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Panel disappointed with ministers’ response to its proposals to boost safeguarding of disabled children

Community Care

Government safeguarding advisers have voiced their disappointment over ministers’ response to their recommendations to improve the safeguarding of disabled children in residential settings. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle.

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Safeguarding overhaul needed to better protect disabled children in care, says abuse inquiry

Community Care

Councils should have a bigger role monitoring local residential settings in their areas to better protect disabled children, an inquiry into the abuse of children in three services has concluded. “These recommendations set out a roadmap to more humane treatment of these children.

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Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

Community Care

It said that “unclear, complex and energy-sapping” complaints processes, inaccessible information and a lack of advocacy were undermining people’s ability to challenge local authority decisions. You can read more about the findings in our article.

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Systems for challenging adult social care decisions failing, warns regulator

Community Care

Inaccessible information, “complicated and stressful processes” and a lack of advocacy were undermining people’s ability to challenge local authority decisions in England and Wales, the rights regulator found, on the back of an inquiry it started in 2021. The report also raised concerns about access to advocacy.

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55,000 on waiting lists for child sexual abuse support services, estimates research

Community Care

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) found that just half of services were able to meet demand for services including one-to-one therapy or counselling, group-based interventions, helplines or advocacy for child or adult victims/survivors and family members.

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Long COVID and the Implications for Social Work

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Jazmin Graham Just as the COVID-19 pandemic exposed cracks and disparities in many facets of society — including health care, governments, education and more — long COVID continues to disproportionately disrupt the lives of certain people. Today our guest, Jazmin Graham, LCSW, tells us what she knows.

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Voting and Legislative Advocacy - Dawn Brown, MSW

Doin' The Work

Transcription services provided by FIU’s Disability Resource Center. . Dawn shares what voting means to her as a Black woman, and stresses that voting is important at all levels of government – national, state, and local. Transcription services provided by FIU’s Disability Resource Center. . Join the mailing list.