Wed.Jan 15, 2025

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Is there a disconnect between the front line and senior management?

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Most social workers believe a disconnect exists between senior management and frontline practitioners, a Community Care poll has found. The need to ensure leaders are in touch with the front line has been highlighted in both the major reviews of children’s services in England carried out over the past 15 years.

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Children’s Defense Fund Appoints Khin Mai Aung New State Director for New York 

Children’s Defense Fund

Aung comes to Childrens Defense Fund after previously serving in roles of leadership for the youth civic engagement organization Generation Citizen and the New York State Education Department. Media Contact: John Henry, jhenry@childrensdefense.org , CDF Media Relations Manager, 708-646-7679 NEW YORK, NY The national youth advocacy organization Childrens Defense Fund has named Khin Mai Aung as its state director of the Childrens Defense Fund New York (CDF-NY) office.

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Infants at greater risk from growth in parental mental health and substance use issues, say councils

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Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Infants are at increased risk of harm due to growth in the numbers of parents with mental health and substance misuse issues, ,research has found. Directors linked the trends in parental needs to poverty, inadequate housing and the legacy of pandemic, and said they were leaving the youngest children at risk of neglect and physical injury.