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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. You can listen to her full interview here.

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Chapin Hall prepares to whitewash abuse in foster care

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

So, for example, researchers for the Casey Family Programs Northwest Foster Care Alumni study interviewed 479 foster care alumni in Oregon and Washington State – including alumni of Casey’s own program, considered to be a model program. Two ways to measure rates of abuse in foster care. And why are they doing it this way?