Tue.Nov 23, 2021

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Five Ways to Improve Your Relationship With Gratitude

My Brains Not Broken

Since this week is Thanksgiving in the US, I’m thinking a lot about the word gratitude. Being in the mental health space, I heard this word quite often. One of the most common tips for people dealing with depression centers around finding gratitude in our lives. There are many ways that people can find gratitude (and I hope to make a post about that in the near future!

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Councils across UK required to take unaccompanied children

Community Care

Councils across the UK will be required to take unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to end the use of hotels for those arriving in Kent. The Home Office said today that it would make its national transfer scheme “temporarily mandatory” to ensure children arriving in the UK received the care they needed. The hitherto voluntary scheme was relaunched in July , after Kent ceased taking in new arrivals into its care due to pressures of numbers.

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Boris Johnson concedes people may still have to sell homes to pay for social care under reform plans – politics live

The Guardian

Latest updates: PM admits that, under his plans to reform social care, some pensioners could still be forced to sell their homes Boris Johnson’s social care plans face fresh hurdle in Lords How did your MP vote on social care funding? Boris Johnson’s much-criticised speech to the CBI, in full Coronavirus global updates – live The Downing Street lobby briefing has just ended, and the readout from the prime minister’s spokesman about what was said at cabinet this morning included an important conc

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Cap on care costs: MPs back reduction in benefit for less wealthy

Community Care

MPs have backed a government amendment to change the cap on care costs in a way that would reduce its benefit for less wealthy people facing “catastrophic costs” The change to the Care Act 2014 would mean that only client contributions to care costs will count towards the £86,000 cap for those receiving means-tested support from their council.

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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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The Covid Pandemic Increased Vulnerability to Forced Labor in Global Supply Chains

Swhelper

SWHELPER. Comprehensive evidence points to increased vulnerability of workers to forced labor in global supply chains during the Covid-19 pandemic, an analysis published today by the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (Modern Slavery PEC) has found. The Centre, which was created to enhance understanding of modern slavery and transform the effectiveness of […].

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Police must do more to help child sexual abuse survivors, says Rotherham report

The Guardian

IOPC says some systemic problems identified in 91 separate investigations still exist Police must do more to support and listen to survivors of child sexual abuse, according to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), following a major investigation into South Yorkshire police’s response to allegations made in Rotherham. The report published on Tuesday made 12 recommendations to national and local police forces, warning that some systemic problems identified in the 91 separate investiga

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Boris Johnson’s social care plans face fresh hurdle in Lords

The Guardian

Tory peers will try to amend PM’s controversial bill that has already sparked a rebellion by his MPs Boris Johnson is facing a showdown with Conservative peers in the House of Lords who will attempt to force his changes to social care back to the Commons, where the government suffered a significant rebellion on Monday night. The former health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed he abstained on the vote over concerns that funding changes would hit poorer households in areas with lower house prices.