The Guardian

AUGUST 28, 2022

Head of children’s services says cash-strapped authority had no choice but to pay up to provide care Council pay £1m a year to house child in private care home Cllr Margaret Harvey, the cabinet member for children’s services in Knowsley, Merseyside, said she reacted with “absolute horror” when told the local authority was going to have to pay almost £50,000 a week for one child’s placement in earlier this year.

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Mental Health 76

Hospice Chaplaincy

AUGUST 28, 2022

In Today’s episode, Saul talks to Katie Duncan, MSN, CRNP, AGPCNP-BC. Katie is a national board-certified nurse practitioner, educator, author, and end-of-life care coach with a vision to rid society’s stigma of death and dying. Katie is a practicing adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner. She is also the founder and CEO of Death Care Coach, […].

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

AUGUST 28, 2022

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The Guardian

AUGUST 28, 2022

Exclusive: Concerns raised as cost of providing specialist care for vulnerable children soars ‘Providers charge what they want’: how one council was forced to pay £50k a week More than 20 councils in England and Wales have paid the equivalent of £1m a year or more to place a single child in a private children’s home as the cost of specialised care soars, data released to the Guardian shows.

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Government Mental Health 98

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

In the Times, even social problems can be gentrified. In a front-page story in The New York Times today (Aug. 28) about the misuse and overuse of psychiatric medication on children, these are what journalists call the “nut grafs” – the paragraphs that summarize what the whole story is about and why it’s important: Psychiatrists and other clinicians emphasize that psychiatric drugs, properly prescribed, can be vital in stabilizing adolescents and saving the lives of suicidal teens.

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