My Brains Not Broken
APRIL 12, 2022
Last week I was feeling a little under the weather , which l ed me to writing about the perfectionism that it brought out in me. After several days of not feeling so hot, I woke up yesterday morning feeling somewhat healthy for the first time in a while. It was, as the saying goes, a breath of fresh air – not only physically, but mentally as well.
Community Care
APRIL 12, 2022
People who take Ukrainian refugees into their homes should not have the money they receive for doing so counted for the purposes of care charges, the government has said. In guidance issued yesterday, the Department of Health and Social Care said councils should disregard the £350 a month paid to sponsors under the Homes for Ukraine programme when assessing their resources for charging purposes.
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Social Work Blog
APRIL 12, 2022
Getty Images. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and 30 other organizations on April 4 joined an amicus brief led by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) in support of the petition to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to rehear en banc the sex-based harassment case of Brown v. Arizona. En banc means all judges of the court would hear the case.
Social Care
APRIL 12, 2022
Multiple perspectives from four dedicated Hertfordshire County Council colleagues, fully invested in the progress, aims and ambitions of the social care workplace race equality standard (SCWRES). Liz Fergus, Diversity and Inclusion Project Manager. I started my role as Adult Care Services (ACS) Project Manager for Diversity and Inclusion as we were applying to be one of the first SCWRES sites.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 12, 2022
? While discussing her new book, Torn Apart , on public radio’s The Takeaway , Dorothy Roberts made host Melissa Harris-Perry gasp. Want to hear it? And see also this story in Jezebel. ? Thanks to Greg Abbott, affluent white people are discovering that even “CPS-lite” is enormously traumatic for children and families. As I note in this column for The Imprint , for Black, Brown, Native and poor white families it’s a whole lot worse. ?
Social Work Blog
APRIL 12, 2022
A hospice nurse visits an elderly man. Getty Images. Brittney Chesworth. While most people don’t like the idea of death, they are able to accept to some degree that they are going to die one day. For some, however, the fear of death leads to a host of worries about anything that could potentially end their lives, says NASW member Brittney Chesworth, PhD.
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