University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 3, 2023

On Thursday, September 28, 2023, Assistant Professor Sukhmani Singh presented her work with Beyond Bars at the Connecticut Sentencing Commission Meeting at the Connecticut State Capitol Legislative Office Building. Those rulings prompted the Sentencing Commission to take action and recommend a change in Connecticut’s law.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

IASSW will be very busy at the upcoming United Nations Commission for Social Development to be held February 5-14 at UN Headquarters in New York. We also wrote a statement on the Commission theme and endorsed the Civil Society Declaration that will be presented at the opening session. We are co-sponsoring two virtual side events.

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Michigan Social Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

MSW student Kevin Nguyen has been appointed as an inaugural member of Michigan’s new LGBTQ+ Commission. Created by an executive order from Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the commission is responsible for reviewing, developing, and recommending policies focused on preventing discrimination against LGBTQ+ Michiganders.

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International Federation of Social Workers

MARCH 7, 2024

67th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) ONLINE Side Event: Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) with Hydromorphone in Austria – a new perspective? Wednesday, 20th March 2024, 9:00 […]

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Swhelper

OCTOBER 27, 2021

View Full Article - Why Independent Redistricting Commissions Should Draw Electoral District Maps. At the center of these disputes is partisan gerrymandering, a process in which elected officials draw electoral districts to increase the likelihood their own party will win more seats in […].

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International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The IFSW a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council issued the following statement to the UN 60th Session of the Commission for Social Development.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2024

Other goals include significantly improving the quality of child protection practice, enhancing the commissioning of care placements, boosting support to early career social workers and setting rules to limit councils’ use of locum practitioners.

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The Guardian

JUNE 5, 2022

Experts say victims, many of whom live with dementia, are still being failed by systems not equipped to recognise or respond to crimes against those with serious cognitive impairment.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

The lack of placements in local authorities is driven by underfunding and practice educator shortages, said a report commissioned by regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and the Social Work Education Partnership (SWEP), an alliance of sector leaders that oversees the education system.

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International Federation of Social Workers

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Statement of the IFSW – Asia Pacific Regional Commission to the United Nations on Afghanistan The International Federation of Social Workers. UN Commission Asia-Pacific expresses its deep concern about the situation of the people of Afghanistan.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 27, 2022

Clinical Assistant Professor Justin Hodge, MSW ‘13, has been appointed Chair of the Commission on Community Action and Economic Opportunity by Governor Whitmer. The commission was created to develop policies and programs to reduce poverty in the state of Michigan. Hodge was appointed to the commission in October, 2021.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

President Biden has announced his intent to appoint social worker Mia Ives-Rublee, MSW, to his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Mia Ives-Rublee. Ives-Rublee is currently director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress.

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International Federation of Social Workers

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Human Rights Commission of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), on Human Rights Day 2021 and the 73rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, expresses its strongest commitment to the promotion and defense of Human Rights, embracing as our own the challenge of contributing to reducing inequalities and advocating (..)

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Community Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Law Commission will examine how the legal framework – some of which dates back over five decades – can be reformed to improve consistency, clarity and fairness for children and parents. I am therefore pleased that the Law Commission will be undertaking this review.”

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Network for Social Work Management

APRIL 27, 2021

Dear members of the Special Commission: CSWE just announced that ballots for the 2021 are open! The Special Commission. Read more » The post A Message From Special Commission to Advocate Macro Practice In Social Work appeared first on The Network for Social Work Management. For those who are members of CSWE, get.

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Clinical Assistant Professor Justin Hodge, MSW ‘13, has been appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer to the Commission on Community Action and Economic Opportunity. The commission was created to develop policies and programs to reduce poverty in the State of Michigan.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

The second report examined the systemic issues arising from the case and set out proposals on how to improve practice, commissioning and regulation nationally. The government should commission a workforce strategy for children’s residential services, covering leadership development, workforce standards and training.

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Community Care

MARCH 13, 2024

The study, commissioned by children’s services evidence body Foundations, found that personal experience had helped some staff understand the impact of domestic abuse on those they supported. The Foundations-commissioned study was based on: An online survey of early help and family support staff across 11 local authorities.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Commissioning practices criticised The association also raised concerns about the ongoing practice of commissioners purchasing care by the minute, which it said risked people’s visits being cut short, and staff not being paid for their travel time. an hour, weighted for the different volumes of care purchased by different bodies.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

A DHSC spokesperson said: “Our chief social worker recruitment campaign remains open until 20 May, and we will be announcing an appointment to this role in due course.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Regional commissioning plan To tackle these issues, the Department for Education (DfE) has accepted the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care’s recommendation to regionalise placement commissioning, through the establishment of regional care co-operatives (RCCs). So what does the evidence say about their prospects?

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

Commission research into specific groups’ support needs and access to services, such as those of boys, physically disabled children, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Provide further funding to help services develop their infrastructure, for example improving data collection and analysis systems.

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Community Care

APRIL 20, 2023

The panel also called for disabled children and those with complex needs to have access to advocacy, for services for them to be jointly commissioned by councils and integrated care boards, for joint inspections of services by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission and for investment in the workforce.

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Community Care

APRIL 21, 2023

The Department for Education has asked the Law Commission for England and Wales to review the “patchwork of legislation” for the group , dating back to 1970. The ‘outdated’ legal framework on social care for disabled children in England will be reviewed with a view to making it fairer and more effective.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has streamlined its process for assessing council adult social care services following significant concerns about the burden on authorities.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Commissioning care placements: the DfE will test, in two areas, the establishment of regional care co-operatives to take over the commissioning of care placements from individual authorities, to tackle the insufficiency of placements and excess profit-making. On this too, Smith insists more urgent action is required.

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Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

This would include both strategic planning, such as the commissioning of short breaks for disabled children, and operational input, such as overseeing social care contributions to education, health and care (EHC) assessments, plans and reviews for children with SEND.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

These changes to Working Together’ comes with the government having asked the Law Commission to review the “patchwork of outdated legislation for disabled children” and advise on how it can be simplified and streamlined. The commission started its review in October 2023.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Care Quality Commission said it had suspended its ‘good’ rating of the trust’s forensic inpatient and secure wards in response to the “shocking” footage featured on Panorama, and would soon be releasing its report of an inspection of the centre in June and July.

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International Federation of Social Workers

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

IFSW is delighted to announce a virtual event in support of the 68th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The event, titled “Transformative Gender-responsive Social Protections […]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

When legislatures don’t actually expand mandatory reporting themselves, they create a committee/task force/commission or maybe even a blue ribbon commission to tell them how to do it. The committee/task force/commission spends a year or two on a report that does just that. That was the original plan in Massachusetts.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

There was also recognition for the former chief executive of social work charity Frontline, Josh MacAlister, who recently led a government-commissioned review of children’s social care. ‘Believe in yourself’ An MBE was also awarded to social care consultant, and expert by experience, Jak Savage.

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Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) latest snapshot survey on the state of the sector also found that, while more care home care was being delivered than last year, an estimated two million commissioned hours went undelivered in January to March this year due to a lack of workforce capacity.

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International Federation of Social Workers

MARCH 11, 2022

The IFSW a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council issued the following statement to the UN 66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In its final report, published last week, the Commission on Young Lives found young people at risk were identified late and placed in unsuitable residential settings, often far from home, or in foster placements designed for younger children. Horror stories’. Families ‘ignored’ by services. credit: Romolo Tavani / Adobe Stock).

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Community Care

JULY 25, 2023

DfE still looking for regions to test care co-operatives The department is still looking for two regions to test its plan to regionalise the commissioning of care placements within so-called regional care co-operatives , which would be collectives of local authorities.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The inquiry heard evidence that the lack of placements for children in care, poor commissioning practices and increased private provision, which removed local control over placement locations, were all factors behind one in five children -16,720 in 2021 – being placed more than 20 miles from home.

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