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A refreshed, modern Mental Health Act for England and Wales was a priority ask in BASW’s manifesto for social work ahead of last year’s General Election. The fact that the incoming government not only agreed to our request but took it upon themselves to get the legislation moving as quickly as possible, was very welcome.
On behalf of NIPSA and our wider membership, I would like to offer my sincere thanks to each and every member who participated in the recent three-day industrial action across the Southern Health and Social Care Trust. Your dedication, unity and strength in standing up for Children’s Social Work have sent a powerful and unambiguous message to both the Trust and the Department of Health.
Controversy surrounds Gopchang House in Seoul after asking its women employees to perform a suggestive “dance service” in front of customers by mimicking the viral, so-called Terminal Dance.
A decade after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, we asked people from across the country to share stories of what the ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges has meant to them.
Lindsey, who joined UCLA’s Social Welfare faculty in 1994, was the founding editor of “Children & Youth Services Review” (CYSR), one of the field’s most influential journals. Under his leadership — and working with his wife Deborah — the publication became the premier platform for research on child welfare practices and policies…. Dr. Darcey Merritt, current editor of CYSR, was a former doctoral student of Lindsey. Merritt recalled Lindsey, who was also on her doctoral dissertation committee, as a true mentor throughout her studies and career. Merritt now serves as chief editor of the publication Lindsey founded and is a professor at the University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice.
NIH employees, who had been instructed to screen thousands of grants on a rolling weekly basis to assess their compliance with “agency priorities”, have continued to do so after the court ruling on 16 June. This has left many confused and worried about the legality of their actions, according to eight NIH employees who spoke to Nature and were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak with the press.