Community Care

APRIL 7, 2022

Lawyers for the man, who is autistic and has learning disabilities, said Lancashire council admitted breaching his human rights and had agreed a £200,000 settlement and a payment of £155,000 for a deputy to manage his property and affairs on his behalf. This has been approved by the High Court. ” Related articles.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Ben Cardin (D-MD) on May 18 reintroduced the Democracy Restoration Act (DRA), federal legislation that seeks to restore voting rights in federal elections to the millions of disenfranchised Americans who have been released from prison and are living in the community but are still denied the right to vote. Supreme Court.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Hello Everyone, I am excited to share with you the fact that an Instructor’s Manual has recently been released for the third edition of my book Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions (Cognella, 2023). I have also incorporated more examples outside the U.S.,

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

” The future of human rights in the face of rapid technological change is emerging as an important space right now. Social Work Health Futures Lab Fellow, Dr. Sam Bradley recently shared with me that Chile is the first country to actually pass a national law regarding “neurorights.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

I pointed out that in its entire history, Children’s Rights had never brought such litigation, insisted it couldn’t be done, and sometimes even stood in the way of such efforts. And this time, they’ve brought good litigation in the right place at the right time. I’ve got to admit, he came up with a good answer.

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MQ Mental Health

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This year the theme is ‘Mental Health is a Human Right’. In a previous article , we answered the questions like what is a human right and why is mental health one? Now we look at how our mental health is protected by human rights. How does the Human Rights Act protect people with mental health conditions?

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Regulations can then take up to 40 days to become law. The LPS establishes a process for authorising arrangements enabling care or treatment which give rise to a deprivation of liberty within the meaning of Article 5(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), where the person lacks capacity to consent to the arrangements.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

” The response was described as “insulting” by autism and learning disability rights group Rightful Lives, three of whose administrators, Alicia Wood, Julie Newcombe and Quinn, served on the panel. “There is little or no accountability when services fail people. .”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What the standards say. Course management : to ensure there is adequate provision of appropriately qualified and experienced teaching staff, and that they are supported to maintain their knowledge and understanding.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Top stories include: Roe Provided Autonomy, Self-Determination: Privacy Rights May Prove Vital Since Court Overturned Abortion Law. More in the August – September 2022 digital edition: • Editor’s Note: Reproductive Rights are Human Rights. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. and more.

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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. Required safeguards. This allowed the Home Office to reinstate “significantly over 18”.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Speaking of CAPTA, the Boston Globe has a story about a bill that, if it becomes law, would curb one of its worst features. ● So the online news site The City decided to do it themselves, along with guidance from family defenders on when and how to exercise those rights. A founder of the upEND Movement, Prof.

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Social Work With Adults

JANUARY 31, 2024

This legislation recognised and positioned relational strengths and rights based social work practice, rather than process and procedure, as the keystone in supporting best outcomes for people. This improved visibility for social workers was, in part, a consequence of the Care Act 2014. There is much more to do of course.

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Irish Socail Worker

MARCH 21, 2023

Removal of Human Rights from the CORU Code of Ethics for Social Workers (2019) By Helen Kelly, Social Worker, and Graduate of the MA in Social Work, University of Galway 2020 “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Ben Cardin (D-MD) on May 18 reintroduced the Democracy Restoration Act (DRA), federal legislation that seeks to restore voting rights in federal elections to the millions of disenfranchised Americans who have been released from prison and are living in the community but are still denied the right to vote. Supreme Court.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

● Want to see how easy it is for the foster care system to become the ultimate middle-class entitlement – step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own? More than a year ago Philadelphia passed a law prohibiting the city’s family policing agency, the Department of Human Services, from doing this.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Protesters take part in the Women’s March for Reproductive Rights in Washington, D.C. The National Committee on Women’s Issues (NCOWI) remains firm in its support of women’s rights over their reproductive health. Jackson , which regards a Texas law, S.B. Supreme Court. Supreme Court on Dec.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 6, 2022

The leaked report of a draft Supreme Court ruling to completely overturn the seminal abortion rights opinion Roe v. Wade, they did not anticipate the absolute evisceration of the law. Wade had been the law since 1973 it was considered by many to be settled law. Wade sent shockwaves throughout the country. In that Roe v.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

First signed into law in 1994, VAWA creates grant programs to provide services and housing to victims and survivors and training to improve the legal response to gender-based violence. VIRTUAL RALLY: Join the NTF, with VAWA lead Senators and international human rights and children’s rights advocate Angelina Jolie at 12:15 ET/9:15 PT HERE !

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

The easements allowed authorities to suspend their duties to carry out needs assessments, financial assessments, care planning and review and, in extreme cases, to not meet needs they would normally be required to meet, so long as they did not violate human rights.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

For the Donlins, their nightmare at the hands of the family police, known in Iowa as the Department of Human Services, consisted of eight months of hypersurveillance and an attempt to take away their young children. It may well have begun because their second child was born just a little too soon – and definitely in the wrong state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

● Law schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University released a joint report on the state’s “central registry” of those whom a caseworker decided were slightly more likely than not to be child abusers. A new McLawsuit brought by the group that calls itself “Children’s Rights” won’t help – and may make things even worse.

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Blurt It Out

JANUARY 2, 2024

If so, you need to know the laws and regulations governing ESAs to protect you against discriminatory practices, as well as to take advantage of the benefits that come with having an emotional support animal. Emotional Support Animal Idaho: The Laws Emotional support animals are not the same as service animals.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack The Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Bridget McCormack, has written a dissent in a case involving termination of a child’s rights to her parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights). She went on to critique every stage of the process.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Here is a list of reproductive rights legal cases handled by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) NASW Legal Defense Fund. Right to Choose v. challenge to state law prohibiting state-funded elective abortions. NASW Supported: Right to Choose. Missouri abortion rights case. Abortion rights case.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Drawing on case law, he said that the powers under section 33 could not be invoked in relation to “serious or grave matters with profound or enduring consequences for the child”, which could not be ruled out in cases of vaccination.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

claiming the algorithms are just advisory and humans still make the decisions? Whether the decisions are made by humans or machines, in most of the country, the power of family policing agencies is nearly absolute. The answer seems to be: by finding every excuse possible to keep right on harassing families where someone smokes pot.

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Social Work Futures

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It is mind-boggling to think that reviving child labor protection laws needs to be on our radar screen for US-based social work futures, but heads up! Horrible unfoldings in South Dakota with passage of anti-trans laws ( part of a larger trend ) requiring Trans kids to “de-transition.”

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If so, you need to know the laws and regulations governing ESAs to protect you against discriminatory practices, as well as to take advantage of the benefits that come with having an emotional support animal. Emotional Support Animal Idaho: The Laws Emotional support animals are not the same as service animals.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If so, you need to know the laws and regulations governing ESAs to protect you against discriminatory practices, as well as to take advantage of the benefits that come with having an emotional support animal. Emotional Support Animal Idaho: The Laws Emotional support animals are not the same as service animals.

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Blurt It Out

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If so, you need to know the laws and regulations governing ESAs to protect you against discriminatory practices, as well as to take advantage of the benefits that come with having an emotional support animal. Emotional Support Animal Idaho: The Laws Emotional support animals are not the same as service animals.

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Beyond Advocacy

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

She also took issue with her conservative colleagues’ insistence that the Constitution requires all US laws to be colorblind. Ferguson decision in 1896 set the stage for Jim Crow laws by declaring segregation constitutional if there were separate and equal accommodations. Supreme Court. The infamous Plessy v. The Chinese awaits.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Commission on Civil Rights is examining racism in the New York family policing system (a more accurate term than “child welfare” system). The structure and practices of family court and the laws family court judges apply harm families and act as a force of destruction to Black communities. The New York Advisory Committee to the U.S.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

The outrage voiced by many in the civil rights community about the ruling’s impact on equal access to education is well justified. In the face of the tremendous aftershock of the court’s affirmative action decision, the question is what are the next steps for civil rights and social justice activists – including social workers.

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Community Care

AUGUST 3, 2023

Legality of hotel placements The ruling said that, while the home secretary had no express power in law to accommodate unaccompanied children, she could do so in an emergency, for short periods, to avoid breaches of their rights to life and not to be treated inhumanely, under the European Convention on Human Rights.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law , Prof. Shanta Trivedi explores the harm done to some of the children hurt most by “mandatory reporting” laws – children whose mothers are, themselves, survivors of domestic violence. Commission on Civil Rights. So, whose judgment should we trust here? ●

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Social Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We must be a reflection of our constantly evolving society and always remember that recognising sexual orientation, just like a person’s cultural background, is a fundamental human right. The late prominent American activist for LGBT equality, Barbara Gittings, said: “Equality means more than passing laws.

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