Archive for July 2024

“Normal stressors, or stressful experiences, that we all experience on a regular basis tend to be things that one can reasonably manage. Or, in the case of a child, with the help of a supportive caregiver,” says Dr. Nim Tottenham, a professor of psychology at Columbia University.

Liverpool Council’s children’s services department has taken steps forward but social work is “not consistently strong enough” yet, according to inspectors.

A parent complained that social work did not ‘adequately safeguard’ their child after they admitted to being abused.

BASW and SWU react to the election results

Tuesday’s job fair came in the wake of Retreat’s corporate collapse over the past two weeks, with the sudden closure of its 80-bed in-patient addiction treatment center… on June 21 and its outpatient clinic… on June 24. Retreat also shuttered its Pennsylvania and Florida facilities at the same time, stopped paying hundreds of employees — including more than 160 full-time and part-time workers in New Haven — and discharged patients en masse. All of this came as two corporate executives died by suicide within five days of one another, and the company’s financial woes continued to mount.

There is no simple answer, said Dr. Judy Krysik, Associate Director for Academic Affairs at Arizona State University’s School of Social Work. The answer is “it depends,” although there is some agreement that age 12 is a reasonable starting point.

“Neither of the major parties is willing to acknowledge that until we have a welfare system that recognises the inherent value of human life – beyond reductive ideas of ‘productivity’ – disabled people will remain trapped in a system that ultimately wants to force them into work at the expense of their physical and mental health.” Kieran Lewis, rights and migration policy officer at National Survivor User Network, tells me.