Community Care
MARCH 18, 2022
One-third of social workers across England have experienced racism from people they work with in the past year, a survey of almost 2,000 practitioners has found. Almost one in ten (9%) had had experienced racism from colleagues or managers at least five times in the past 12 months, a figure that rose to 31% among black social workers and 28% among Asian respondents.
The Critical Blog
MARCH 18, 2022
Having co-authored Effective Personal Tutoring in Higher Education which detailed what we thought was happening in the sector at that point, what I personally found exciting about co-editing (with Andy Stork and Ben Walker , two of my previous co-authors) The Personal Tutor’s and Advisor’s Companion was that it details what is happening in the sector right now – at a very interesting time for higher education.
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Community Care
MARCH 18, 2022
By Tim Spencer-Lane, legal editor, CC Inform. The draft updated Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, was published for public consultation on 17 March. As well as updating the existing MCA code, the updated version also includes details on how the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) should be implemented. The LPS is the new scheme for authorising health and social care arrangements that give rise to a deprivation of liberty, replacing the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and Court of P
Social Work Blog
MARCH 18, 2022
Getty images. BACKGROUND: Texas attorney general Paxton issued a legal opinion that said gender affirming treatment/procedures constitute child abuse. Based on that legal opinion, Texas Governor Abbott instructed DCPS to conduct CPS investigations on any of these “abusive” gender affirming procedures. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) requested a temporary restraining order (TRO) in district court to prevent Texas DCPS from conducting a child abuse investigation on a family who sought g
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Community Care
MARCH 18, 2022
The High Court has dismissed a children’s rights charity’s claim that the government’s failure to ban unregulated placements for children in care aged 16 or 17 was unlawful. Article 39 brought the challenge against the Department for Education last year after arguing that a ban on unregulated accommodation for under-16s , introduced last September, wrongly excluded 16- and 17-year-olds and left them exposed to harm.
International Federation of Social Workers
MARCH 18, 2022
Two members of the IFSW education commission will take part in a workshops funded and supported by the European Association of Schools of Social Work (EASSW) inviting social work academics, students and practitioners across Europe to explore the significance of International Social Work and how it can be integrated in the social work education, training and […].
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