Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Posted December 17, 2021. Two adults are interacting with an older person. The older person is lying in bed. All three are wearing face masks. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on nursing home residents, families, and staff. Limitations on visits from family (as defined by each resident), other personal guests, and even certain service providers (such as hospice personnel and long-term care ombudsmen) have drastically exacerbated loneliness and social isolation among residents.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Frank Thomson (not his real name) worked as safeguarding locum in 2018 but left after feeling unsafe Frank Thomson* has been a social worker for more than a decade, but describes a short stint in Bradford council’s child safeguarding team as “without exaggerating, the scariest place I’ve ever worked in”. This week, the spotlight has turned to the troubled social work department after the murder of Star Hobson , a 16-month-old toddler, who was beaten to death by her mother’s partner last Septembe

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Michigan Social Work

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Professor Brad Zebrack has received the American Psychosocial Oncology Society’s Ruth McCorkle Excellence in Research Mentorship Award. The award honors those who have demonstrated a longstanding commitment to nurturing intellectual growth, career development, professional guidance and positive role modeling in the field of psychosocial oncology.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Madeleine Worrall on waiting for emergency surgery, and Helen Hills on the everyday anguish in care homes I don’t know why people are saying there is a risk that the NHS will buckle; it already has ( Hospitals in England draw up plans for significant Covid staff absences, 17 December ). This Christmas I hope some children get to enjoy the National Theatre’s Peter Pan, in which I played Wendy, online.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Think of it as the Cliffs Notes version. From the column: Year after year, the number of deaths of children “known to the system” remains constant. Some years it goes up a little, some years it goes down a little. So all those children needlessly separated; all those taken from homes that were safe or could have been made safe with the right kinds of help only to be abused in foster care, suffered for nothing.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Personalised social care reform must consider every person's "experience, history, culture, beliefs and needs." [Image created by freepik.com ]. I believe social care exists to support people to live healthy, meaningful lives. This requires government commitment for the long term and sustained investment in the future we are wanting to build. The current social care system is not set up in a way which provides equity of access and does not do enough to support fairness or the desired outcome of

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