Community Care

MARCH 26, 2024

Kent council is “extremely close” to its capacity to care for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and needs more to be transferred to other authorities “immediately” It has also accused the Home Office of failing to use new powers that Kent claimed would “immediately solve” the “unfair and unsustainable” pressures on the authority, resulting from increasing numbers of young people arriving on its coast to claim asylum.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

All of the love, compassion and common decency in this case came from people not employed by family police agencies. Massachusetts "Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides was not involved in this case. Had she been asked, she probably would have made the right call. But, though it wasn't her intent, she's fomented a climate of fear that helped prolong this child's agony.

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Nnatasha Tracy

MARCH 26, 2024

Don't ask me how I am. Just don't do it. Asking me how I am will only result in one of two things: a dishonest answer or honest tears. I don't particularly care for either outcome. This is because I'm miserable. I'm hellaciously depressed and have recently undergone a couple of unfortunate situations. i do the best I can to ignore all that — after all, nothing can be done — but when I think about how I am, I get really upset.

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inSocialWork

MARCH 26, 2024

Lauri Goldkind Large language models, generative AI, natural language processing, ChatGPT and Dall-E are all conspiring to transform social work practice and education — at least, that’s the hype. In this episode, Lauri Goldkind, PhD, LMSW, encourages us to take a breath and embrace the opportunities presented by these technologies. She recommends that we calmly and critically examine the evolution of AI, think creatively about its implications and advocate for collaborative conversations across

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The Guardian

MARCH 26, 2024

‘Shocking’ system for awarding care worker visas leaves people at risk of exploitation, inspection report says A damning inspection report has found multiple failures in the Home Office’s system for awarding care worker visas, including 275 granted to a care home that did not exist. The report found the whole regime of allowing care homes to sponsor visas to bring in workers from overseas was “shocking” in its implementation, and the net effect was “a system that invited large numbers of low-ski

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CAPC

MARCH 26, 2024

An article published on the California Health Care Foundation blog describes the growth of palliative care in California, making it a great example for other states in terms of equitable access to palliative care.

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CAPC

MARCH 26, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the 2024 Medicare physician fee schedule conversion factor in response to the Consolidated Appropriation Act being signed into law.

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