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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 7, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from foster care. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled. Now the family is suing. ●

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Council improves to ‘good’ after increasing social worker numbers to cut caseloads

Community Care

It also said the council needed to improve “variable” levels of practice with disabled children to achieve a consistently high quality. But Ofsted said the council needed to improve support for care leavers, who faced too many changes of personal adviser and, for whom, transition planning did not start early enough.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 27, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● You can learn more about how that happened, and the ongoing fight, at this webinar on June 29 from Narrowing the Front Door.

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Office of Research and Scholarship Update – Winter 2022

University of Connecticut

School of Social Work faculty and staff are engaged in collaborative teams that are developing and advancing scholarship to address a diverse range of problems, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, adverse childhood experiences, foster care, homophobia, trauma, aging, and more.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 5, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. A fourth complaint alleged that DCYF based conclusions about a parent’s capacity on their epilepsy and intellectual disabilities and failed to provide reasonable modifications. ? Check out Prof. And read an excerpt from the book in Mother Jones Prof.

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Recent happenings

Jaeran Kim

The first is an article written from my research on adoptive parents who placed an intercountry adopted child in out-of-home care due to the child’s disability. Abstract: Increasingly, intercountry adopted children have special needs similar to children adopted from foster care in the United States.

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What are the 10 Roles of Social Workers

Social Work Haven

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents.