interventions, the report said poor-quality data and other related factors had hindered analysis in the UK.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

Working Together to Safeguard Children , whose 2010 version stretched to almost 400 pages, is now less than half that length with much less prescriptiveness from central government. In her report, Munro called for councils to be placed under a duty to deliver early intervention services, but this was rejected by the government.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. But that has failed repeatedly.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

He is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on social justice and the welfare state, Titmuss helped establish social policy as an academic discipline. His work has had a significant influence on government policy in relation to disability rights and access to services. Famous influential thinkers in social work 1. Famous social workers 1.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

For them, intervention by the family police is, literally, the norm. In addition, Emily takes a “holistic approach” to her family’s health that includes “declining certain medical interventions during her pregnancies and declining to vaccinate her sons.” She says she doesn’t even take ibuprofen for headaches.

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Community Care

MAY 20, 2022

I think the softer phrases of safeguarding, wellbeing and welfare have unwittingly shifted attention from the forensic focus required in this area of work. Although on a spectrum, child protection and welfare require very different approaches in relation to identification, assessment and planning. They must urgently rise to meet it.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

UConn has allowed me with an invaluable opportunity to receive a high-quality education which will afford me the opportunity to contribute to the advancement of human welfare especially in marginalized people. I would love to learn more about interventions that improve the mental wellness of oppressed youth.

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SECTIONED

JANUARY 30, 2019

Despite government announcements of increased funding for some specific services (such as perinatal mental health care), funding for core community mental health services continues to be cut and those services are being hollowed out. Cutting care and support to people with the most serious health problems is inherently risky. What a waste.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. To move away from the ineffective intervention of mandatory reporting, policymakers must decriminalize absenteeism. But the Maine Monitor took a closer look.

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