The Guardian

JULY 15, 2022

She felt she wasn’t listened to’ The family of the Dorset teenager Gaia Pope have called for fundamental changes to the way the police, health trusts and other public services protect survivors of sexual violence after an inquest highlighted a string of missed chances to help her.

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Community Care

MAY 20, 2022

The NSPCC reports that, from 2015-20, an average of 58 children under 15 died each year in the UK due to assault or undetermined intent, that the homicide rate in England and Wales was highest for children under one and that a parent or step-parent was most commonly suspected of killing children in England and Wales.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Over 40% of social work staff in the UK have faced abuse from service users, their families or members of the public this year, research has found. ” He said protecting children and families required protecting the staff who worked with them, not only from harassment. ” . ”

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Community Care

MAY 14, 2023

By Natasha Sabin, Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse Across the UK in 2021, there were, on average, over 850 arrests for online sexual offences every month.

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The Frontline

MAY 26, 2021

What is interesting to me is there are two things that stand out about how George was killed by a police force, led by a government not too dissimilar to ours in the UK. Firstly, citizens, not the police, used their power to film the incident. Sean Rigg and Olaseni Lewis both died in police custody.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Latest updates: Macron slams Boris Johnson for trying to negotiate with him via Twitter as it cancels talks with UK officials over Channel crossings Channel deaths: Priti Patel disinvited to meeting with France Analysis: France senses policing alone won’t stop risky crossings Channel drownings unlikely to slow exodus from Iraqi Kurdistan Coronavirus (..)

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

In Peter Connelly’s case, for example, both the Metropolitan Police and Great Ormond Street Hospital were criticised in the subsequent serious case review but received little media attention at the time. Two magistrates approved the shortened transition time. Why are social workers blamed? It seems nothing has changed.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Wales remains the only UK nation not to have commissioned a review of its children’s social care services, after the Welsh Government resisted calls to do so following the inquiry into Logan Mwangi’s murder. Considering commissioning a national awareness campaign on reporting safeguarding concerns.

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The Frontline

AUGUST 5, 2021

Roseanna runs a blog about child migration in Europe, and is part of the Children’s Social Work Collective – a group of fellows who have set up and launched a new advocacy group for social work in the UK. There were only two legal options for unaccompanied minors to get to the UK at the time. Check out our resources page.

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MQ Mental Health

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This is being questioned in the potential reform of the Mental health Act in the UK. To translate this, no one can be treated in a way that causes physical or mental suffering or psychological pain such as neglect or abuse, inhuman conditions or police violence. This could be extended.

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Social Work Haven

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The ability to form strong professional relationships with partner agencies such as the police, schools and health visitors is one of my strengths. I have carried out assessments under s17 of CA89 and have requested information from schools, the police and health visitors. Partnership working is vital to social work.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2023

Their resilience is also absolutely unrivalled because they go through the wringer to find a job in the UK. The silent story of immigration Overseas practitioners’ commitment to their roles is also ensured through the hefty financial investment they make to come to the UK. That resilience shines through when they start practising.”

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The Critical Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

Although Professor Glaude’s work refers to ‘the lie’ upon which America has predicated its beliefs, the relevance to the UK is unquestionable. I hope any readers resist the urge to ‘tone police’ my opinions. Macpherson’s investigative report concentrated on the role of Metropolitan Police.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

This process is referred to as social prescribing, an initiative that received significant backing from the UK government in 2018 with an investment of £4.5 In my research, I found out that 1 in 4 people in the UK face a mental health challenge each year. Hence, over the years, there has been an increased focus on mental wellbeing.

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

BASW currently has about 22,000 members, roughly one-fifth of the registered social work population of the UK. New British Association of Social Workers chair Julia Ross is setting out one of her key priorities for her two-year term as chair, which began in June. Doubling membership is a seriously ambitious goal.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Social workers work with other professionals, such as healthcare providers, police officers, and teachers, to identify signs of abuse or neglect and take appropriate action. This involves identifying potential risks, assessing the level of risk and then taking any necessary measures to protect individuals from harm or exploitation.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Institute for Government says ‘crumbling’ services are far worse than when Tories took power in 2010 Britain’s public services are stuck in a “doom loop” of recurring crises as a result of ministers’ short-term policymaking, a thinktank has warned.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Further, a UK study found that 27% of pre-mobile babies had an accidental bruise over an average of eight weekly observations. The mother had to remain with her child for further examinations under threat that the police would be called and legal action taken.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Inspectorate demands emergency changes as Scotland Yard accepts its child protection services are in chaos The Metropolitan police are failing in their efforts to protect children from criminal and sexual exploitation while bungling efforts to find missing young people, a damning official report has found. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

JULY 4, 2022

The police strip-search at school of Child Q caused outrage. The specifics change, but the script stays the same: he is in terrible danger, he tries to call the police, but no one responds. In the latest version, bullets were shot through his window, but the line was dead when he picked up a phone to call the police.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2023

That might have been that – several more names among the hundreds currently missing – had a bystander not become sufficiently perturbed to call Sussex police and share the vehicle’s number plate. Three of those young occupants got into the back seat. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Nurses, care home staff and police officers have had real pay cuts since 2010 as wages lag behind prices Nurses, care home staff and police officers working on Christmas Day will be thousands of pounds worse off than they were a decade ago as a result of wages failing to keep pace with prices, Trades Union Congress analysis has shown.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

IOPC says some systemic problems identified in 91 separate investigations still exist Police must do more to support and listen to survivors of child sexual abuse, according to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), following a major investigation into South Yorkshire police’s response to allegations made in Rotherham.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Boarding schools have escaped real reform, says one victim of abuse, while Dr Bernard Gallagher calls out the austerity-driven crisis in child protection, and Emily Aklan calls for a ban on harmful handcuffing I am a boarding school survivor and, after more than 50 years of silence, a witness to the Truth Project that was set up as part of the independent (..)

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Report into children’s services warns of faulty police records and ‘overoptimistic’ case decisions A significant number of children remain in situations of “unknown and unassessed” risk, according to a report on children’s services in Solihull, triggered by the murder of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The findings of a seven and a half year process must lead to rapid action. The price of past mistakes has been huge suffering Seven and a half years after it began, the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has delivered its final report. The testimony of victims, said Prof Alexis Jay, was “almost unbearable” to witness.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What Covid-19 has done is exacerbate existing inequalities in the UK that have been evident for many years, particularly as a result of years of successive governments pursuing a policy of austerity. Drawing on Office for National Data (ONS), she states that disabled people make up two thirds of coronavirus deaths in the UK.

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Ultimate Youth Worker

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s going to be the paediatricians, and the social workers, and the psychologists, and the police and everyone else. In has recently concluded a three year research programme focusing on the social exclusion of Roma with partners in Spain, Germany and Turkey. It’s going to be those other professions.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

There are 3 main components that make laws different from simple societal rules: Laws are set and established and enforced by government Laws are compulsory Laws involve consequences – which are enforced through the legal system (In the UK this is usually the courts though it can also be tribunals).

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The Guardian

JUNE 20, 2022

Report singles out failings by police and council and suggests senior officials may have misled MPs Vulnerable children were left exposed to sexual exploitation in Oldham because of “serious failings” by the police and council, a damning independent review has found.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 4, 2020

Prior to taking up this position Aisling completed postdoctoral research positions in the University of Limerick and the University of Liverpool, UK. He may play violent video games for hours on end, which leads to increased aggression and anger levels. Dr Aisling O’Donnel l is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Every known human society has a notion of the ‘normal’ versus the ‘abnormal’, both in terms of states of mind and in terms of behaviour (Brown, 1991 ), and social work assessments often represent (consciously or not) the ‘policing’ of the line between the two. WHAT’S IT FOR?

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Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It might be important here to demonstrate how the trans treatment issue differs from, say, the profiling issue arising when police stop and search young black men. I don’t think people could literally change sex. then the point stands. (It

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