Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2024

The MacArthur Foundation has announced its new class of Fellows, the recipients of what are commonly called the “Genius Awards.” Among the recipients is Dorothy Roberts, the self-styled popularizer of the term “racial disproportionality” and creator of the term “the family policing system.” According to the Director of the Program , “The 2024 MacArthur Fellows pursue rigorous inquiry with aspiration and purpose.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Image: Augustina Onyinye Ugbana (CPF) and Basamba Drammeh (TASWIG) In a significant step toward enhancing social work practices in The Gambia, The Association of Social Workers in The Gambia (TASWIG) […]

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Professionally and personally, we must attend to our individual self-care of hope. We must practice that hope in our professional and collective actions.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 8, 2024

CSWE's 70th Annual Program Meeting takes place in St. Louis, MO, October 24-27, 2024; nine UConn School of Social Work faculty members and 12 Ph.D. students will offer 18 presentations of their work. Friday, October 25, 2024 Time : 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Room: 1501A Panel Presentation : The Limits of US Asylum Law and Policy: Social Work Education and Practice Implications Author(s) : Berthold, S.M. , Mortley, C. , Klicheva, E. , Libal, K. , Harding, S. & Mbewe, Y.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. A £22.6m government payment for innovative adult social care projects in England is almost two months overdue and is “in danger of disappearing”, a carers’ charity has warned. The second tranche of the accelerating reform fund (ARF) was due to be paid to local authorities in August, enabling them to continue financing 122 projects to improve support for carers, enhance cho

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 8, 2024

IFSW United Nations representatives Sebastian Cordoba, Evelyn Tomaszewski and Anne Deepak attended the UN’s Summit of the Future (as part of the General Assembly High-Level Week) and parallel events advocating […]

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? “Safety, permanency, well-being.” It’s practically the slogan of everyone in the family policing establishment, from the federal government’s Administration for Children and Families to the smallest county family police agency.

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Beyond Advocacy

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The Institute of International Education, a global not-for-profit organization facilitating international exchanges, requested CRISP meet with three senior-level professionals participating in the Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship Program on Leadership sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. These Fellows, part of a cohort of a dozen government and nonprofit sector dignitaries, are on an 18-day visit to the United States.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 7, 2024

IFSW is pleased to announce a series of webinars, in collaboration with the Identity Rights Working Group, aimed at addressing access to justice for children whose identity rights have been […]

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Health secretary Wes Streeting told to speed up changes as inability to free up hospital bed linked to deaths of patients Health secretary Wes Streeting has been urged to speed up reforms to the adult care system in the wake of patient deaths after two coroners warned him of the impact insufficient care beds and service provision are having on the NHS.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Image : Augustina Onyinye Ugbana (CPF) et Basamba Drammeh (TASWIG) Dans une démarche importante visant à améliorer les pratiques du travail social en Gambie, l’Association des Travailleurs Sociaux de Gambie […]

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Derbyshire authority proposes asking for up to £113 a week for children in care under voluntary arrangements A cash-strapped English council is considering charging parents of children taken into local authority care half of the weekly cost of looking after them. Derbyshire county council said “unprecedented financial challenges” meant it had little option but to “maximise alternative sources of income” to try to reduce the strain on its children’s services.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A lack of financial and emotional support for kinship carers could push up to 18,000 children into an already overstretched foster care system Children are being “plunged into ­poverty”, a charity says, because of a lack of support for kinship ­carers – relatives or family friends who step in to look after children after a crisis. Kinship carers, who are often grandparents, are twice as likely as other adults to rely on food banks and four times as likely to fall behind on their bills, according

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The poor record of for-profit care homes must lead to a rethink on how public services are organised The government has yet to respond in detail to the latest, shocking findings about the poor performance of for-profit social care providers, and what a report from Oxford University calls the “astounding pace” of children’s home privatisation. But the revelation that almost all the residential care settings forced to close by regulators in the 12 years to 2023 were privately run must lead to chan

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 7, 2024

My friend Sammy Morris, who has died aged 77, was a factory worker and later a care assistant. His socialist principles guided him throughout his life, not least in the kind of jobs he took on and in the union activity he undertook at his various workplaces. After being employed in factories supplying the shipyards of the Glasgow area from the age of 15, Sammy became a member of CND, where he found out about the Factory for Peace in Govan, and joined up.

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