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Healing the World and Mental Health: How You Can Help

Bipolar Bandit

Would you like to be part of a collaborative video that sends a message of peace and how we can all get along and the answer is not division and not being friends with someone because they disagree with you or calling them a racist because their political views are different? Email if interested.

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Supervision orders face overhaul to improve effectiveness in supporting family reunification

Community Care

What is the Public Law Working Group? The Public Law Working Group (PLWG) was set up in 2018 by President of the Family Division of the High Court Sir Andrew McFarlane to propose reforms that would ease mounting pressures on family court and social work professionals. Longstanding concerns but abolition rejected.

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Multiple and complex needs found in backgrounds of children deprived of liberty

Community Care

The hike has been driven, in part, by a severe shortage of places in secure children’s homes, an issue highlighted last month in sharp terms by the president of the family division of the High Court, Sir Andrew McFarlane.

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‘Positive signs’ on reducing number and length of care proceedings, says family court head

Community Care

The number of public law cases – most of which are council applications for care orders – have fallen year on year and there are indications further progress is being made, said president of the family division of the High Court Sir Andrew McFarlane, in a note to colleagues issued last week. on the same period in 2022.

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Ofsted calls for power to scrutinise children’s home groups

Community Care

Ofsted has called on the government to extend its powers to enable it to scrutinise social care groups that run multiple children’s homes. It published research last week which concluded that groups had some influence and control over the day-to-day running of their children’s homes. Groups’ influence over children’s homes.

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DMHAS Grant Supports Research on College Students and Gambling

University of Connecticut

Eleni Rodis, managing director of research for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) Research Division at the UConn School of Social Work (SSW), and Wendy Ulaszek, associate research professor at the SSW, recently conducted a study of Connecticut college students and gambling.

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‘Vital but not fit for purpose’: parents’ views on supervision orders

Community Care

This is being carried out by a sub-group of the Public Law Working Group, set up by the President of the Family Division to develop recommendations to improve the way the system works for children and families. .” By Professor Judith Harwin and Lily Golding. Proposals for reform.