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Contested Disability: Sickle Cell Disease

Social Work Blog

While the molecular model of SCD has led to advances in medical management, its reductionism obfuscates the sociopolitical dimensions of the condition, affording little attention to the racialized, gendered, classed, and disabling disparities faced by people with SCD.

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Learning Disability Week: reminding us to reconnect

Social Care

Like all of us, people with learning disabilities need support to reconnect with a reopened society. Learning Disability Week is no different. People with learning disabilities and those who support them continue to process the difficulties of the last two years and reacquaint themselves with society. Image copyright Mencap ].

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Disability Justice and Other Concerns: The January Issue of Social Work Is Online

Social Work Blog

Here are some of the articles in this issue: Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions: A Call for Disability Justice in Social Work. Despite decades of advocacy, Disabled people continue to experience ableism—such as inaccessibility, stigma, and exclusion—in all realms of social work.

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40% of family support staff have personal experience of domestic abuse, finds survey

Community Care

Practitioners identified knowledge and training gaps in relation to working with disabled children, families from diverse communities and LGBTQ+ families. Authorities support the wellbeing of their workforces through clinical and reflective supervision and access to counselling.

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Police opens investigation into abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC

Community Care

Meanwhile, the trust said it had suspended a number of staff pending investigation and commissioned an independent clinical review of the service, which experts interviewed for Panorama said had a “toxic culture” What did Panorama find? What is happening to people in inpatient care, 10 years on from Winterbourne View?

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Long COVID and the Implications for Social Work

inSocialWork

These disparities demand the attention of social work change agents, along with the inability or unwillingness of our government leaders to pass long COVID legislation, the lack of long COVID clinics, and the need for advocacy and education related to workplace accommodations, paid sick and family leave and expanded disability benefits.

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“The machine has labeled you as high-risk”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Hackneys and their lawyer suspect that the algorithm, and the humans who may be slavishly following it, discriminated against them because of disabilities. In this case, and at least two others, they are investigating whether, in Pittsburgh, humans and machines alike violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.