The Guardian

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Andrea Tucker, a part-time charity shop worker who cared full-time for her mother for 15 years, told the Guardian the prospect of going to tribunal had made her ill with stress but she was determined to get justice. Continue reading.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Community Organizer : Social workers may organise and mobilise communities to address social issues, promote social justice, and create positive change. Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

That’s because it’s meant specifically for those who have read a study concocted by a who’s who of family policing’s “caucus of denial” – those who claim that, somehow, child welfare is magically immune from the racism that infects every other aspect of American life. But let’s assume, for the moment, the raw data are correct.

Child Welfare 52

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The Struggle for Social Justice in Education” by Christina Duncan examines the history of social justice efforts in education and how these efforts have shaped the field of social work today. Working with diverse and vulnerable groups to promote social justice. How do you write a social work article?

Code of Ethics 52

Code of Ethics Substance Abuse Justice and Corrections Social Worker 52

Community Care

AUGUST 3, 2023

Following the ruling, the judge, Mr Justice Chamberlain, quashed an unpublished 2021 agreement between the Home Office and Kent allowing the council to look after a capped number of children arriving in the county. He also ordered the Home Office and Kent to jointly pay court costs – valued at £50,000 – to ECPAT UK.

Justice and Corrections 43

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

It would never be tolerated in a story about criminal justice. Yet it almost never is challenged by journalists reporting on child welfare. In fact, in all the times I’ve written to news organizations who have used this framing only one, Kaiser Health News, ever corrected it. The claim is particularly damaging now in Illinois.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Durkheim has clarified that when there is temporary disruption to the social equilibrium, moral and social breakdown can occur, however, this can be quickly corrected (Shortell, 2016). Durkheim on Moral Individualism, Social Justice and Rights: A Gendered Construction of Rights. Reference list Cristi, M. London: Routledge.

Social Worker 52

Social Worker Justice and Corrections University Engagement 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

He co-authors a “news analysis” for the Los Angeles Times that sounds like a pitch by a company selling “predictive analytics” software for child welfare. The post talked about Therolf’s profound discomfort with any suggestion that there is systemic racial bias in child welfare. Is the racial justice movement really too influential?

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Justice and Corrections Foster Care 98

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Penelope, a child welfare worker in Texas, sees the compassion fatigue hitting her colleagues. But child welfare workers are invisible. Again, despite serving as the profession whose primary mission is social justice, social work is mostly absent from these news flashes. #4 She feels guilt.

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Social Worker Child Welfare Justice and Corrections Confidentiality 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 109

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Americas massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. Thats why weve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove anything. It comes as the Department of Juvenile Justice shut down the site.

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