Stop Abuse Campaign

APRIL 21, 2023

I know this to be true because after the most recent school shooting… Wait. The most recent school shooting.” School shootings happen so frequently in our country that we’ve come to refer to them as “the most recent.” What if we looked at their models and saw the plummet in gun deaths after government buy-back programs?

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The Guardian

MAY 11, 2024

Allan government allocates $165m towards redress for victims of historical abuse and neglect in institutional care, while $111.4m Allan government allocates $165m towards redress for victims of historical abuse and neglect in institutional care, while $111.4m

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The Guardian

MARCH 14, 2022

No additional funding is available to continue testing regime in special schools and children’s care homes All free Covid testing in special schools and children’s care homes in England is to come to an end this month as the government presses ahead with its plan to return to normal life despite rising cases of the virus.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Wales remains the only UK nation not to have commissioned a review of its children’s social care services, after the Welsh Government resisted calls to do so following the inquiry into Logan Mwangi’s murder. ” Call for minimum period for social work court assessments.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The UK government recently published guidance from the department of health and social care into improving the mental health of babies, children and young people. That conversation has seen young people taking a lead in all areas – at home, in school and at work. This week (5-11 February 2024) is Children’s Mental Health Week.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The UK government recently published guidance from the department of health and social care into improving the mental health of babies, children and young people. That conversation has seen young people taking a lead in all areas – at home, in school and at work. This week (5-11 February 2024) is Children’s Mental Health Week.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Government safeguarding advisers have voiced their disappointment over ministers’ response to their recommendations to improve the safeguarding of disabled children in residential settings. This is currently the subject of a criminal investigation. This is currently the subject of a criminal investigation. Accepted in principle.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2024

The government has also pledged to bring forward measures later this year to tackle “profiteering” in the children’s residential sector. The funding is in addition to the £259m the government had previously allocated from 2022-25 to resource additional placements in open and secure homes.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

And yesterday, Kelly Tolhurst announced she would be stepping down as minister for schools and childhood – a role with direct responsibility for children’s social care – just one month after she was confirmed in post. Keegan left school at 16 and then did an apprenticeship, and was also apprenticeships minister from 2020-21.

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 29, 2023

Scores of macro practice social workers and students will gather at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis Public Schools, and the Clark-Fox Policy Institute at the Brown School. Louis beginning Thursday for the first in-person conference since the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Community Care

APRIL 3, 2023

The home secretary said the government would introduce a mandatory reporting duty, subject to consultation, in response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s final report, published last October. This was one of IICSA’s central recommendations, which it said would combat systemic under-identification of CSA.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

in 2022, according to the government’s preferred consumer prices index (CPI) measure, and 11.6% Staff ‘have seen pay plummet’ “Local government workers have seen their wages plummet colossally in real terms in the last dozen years,” said Unite national officer Clare Keogh. in 2024.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The government must invest in specialist placements to reform a care system not working for vulnerable teenagers and protect them from exploitation. As of March 2021, 10- to 15-year-olds accounted for 39% of children in care, and those over 16 23%, according to government statistics. Horror stories’. Photo; motortion/Adobe Stock.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

The employers’ side of the National Joint Council for Local Government Services (NJC) made the offer – which they described as “full and final” – last month. The government has said that inflation is due to average about 5.5% in the year to January 2023.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The lack of an appointed care minister comes with significant decisions needing to be made about the sector including: Whether there will be a delay to the government’s adult social care charging reforms, in the light of the economic situation. Care minister role may be downgraded.

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Doin' The Work

APRIL 24, 2023

In this episode, I talk with Ashleigh Washington and Ruth Cusick, both co-founders of C4LL, The Collective for Liberatory Lawyering, about their work as movement lawyers to end the school-to-prison pipeline. They get into specific examples of how they respond when anti-Black racist harm is done in schools.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

According to government rules, at least 50% of members must turn out for action to follow. Council and schools staff ‘opposed to £1,925 offer’ Explaining its approach to the ballot, UNISON’s head of local government, Mike Short, said: “Government rules mean there’s a lengthy timescale for any industrial action ballot.

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2022

Local government unions have called for an 11% pay rise for social workers and other council staff in response to the mounting cost of living. Employers and the government need to invest properly in the local government and school workforce to ensure the important services on which everyone relies are fit for the future.”.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. And I think to myself, we’ve got to see the whole person.

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Doug Ford’s government through Stephen Lecce, the Minister of Education will be spinning tales hoping to pit parents against educators. All you have to do is step into a few schools to see the state of disrepair, crowded classrooms and students whose supplies are often provided by the teachers themselves from their very own salary.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 20, 2024

MQ has contributed to an All-party parliamentary Group report that is calling on the UK government to ‘unlock the trauma trap’ of Adverse Childhood experiences (ACEs) and free the nation’s children with a population-wide public health strategy. What are Adverse Childhood Experiences? You can read more about Early Intervention measures here.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week. Several requirements were set for the latter, known as quality and safety reviews.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The government will review the local authority designated officer (LADO) role after an inquiry into the abuse of disabled children identified “major failings” in relation to the function. However, it also found there had been warnings signs about the schools over the previous three years. What is the LADO role?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The inquiry also urged the creation of Child Protection Authorities for England and Wales responsible for improving practice by statutory agencies and other instutitions, advising government on policy and, where they consider necessary, inspecting organisations. Mandatory reporting requirement.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2023

Ruth Perry, the headteacher of Caversham Primary School, took her own life while awaiting the publication of an Ofsted inspection report that downgraded her school from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’. This has long been opposed by children’s services leaders.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 21, 2024

As many governments are struggling to enact these goals, we see from this edition that social work academics, students, and practitioners are already taking an active role IASSW is thankful to Prof. Please visit for current and past volumes : [link] and share your feedback.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The number of children in need in England has fallen for the third successive year, to its lowest level since 2013, according to official government figures. Closures due to lockdown measures during this period led to a 31% decline in referrals from schools and a 7% decrease overall, which contributed to the falls in interventions.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. The college called on the government to fund an expansion of medical school places and psychiatry training posts.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The government has appointed its fourth children’s social care minister of the year ahead of a critical period for the sector. Coutinho, in effect, succeeds Kelly Tolhurst, who left her post as minister for schools and childhood in October, just one month after her appointment was announced.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2022

Children adopted from care falls to lowest in 21 years, government figures show. Government signals shift towards national adoption services under latest strategy. Related articles. Children’s minister’s call for directors to prioritise adoption lambasted by sector heads. 18-month waits.

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Community Care

APRIL 7, 2022

In his inaugural address as president on Wednesday , Crocker called on the government to launch a review into children’s mental health. Councils continue to face social work shortages and Crocker said ADCS would continue to urge the government to begin a national recruitment drive. More foster carers needed. More foster carers needed.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Referrals had fallen by 7% from 2019-20 to 2020-21 on the back of a drop of a third in concerns submitted by schools, in apparent consequence of coronavirus-linked closures. However, notifications from schools rose by 59%, from 81,180 to 129,090, in 2021-22, in the wake of the removal of restrictions. on 2020-21, to 650,270.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 5, 2024

Pragati (the erstwhile Integrated Rural Health and Development Project) is a field action project of the Centre for Health and Mental Health, School of Social Work. The manual is the first step towards creating contextually relevant material for skill development of school children.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The government is running a national campaign offering Covid-19 vaccinations to children aged 12 and over, and it has extended its offer of flu vaccines to those in years 7 to 11 (generally those aged 11 to 16) this school year, having previously only rolled out the jab in primary schools. Mother’s opposition.

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Save the Social Worker

JUNE 29, 2023

Planning, may sometimes require pushing If you’re honest with yourself, you probably hate bureaucratic forms that you need to fill in for the government too. Even if it means turning up at his doorstep at 6 in the morning to get your young client to go to school, and stop playing truant. Just think about your taxes. You get the idea.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 28, 2022

This leaves the student, come “graduation”, which is actually more like aging out of the school system, less capable of managing independently as an adult. We need a government in power who understands that the investment in meeting the needs of all children is not only an investment in the child, but all of society.

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Community Care

APRIL 20, 2023

‘Child protection failings will recur without government action’ “Earlier reports have catalogued how disabled children with a complex mix of autism and health needs can be locked away behind closed doors, often in placements far from their families, with little concern for their quality of life or futures.

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