Articles on Social workers
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Social workers are often female and often arrive first on the scene, but have little protection.
Knowing which kind of provider to see and how to access help can be half the battle.
Erin’s Law requires the teaching of child sexual abuse and exploitation prevention classes from kindergarten through eighth grade. How it got adopted by 34 states is the story of one woman’s crusade.
It takes a family to raise a child. Vulnerable children should not be treated in isolation. Family-centred interventions usually meet the complex needs of children.
The public’s intensifying needs necessitate an expansion of the library’s role in our communities.
If children are to be protected and their families, properly supported, the child protection system needs real investment and reform.
Families need support to care for their children safely, rather than having their children removed.
Tight funding and COVID-related limits on face-to-face contact have forced academics to find other ways to expose students to the real-life work they are preparing them for.
Salaries are not the only factor making it hard to keep talented people on board.
Children’s voices are being omitted from their care records, with devastating effect.
In the US, black children wait longer to be adopted and cost less to adopt than white children.
Medical social workers coordinate care, an especially important job in complicated cases. Just as nurses and doctors are feeling burned out, these unsung heroes are feeling the burn, too. Here’s why that’s dangerous.
Mothers are dying prematurely after their children are taken into foster care.
A new Channel 4 drama has drawn criticism from social workers for its representation of the profession.
Social workers are there to help, not to rip families apart.
99% of people who disappear come home again. A third of them don’t stay.
While the global health community has made mental healthcare a priority, South Africa is not following suite. The impact is felt most acutely by poor people suffering from mental health disorders.
Making the NHS a seven-day service would intensify the pressure on the groaning social care system.
The Channel programme is meant to protect children, but it could be breaching their rights.
After a long period of expansion in the number of children living in out-of-home care, most modern child protection systems around the world have been labouring to prevent such placements. Instead, they’re…



















