Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

Child in need cases have been opened up to non-social work qualified staff despite concerns that the policy will increase risks to children. The Department for Education’s (DfE) revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children has removed the previous requirement for child in need assessments and casework to be reserved for qualified social workers.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 14, 2024

One in five say they will be insolvent by next year. These local crises add up to a national catastrophe that’s about to explode A new financial year looms. The government is reportedly in the mood for pre-election tax cuts; the opposition talks of iron fiscal discipline. And all around us, a familiar disaster grinds on: constant increases in demand on our most crucial public services, which the financially blitzed councils charged with providing them simply cannot meet.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 14, 2024

Lynn F. Bufka, PhD, ABPP is Associate Chief, Practice, at the American Psychological Association. Dr. Bufka leads APA’s efforts to create opportunities for psychologists to best meet the needs of the public and advance population health. This includes embracing new approaches, models and conceptualizations of practice that are grounded in psychological science and are responsive to health equity and emerging challenges.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 14, 2024

The model of outsourcing public services is broken. Charities, councils and ministers need to find new ways of collaborating Cheap, efficient and entrepreneurial: these were the characteristics that politicians hoped the voluntary and private sectors would bring to the provision of public services. First under New Labour, then under the Conservatives during a period when councils and government departments had far less money, a radical reshaping of the state’s role also led to a reshaping of cha

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 14, 2024

Last week NCCPR published its first entirely new Issue Paper in 15 years. We pull together in summary form, with links to sources, the ugly history and enormous harm of mandatory "child abuse" reporting laws. It's available on our website, or you can read it right here: NCCPR ISSUE PAPER #16: THE FAILURE OF MANDATORY REPORTING Before termination of children’s rights to their parents (a more accurate term than “termination of parental rights”), before children are torn from the arms of their fami

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