NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

● The Imprint has a story that covers both the good California Supreme Court decision I wrote about for WitnessLA and a terrible bill proposed in Washington State that is essentially a throwback to the “crack baby” hysteria of the 1980s. But people are learning, and this time, there’s some real opposition.

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Community Care

APRIL 6, 2022

Peers also introduced provisions to bring in free care for disabled people aged under 40 in a vote on the Health and Care Bill yesterday. The House of Lords has rejected – for a second time – a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit to less wealthy people.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But hey, a slogan is a slogan, right? A bill to require active efforts for all South Dakota children – and to explain exactly what that term means – was defeated yesterday. Even the head of a local Court-Appointed Special Advocates program, herself a Native American, favored the bill.

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

This is part of a monthly series of posts to share a few things I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). For people involved in foresight practice, the practice of scanning, organizing and creatively interpreting “signals of change” in the ecosystem is a primary and foundational part of the work.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While agile working was received positively when it involved adequate desk space, spaces for quite and concentrated work and good access to peer support, this was rare, found the research by social work academics at the University of Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian University. Stress and lack of peer support. discussions about cases.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It has granted Worcestershire council the right to appeal a Court of Appeal judgment that ruled against the authority and in favour of the government, in a case concerning ordinary residence in relation to section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983. Learn about the government’s new approach.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

27, 2021 and 10 other civil rights organizations joined in an amicus brief led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in the Whole Women’s Health v. The brief aptly describes this as “a scheme of state-sanctioned private vigilantism [designed] to prevent Texans from exercising their fundamental rights.”.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Yesterday’s vote on the Health and Care Bill would amend the Care Act to only count the client contributions of people receiving means-tested support towards the £86,000 cap, due to come into force in October 2023. The government has reinstated a change to the cap on care costs that will reduce its benefit to less wealthy people.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The current Health and Care Bill would place a duty on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to carry out and report on reviews of councils’ performance of their Care Act 2014 duties. A similar function was carried out by the CQC and its predecessors until 2010. People can access outstanding quality and tailored care and support.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Social workers have a long tradition of social justice and political advocacy – to include working to expand and protect voting rights and promote voter registration. Our essential work on behalf of protecting voting rights is needed now more than ever. However, these bills are not the only current threats to democracy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

If the bill becomes law, Montana's family police agency will no longer be able to do whatever it damn well pleases to whomever it damn well pleases, and plead its own incompetence as an excuse. But now, Montana has a chance to move to the forefront of doing child welfare right. The chance comes in the form of a bill, HB-37.

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Social Work Futures

JANUARY 18, 2023

What is the right “stance” for social workers? New White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (October 2022) – developed by the The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The Case for Connecting Digital Rights and Freedoms Globally (2017). Learning tools and community.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Private members bill paves way for law to end a minority of providers limiting access to relatives, two and a half years after first lockdown People would be given a legal right to visit their relatives in care homes and stop providers threatening those who complain with eviction under new legislation proposed last week.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Shortages of mental health beds, doctors and transport are leading to severe delays in Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) assessments that are increasing risks to people and their families.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

They plan to introduce the bill this month. While they are finalizing the bill, they need our help to build support among Senators so they can introduce the bill with as many bipartisan sponsors as possible. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Richard Durbin (D-IL), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Dec.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Had she been asked, she probably would have made the right call. But the judge disagreed with this request, considering it an infringement on the father’s right to parent his child, and did not wait for New Hampshire to respond. Massachusetts "Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides was not involved in this case.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Ben Cardin (D-MD) on May 18 reintroduced the Democracy Restoration Act (DRA), federal legislation that seeks to restore voting rights in federal elections to the millions of disenfranchised Americans who have been released from prison and are living in the community but are still denied the right to vote. Supreme Court.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is certain to be delayed again, with the government yet to consult on how to put the scheme into practice. Regulations can then take up to 40 days to become law. However, the government is yet to confirm that it will need to delay LPS again. “We were given a realistic expectation of consultation. .

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

In 2002, a House of Lords judgment identified a gap in the law which meant young children in care could not challenge possible human rights violations by their local authority because there was no adult willing and able to initiate proceedings on their behalf. Many questioned the rationale for the idea or rejected it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

The nation’s first Family Miranda Rights bill was signed into law in Texas. I guess the Dallas Morning News and the Texas Tribune are just waiting for the next child abuse fatality so they can claim it “raises questions” about the law – because, after all, no Texas child ever died of child abuse before this law was passed, right?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But despite the latter being a record figure, Ofsted said the statistics painted a “bleak picture”, with “too few carers with the right skills” to support the number of children needing a placement. We rarely see children coming into care who don’t need to be, but with the right help earlier, some may be able to remain with their families.

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Beyond Advocacy

JUNE 13, 2023

699, its companion bill in the Senate, in conjunction with the Congressional Social Work Caucus and the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth. Davis (D-IL-7) and Don Bacon (R-NE-2) reintroduced the bill in the House, and Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Todd Young (R-IN) reintroduced the bill in the Senate. Congressmen Danny K.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Speaking of CAPTA, the Boston Globe has a story about a bill that, if it becomes law, would curb one of its worst features. ● Speaking of CAPTA, the Boston Globe has a story about a bill that, if it becomes law, would curb one of its worst features. ● But this is more than a story about one case. A founder of the upEND Movement, Prof.

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2023

The bill to create the NCS is due to have its first debate in the Scottish Parliament by mid-March. The Scottish Government must pause its ‘disruptive’ plans to remove social care from council control, in order to shore up local authority services that face real-terms cuts in 2023-24. increase in cash terms and 1.3%

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Arizona joins the list of states providing Miranda rights for families. I’d link to a story but the story about the bill that includes the Miranda rights makes no mention of it! So just check out the last four pages of the bill itself. We start this week with something a little different. I have a blog post about it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Imprint published this story about the bill while it was awaiting a decision by Gov. Subsequently, Newsom signed the bill. He also signed two bills intended to curb the confusion of poverty with neglect. ? Fourth Amendment rights are the issue in one of two new and important works of legal scholarship: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

● WBTV and The Assembly conclude their three-part series on the failure of family policing with a searing story about how the agency and the courts moved heaven and earth to keep a loving father away from his own son. And if you think this is a case in which a stranger foster parent is fighting the father – nope. But] We’ll handle them for you.”

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Relias

MAY 6, 2022

The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, or PEPPER, contains valuable information to help your hospice organization identify billing issues and prevent improper payment audits. Though it has been a widely available tool for hospice organizations to identify billing errors since 2012, statistics show that only 63% of U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Claims that the exams are comparable to normal pediatric checkups are “garbage,” said Donnie Cox, a civil rights attorney in Carlsbad, Calif. “At So wherever you are, it’s probably worse. Some of the issues in the New York class action also arise in three individual lawsuits in South Carolina. It says such exams are “standard procedure.”

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This is not a bill about a condition, it is not about dealing with Down’s syndrome, it is about people who deserve the same ability to demand the best health, education and care as the rest of our society. That is why I brought this bill forward. Atta went on: “We are sick of double speak.” Continue reading.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 2, 2022

But there is an alternative Does the Albanese government really want to be remembered as the one that stripped many older Australians of their fundamental legal and human rights? Yet there is one glaring problem with the aged care reform bill that recently passed parliament. Continue reading.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

● Once upon a time, the family policing establishment insisted that they never, ever took away children because of poverty. Then, when it was pointed out that the disproportionate rate at which Black and Native American children were torn from their families just might have something to do with racism, they said: No, no! Emphasis added.]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

But before getting to what else Font got wrong, let’s look at the two things she got partially right: ● She’s right about the enormous emotional harm foster care inflicts on children. She’s even right that the more time a child spends in foster care the greater the risk of harm. Second of two parts. Read part one here.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Ben Cardin (D-MD) on May 18 reintroduced the Democracy Restoration Act (DRA), federal legislation that seeks to restore voting rights in federal elections to the millions of disenfranchised Americans who have been released from prison and are living in the community but are still denied the right to vote. Supreme Court.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

I wonder how many of those white liberals in the New York State Legislature refused to support these three bills that would have made “Black Lives Matter” more than a slogan. I know my mom struggled with addiction, but I was always in a clean home with clean clothes," she said. Her experience in foster care was far worse. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Then why are Kansas lawmakers and their media allies backing a bill that would do essentially the same thing in foster care cases? In Kansas, when the state has terminated parental rights and the state is looking for an adoptive home, state law also has an extremely mild preference for kin. Should they be allowed to keep your child?

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Top stories include: Human Rights Advocacy: Wave of LGBTQIA+ Bills Underscores Vital Role for Social Workers. With the recent spate of anti-LGBTQIA+ bills introduced or passed in many states, NASW and social workers are stepping up to advocate for this community, especially against legislation targeting transgender youth.

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