Community & Business Partners CIC’s Post

🔔 We often hear about financial, legal and reputational risks that come with data breaches in the media, something that is talked about less is the biggest risk of all… harm to people! ⚠ This article from the Guardian highlights how those most vulnerable can be put at risk. https://lnkd.in/gBqPhJJE #dpia #informationsecurity #remoteworking #dataprivacy #databreach #dataprotection #dataprotectionofficer #charitysector #charity #localgovernment #localauthorities #email #publicsector #health #domesticviolence

One of the downside of one's work is having clients lose interest in their cases and eventually withdrawing their statements. I recently picked up a case file from the unsolved case files, haven solved my case files for the year. I tried contacting the complainant and the state office where the case was first raised. All efforts to get the complainant to provide just one or two documents to actually solve his case proved abortive. He just was no longer interested. I also contacted the staff that handled the case initially and found that complainant became unresponsive and uncooperative. I would like conferences and workshops that can deal with situations like this where complainants withdraw their cases and the factors that can prevent that occurrence. #communitydevelopment #socialjustice #communityimpact #cases #governmentservices #governmentaid

This free online session will outline income support available to victims and survivors of domestic and family violence, including Parenting Payment, JobSeeker Payment, Crisis Payment and Special Benefit. It will cover how to establish entitlement to payment, timeframes for claiming, residential qualifications, and presumptions of shared income under the Member of a Couple rule. ⠀ ⠀ We'll tackle issues associated with demonstrating ‘care’ of children and removal of children by perpetrators which can impact both qualification and rate of payment. We'll also explain application of special circumstances in relation to debts.⠀ ⠀ This session will include input from our Domestic Violence Community Worker and information about support services within Centrelink, particularly about how victims of violence can access a Centrelink Social Worker to obtain additional support navigating the Centrelink process.⠀ Target audience: Community workers and social workers who assist victims and survivors of domestic violence⠀ When: Tuesday 5 December, 2.00 - 4.00pm AEDT Register at: https://buff.ly/3M2k4Qm

A little update After a somewhat fractious meeting last week, with the local authority still refusing to acknowledge that a ten-day handover with two training shifts per person was wholly inadequate, we had another meeting on Friday with a much more senior individual. For once this person seemed to actually listen rather than spend an entire meeting switching between defensive denial and aggressive threats. Miraculously, after having been told that the incumbent company CANNOT (not won't) extend their handover, a further 6 weeks was pulled out of the hat. That will give us the bare minumum needed for an effective handover. A sop to try and make us go away and get back in our box? or just intended to give them some more time to show how unreasonable we are and why they need to put our son in a home? I don't think they really know us that well do they? We (and many others in Cambridgeshire) have experienced systematic sidelining, threats, lack of accountability, and abuse of power. That is what needs to stop, and is why we are continuing to push this as hard as we can. Our County Councillor has been horrified by what she has seen. Please keep spreading the word, and help us challenge these unaccountable, unelected, uncaring bureaucrats and prevent them taking our much-loved son from his home. https://lnkd.in/e8kugWMJ

You have two options to this question... The least expensive would be to ensure that it is written in your will and they would inherit it on your death. Alternatively, you could seek advice about gifting some or all of your house into a trust now, on your death your children will benefit from the property in the trust. #FinancialPlanning #FinancialPlanner #Inheritance #InheritancePlanning

The homeless sector has a huge problem which isn't talked about: Learning from deaths. Through our research at the Cardon Banfield Foundation, we have found that near-majority amount of recommendations that come out of Safeguarding Reviews are the same - albeit with different circumstances: Information not being shared, poor decision making and lack of partnership working. As a country, sector and wider society we are NOT learning. These recommendations come up time and time again over years, and sometimes even in the same locations. Let me be clear: This is catastrophic, institutional failure. Organisations and the sector say they "learn" from Safeguarding Reviews, but really they don't or else we wouldn't see repetition to the levels we see. Every time someone dies on our streets, it's a stain on humanity. Can every homeless death be avoided? No. Can every person have the best possible environment to prevent them from dying? Yes. There needs to be a shift from "learning" to putting that into practice and making the tough decisions needed. Sometimes that's holding people accountable in their roles and the failures to protect the people they are there to work with/for. It's too easy for organisations to protect themselves and their workers because of bad publicity or high turnover but this is not good enough. Managers and organisations have to do better. Safeguarding Reviews (previously called Serious Case Reviews) were set up with the premise to learn lessons but not apportion blame and although this had good intentions, it's come with fatal consequences. People across the UK are falling through the cracks and dying on our streets whilst organisations and roles remain unchanged even when they're told to change. Organisations pontificate about "there's not enough money" when 1, their often is and 2, even if there is or isn't - good decisions are made by good people, uninformed decisions are made by uniformed people. The money at the time of those decisions stays the same until the decision has been made. That is why we are uncovering the costs of Safeguarding Reviews into homeless deaths, using the legal precedent the Information Commissioner granted in our favour. But our work only goes so far, we need the sector to step up and implement the changes need to fulfil recommendations and to stop people dying on our streets. We as a sector cannot allow people to die in vain at of saving face or bad publicity. https://lnkd.in/eegjnyVA

During the 2008 financial crisis, which was the folly of banking/asset institutions, we were blitzed with messaging how it was the fault of poor people, immigrants, and benefit claimants in #britain. TODAY, despite the profound damage to our #NHS, the first safety net for those suffering from #psychological trauma, we are told that #homelessness and the rough sleeping it causes is a 'Lifestyle Choice'. Questionable #ethics in the #uk government. https://lnkd.in/eXPkGg25

The popularity of Earned Wage Access seems to be increasing by the minute. The IPA steadfastly believes EWA is an invaluable financial tool for American workers. Simply put, EWA provides workers with access to the wages they have already earned, which can help people to gain more control over their own financial lives without having to rely on costly alternatives like traditional payday loans. To learn more about EWA please visit www.EarnedWageAccess.info. #IPA #EWA #EarnedWageAccess.info #payments #innovation #fintech

How can this be happening? Not 'allowed to happen' because it is happening and with no accountability, no inspections, no prosecutions. It is happening, vulnerable children being failed yet again by a government that can't or won't properly fund councils to provide the care that cash strapped councils can't provide. Councils that can't or won't suitably investigate or prosecute these unregulated, unregistered, illegal settings. Ofsted without the powers promised by but failed to be delivered by the government. A social care system desperately needing reform. And all the while vulnerable children in need bare the brunt of these failures, at risk of exploitation, abuse, failures in being supported, and exposed to inappropriate/unlawful restraints and restrictive practices. https://lnkd.in/eYDdEwG2

The LEGAL FACTS in the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson case before the U.S. Supreme Court #affordablehousing and #homelessness: ▶️1962, Robinson v. California, Supreme Court ruled a State Law making the STATUS of “drug addiction” subject to criminal penalty rather than the ACTION of “drug use purchase or sale of drugs” UNCONSTITUTIONAL: “the law criminalized a status rather than an act …and therefore even one day in prison would be a cruel and unusual punishment for the crime.”⏩️2018, Martin v. City of Boise, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, applied Robinson v. California to persons experiencing homelessness, ruling the City could not criminally penalize persons status of homelessness when no shelter was available to them. ⏹️NOTE: clearing encampments, without criminal citations, is LEGAL. ⏩️2018, City of Grants Pass v. Johnson,[Oregon] 9th Circuit applied the ruling in Martin v. Boise. ⏩️2019, Supreme Court declines to hear Boise.⏭️ 2024, Supreme Court to hear the case of City of Grants Pass v. Johnson on the question of whether criminal penalties can be applied to a person’s status of homelessness and ultimately, whether such status can be involuntary. https://lnkd.in/gekb9Q46 from The Economist