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

Community Care

Case studies in five of the authorities, involving interviews with practitioners and managers and analysis of strategic documents. Interviews with four domestic abuse training providers. Staff feedback on an online training module they were invited to complete alongside the survey. A review of policy documents in England and Wales.

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Guest Post: Interview with Merryl Hammond, PD; Author of Mad Like Me and Navigating Bipolar Country

Bipolar Bandit

Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD, Editor of Navigating Bipolar Country and author of Mad Like Me Q: To start, could you tell us a bit about your background and work, Merryl? For example, did you know that Hitler used “gas buses” to travel through the countryside, rounding up and murdering people with mental illnesses and disabilities?

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No adult social care minister appointed six weeks into Truss premiership

Community Care

In an interview published this week with his constituency’s local paper, the Harborough Mail, O’Brien said he was honoured to have been appointed to the DHSC and commented on its priorities across health and social care. The DHSC appears to be an outlier among government departments in not having agreed ministerial portfolios.

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The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Laming tells me of a severely disabled young adult who, until the age of 18, had been well supported by children’s services.

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Section 10 Graduate School Survival Guide and Tip Sheet

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP Student Blog piece by the SCP Section 10 Campus Reps is a useful resource to individuals who are preparing to apply to graduate schools in psychology. Applying to Graduate School? Set up one master essay as a template and change out select sections that should be sculpted for each particular school.

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‘Vital but not fit for purpose’: parents’ views on supervision orders

Community Care

They were based on interviews with 44 parents of 59 children from 13 local authorities in England and Wales. Domestic abuse, mental health problems and substance misuse predominated and a third of the children had special educational needs and disabilities.

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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. It also called for improvements when children go missing, not all of whom are offered a timely return home interview.