Social Care

APRIL 10, 2024

These strengthened employment rights will help millions of unpaid carers across the UK, allowing individuals to handle the practical aspects of caring and enabling both the carer and the cared for to enjoy more precious moments together. To make sure employers are aware of what is required of them, Carers UK has created a new guide.

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Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

Case law on capacity test Currie, who also teaches on a BIA programme, said they were largely suitable, though added that their reference to BIAs needing to understand the “formal two-stage assessment of capacity” was outdated. “Often, they expect the student to arrange this, which is easy if you are employed by a council.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

The ballot initiative, which is very similar to Proposition 22 in California, sought to significantly narrow who is an “employee” under Massachusetts law, thereby excluding hundreds of thousands of workers from the employment rights and protections provided by state law. Getty images.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2023

The ruling, by Mrs Justice Knowles, comes on the back of longstanding private law proceedings between the social worker and his former partner, from whom he separated in 2015, concerning their daughter, known as Z. “The same protections and process are, in reality, unlikely to be replicated for each and every employer.”

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Social workers serve a variety of clients, in many capacities, for many different types of employers. So, when the social worker leaves their employer, the client might want to go with the social worker. To avoid these situations, employers might insert “non-compete clauses” or “non-solicitation” agreements into employment contracts.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Social workers serve a variety of clients, in many capacities, for many different types of employers. So, when the social worker leaves their employer, the client might want to go with the social worker. To avoid these situations, employers might insert “non-compete clauses” or “non-solicitation” agreements into employment contracts.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2022

The 25 or over criterion reflected case law at the time on the unreliability of assessing age based on physical appearance and the resultant need to provide a wide margin for error in the claimant’s favour. Home Office guidance for social workers assessing the age of young people arriving in Kent is unlawful, the High Court has ruled.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Yes, the same Maria Mossaides whose own commission studying mandatory child abuse laws rebelled and refused to accept her recommendations after they realized she hadn’t told them the whole story about these laws and their consequences. Massachusetts "Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides was not involved in this case.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Crisitello was an elementary school art teacher who was terminated by her employer, a Catholic elementary school, after she became pregnant while unmarried. NASW advocates for effective enforcement of anti-discrimination laws and regulations that prohibit discrimination in the workplace.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Federal and state laws safeguard the rights of individuals to have emotional support animals. If you reside in Massachusetts, the state has its own set of laws governing this subject. Emotional Support Animal Massachusetts: The Laws ESAs are not protected to the same degree as service animals.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Federal and state laws safeguard the rights of individuals to have emotional support animals. If you reside in Massachusetts, the state has its own set of laws governing this subject. Emotional Support Animal Massachusetts: The Laws ESAs are not protected to the same degree as service animals.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Federal and state laws safeguard the rights of individuals to have emotional support animals. If you reside in Massachusetts, the state has its own set of laws governing this subject. Emotional Support Animal Massachusetts: The Laws ESAs are not protected to the same degree as service animals.

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The Social Care Elf

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For the last in our World Menopause Day 2023 series, we are combining a paper and some recent case law, to think about some of the things that have been discussed this week through these blog posts.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

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. Judith Harwin is professor in socio-legal studies, School of Law, Lancaster University.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The lawsuit was filed by the Family Justice Law Center, the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private firms. There seem to be no rules and no laws to protect the mother and her children from this intrusion. But unlike most legal documents, this one reads like a good magazine article.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This, despite federal law and state regulations that require disclosure of at least minimal information when children die or nearly die as the result of abuse and neglect. Now DHS can explain itself to a judge.

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Famcare

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

public schools have employed a growing number of school resource officers (SROs) – sworn law enforcement officials. In 1975, only 1% of schools reported having police officers on site, but by 2018, approximately 58% of schools had at least one sworn law enforcement official present during the school week. Since the 1900s, U.S.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Immigration law is often prioritised at the expense of the child’s wellbeing’. One case review wrote that, “lawful and efficient responses are not always enough to compensate for the very particular vulnerabilities of the extremely marginalised group represented by those who have no recourse to public funds”. .”

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The watchdog called on social care employers and commissioners to: Ensure leaders work to develop a culture where concerns can be shared freely in the confidence that action will follow. Work with trade unions and employer bodies to ensure lower-paid workers are able to share feedback and concerns.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

It plans to introduce a replacement accreditation programme later this year, designed to be “more sustainable” and deliver “a better overall experience for social workers” that was “more meaningful” for them and employers. This is likely to be based on remote testing, rather than the in-person model delivered through NAAS assessment centres.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

The comment is part of an in-depth examination of mandatory child abuse reporting laws in Colorado – which are pretty much like the laws everywhere else. “People don’t think about how traumatic these investigations are for kids.” It is the most thorough, most nuanced story I’ve seen on this topic anywhere in the country. ●

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Relias

JANUARY 8, 2024

In some cases, RBTs may need to contact relevant authorities, such as law enforcement or the BACB. They follow all requirements established by the BACB, employers, and the law. privacy laws, licensure requirements). RBTs also maintain confidentiality when interacting with client information and records.

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Social Work With Adults

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Image created by freepik.com ] How the course breaks down Introduction to Social Work in Disasters Law, policy and best practice Person centred, research-informed practice with a multi-agency approach Responding, using theory and self-care. Click the links below for more details, including how to register.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 31, 2022

Their petition objects to a new law that, because it took the form of secondary legislation, has so far failed to generate the national outcry that it merits. That law makes official in England the practice of forcing children out of care at the age of 16. Forcing children to manage life on their own leads to other forms of harm too.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 2, 2024

Since 2019, the total annual cost of poor mental health to employers has increased by 25%, costing UK employers up to £56 billion a year – according to a report by Deloitte. Figures show employers can see a return of £5.30 So how can employers help reduce stress at work? on average for every £1 invested in mental health.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 2, 2022

That will forever be remembered as my best place of employment. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. Within two months I was considered senior staff. It set the roots for the social worker I was to become.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

While they may gain employment, jobs tend to be in manual or simple service industries. Persons identified with MID may gain employment and may require supervision and understanding from their employer with regard to their differences. They will just in a sense, live it.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Both stories leave the impression that getting rid of ransom is harder than it really is; they cite a federal law requiring ransom. But as NPR’s excellent reporting on this topic makes clear, the law has plenty of wiggle room. In fact, the practice can, and should be abolished entirely.

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Social Work With Adults

JANUARY 31, 2024

They have supported the championing of social workers expertise in communication and relationship skills, together with their broad and specialised knowledge of law, entitlements, and the system.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Those rulings prompted the Sentencing Commission to take action and recommend a change in Connecticut’s law. These historic rulings held that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for youth 17 or younger when they were convicted of violent crimes is unconstitutional.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 14, 2021

On very rare occasion, it can also lead to the child developing the skills to leave home by finding employment, however, leaving school early too. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

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Psychological Health Care

APRIL 6, 2024

In fact, mental health conditions related to employment stressors are now the fastest growing type of workplace injury. For specific information about your work situation, consult your company documents and leave requirements, human resources, a union representative or an employment law professional.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Twenty years ago, Penn Law Professor (and NCCPR Board Member) Dorothy Roberts changed the landscape of “child welfare” when she literally wrote the book on racial bias in family policing: Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. Is this on YOUR kindle yet? ?

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

26, 2021 committed to gender justice and participated in an amicus brief led by the Purple Campaign, National Women’s Law Center, and Legal Momentum in support of Jane Roe v. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and 41 other public interest and civil rights organizations on Aug. United States et. United States et.

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Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The law doesn’t care that the psychosis will worsen and interfere with the ability to attend to basic needs in the eventual future. Nor does the law care that someone might get killed due to delusion in the eventual future. The law only cares about what is imminent. Most states have overly restrictive involuntary hold laws.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Care experience: The DfE has rejected the care review’s call for care experience to become a protected characteristic under equality law, which would have required public bodies to tackle inequalities facing those with care experience and prohibit businesses and employers from discriminating against them.

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Prosper Health Collective

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Collaboration between both employers and employees leads to the best outcomes. . Know your legal rights and responsibility – Work health and safety laws protect your right to feel safe in the workplace. What can I do as an employee? Support others in your workplace by having open conversations. .

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