The Guardian

MARCH 1, 2023

Ex-health minister dismisses claims he ignored expert advice as ‘distorted’ and ‘spun to fit anti-lockdown agenda’ UK politics live – latest news updates Matt Hancock has firmly rejected claims he dismissed expert advice to test anyone entering a care home for coronavirus at the start of the pandemic, labelling the reports “categorically untrue”.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

The rate at which children were torn from their homes in large Florida counties where sheriff's offices are in charge of child abuse investigations. Remember how he said his officers followed a Florida Department of Children and Families framework for investigations “to a T” ?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Kit Malthouse has become the fourth education secretary to hold office this year – following Nadhim Zahawi, Michelle Donelan and James Cleverley – giving him responsibility for children’s social care. Separately, care home providers have warned about the impact of rising energy bills on their ability to stay in business.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 23, 2023

In today’s newsletter: Dozens of children who arrived on small boats have been abducted outside Home Office-run hotels. How did this happen – and is anyone actually looking for them? Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition Good morning. At one hotel alone, 79 children are still unaccounted for.

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Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

“We are now working with more care leavers than ever, and our ambition is to see every one supported into a good home, a good job and have firm foundations to help them achieve their ambitions for the future,” he added. “We We have committed staff who work with our care experienced young people and our young people trust their workers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2022

We need to move away from expectations that children can tell us what is happening, and invest fully in building knowledge, skills and confidence around sexual abuse for all those working with children, be that social workers, teachers, police officers, health professionals and beyond.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

The government has delayed giving all self-funders the right to take advantage of, typically lower, council care home rates, following concerns authorities would lack the workforce to implement the change. I know there is Big Politics going on today but this is an important policy. Sally (@so_says_sally) July 7, 2022.

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Social Work Futures

APRIL 16, 2023

This includes the sharing of phone numbers, home addresses, identification numbers and essentially any sensitive and previously private information such as personal photos that could make the victim identifiable and potentially exposed to further harassment, humiliation and real-life threats including stalking and unwanted encounters in person.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

On the contrary, said the court: We expressly hold that there is no ‘social worker exception’ to compliance with constitutional limitations on an entry into a home without consent or exigent circumstances. She is, however, an activist who regularly protested outside the Housing Authority offices. The parents still refused.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

JULY 31, 2022

← Why Maternal Home Visiting Programs are Proven to Work. The painful cognitive dissonance of bringing it home. Hating Epstein gives us a chance to hate billionaires and sex offenders without any of the painful cognitive dissonances that come from taking a side in cases closer to home. . Then add partisan politics. .

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sometimes we hear; a family member has fallen sick or they just can’t manage homeschooling for their children, working from home, AND going to school online. Their education did not prepare them for the use of technology, for working from home, for the high risk of infection, for the chronic long term crisis work they face now.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

But readers who went further than the headline learnt that, in fact, a court decision sent Finley home earlier than social workers had recommended. After leaving Haringey, Shoesmith completed a PhD in 2015 in psychosocial studies and a year later her book, Learning from Baby P: The politics of blame, fear and denial, was published.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But leaving that aside, this odious law has done one thing that’s worthwhile: It bridged America’s great political divide. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. Read why experts from Left and Right oppose it in this column from the Washington Examiner. ?

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Social Workers Speak

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The recent relocation of approximately 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard is a stark reminder of the human consequences that occur when partisan politics influence immigration policies. Those same services could also be provided to officers within the department if needed.

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Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Ultimately ‘cyborgs’ are not outside fof the politics within which they exist, and must be interpreted in relation to other identity categories without upholding whiteness and Western epistemologies as the center. Datafied child welfare services: Unpacking politics,, economics and power. Author abstract.). Dencik, L. &

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Their family, their community, and the larger political and social systems.”. The National Association of Social Workers Texas government relations director, Bryan Mares believes this could create a deficit in foster homes supply for LGBTQ+ children. “It Local Profile. Connecticut Health I-Team. Psychology Today.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The state capitol in Austin What the Tribune (and the Dallas Morning News ) can’t face is that after decades of seeing the system that calls itself “child welfare” do enormous harm to children, people across the political spectrum are coming together and finding common ground. More likely to “age out” of foster care with no home at all.

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Reimagining Social Work

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Always subject to censure from the relieving officer, poor women were obvious targets for the new social workers, although many remained staunchly resistant to interventions.’ My book about the political history of child protection in Aotearoa is due for publication in late January 2022. This entailed the systematic separation of M?ori

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Prosper Health Collective

JUNE 22, 2022

Want to get home in time to take a yoga class? With added flexibility and reduced bureaucracy and office politics, private practice can be an ideal place to work in terms of being a positive team based environment. Working in private practice means that you are not locked into the 9 to 5 grind. Not a morning person?

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

Social workers do NOT remove children from their homes. These agencies investigate reports of abuse and neglect, and work closely with the court system to decide whether or not to remove a child from their home. They are also active in politics at all levels. In the U.S., Social workers contribute at all levels of society.

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Relias

JULY 25, 2023

Immediate families were thrown together 24/7, juggling childcare, work, and school in the home. Political dissension worsened, and differences among family members and friends became magnified. Those who are benefiting include people in rural areas far from behavioral health offices.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Consider the political climate. Don’t be surprised if your patient asks you for a psychological evaluation for a political asylum application. In some of these instances, patients may ask you to provide a psychological evaluation as part of their political asylum application. Meffert, S. M., & Abdo, A. Stimpson, J.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving, Diwali, Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, National Cookie Day (4 December in America but we might adopt this in the MQ office!) Looking ahead to the new year might cause understandable worry about finances, politics, climate change or personal plans and life management.

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The Guardian

APRIL 25, 2024

Exclusive: Action by organisation supporting migrants argues new rules are discriminatory An organisation that supports migrant workers has launched a legal challenge against the government’s new policy to bar care workers from bringing children and partners to the UK, warning that it is “tearing families apart”.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

We ended up at a pancake restaurant in Watertown, not far from the Charles River and a 20-minute drive from our home in Arlington, Massachusetts. No one will be in the office.” So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. Clearly my husband wasn’t. So,” he started.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The murder of the Black Minneapolis resident by a police officer in May 2020 set off a national soul-searching over the country’s racist past and the prejudices that still haunt its institutions. In 2020, three-quarters of children removed from their homes in L.A. Perhaps the Times’ new editor, Kevin Merida, will remedy that.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 20, 2024

Observer investigation reveals children as young as two are being barred from joining their mothers in Britain The Home Office is systematically barring young children from joining their mothers in Britain despite extensive proof the women are their primary caregivers, an Observer investigation has revealed.

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The Guardian

MARCH 12, 2024

Multiple cases of abuse and exploitation have been documented, but many staff feel ‘powerless to complain’ for fear of losing the right to work in the country A foreign care worker says she was repeatedly raped by her manager but felt unable to report him to the police for fear of losing her right to work, in a case that exposes the way the UK’s visa (..)

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Learning Social Worker

JULY 18, 2020

It is only safe to give out an address if you know the person or you are using an office address. So, ask for small, achievable requests such as, “masks for a family (1 large, 2 small adults, and 1 younger child)” or, “masks for a team of 6 who need child-friendly masks for their home-visits”. Postage can be expensive. Be Covid-Safe.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 2, 2023

For example, “A few years ago, I was working as part of a team in a residential care home. The manager wanted us to carry out an evaluation, to gain insight into the existing way of working in the residential home. The interview was held in a meeting room in an office environment. Answer the following; where?

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

In my role as a social work and public health practitioner, I also plan to get involved politically to ensure that our legislatures prioritize the health and well-being of older adults in Connecticut. UConn has given me a place to call home and a community to be part of. What do I love most about UConn?

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The Guardian

JANUARY 21, 2023

As scores of youngsters are disappearing from hotels run by the Home Office and being trafficked across the country, sources claims warnings over their safety were ignored On the first day of April, 17-year-old Wassim Hamam* disappeared near the bustling centre of Hove. He was never seen again.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Unaccompanied child refugees describe attacks in notorious Manston camp after officials ‘ignore or discount’ ID documents The Home Office is routinely changing the dates of birth of unaccompanied child asylum seekers to classify them as adults, according to experts who say the practice is now happening on a “horrifying scale”.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 24, 2023

Unclear who has legal responsibility for children placed in hotels, after dozens abducted from street in Brighton Ministers have been accused of a “dereliction of duty” over their failure to find 76 child asylum seekers who have gone missing from a Brighton hotel managed by the Home Office.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Home Office data released as Tories and Labour prepare for immigration to be key battleground at upcoming general election The number of visas issued to allow social care workers into the UK reached record levels in 2023, according to newly released figures.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 24, 2024

Home Office rejects call for change from coroner in case of woman who died after ambulance delay The minimum level of English language skills required for foreign care workers will not be raised despite the death of a care home resident after staff were unable to explain her critical state to 999 operators. Continue reading.

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The Critical Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

BASW England, Professional Officer, Social Worker & Anti-racism Visionary. Those embracing macho ‘ anti-woke ’ and ‘politically incorrect’ descriptors as laudable (even a ‘badge of honour’), seem unable (or unwilling) to view introspection, self-reflection or self-awareness as supreme personal qualities. By Wayne Reid.

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