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Apr 11, 2024 · Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary.. More than 20 years after delivering his report into the death of Victoria Climbié, there is still a quiet sadness about Lord Herbert Laming at the mention of her name.

Oct 28, 2024 · As part of Community Care’s 50th anniversary, we’ve spent much of this year reflecting on the pivotal events that have shaped the social work profession over the past five decades.. This has included in-depth interviews with key sector figures, such as Herbert Laming, Eileen Munro, June Thoburn and David Howe, and Professor Ray Jones’s ‘Social work across the decades‘ series, which ...

Oct 22, 2024 · Local government pay deal agreed following strike ballots Social workers and other council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive rise of £1,290 or 2.5% after UNISON fails to get a sufficient mandate to take industrial action

May 21, 2024 · MacAlister’s 2022 Independent Review of Children’s Social Care was the first review of children’s social care since Munro’s.. It has also led to the most significant reforms the sector has seen in years, through the DfE’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy, which is currently being implemented.. Yet, while being sympathetic to the process of conducting a review, Munro doesn’t ...

In August 2007, 17-month-old Peter Connelly was found dead in his cot after months of cruelty from those who were meant to care for him most. His mother Tracey, her boyfriend Steven Barker, and his brother, Jason Owen, were convicted of “causing or allowing” his death.

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Aug 14, 2024 · Reflective practice is more myth than reality? No? This was the view of Schon in 1986 and the forms of words used or ‘thought-forms’ (Laske) to describe what’s written more accurately are missing in the references cited; is the desire to fill the emptiness or void a proof that social work has a formulation of what reflection, is, and …

Dec 18, 2012 · Social care practitioners can be unclear about what is meant by using the “least restrictive option” to support people under the Mental Capacity Act. In this article, reproduced with kind permission from the English Community Care Association newsletter, Rachel Griffiths explains how they should apply this principle.

Oct 24, 2018 · This article comprises of excerpts taken from a research review on Community Care Inform Children about cultural competence. The review was updated in June 2018 by Prospera Tedam, assistant professor in social work at United Arab Emirates University.