Adoption Communication Interviewing Social Services 
Community Care
APRIL 11, 2024
Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Looking back now, Laming says poor communication between services was the catalyst behind their failure to save Victoria.
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Approaches in which people are not allocated a fixed desk and work at different times and locations depending on need have become increasingly common, but practitioners are consistently negative about them, found a five-year study into newly qualified social workers published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). .
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 26, 2023
As the story explains: The system that promises to monitor these facilities and protect children from abuse often devalues the child’s perspective of what happened — communicating to them time and time again that they are untrustworthy and unbelievable. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. That’s where Arabella died.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times children’s rights to their parents are terminated.
The Critical Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
This happens too often: Beresford ( 2007 ) found service users were disillusioned by the bureaucratic dimension of social work and resented the ‘form- filling’ approach – reminding us that ‘social work is social’, and of the importance of listening as the primary activity of assessment.
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