Archive for July 2024

The agency’s latest annual report shows it received almost 92,000 child protection and welfare referrals last year — up 11% on 2022, and twice the number seen when Tusla was established in 2014…. Tusla chief executive Kate Duggan said these pressures are being compounded by growing numbers of children and young people with “more complex needs”, along with ongoing difficulties in recruiting social workers and social care staff.

“The family safeguarding model has become more embedded, and adult services workers have been recruited and trained in the model. This enables a joint approach, working alongside children’s social workers and practitioners to address safeguarding risks in child-in-need and child protection planning. Some inconsistencies remain in the quality of social work practice, but increased management oversight is starting to have some impact on planning for children.”

The troubled department has had a large percentage of temp agency social workers in the past. It has also seen a change of leadership at the top in the last 18 months.

“I get hung up on the word scraping,” author R.O. Kwon says. “It sounds quite violent.” Last September, when Kwon learned that her first novel, The Incendiaries, was part of the Books3 dataset that some generative AI models were trained on at the time, she felt violated. She and other authors took to social media, lobbing anger, hurt, and frustration at the tech companies that had secretly “scraped” the Internet for data without consent from or compensation for creators.

Knowing what a nationally representative sample is — and isn’t — will help you avoid errors in covering clinical trials, opinion polls and other research.

By teasing apart the therapeutic benefits from the adverse effects of new generation obesity medications, researchers found a population of neurons in the brain that controls food intake without causing nausea in an animal model.