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New training routes into social work pledged in adult care white paper

Community Care

The government has pledged to invest in new training routes into social work as part of its white paper on adult social care reform, published today. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said these would be funded from £500m allocated for developing the adult social care workforce from 2022-25.

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The Perfect Child, Also Unwell.

Gary Direnfeld

I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

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When Your Partner Sits Around Playing Video Games and You’re Carrying the Family

Gary Direnfeld

The movie was based on a social trend of men who never left home. Since then, I am seeing another social trend; women who married those men now seeking to separate from them. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. There is a common plot to many of these situations.

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Better relationships with children’s social workers ‘key to tackling foster carer crisis’

Community Care

Better relationships with children’s social workers is a key factor in tackling a foster carer recruitment and retention “crisis”, says The Fostering Network. While 45% of foster carers rated the support they received from children’s social workers as excellent or good, 23% said it was poor or very poor.

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Racism and Mistreatment in the Mental Health Field: A Practitioner’s Voice

inSocialWork

The social work profession places a high value on diversity, inclusion, and social justice. In the context of working with marginalized populations – specifically Black clients – to what degree is this story of social work values reality versus myth? Danielle Hamner. Danielle specializes in trauma and EMDR. Show Notes.

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Funding boost for councils not enough to address ‘disastrous’ state of social care, warn sector bodies

Community Care

Councils’ ‘spending power’ – the maximum amount they have at their disposal – will rise by 3% a year in real terms, faster than from 2019-21, However, this includes £3.6bn for councils to fund the government’s reforms to adult social care, announced last month. More on adult social care pressures.

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Liberty Protection Safeguards certain to be delayed but no word on new timeframe

Community Care

The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) replacement was originally due come into force in October 2020, but this was then put back to a target of April 2022, due to the impact of Covid on health and social care. Social work leaders told Community Care this was causing significant challenges for practitioners and managers.