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Child care, family assistance outlined in 2025 California budget

CCRC

The $322 Billion budget introduces no cuts to core programs, and maintains initiatives to fully implement Universal Transitional Kindergarten, expand after school and summer school programs, and Universal school meals. Contact the team for more information at Governmentrelations@ccrcca.org.

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Poverty and homelessness driving demand for children’s social care, directors warn

Community Care

The findings come from the ADCS’s latest Safeguarding Pressures* research, its regular stocktake on the state of children’s social care in England, and were shared in a submission to the government’s child poverty taskforce.

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Over three million families to lose out from disability and incapacity benefit changes, says DWP

Community Care

Over three million families will lose an average of 1,720 per year in real terms by 2029-30, as a result of proposed changes to disability and incapacity benefits, the government has estimated. In today’s spring statement , the government said that the 50 per week rate for new claimants would also be frozen until 2029-30.

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Why State Spending on Higher Education May Not Improve the Economy in Many States

Swhelper

In recent years, the idea of tuition-free colleges and universities in the United States has made its way into mainstream political debates. Federal subsidies that help state governments eliminate undergraduate tuition and fees at public universities shift tax burdens to the federal government. This, in turn, […].

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IASSW AIETS’ International Conference on “The role of social workers in realising the SDG’s.”

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Date: 18th January, 2023, Hybrid Mode, (Hybrid event/ in person Nelson Mandela University). CO-HOSTED BY IASSW/ ASSWA/ NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY/JOHANNESBURG UNIVERSITY/ASASWEI. Please register to get meeting link : [link]. Time: 9h00 to 17h00.

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‘Social care buy-in for fair pay plan at risk after Budget tax hike’

Community Care

” From caution to alarm about government social care plans Fair to say that much of that positivity might have evaporated. increase in spending power is better than it might have been, even if it doesn’t quite rise to the heights of the “significant rise” called for by the Local Government Association.

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How Many Immigrant-Friendly Communities Are in the United States? Classifying the Policy Stream

Social Work Blog

Dramatic federal immigration policy proposals and executive actions appear to be a reaction to state and local governments that have taken leadership in responding to immigration. Some local governments have endorsed welcoming immigrants to stabilize high-poverty urban neighborhoods and to enhance regional economic development.