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NQSW: ‘I get to the end of the second week after being paid and don’t have any money’

Community Care

The mother of three, the main earner in their family, with their partner earning half as much as them, previously had to borrow money from their parents to travel for work. To avoid that, they are now £1,200 in debt, using a credit card to cover travel costs, as most of their salary goes on childcare, rent and essentials for the children.

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Educational Assistants: First Responders in the School System

Gary Direnfeld

Of course there was the promise of more money to assure appropriate supports both in their residences as well as in public schools. Fast forward to now and kids that we were serving in quite contained settings with mutiple childcare staff are now being seen in the public school system with far less supports than we provided in the 80s.

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Liz Truss appoints cabinet ministers for social care

Community Care

At the same time, Truss pledged to reverse the rise in national insurance, implying that the government would borrow the money to fund the increase. During the Conservative leadership campaign, Truss said she wanted to divert the additional funding allocated to the NHS this year (source: The Guardian) – raised through the 1.25

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Residential childcare is crying out for a complete overhaul | Letters

The Guardian

Readers respond to to an editorial about the rigorous regulations every care provider should be subjected to in the wake of the Bolton children’s home scandal I had involvement with residential childcare for over 40 years, from the early 1960s until I retired.

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Child welfare lessons from New York City’s “unintended abolition”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This is just families getting money to spend as they see fit, much like we already give to, for example, foster parents, when they are caring for children. We give families money. We give families money so they can keep their own family safe. The way forward All of that to me feels like the path forward.

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Maine’s child welfare providers produce a "framework" for false consensus

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Send money ( it doesn’t have to be a lot ). ? There’s also a glaring omission: childcare.) Nor does it require more time, paperwork and meetings, meetings, meetings, to enhance “cross-systems collaboration,” and it certainly doesn’t need more middle-managers reporting to Todd Landry. What’s needed is this: ? Find the poor people. ?

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A chilling dispatch from Saviorland: A new book reveals the true nature of an institution widely touted by those who want to institutionalize more children. It also reveals a whole lot more.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The school gets all the profits from all those chocolate bars – and that’s an incredible amount of money. They have a bottomless pit of money that they can use any way they please. It’s a boarding school for impoverished students – and boarding is required, even for students who live nearby. But Hershey is the epitome of selfishness.