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Care Act duties ‘permanently undermined’ by widespread breaches during Covid, argues study

Community Care

In relation to home care, a third who previously received it were now getting no support. But while councils may have exposed themselves to legal challenge, no such litigation took place – to the authors’ knowledge – besides adverse decisions from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

So, for example, researchers for the Casey Family Programs Northwest Foster Care Alumni study interviewed 479 foster care alumni in Oregon and Washington State – including alumni of Casey’s own program, considered to be a model program. Two ways to measure rates of abuse in foster care. And why are they doing it this way?

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Colorado CASA seeking volunteers to support kids in foster care

CO4Kids

To become a CASA a volunteer must be at least 21 years old and complete a background check and interview process. Most importantly a CASA is someone who has a passion to serve children and families coming from hard places,” said Kristen Blessman, Interim State Executive Director at Colorado CASA.

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Recent happenings

Jaeran Kim

The first is an article written from my research on adoptive parents who placed an intercountry adopted child in out-of-home care due to the child’s disability. Out-of-home placement may be necessary when less restrictive services have not adequately addressed an adopted child’s needs.

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The social worker advocating for people with learning disabilities

Community Care

” Anybody can just fill out a form and the outcome from that is day care, respite, home care or residential care. It doesn’t have to be a lifetime of day care or home care or peers following them around all the time. It’s one of the easiest things to do in social work.

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Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

Community Care

The Care Provider Alliance’s analysis of councils’ fair cost of care reports suggested there was a £2.88bn shortfall in funding for care home services for older people and home care provision for all adults in 2021-22. You can listen to her full interview here.

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Undercover as a home care worker in France: ‘I have to cope alone and I receive no training’ | Saša Uhlová

The Guardian

Both call me immediately to arrange a date for a job interview. Nevertheless, women from poorer eastern European countries often move for such jobs because there is a shortage of staff and wages are still higher in the west. When I finally get all the paperwork together to get a legally recognised job, I approach two agencies in the city.