Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

After 2 years being a social worker in a Family Service Centre (FSC) in Singapore, earning all of $3600 per month, before having a pay bump to $3690 in my second year (which I asked for), I realised that we were so sheepish about talking about money, that social workers were actually struggling. And you can’t think about money.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Publisher’s Weekly interviewed Roxanna Asgarian about her forthcoming book, We Were Once a Family , the story of “how flaws in the child welfare system contributed to the 2018 murder-suicide of six children by their adoptive parents.” Mom was late picking her up from school. Good thing they don’t have anything else to do.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

But, as the report itself acknowledges: In surveys and interviews, some OCFS supervisors and caseworkers indicated that valuable time is spent investigating reports that – in their opinion – did not appear to warrant an investigation. The report claims that parents have the right to refuse to let their children be interviewed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

As Molly Parker writes : News stories about child welfare tend to stake out one of two positions: They take agencies like [the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services] to task for missing numerous and seemingly obvious red flags leading to a child’s death; or they draw attention to cases where children have been unnecessarily removed.

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Social Workers Speak

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Lena, a seasoned high school teacher whom I interviewed while conducting research for my book, Lockdown: Talking to Your Kids About School Violence , admitted that she keeps a baseball bat next to her classroom door, just in case. “A Allison Carpenter is a member: [Video] Library partners with Family Service Rochester to add social worker.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In an interview with Community Care, Jones, who is emeritus professor of social work at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London, said he had recommended that trusts recruit from a wider pool of staff, beyond social workers, and cut administrative burdens for practitioners, and this was now being put into practice.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In a 2017 interview with GQ, speaking about his break-up with Jolie, Brad Pitt said: . The children’s visitation with Pitt was set under the jurisdiction of family services for three years. . If the courts do not commit to looking into these factors, the risk of harm to the children grows tremendously. . denied his request.

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