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A Community Care poll of 1,286 votes found that most practitioners (62%) considered the outcome a ‘bad deal’, though opinion was split on where responsibility lay for this outcome. While 35% believed the unions should have balloted for strike action, 27% said union leaders were forced to settle because of member apathy. UNISON has reported that turnout in the consultative ballots was not high enough to trigger a formal strike vote.
The possible future of social welfare took center stage with the premiere of a new documentary from UBI Taiwan. The film, which played to a sold-out crowd, chronicles the life of a single mother, Ms. Yu, who received unconditional financial support for two years.
Chapin Hall Senior Policy Fellow & Chief Officer for the Illinois Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Dr. Dana Weiner speaks at the signing of SB 1560.
Research shows that arresting someone without a home for sitting, resting or sleeping in a public place does not reduce homelessness. Instead, encampment sweeps and camping bans typically displace people from one area to another, while discarding or destroying their personal belongings in the process, such as identification cards, medications and sleeping gear. This approach also wastes public resources by paying groups to throw away people’s belongings instead of investing that money into actual housing solutions, like creating more affordable housing options. Above: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, MSW, visits the site of a city-led sweep of a homeless encampment
Taxing wealth to fund care infrastructure sends a clear message: none of us are on our own. We in Seattle are building a future for all of us. We are creating a city for our kids – all of them.
The truth is, for years San Francisco voters have tried to pass Mamdani’s agenda — almost to a tee — and it has been as popular as you’d expect, even without his dimples and killer social media. The people of San Francisco have always been fans of a Mamdani-style platform. They’re not the ones opposing such an agenda; it’s the Andrew Cuomos of the city and their ultrarich backers. The political establishment and the economic elites that fund them have worked to block economic prosperity for working people at every turn.
Rayelle Ross said, “Social work really allows me to embody aspects of community that I saw growing up.”
Police officers prepare for more unrest as a police car burns in Hartlepool in July 2024
Kei pays HK$2,200 every month for this 20-sq-ft coffin home.
As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country should be a nation of laws.
According to the Post:
“The plan calls for 600 troops to be on standby at all times so they can deploy in as little as one hour, the documents say. They would be split into two groups of 300 and stationed at military bases in Alabama and Arizona, with purview of regions east and west of the Mississippi River, respectively.”
THC levels in cannabis have soared in recent years, raising the risk of psychosis—especially in young, frequent users.
Sarah Russell, Burlington’s special assistant to end homelessness, said 22 households living in cars had accessed the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity’s on-site resources in July. That number represents a roughly 30% increase from June but is only a loosely representative sample of the actual population of individuals living in their cars.
Last Thursday, more than two dozen state workers gathered at noon by a single wooden bench and a lilac bush situated beside the sidewalk at the State Office Complex in Waterbury. The employees from the Agency of Human Services went outside to the usually peaceful spot that bears witness to the legacy of a former colleague who was killed in the line of duty in 2015. Taking place on Aug. 7, the gathering marked 10 years to the day that Lara Sobel, a caseworker with the Department for Children and Families, was fatally shot as she left her office in Barre.
“It feels helpless, because there is more than you can fix,” said Nick Zepponi, a social worker at the Hill Country Community Clinic CARE Center in Redding. The mental health urgent care clinic is one of the last lines of defense in the fraying behavioral health system in Shasta County, where the suicide rate is more than double the state average and overdose deaths increased more than threefold during the pandemic. “There’s more people than you can help that need it,” Zepponi said.
LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
A German city is building an eco-friendly public housing scheme using an innovative modular timber construction method. The project in the southwestern city of Tübingen uses special wooden building blocks developed by local startup TriqBriq. These timber blocks fit together using wooden dowels, eliminating the need for mortar or glue.
Chief executive will hold dual role as chief social work adviser to ministers, while agency will be formed from existing Office of the Chief Social Work Adviser
The sign reads, ‘escape room, half price’ on popular pedestrian street in Seoul- the city is on a mission to stave off growing loneliness among its people
Many job applicants are turning down offers, worried that the positions are not stable and uneasy with the overall direction of the agency, according to internal documents examined by ProPublica. The records show nearly 4 in 10 of the roughly 2,000 doctors offered jobs from January through March of this year turned them down. That is quadruple the rate of doctors rejecting offers during the same time period last year.
Investing in potential is part of wraparound support.
Mary Jackson runs the Frontline charity in England which recruits graduates into social work. What was the actual mission of Frontline?
Jennifer Frank, a professor of social work at Millersville University, said a U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer that upheld bans on public camping and sleeping seemed to be the “worst possible scenario” for people experiencing homelessness. Now, Frank said, the executive order may usurp that.
Ignoring debts and other payment commitments is often dismissed as being irresponsible. But a closer look reveals that many people see things differently, reflecting a deeper point about inequality in Britain today.
It’s only a matter of time before the drones, spy blimps, license plate readers, and motion-activated cameras come to the rest of America. Above: Drones, like the ones being piloted here by Customs and Border Protection officers, are part of the surveillance dragnet at the border.
LGBTQ activist and former district councillor Jimmy Sham appears in the Legislative Council on July 3
Debbie used to love sunny days, but she dreaded them when she became unhoused. A daily search for a place to beat the heat became harder when libraries closed during the pandemic, which deprived her of free air-conditioning. Cars are decent shelters from the rain, but the glass windows and dashboard make them cauldrons in the sun. The suffocating Benz pushed the lifelong asthmatic to the edge. To survive the heat of South L.A. streets, she needed shade.
Recently, Prof. Jorge Delva from BU School of Social Work (above) and social workers across the state of Massachusetts testified on behalf of The SUPER Act (S.218/H.1423).
Contrary to the public outcry from critics, city-owned grocery stores are not a novel or radical idea in the United States. The United States military already operates a network of publicly owned grocery stores; rural communities in Kansas have successfully experimented with municipally owned supermarkets; and big cities are exploring their potential and charting plans. City-owned grocery stores are a promising solution for communities who suffer from the hunger and food insecurity that comes from living in food deserts, urban or rural neighborhoods with limited access to healthy and affordable groceries.
Volunteer counselor Ann McNamee reads a book with a child who attends Project Camp, which provided free childcare to families impacted by wildfires, at Eagle Rock Recreation Center on January 15, 2025, in Los Angeles, California.
Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said the most substantial reductions in funding will come in places experiencing famine, disease outbreaks, and genocide…. Keir Starmer’s Labour government redirected funds to defence and military projects by reducing ODA to 0.3% of Gross National Income (GNI), down from 0.5% of GNI.
The Western Cape Department of Social Development’s (DSD) Social Work Integrated Management System Application (SWIMS App) is expanding. On Tuesday, 5 August 2025, DSD provided training on the system to Western Cape Education Department (WCED) social workers.
The Indian Society of Professional Social Work (ISPSW), in partnership with Bengaluru City University, hosted its National Conference on 30–31 July 2025 in Bengaluru under the theme Digital India and Sustainable Social Work Practice.
For years, Uber has said it is one of the safest ways to travel. But a New York Times investigation found that the company has been contending with a major problem: Hundreds of thousands of people reported that they were sexually assaulted or harassed during Uber rides. Emily Steel, who broke the story, discusses what executives knew about the problem and how they failed to take certain steps that were supposed to make riders safer.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and agency leaders have attributed a panoply of chronic diseases and other medical issues — such as autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, depression, diabetes, and obesity — to consumers and their lifestyle choices, according to a review of 15 hours of recorded interviews, social media statements, and federal reports.
The consequence of an eviction from public housing for people in Maine is especially challenging because there are not enough affordable housing options in the rural state, and those evicted are more likely to face homelessness. Maine public housing authorities file a disproportionately high share of eviction cases compared with all landlords in the state, according to an analysis of court data obtained by the Bangor Daily News and ProPublica.
OSCR has told an American company to stop misrepresenting itself as a Scottish Charity. It has since transpired that the owner of the company, Nicholas Gray, has been falsely representing himself as a trustee of registered charity the James Gray Nicol Trust.
In 2015, police outside of London identified a pattern of more frequent arrests of young people and vulnerable adults, implicated in drug supply outside of their local areas. They were also frequently suspected to be associated with members of criminal gangs. Thus, “county lines” was born. The National Crime Agency used the term “county lines” to describe the phone or “deal” line used to organise the sale of drugs – mainly heroin and crack cocaine – from cities with oversaturated supplies, to rural, coastal areas with less supply.
Every night, a covert crisis unfolds in the heart of Garowe’s market. Groups of street-connected children boys and girls alike gather in roadside booths, market corners, and abandoned buildings, seeking safety, shelter, and a way to survive. These children, some as young as ten, have been pushed to the margins of society by poverty, displacement, and domestic strife.
A government-proposed framework to register same-sex partnerships has attracted unprecedented controversy in Hong Kong’s opposition-free legislature. Many lawmakers claim the Registration of Same-sex Partnerships Bill erodes the institution of traditional marriage. LGBTQ+ activists, meanwhile, criticise the bill for not offering enough protection, but also see it as a small step forward and are urging the Legislative Council (LegCo) to pass it.
Guests including Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk attend the Inauguration in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
With the exponential rise of generative A.I. systems, the greatest danger is no longer a flood of invective and falsehoods on social media. Rather, it is the slow, subtle and corrosive manipulation of online communication — propaganda designed not to shock, but to slip silently into our everyday digital discussions. We have entered a new era in international influence operations, where A.I.-generated narratives shift the political landscape without drawing attention.
Giovanna Hernandez, 24, was stopped by local police while driving on Tuesday morning in her hometown of Leeds, near Birmingham, according to her brother, Dilan Hernandez. She was taken to a county jail and is now in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody there, ICE’s detainee locator showed. Hernandez’s parents brought her to the U.S. from Mexico at age 7, her brother said. She was valedictorian of her high school class, has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work, and works with young people applying for college through a local non-profit organization, he said.
iPsych has extracted DNA from thousands of banked blood samples originally taken during the heel prick test, which is used to screen newborns for serious health conditions…. The team wanted to ensure that its study represented the Danish population. But asking people to give consent inevitably skews a data set toward those who are wealthier, older, and more educated, Mortensen says. This could produce spurious results, which would have an “ethical cost,” he says, so the iPsych team asked to waive this requirement. Danish law allowed a waiver, he says, providing a study doesn’t endanger or inconvenience participants and would be impaired if consent were required. In January 2012, a regional science ethics committee in Denmark agreed, giving iPsych permission to extract genetic data from the country’s newborn blood samples for the next decade without participants’ consent.
The far right seeks to tarnish Muslims, refugees and migrants with accusations of paedophilia and rape. Their claims have been backed up by a barrage of stories in the press and the “concern” of Labour politicians. Above: An 1857 cartoon calling for revenge for the Indian mutiny — murder was justified as a way of defending white women
This is the first annual report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services since the entire team of scientists in charge of the survey was fired this year by the administration.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s 2025 bestseller, Abundance, kicks off with sharp critiques of Jimmy Carter’s anti-statist declaration that “government cannot solve our problems” and Bill Clinton’s announcement that “the era of Big Government is over.” It concludes with a rousing endorsement of Karl Marx’s famous “fettering” thesis — the idea that capitalism eventually stifles the very productive forces it once unleashed. In spite of these anti-neoliberal flourishes, it has received a surprisingly cool response from some sections of the Left.
Jenalea Randall, director of public and government affairs at the Kansas Department for Children and Families, said the state is now reviewing cases on a statewide basis rather than having each regional office carry every case from that area. Spreading out the workload has cleaned up the error rate and reduced wait times, the state said.
The service is now deemed to be good overall with a robust focus on creating the conditions for success and the pace of improvement has accelerated over the last two years.
– Vaccination against gonorrhoea now available in sexual health clinics in England for those at greatest risk of infection
– Vaccine will protect thousands of people and save the NHS over £7.9 million over next decade
– Rollout is part of shift from sickness to prevention under government’s Plan for Change