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Ofsted calls for power to scrutinise children’s home groups

Community Care

Ofsted has called on the government to extend its powers to enable it to scrutinise social care groups that run multiple children’s homes. The inspectorate said the change was necessary to fill a “gap in accountability” left by the current regime, in which Ofsted separately inspects children’s homes run by the same provider. It published research last week which concluded that groups had some influence and control over the day-to-day running of their children’s homes.

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When It Comes to Mental Health, Simple Doesn’t Mean Easy

My Brains Not Broken

People say it all the time – easier said than done. That phrase can extend to a lot of different situations for a lot of different reasons. In fact I don’t think I realized just how often I said it (to myself or to others) during my day-to-day life. And while I think that this extends to plenty of situations in our lives, there’s no area where this plays out for me in a clearer way then when my mental health is involved.

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Government age assessment changes would undermine social workers, campaigners warn

Community Care

Story updated 3 November 2021. Campaigners have accused the government of undermining practitioners’ knowledge and experience with its proposals to tighten age assessments for unaccompanied young people claiming asylum. A group of children’s and refugee charities and the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) have raised concerns about the changes, which would enable the government to press councils to have children in their care age assessed and to refer their decisions for review by a ne

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NASW on amicus brief before U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn Texas abortion law

Social Work Blog

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) on Oct. 27, 2021 and 10 other civil rights organizations joined in an amicus brief led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in the Whole Women’s Health v. Jackson case filed in the U.S. Supreme Court. This case involves Texas’s Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and allowing private citizens to enforce the law by suing anyone who performed, aided, or abetted an abortion in violation of the ba

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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Great news – Oregon "child welfare" attains mediocrity!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Now, let’s see if Senator Soundbite tries to undermine the progress The Oregonian has a story about the decline in foster care numbers in that state – and how it’s not due to more child abuse supposedly being hidden due to COVID lockdowns. On the contrary – what declined during the lockdowns were the false reports and the poverty cases. “Even though we had fewer calls, the right calls were coming in and we got to the children who needed us,” the state’s Deputy Director of Child Welfare Practice

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Why Growing Urban Inequality is as Much About White Affluence as Minority Poverty

Swhelper

Taylor Shelton. American cities have long been unequal places – with big class and racial gaps that often overlap. Residents of particular neighborhoods often experience many severe deprivations all at once. Scholars try to understand these overlapping urban inequalities by mapping concentrations of racial and ethnic groups along with those areas that experience concentrated poverty, using U.S. […].

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Police Training Needs Urgent Reforms, New Report from American University Reveals

Swhelper

SWHELPER. The instructional models that are used to train police officers across the U.S. at the academy, in-service, mid-rank, and leadership levels are in many cases antiquated, inadequate, and in critical need of immediate transformation, according to a new report released by American University’s School of Public Affairs (SPA). Entitled “Re-Envisioning Police Training in the U.S.: Rejecting […].

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Brittney Barros Briefs Congress on Foster Care Legislation

Michigan Social Work

Brittney Barros, dual MSW and MPP student, will brief Congress this week on the Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act, legislation which Barros developed as a 2018 intern with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Barros speaks this Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 1 PM. Register to watch the livestream of the briefing.

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves Part 4: School Social Work and White Womanhood

SSW Netrwork

The recent violence of White women has made the news and has ignited a wider conversation about White womanhood in the United States. While these contemporary acts of violence have garnered public attention, White women have always played a role in maintaining the United State’s racial hierarchy. For example, in the book, They Were Her […].