Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services. Currently kinship care is wedged uncomfortably into systems designed primarily for fostering and adoption and is often the poor relation in a hierarchy of rights and support.”

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The Guardian

JULY 22, 2022

My friend John Small, who has died aged 74, was a social worker who rose to be deputy director of social services at the London borough of Hackney before returning to his native Jamaica to work as a lecturer at the University of the West Indies. Continue reading.

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Famcare

JUNE 15, 2023

It’s 2023, and despite the reluctance of social services to adopt technology, many have finally broken the ice with tech. If you work in a social service field such as veteran service, child welfare, juvenile justice, or mental health provider, it’s about time you embark on the digitization journey.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Adoption and special guardianship: the number of children adopted from care in 2022-23 fell by 2% on the previous year, to 2,960. Placement stability: 69% of children had one placement during 2022-23, the same proportion as in 2021-22, with ten per cent experiencing three or more placements, as in 2021-22.

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Famcare

MARCH 9, 2023

Today, more than 90% of social services use the cloud, and more than 56% have considered using multiple cloud-based solutions to improve case management. This blog is for you if your social service organization hasn't started the digitization process or has had trouble with a slow acceptance.

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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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Famcare

JANUARY 12, 2023

According to surveys , around 53% of companies have adopted data analytics to enhance their procedures. With a large number of organizations realizing the importance of data analytics for better operations, now’s the ideal time for non-profits to invest in social services software integrated with data processing and analytics features.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Munro saw the role as serving three overarching functions: Providing professional advice to government, including on the challenges in delivering social work services and the profession’s contribution to achieving local and national outcomes.

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Famcare

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Everyone is turning to technology solutions, from businesses to government agencies and non-profit social services. The total revenue generated by American case management solutions is expected to exceed $4 billion over the next ten years.

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Famcare

APRIL 12, 2023

Because of the quick adoption of technology in various industries, workforce development has also advanced. Both corporations and social service organizations want their employees to be ready for the challenges and opportunities that accompany new technology adaptation.

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Famcare

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In recent years, many social services, including child welfare, senior citizen care, and juvenile justice, have moved to the cloud to take advantage of this technology. Some non-profits, however, lag behind because their caseworkers are hesitant to adopt cloud-based case management software.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Of course, most non-native foster parents who adopt native children are not accused of abusing them. Video is now available of the Family Integrity and Justice Works event documenting the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act: ? But Karin Brulliard of The Washington Post proved me wrong. ? In other news: ?

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Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 6, 2022

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) reached a potential news audience of more than 250 million readers in December, thanks partly to coverage of the Kentucky governor announcing pay raises for social workers, mention of NASW in a People magazine on adult adoption, and an op-ed on the drug syringe program in New Jersey.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

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. Risks of ‘poor or potentially illegal practice.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

. ● And finally, from WRAL-TV: State and Smithfield police are investigating a report from a 7-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted inside the Johnston County Department of Social Services building by a 17-year-old boy. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. That’s where Arabella died.

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Famcare

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

NGOs all over the world have experienced rapid growth in recent years, thanks to increased fundraising, adoption of technology and better case management. Whether you're a case manager or the owner of a social service organization, chances are you've considered growth and expansion.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The sector continues to face challenges from years of chronic underfunding in social services.”. Cases are defined as any person allocated to a case-holding child and family social worker, including individual children – so siblings are treated as multiple cases – and carers, for fostering and adoption practitioners.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2023

DCS turnover rising and below that for adults’ chiefs Turnover among DCSs had also risen from 2022-23, while the numbers leaving the role were higher than for directors of adult social services (DASSs) and council chief executives, the research revealed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

. ● In Hawaii, Honolulu Civil Beat reports, The estate of a 6-year-old Waimanalo girl who died from alleged abuse in perhaps the most notorious child welfare cases in recent Hawaii history is suing her adoptive parents and the state for gross negligence. Her adoptive parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua, have been charged with murder.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Vic Rayner (@vicrayner) December 31, 2022.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And while 8% of children who presented following an initial contact with a council housing or homelessness team were accommodated under section 20, this was true of 19% of those whose referrals came via social services. “Children are being presented with care under section 20 or section 17 as a choice,” the report said.

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The Guardian

MAY 26, 2022

A review of social services’ role before the murders of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes rightly avoids pinning blame on individuals There were 536 incidents involving serious harm to a child, where abuse was a factor, in the year to March 2021 in England. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

It is not possible to provide service stability and strong positive cultures if there is heavy reliance on agency social workers; Northern Ireland has already taken action to curtail their use in its statutory social services.

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Famcare

AUGUST 8, 2022

The volume of data and the simplicity with which a nonprofit case management tool can manage that data can be a wonderful place to start for NGO's interested in adopting digital transformation. However, all NGO's have the potential to embrace digital change , regardless of size.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? Great news, Missouri parents: The state Department of Social Services says you are now free to smoke marijuana, as long as you’re away from the kids! – Or haven’t been reunited with them? Particularly black and brown communities."

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is why many agencies and local authorities have adopted standardised social worker home visit checklists. These checklists provide social workers with a visual, step-by-step guide to meticulously track, address, and resolve any issues related to the patient’s safety and living conditions. In most cases, no.

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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.

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MQ Mental Health

JUNE 29, 2023

Reshape economic and social policy to tackle the underlying causes of inequality, and seek a fairer distribution of responsibilities, opportunities and assets across society. Healthcare Providers Increase partnerships and collaboration with health and social services, including grassroot organisations.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

” ‘Deeply disappointing’ In its response, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) , focused on the absence of funding Sunak provided to help social care services through the winter, beyond the £162.5m 7m to improve support for adopted children and their families.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“These rulings are a step backward for social work, social justice and all the things we’ve been fighting for.” Some see a common effect stemming from the court’s Roe ruling last summer and its three decisions this summer.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, because of serious case reviews arising from the unfortunate death of service users over the last decade, there has been a massive pressure on the social work profession to adopt some more robust strategies when working with service users (Payne, 2014). Theories for Direct Social Work Practice (2nd ed.).

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The second is the limited amount of time any single provider has available to provide a helpful service to an individual in need. Collectively, these two influences require us to adopt a very different approach to distributing limited health care resources to the population in need.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Motto of the conference: Advancing human rights in global social work profession The conference is dedicated to 18 years work of Georgian Association of Social Workers. How can social work researchers, program developers lead in engaging community and influencing social policy?

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The Vintage Social Worker

AUGUST 10, 2020

The prevailing political dogma was that fostering and possibly adoption were the best option and significantly easier on the purse strings. A very respected manager of mine and latterly a Director of Social Services once told me that residential care was very scary to manage. And yet we closed and cut and closed again.

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