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Sharon Shoesmith: how social workers can get their professional pride back

Community Care

Director of education and children’s services at Haringey Council when the Peter Connelly case (known at the time as Baby P) hit the headlines of every news outlet in 2008, Shoesmith was removed from her post during a live TV press conference by the then secretary of state for children, Ed Balls. Haringey Council swiftly sacked her.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 18, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? Drop everything and read this one, too: In the second part of their series , ProPublica and NBC News examine how the family police decided that, for all their constant blather about “children’s rights,” those rights do not include the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.

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Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

Community Care

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. But the alliance claimed the gap will have widened since because of the impact of inflation on providers’ costs.

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The Los Angeles Times is getting child welfare wrong again – and that’s bad news for Los Angeles children

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Garrett Therolf was among those speaking at a Los Angeles Times "Ask a Reporter" event on January 20. Questions were screened in advance. As usual it's because of Garrett Therolf. The former Times reporter and still their go-to guy for child welfare stories continues to soft-peddle racial bias. predictive analytics.

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Evolving with Mindfulness in a Changing World

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

Some events were personal. Some were community or world events that affected her personally. Other events neither affected nor impacted her. Of course, my grandmother did not have access to the world wide web, social media, or 24 hours of news and political commentary. Some events have been jaw-dropping.

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What is Wayne’s Weekly??

The Critical Blog

I believed there was a need to spotlight news and developments relevant to social workers and to share useful information and resources. Is WW a primary source of social work news for subscribers? As part of my work, I managed to build an extensive and wide-ranging professional network on different platforms. of my email network).

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 5, 2021

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? We begin with publication of a landmark book about homelessness poverty and, therefore, inevitably, the family policing system: Invisible Child by New York Times reporter Andrea Elliott. In other news: ? This year the American Bar Association annual conference of family defense attorneys was, of course, an online event.