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Review launched into safeguarding people from carer abuse at home

Community Care

The probe is in response to concerns raised by disabled and deaf people’s organisations that existing safeguards are not adequate, where the carer fell outside the definition of domestic abuse provided by the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.

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Social Work’s Critical Role in Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Social Work Blog

may have fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that can occur in a baby exposed to alcohol before birth. People with FASDs may be at high risk for school challenges, criminal justice issues, substance use disorders, and mental health disorders.

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Be among the first to publish in European Social Work Research

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Innovative methods and high-quality participative and practice research that engages with service users, carers and communities, are encouraged. Scholarly articles may be literature-based, conceptual or based on empirical research. They may use quantitative, qualitative or mixed empirical methodologies.

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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil: Doing what we’ve always done?

Irish Socail Worker

She was writing in relation to the recent public outcry in respect of the abuses in residential services for people with intellectual disabilities. We have incorporated this as meaning in the context of the criminal justice system only, contacting the Gardaí.

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Review: SAGE Guide to Social Work Careers (2019)

Michigan Girl's Café

Ultimately this book provides students and professionals with a strategy that can be used to effect broad policy change in all political climates: community engagement, policy and legislation. In macro social work, students learn this under other names such as community practice or policy practice.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

Researcher : Some social workers engage in research to better understand social issues, evaluate programs, and inform policy development. This is because they develop treatment plans to address mental illness and substance abuse problems, often holding supervisory roles and advocating for human rights within the criminal justice system.

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Equitable Education

The Critical Blog

In addition, a Guardian columnist and author, Frances Ryan (2020) provides shocking figures for disabled people affected by Covid-19. Drawing on Office for National Data (ONS), she states that disabled people make up two thirds of coronavirus deaths in the UK. shows who is affected by Covid-19 in the UK and by how much.