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Councils underfunded adult care services by at least £2.9bn in 2021-22, provider analysis suggests

Community Care

Councils underfunded home care and older people’s care home services in England by just under £2.9bn in 2021-22, according to an analysis by provider bodies. Sustainability plans due The next stage of the fair cost process is for councils to publish market sustainability plans by 27 March 2023.

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Black History Month: inspirational lives, inspiring great careers in care

Social Care

She proves, once again, why global majority nurses bring unique skills, perspectives, and experiences to the delivery of compassionate care and diverse, representative leadership reflecting our communities and the best of our profession. Social care nursing is not really a key area of healthcare in Nigeria.

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Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

Community Care

The Care Provider Alliance’s analysis of councils’ fair cost of care reports suggested there was a £2.88bn shortfall in funding for care home services for older people and home care provision for all adults in 2021-22.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Building Expertise in Serving Children & Families While KVC started as a small group home for boys, we’ve since learned from research that residential group home care is not the ideal living situation for most children. Diverse perspectives are key to our progress. Instead, “Children grow best in families.”

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

KVC

Our dream is to continue Eason’s legacy by building diverse community support to rally around children and families. Whether a family needs support in their own home or during out-of-home care, KVC is driven to seek diverse perspectives, work inclusively, bridge gaps, and add capacity to meet needs.”.

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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

And here's the problem with the “secondary analysis” that’s supposedly to determine “the relationship between child maltreatment in out-of-home care and child characteristics”: If your sample omits the overwhelming majority of the abuse, there’s no way to know if those few cases agencies will admit to are even a representative sample.

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10 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About Social Workers

KVC

While social workers do provide their professional perspective, ultimately a judge decides whether the child needs out-of-home care. Social workers then provide services to the family in order to resolve conflicts or disruptions and teach healthy skills so children can safely return home. needs more social workers.