NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Is Pittsburgh’s “child welfare” predictive analytics algorithm running amok? – Inquiring minds (at the US Dept. of Justice) want to know! The Allegheny Family Screening Tool slaps an invisible scarlet number "risk score" on every child whose parents or other caretakers have been accused of neglect. (For a comprehensive examination of the dangers of this kind of computerized racial profiling, see our publication Big Data Is Watching You. ) The most highly touted, most far-reaching example of comp

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The frenzied debate about ‘record levels’ of net migration ignores the true cause of it all The headline, now increasing in pitch, capital letters and exclamation marks, is that net migration is off the charts. It is soaring. It is at an all-time high. So high that we ask, how did it come to this? The answer is, it came to this predictably and, in fact, inevitably.

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Reimagining Social Work

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The email below was sent to us by Amal Sadaqa from Stars of Hope a disability services NGO working in the West Bank of Palestine. It reminds us that while we must demand a permanent ceasefire on Gaza, the West Bank too is facing intensified attacks from Israeli Occupation forces.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Staff at Iceni Care Home say vulnerable residents were treated as if they were ‘on a farm’ to reduce workload Care workers at a private care home forced dementia sufferers out of bed as early as 5am and woke them by blasting loud radio music to save money, whistleblowers have alleged. The management of Iceni Care Home in Swaffham, Norfolk, received repeated complaints about the practice this summer, as concerned staff said vulnerable residents were being treated as if they were “on a farm” in or

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The post Video: Launching Ceremony of International Peer Review Project for MSW Program first appeared on International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW).

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Social workers scrambling to find places for children after net loss of 1,000 foster families in past year Child protection experts have called for an urgent nationwide hunt for thousands of new foster carers after a net loss of 1,000 families in the past year and a record number of children being placed far from home. Social workers have described scrambling to find friends and family to take children in urgent need of safety, and reported that children are sometimes placed in hotels.

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