Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

By Lorraine Currie The timeline provided by Community Care , from the 2014 Cheshire West judgment to the government’s postponement of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) , is incredibly helpful in reminding us of events we would otherwise forget. What I would add to that timeline is that the original impact assessment for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) estimated that we would be dealing with around 7-8,000 referrals a year by this point in time and, at its height, the DoL

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same. ‘I’d rather take the beating than catch a CPS case,’ as one said to me.

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Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

Scottish services are losing experienced social workers, leaving newly qualified practitioners without support and putting the quality of services at risk. That was the warning from the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW), in response to comments made last month that experienced staff were not applying for social work vacancies in the country.

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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD, Editor of Navigating Bipolar Country and author of Mad Like Me Q: To start, could you tell us a bit about your background and work, Merryl? A: About a hundred years ago back in South Africa where I was born, I trained as a nurse, got several post-grad nursing qualifications, did a master’s in sociology and a doctorate in adult education and public health.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 12, 2023

High quality online programs not only benefit students and schools, but they are also beneficial to the entire social work profession as social workers from a broader array of backgrounds emerge from their education prepared for what’s next.

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The Guardian

APRIL 12, 2023

Local government ombudsman rules that delay in finding suitable accommodation for family caused serious health risks A severely disabled child missed out on vital NHS surgery and was left in chronic pain for more than three years because a council failed to move them out of unsuitable housing despite repeated pleas from health professionals, a watchdog has ruled.

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Beyond Advocacy

APRIL 12, 2023

Dr. Lenna Nepomnyaschy is an associate professor at Rutgers , The State University of New York, and a participant in the current faculty strike at the university. She is a member of the board of directors of the Social Work Democracy Project. I have known Lenna since our days together in the Ph.D. program at Columbia University. I reached out to get her perspective on the strike that began on Monday.

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