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The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

It is the worst case of child abuse and neglect that I have ever seen,” said a hospital consultant who treated Victoria in her final days. It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love. Ultimately, for him, this sums up the problem in children’s services.

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An important moment for social work and social care

Social Work With Adults

I have been so impressed with the huge amount of great policy work undertaken by Department of Health and Social Care colleagues, and the broad and comprehensive engagement with the sector – with over 200 organisations engaged in developing the vision and proposals. Increasing the upper limit of the Disabled Facilities Grant.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Through in-home family strengthening services, foster care, adoption, mental health treatment, disability services, and children’s mental health hospitals, we’re giving people hope and helping children and families thrive. Learn more about our leadership , direct services , consulting and training , and more!

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Opportunities and Obstacles with Lived Experiences at the MQ Science Summit

MQ Mental Health

Ask this question to yourself - are people with lived experience in the room (consulted) when you are forming policies and programs for them? To combat this, it is important that an open and flexible approach is adopted when working with each other. You can view a video of the keynote here alongside other segments of the summit.

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Seven lessons for practitioners from the review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland

Community Care

Parents of disabled children who need constant care may be exhausted. It also involves greater investment in voluntary and community services, such as Sure Start, Home Start and family centres with an expanded age range, and in respite care for families with a disabled child.

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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil: Doing what we’ve always done?

Irish Socail Worker

Do we strive to adopt that cornerstone of trauma-informed care, of meeting the person where they are at, in the midst of their reality, with their lived-expertise guiding the way. She was writing in relation to the recent public outcry in respect of the abuses in residential services for people with intellectual disabilities.

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Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

Buss, BS; Robinson De Jesús-Romero, BA, MsC; Allison Peipert, BS; Isabella Starvaggi, BS Psychotherapy research in the 21st century Mental disorders account for a substantial proportion of the disability attributable to health conditions (Whiteford et al., Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82 (2), 368–373. German, R.