Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But despite the latter being a record figure, Ofsted said the statistics painted a “bleak picture”, with “too few carers with the right skills” to support the number of children needing a placement. Year] on year we see more children coming into foster care, and too few carers with the right skills to give them the support they deserve.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

April Ferguson LCSW-C Senior Practice Associate Children and Adolescents April 2024 The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) acknowledges April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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Community Care

MARCH 10, 2023

Social work and children’s organisations have united against government proposals that would increase the detention and deportation of children and seemingly leave many unaccompanied young people outside the scope of the children’s social care system.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 6, 2022

I was working for the Catholic Children’s Aid Society in downtown Toronto. He was though a victim of society. It was 1985. I had recently graduated with my Masters in Social Work. The case involved a young boy. If I recall correctly, maybe about twelve-years-of-age. The issue was school truancy. I left him alone.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

The care review’s plans to tackle the shortage of suitable care placements risk increasing costs and bureaucracy and making decision-making more remote from children and young people. Councils struggling to manage children’s homes market, amid placement shortage, study finds. “Taking back control” of care markets.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

However, it concluded that the council lacked the capacity and capability to improve services at pace on its own and recommended an alternative delivery model to support improvement in services and outcomes for vulnerable children in Bradford’s care. We’ve asked government to collaborate with us to create a commissioner-led improvement board.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 28, 2022

This outcome further disables the child come adulthood and also financially burdens society. We need a government in power who understands that the investment in meeting the needs of all children is not only an investment in the child, but all of society. It is so short-sighted.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Through our brief, NASW opposes the placement of children in adult prisons and supports the removal of children from Angola Prison, an adult maximum-security prison in Louisiana. In September 2023, the court ordered the state to remove the children from Angola Prison, deeming the conditions as cruel and unusual punishment.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. One council employee commented: The fear from communities and parents are that we are just going to take their children away.”

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

The department has accepted her recommendations for the council to retain the support of a commissioner and a separate DfE-appointed improvement adviser and attempt to make progress on areas including reducing its high use of agency staff and the number of changes of social worker children face. Am I being helpful to the parents and children?

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

The High Court has dismissed a children’s rights charity’s claim that the government’s failure to ban unregulated placements for children in care aged 16 or 17 was unlawful. The ruling substantially focused on Article 39’s claim that the DfE had irrationally and without evidence discriminated between children aged over and under 16.

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Gary Direnfeld

JULY 24, 2023

The first job I landed was with a Children’s Aid Society (child protection services). Happily within five months I got a job in a clinical role at a major children’s mental health centre. The next place I worked at, the children’s mental health agency, was amazing. This was not a good place to be.

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The Guardian

JULY 12, 2023

However, the Sun is not alone in displaying a contradictory attitude towards children and young people. As a society, we profess to be child-centred, yet the UK has for the last 13 years voted for Conservative administrations that have systematically attacked and dismantled children’s services. Continue reading.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Old, now director of education and director of children’s services at Lancashire council, led the team that improved North Tyneside council’s Ofsted rating for children’s services from good to outstanding, from 2017-20. One person is nothing without a team.”

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Community Care

MARCH 1, 2022

Wales is entering a historic period that will see children’s rights further protected thanks to new Welsh Government legislation. As social workers, our main role is safeguarding children and young people. Adults have legal protection from assault – why shouldn’t children, some of the most vulnerable people in our society?

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The Guardian

APRIL 11, 2023

These cases shock and disturb us, but when it comes to blaming someone, social workers can be painted as incompetent or unwilling to act to prevent harm to children. Names of children tragically killed by a known adult live on in our memories and populate images in the media. I lost my job and was vilified in the media.

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My Brains Not Broken

OCTOBER 11, 2022

If we really want to evaluate if our attitude toward mental health has changed as a society, we need to utilize a global perspective. Around 20% of the world’s children and adolescents have a mental health condition, with suicide the second leading cause of death among 15-29-year-olds.

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Community Care

MARCH 23, 2022

Children’s services focus ever more on poorer households the more they intervene in family life, research finds. More than 60,000 children a year re-referred to social care after missing out on early help, research finds. Care review lead urges ministers to prioritise early help, placements and mental health for extra cash.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2024

This rose to 72% among current and former children’s social workers, compared with 55% of current or former adult practitioners.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

She considered continuing with her former career but had a change of heart after volunteering at her local children and family centre. “I To gain necessary experience, she got a paid job at a children and family centre, where she worked for a year and a half before enrolling at the University of Brighton. Acting as referee.

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My Brains Not Broken

JULY 7, 2022

of children had private insurance that did not cover mental health services , totaling 950,000 youth. These are real issues that deserve real conversation—not part of a soundbite in response to acts of violence or discrimination in our white supremacist, patriarchal society. population. Let’s talk about how 11.1%

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 22, 2022

For decades, society has turned a deaf ear to the suffering of children at the hands of abusive adults. So, as the headline to the article rightly puts it: “As long as we avert our gaze from sexual abuse, we will continue to fail children.” Dr John Finlay New Town, Edinburgh Continue reading.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On this side of the Atlantic, the UK’s Online safety Bill, passed last year, aims to better protect children and young people from malicious content by making it tech companies responsibility to tackle illegal and harmful material on their sites. You are not alone and people do care. Get help now by clicking this link.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

However, instead of retaining the funding allocated for the reforms in the Treasury, Hunt said it would still go to councils, with £1.3bn available in 2023-24 and £1.9bn in 2024-25 to spend on adults’ and children’s social care. That’s a big increase.

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Michigan Social Work

JUNE 27, 2023

PhD student Yanghyun Park presented at the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children conference last month. Her presentation was titled “Strategies for increasing economic support in child maltreatment prevention.”

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 5, 2023

The aim was to put an end to the five 'giant evils' in society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Its analysis found that adult social care accounted for about one-fifth of additional cost pressures in both years, with children’s services responsible for a further 20%. of their budgets) in 2023-24.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This week (5-11 February 2024) is Children’s Mental Health Week. The UK government recently published guidance from the department of health and social care into improving the mental health of babies, children and young people. Early years are formulative, and can set the course for mental health in later life.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This week (5-11 February 2024) is Children’s Mental Health Week. The UK government recently published guidance from the department of health and social care into improving the mental health of babies, children and young people. Early years are formulative, and can set the course for mental health in later life.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 28, 2021

We are here to discuss the common misconceptions that our society has today regarding bipolar disorder patients. This misinformation leads to “the spread of myths” and myths create fear in society, especially among the family members who deal with a bipolar patient every day. . Myth Number 3: Bipolar in children…Whhhhat?

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Readers on the killing of the six-year-old, and the failings of wider society that allowed his abuse This is a heartbreaking case, and my heart breaks further when we learn that there were opportunities, in plain sight, to avert this tragedy ( The Guardian view on Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: more lessons to learn, 6 December ).

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Famcare

MAY 16, 2023

Ageism is widespread in our societies, impacting individuals of all ages, from children to the elderly. Did you know that according to WHO research findings, one in every two people worldwide is ageist against older individuals?

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The Guardian

APRIL 23, 2022

Lord Laming, its chair, wrote that he hoped that the memory of Victoria would act as “a beacon pointing the way to securing the safety and wellbeing of all children in our society”. Yet children still lose their lives in the most horrific of circumstances as a result of abuse and neglect.

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The Guardian

MAY 23, 2022

Passing the buck for care on to the ‘community’ won’t work for children living in unsafe housing or suffering abuse Like a protective sibling, I am the first to both criticise and defend the care system. It failed and saved me in equal measure. In adult life, I returned to it as a social worker. The sector is stretched and underfunded.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 28, 2022

The SWESD 2022 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: REDEFINING SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN A POST-PANDEMIC SOCIETY: SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS. Children and adolescents.

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Famcare

MAY 2, 2023

According to recent estimates, over 600,000 American children have recently been placed in foster care. Children who have been abused, neglected, or displaced rely on American social services agencies to help them find a safe home when their families can't. This makes foster care one of the most challenging sectors for case managers.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 2, 2022

It was run by Thistletown Regional Centre, a major children’s mental health centre. Upon graduating I landed my first job as a social worker at the Toronto Catholic Children’s Aid Society. I applied to five graduate schools and was rejected at all five. Seems you needed a straight A average just to be considered.

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