NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals. Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." So why do some of the very judges who order a family "executed" preside over public celebrations of the aftermath?

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Crisis forces some nursing homes to downgrade to residential care status Nursing shortages are allowing “profiteering” staffing agencies to triple their rates, care leaders have warned, raising the risk of vulnerable patients being forced to move care homes and increasing the burden on the NHS. The crisis is forcing some nursing homes to become standard residential care homes without support for people with chronic diseases.

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Nursing Home 99

The Social Care Elf

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In her debut blog, Phoebe McKenna-Plumley explores a mixed methods study of young people, which finds concordance between self-reported loneliness and others' perceptions of loneliness. The post Loneliness “from the outside”: how are lonely young people perceived by others? appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Mental Health 98

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Pressures include ‘corridor care’ and high nursing and social care vacancy rates, says Royal College of Nursing Nursing leaders have highlighted 10 pressures on health and social care services which they say have created “unsustainable, untenable” conditions. A report from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said members working across health and social care in England dispute statements that the current situation in health and care is sustainable.

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Hospitals 78

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Children and the Law Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Roughly 200 children will spend this holiday season in juvenile facilities across Houston. Law students at the University of Houston Law Center are inviting you to make their time a little brighter by helping them reach their fundraising goal and by directly purchasing items off their Wishlist. Gifts will be distributed at the Harris County […].

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University 52

Hospice Chaplaincy

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In today’s episode, Saul and Joe talk to the legendary pediatric chaplain Paul Nash about the 10th anniversary of his Continue Reading.

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Hospice 40