Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

Social workers are under increased pressure because of Omicron-related staff absences elsewhere in social care and rising assessment workloads, sector bodies have warned. Practitioners are having to step in to carry out welfare checks on adults going without the care they need due to mounting staff shortages in residential and home care, said the British Association of Social Workers (BASW).

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National Casa Gal

JANUARY 25, 2022

CASA volunteer Mr. Velasquez quickly began an effort to provide direct assistance to his CASA counterparts that were impacted. Read More. The post Texas CASA volunteer leads company support to benefit the children served by Kentucky CASA programs in Western Kentucky appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

Bradford’s children’s services will be outsourced to an independent trust, education secretary Nadhim Zahawi has announced. The decision, agreed with the council, follows recommendations made this month to Zahawi by Steve Walker, the government-appointed commissioner at the inadequate-rated authority. It also comes after the authority and its safeguarding partners admitted failings in their handling of the Star Hobson case, in December last year, after Star’s mother’s partner was found guilty of

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The Guardian

JANUARY 25, 2022

Move comes after investigation found serious management shortcomings and follows Star Hobson case Bradford council has been stripped of control of its children’s social care after an investigation following the murder of 16-month old Star Hobson found serious shortcomings in the management of the service. Social workers will be transferred to a not-for-profit children’s trust that ministers hope will help “drive rapid improvements” to a department which has been underperforming for years and str

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JANUARY 25, 2022

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The Guardian

JANUARY 25, 2022

Child and adolescent psychiatrist whose work with bereaved young people resulted in the book When Father Kills Mother Dora Black, who has died aged 89 of cancer, was a pioneering child and adolescent psychiatrist who voiced a much-needed refrain, “but what about the children?”, in situations where young people’s emotional needs were not being considered.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

? We begin this week not just with one story but with an entire magazine. Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 25, 2022

I’ve been to…a decent number of therapists over the years, and though I’ve found short-term success with a few, I’ve never been able to find long-term success. Part of that is the transitions I’ve made in life (high school to college, and then college to post-grad can make that difficult), but part of it is also that I had no long-term goals with therapy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

He co-authors a “news analysis” for the Los Angeles Times that sounds like a pitch by a company selling “predictive analytics” software for child welfare. There’s also another cheap shot at family preservation and something that sure sounds like a dog-whistle. Second of two parts. Read part one here. Yesterday’s post to this blog reviewed the bad journalism practiced by former Los Angeles Times reporter, and current contributor, Garrett Therolf.

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