Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

High workloads and a lack of supervision are undermining the professional curiosity and challenge needed for effective child protection practice, research has found. Several serious case reviews found that high workloads meant social workers lacked the time to build the effective relationships necessary to exercise effective challenge in families where children were at risk, according to the latest – and final – three-year analysis of SCRs, covering 2017-19.

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My Brains Not Broken

DECEMBER 20, 2022

TW: this post discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. Before I write about a post that discusses suicide, I breathe a big sigh. I try to hold back my own personal emotions because I need to focus, but the shadow of depression hangs its head over me. Because this thing is so hard. It’s so hard to sift through all the feelings and emotions that come with learning the news that someone has died by suicide.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. That was among the findings of a Department for Education-commissioned study on the effectiveness of DfE intervention in ‘inadequate’ councils and sector-led improvement in ‘requires improvement’ authorities, published last week.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Research shows public sector salaries have fallen significantly behind those in the private sector Teachers and social workers have experienced the worst pay growth in the UK in the past decade, while public sector salaries have fallen significantly behind those in the private sector, according to research. The years between 2010-11 and 2020-21 have been a “lost decade” for pay growth in the UK labour market, but new analysis tracking workers in different sectors over the period reveals that som

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Graduates of fast-track training schemes feel more prepared for social work but experience greater stress and less satisfaction once in practice, research for the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed. The ongoing longitudinal survey of local authority children’s practitioners has identified significant differences in the experiences of doing the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) between those who qualified through university programmes and those trained through Frontl

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

● There’s Another outstanding installment in the series from ProPublica and NBC News, documenting the enormous harm family policing does to children. This time, the story looks at child welfare’s “death penalty” – termination of children’s rights to their parents. There’s a special focus on West Virginia, which is both the child removal capital of America and the termination capital of America.

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CAPC

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Agreement also lowers barriers to prescribing opioid use disorder medication.

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Famcare

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Working in juvenile justice is a difficult task. Case managers in juvenile justice frequently face unfathomable work pressure, a plethora of children's criminal justice guidelines to follow, and a harsh system to deal with. To compound matters, juvenile justice agencies are frequently scrutinized due to their close proximity to children subjected to criminal justice.

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Michigan Social Work

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In an op-ed in The Hill, Professor Luke Shaefer urges Congress to reinstate the expanded Child Tax Credit before the end of this session. . “Providing supplemental income support to families with children … is the easiest, boldest, and most effective strategy to prevent and reduce child poverty,” writes Schaefer. “It wasn’t just families in poverty who saw these health-supporting benefits.

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Hospice Chaplaincy

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In Today’s episode, Saul talks to Nancy Mellon on the power of storytelling as a healing art. Teacher, artist, storyteller and psychotherapist, Nancy has specialized in healing through the arts for 30 years, teaching widely in the US and abroad. Author of Storytelling with Children, and Storytelling and the Art of Imagination, her book, Body Eloquence, won the 2008 […].

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Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

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