Community Care

MAY 27, 2022

By Charlotte Goddard and Mithran Samuel. The number of council child and family social workers in England quitting children’s services altogether rose by 22% last year, suggest government figures. An estimated 2,785 full-time equivalent (FTE) posts were vacated in the year to September 2021 without the social workers concerned joining another council or taking up a locum role in an authority, found the Department for Education.

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 27, 2022

The other evening I gathered my family for a ZOOM call to share the news of my angiogram. It came on the heels of a day that began with a call to go to hospital at 7:00 am. Owing to a number of emergency patients ahead of me and other complex patients, the procedure for my angiogam was late in the afternoon. Recovery another 2.5 hours. Although mildly sedated, the doctor walked me through the findings while still on the table.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Massachusetts "Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Consider the relative positions and power of two women in Massachusetts. Crystal Sorey is the mother of Harmony Montgomery, a child who was taken from her because of her illness – drug use - and ultimately placed with her father. Harmony was last seen toward the end of 2019. We still might not even know that Harmony is missing were it not for her mother’s persistence in demanding answers.

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 27, 2022

I read the psych-ed report on their child. It wasn’t good news and could easily be difficult to understand by any parent. I explained the results. Although of average intelligence there was difficulty absorbing information as well as getting it out there. It’s kind of like having a reasonable computer, but a lousy keyboard and flickering monitor.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Getty Images. Social workers have a long tradition of social justice and political advocacy – to include working to expand and protect voting rights and promote voter registration. Our essential work on behalf of protecting voting rights is needed now more than ever. The right to vote was hard won and still remains tenuous for historically vulnerable and under-represented communities.

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The Guardian

MAY 27, 2022

From my 12 years of research, I know that the pressure staff come under – especially from hostile parents – can cloud their judgment Harry Ferguson is professor of social work at the University of Birmingham When six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and 16-month-old Star Hobson’s deaths from appalling physical abuse became widely known in December there was an outpouring of public anger, grief and questions about how this could possibly have been allowed to happen.

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The Guardian

MAY 27, 2022

My dad, Paddy Barry, who has died aged 84, had a long career as a social worker, working mainly with children. From 1974 to 1997 he was the principal officer for children’s residential and day care for Wandsworth council, in south-west London, which in those days ran more than 25 children’s homes across the borough. Paddy always viewed the care system from the perspective of the child, working hard to ensure that children’s life chances would be improved by being in care.

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Social Service Workforce

MAY 27, 2022

L’UNICEF travaille avec le Gouvernement congolais pour créer un environnement protecteur et assurer la sécurité des enfants les plus vulnérables. Publié à l'origine sur le site Web de l'UNICEF République Démocratique du Congo. Aussi disponible en anglais.

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Social Service Workforce

MAY 27, 2022

UNICEF is working with the Congolese government to create a protective environment and to ensure the safety of the most vulnerable children. Originally published on the UNICEF Democtratic Republic of Congo website. Also available in French. .

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