Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

Under section 25 of the Children Act 1989 , such secure welfare placements may only be made if a child either has a history of absconding, would likely abscond from any other setting and, if they did so, would likely suffer significant harm; or would likely injure themselves or others if placed in any other setting.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

It’s this ethos that led KVC Health Systems , a family of child- and family-serving nonprofits, to partner with Gallup in 2018. According to Indeed, fair pay and flexibility are now considered foundational needs for workers. “What everyone in the world wants is a good job,” says Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

The study, from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel , came in response to “very serious abuse and neglect” of children – mainly autistic or with learning disabilities – at three residential special schools registered as children’s homes in Doncaster, from 2018-21.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 3, 2023

Whether you’re a professional social worker, parent, guardian, teacher, or simply someone who interacts with children on a regular basis, having a basic understanding of safeguarding children and child protection is vital. What is safeguarding and protection of children?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America. Five years later, the child remains there.

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Relias

AUGUST 22, 2022

It’s hard being a human services worker. Challenges a human services worker will face. Compassion fatigue/burnout/emotionally draining work – We see these issues arising more and more , especially when working in child welfare, with a high cost/complex population of individuals with multiple chronic conditions.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You asked, what are the 10 roles of social workers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of social workers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 13, 2022

The contents for the July 2022 issue include: Editorial: Social Work’s Role in Rebuilding the Child Welfare Workforce. Trauma exposure and postmigration stress are associated with adverse health outcomes among refugees, yet the relative effect of these factors for subgroups of refugees and those resettled long-term remains unclear.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 16, 2023

Another key purpose is to guide social workers in understanding how individuals are embedded within their social context. Within a systemic theory, social workers learn to look at what surrounds an individual. Systemic practice promotes the belief that families and people have the ability to change in most cases.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

Maintaining high-quality social work case notes and recording fosters collaborative working relationship between the social worker, other professionals, and the adults/children they support. As a result, writing, clear, concise and factual case notes is an essential skill for social workers to nurture.

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KVC

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, child welfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the child welfare system.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication? This is a very common question a lot of people ask in relation to the role of the social worker in health and social care. Social workers play an important role in promoting the health and wellbeing of people in the community. Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication?

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The Vintage Social Worker

AUGUST 10, 2020

I suppose I could have worked it out as our welfare structures today owe much to the Poor Law. It is a piece of work I hope also to share with the social work archive that BASW (British Association of Social Workers )are doing for their 50th anniversary. The lockdown has not been a very productive writing time for me.

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Reimagining Social Work

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This week I have had the good fortune to participate in the US-based (Denver-Colorado) Kempe Centre International Virtual Conference: A CALL TO CHANGE CHILD WELFARE. The theme of the conference was generated by the challenges facing child protection systems globally, and specifically across the English-speaking / Anglophone ‘world’.

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Social Workers Speak

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“Social workers and other public service providers would have completed five or six years of public service, and the Department would say they only had 20 payments counting toward forgiveness,” said Sarah Christa Butts, Director of Public Policy with the National Association of Social Workers. Fox 26 Houston. The Guardian.

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Social Work Synergy

APRIL 15, 2020

Social workers are often unsung heroes, and that’s often ok with them. They work in child welfare agencies where the work is so sensitive that they avoid talking about it. Social workers try to show up with humility while giving their best help to people who are the most vulnerable. Her normally-bright affect is absent.

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2024

Biggest social work employer As of March 2023, Cafcass employed 1,721 social workers (source: Cafcass annual report, 2022-23). Then, it was rated outstanding overall and for local and national leadership , and good for the quality and effectiveness of its public and private law practice.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The Ethics of Social Work: An Overview” by Felicia Kornbluh offers an accessible look at ethical issues that social workers face in their day-to-day practice. This article considers the need for social workers to think critically and ethically, as well as how they can maintain a code of ethics when confronted with difficult situations.

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Social Workers Speak

MARCH 3, 2022

Social workers are the unsung heroes of the pandemic. Should social workers work with police? While social workers and police officers responding together to calls has become popular in the past few years , the practice has been going on since the 1920s, said Barry Goetz, a sociology professor at Western Michigan University.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As a Newly Qualified Social Worker a few years ago, I understood that to become effective at what I do as a social worker , there was a need for me to write good Care Act 2014 needs assessments. Assessments form the core of what social workers do. Struggling with writing a Care Act Needs Assessment? What are they able to do?

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Background There are calls to change the child welfare system to promote better outcomes for children. Removal and placement of a child outside of the home is traumatic and can impact their mental health long term. April Ferguson LCSW-C, Senior Practice Associate, Children and Adolescents On September 28, 2023, the U.S.

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Save the Social Worker

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As pompous as this might sound, I thought I wasn’t that bad a social worker. And that doing well at university had no implication on how well you would do as a real social worker. After two years of being humbled by how little I know, I hope this helps you to grow as a social worker. After 2 years in social work, I admit.

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Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 5, 2020

What they have in common – is that I think they’ll be of interest to future facing social workers. It is not a broken system, it is a system that needs to be broken: the upEND movement to abolish the child welfare system. Journal of Public Child Welfare, Published online September 6, 2020.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

March is National Social Work Month and KVC is joining the National Association of Social Workers to recognize the powerful, positive impact social workers have on their clients and their communities! Social workers across the globe work hard to ensure all people are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. In the U.S.,

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Community Care

MAY 30, 2022

Assessments were “too superficial” and did not enable the identification of risks to the toddler or a plan to mitigate them, found the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s review of Star’s murder by her mother’s partner, Savannah Brockhill, in September 2020. Call for expert child protection teams.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? Poverty and child “maltreatment” interact in two ways. for a child's well being." Poverty is confused with neglect!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I ask because, in the inside-out upside-down world of family policing (a more accurate term than child welfare), this can happen: An organization can slap one of those boilerplate “black lives matter”- type statements on its website acknowledging that “Today, we understand that the child welfare system is inherently racist.”

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Your managers will read your assessments, and so will other professionals working with a service user. Level Three: helping a ‘removed professional’ (your manager, a judge, an inspector etc) ensure that the ‘involved professionals’ are helping that person properly. WHO’S IT FOR? These reports are about form, not substance.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Kelley Fong, a book that combines a scholar’s rigor with a journalist’s eye. -- The Guardian has an excerpt adapted from the book --After the tragic death of a child in Connecticut, Prof. Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof.

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