The Guardian
OCTOBER 5, 2022
In this week’s newsletter: The question of tougher regulation is back following an inquest into the death of a 14-year-old who viewed significant amounts of harmful online content Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here What content is safe for a child to view online? Who gets to decide what is OK and what is dangerous?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2022
? Last week, I was asked to list the most important contributions to the field of family advocacy and family defense made by Prof. Martin Guggenheim. The fact that he is a founder and president of NCCPR didn’t even make my top five. As Kathleen Creamer put it in this story from The Imprint “No one has done more than Marty to move this field towards justice — even when no one seemed to care about justice.” ?
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Psychological Health Care
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Mental Health Week and World Mental Health Day are marked in October each year. It’s a good time to reflect on the importance of looking after your mental health and a reminder of how your actions, experiences, and the world around you can shape your wellbeing. Here’s a look at this year’s campaign themes and ways you can look after your own mental health and help boost the mental health of your community.
The Guardian
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Welsh Tories say Bridgend’s £1.1m bill for agency social workers in year of five-year-old’s death shows risk of inconsistent care A local authority involved in the care of Logan Mwangi, the five-year-old boy murdered by his mother, her partner and his stepson , spent more than £1m on agency social workers in the year the child was killed, it has emerged.
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The New Social Worker
OCTOBER 5, 2022
COVID lockdown forced many social workers to integrate telehealth into their practice, but not much has been written about the mechanics. Here are tips to help you with familiar and unfamiliar platforms, plus the nuts and bolts of needed hardware.
Therapist Development Center
OCTOBER 5, 2022
As we discussed last month in our blog on Gestalt Therapy, a challenge of the ASWB LMSW and LCSW exams is the breadth of content that can be tested. In particular, many different therapy theories can show up on the … Continued. The post ASWB Exam Prep: Interpersonal Psychotherapy appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.
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Prosper Health Collective
OCTOBER 5, 2022
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Community Care
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Councils should stop automatically triggering child protection enquiries under section 47 of the Children Act 1989 in response to bruising in pre-mobile infants, government advisers have said. The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel made the call in a briefing published last week , as research found increasing numbers of authorities had policies that required a section 47 enquiry or a strategy discussion to decide whether such an enquiry should take place, in these cases.
The Guardian
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Her savings are fast running out and we can’t get a decision on funding My 100-year-old mother has spent the last four years in a care home and has paid the fees from her savings. As they dwindled towards £23,250 – when council funding kicks in – I contacted Derbyshire county council. Five months of phone calls passed before it carried out a needs assessment, and it was another month before her application was passed to its finance department.
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