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Reinstate hospital social workers to improve discharge outcomes, PSWs urge Barclay

Community Care

In an effort to clear beds, the government has provided £700m from December 2022 until March 2023, mostly for the NHS, though chiefly to fund social care services, with the latest £200m tranche of this – announced last week – reserved for care home provision. .

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Children waiting up to six weeks to see social workers, as authority downgraded to ‘inadequate’

Community Care

Inspectors found that children were being adopted more quickly due to the use of concurrent planning, with “sensitive direct work” with children and adoptive parents smoothing transitions. ‘Too many changes of social worker’ for children in care.

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Why Playing the Lottery Is So Addictive

Gateway Foundation

State governments offer lotteries to increase revenue and fund projects such as senior services, environmental protection, and education, but lotteries can become harmful when people develop an addiction to them. Adopt Healthy Habits. Spend time with friends and family who also abstain from lottery games and support your recovery.

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“Maybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine!

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Alumni Honored with SSW Distinguished Alumni Awards

Michigan Social Work

She has nearly three decades of experience at the center and in government. His efforts led to the adoption of protection of farm workers from excessive heat and overtime pay. He has specialized in developing innovative projects - such as transit villages, earthquake recovery projects and the first LGBTQ senior development in the U.S.