Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

While councils provided about 54% of PLO days in 2018-19, this had fallen to about 48% by 2022-23, with the proportion offered by third sector agencies rising from 46% to 52% over the same period. Third sector agencies are paid £28 per day for PLOs, with £18 of this generally given to the independent practice educator.

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Administration Mental Health University Social Worker 299

Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Social Work England issued the warning on the back of an increase in cases referred to it about people misusing the title ‘social worker’, which is protected in law. An increasing number of staff have been found to be practising illegally as social workers, the regulator has said.

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Social Worker 336

Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Read about why we’re launching this campaign , and the five steps you can take to support it. Attend community events and give information about social work at events where services such as the Red Cross, RNLI, the fire service have a presence. Think about taking part in high profile documentary (fly-on-the-wall) programmes.

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Social Worker Foster Care Schools Interviewing 245

Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

About 400 more social work apprentices could be recruited over the next year in England courtesy of a £12m fund designed to boost practitioner capacity adults’ services, announced by the government today. The DHSC will inform successful authorities in March.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2023

Social Work England, which had received a concern about the man’s fitness to practise in March 2021, opened an investigation in May 2022. Though family court proceedings are generally held in private, courts may permit disclosure of information, under rule 12.73 of the Family Procedure Rules 2010.

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Confidentiality Welfare Social Worker Administration 246

Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Incoming Association of Directors of Children’s Services president Andy Smith is passionate about social work’s potential to improve children’s lives. “Even though it’s a long time ago, there are lots of similarities with what we talk about in terms of good relationship-based social work.”

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Social Worker Diversity Government Adoption 260

Social Work Futures

JANUARY 3, 2023

In my work preparing to deliver a meaningful and (hopefully) useful and relevant set of frameworks for social work as a profession to think about its future – I felt it was necessary to do the deepest dive possible about our history. This is not a resource about the good things. It was sobering.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 15, 2024

In these instances, there is nothing truly tragic or unsafe or unreasonable, but the child carries on as if so and the parent is in a sense, overly nice about it. As a means of managing boo-boos, or generalized or even specific anxieties, or even food preferences, over-accommodating can increase the very issue sought to address.

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CBT Counseling Mental Health Private Practice 147

Social Work Futures

MARCH 24, 2023

Generally social workers work on “slow disasters” but in recent years…it just feels like the boundaries between all these things is blurring. Take these all seriously and treat them respectfully – make space to be trauma informed about it and teach the students to do the same.

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LCSW Recovery Social Worker Engagement 268

My Brains Not Broken

MARCH 14, 2023

I’ve written about it before; in fact, I tried to break it down in a blog post last year. But as much as I’ve learned about how self-stigma exists in the world, I’m a whole different story. I have so much more to learn about how self-stigma exists within myself. But actually, it goes much deeper than that.

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Mental Health Psychology Depression 246

My Brains Not Broken

MAY 30, 2023

I learned as much as I could about anxiety and depression, hoping to learn something that would help me beat it. Every year, I try to leave this month having learned something new about mental health. Sometimes it’s personal, but it can also be about society, community or mental health in general.

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Mental Health Anxiety Depression 246

Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Practice educators are passionate about supporting students, but a lack of recognition and support risks pushing some out of the role, Social Work England-commissioned research has found. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

I have to have a discussion with Wes Streeting [the shadow health secretary] about how we facilitate that. Labour ‘committed to Dilnot’ Quizzed on the issue at the spring seminar, Gwynne said: “We have said that we are committed to Dilnot and we would seek to introduce those reforms.

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Government Interviewing Social Services Social Services 176

My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 13, 2023

Lesbian, gay and bisexual youth are nearly 4x more likely to attempt suicide than straight youth Transgender adults are nearly 9x more likely to attempt suicide at some point in their lifetime compared to the general population From Mental Health America : Nearly 60% of LGBTQ+ adults are experiencing mental health challenges today.

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Mental Health Disorder Anxiety Depression 321

My Brains Not Broken

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Sometimes I get a little too involved with keeping up with My Brain’s Not Broken, and I forget about how much I’ve been able to accomplish on this blog. I feel like there’s always something new to write about or say when it comes to anxiety, depression and mental health in general. Finding the Rhythm of Life.

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Mental Health Depression Anxiety 264

MQ Mental Health

MARCH 28, 2024

Though autistic people are about three times as likely to be diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder than the general population, many treatments are not designed with autistic people in mind. ADIE treatment has been shown to improve recovery from General Anxiety Disorder in clinical trials.

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Anxiety Recovery Mental Health Disorder 59

International Federation of Social Workers

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Hana Al-Barqawi, from the Social Work Department at Damascus University, spoke to IFSW Secretary-General, Rory Truell about the social work response following the earthquakes. She said nearly all the […]

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Social Worker University 126

Community Care

MARCH 10, 2024

The news prompted warnings from the Social Workers Union about the mental toll on practitioners of being subject to lengthy FTP processes. About Social Work England’s budget In 2022-23, Social Work England: Spent £23.94m in revenue expenditure. These payments were worth £1.9m in 2021-22, £5.5m in 2022-23 – £1.2m in 2023-24.

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Social Worker Mental Health Government 277

My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 10, 2024

I reflect on my own, but I also think about the idea itself. Why is it so important that we go out of our comfort zones, and why do we talk about it all the time? As with many of the terms I talk about on this blog, I like to start with a definition. Every year around this time, the idea of comfort zones pops into my head.

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Mental Health 130

Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

To mark Community Care’s 50 th anniversary, I sat down with Mark and talked to him about the origins of the magazine, the value of social work and how he nearly became a social worker himself. The future of social work About the future of social work, Mark said: “I would like to believe people will understand the value of social work.

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Interviewing Social Worker Psychiatric Adoption 191

Community Care

MAY 5, 2022

Inspectors said some children remained in neglectful situations for too long, as a result of assessments that did not analyse the effects of cumulative harm and lead to over-optimism about families’ progress. Ofsted said most looked-after children were in stable homes that met their needs. Recent Ofsted reports.

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Social Worker Communication Interviewing Government 210

My Brains Not Broken

JULY 7, 2022

and instead of having a conversation about that, a real conversation, some people want to invoke discussions around mental health instead. You want to talk about mental health issues? Let’s talk about how 40% of transgender adults have attempted suicide in their lifetime , compared to less than 5% of the general U.S.

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Mental Health Depression 246

Community Care

MARCH 13, 2024

Concerns over knowledge and skills However, inspectorates including Ofsted have raised concerns about some early help staff already receiving overly complex cases. The Foundations-commissioned study was based on: An online survey of early help and family support staff across 11 local authorities.

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Counseling Interviewing Diversity Disability 237

Community Care

JUNE 24, 2022

” In its statement to members, Napo said: “Paying staff decently is one of the easier ways in which the government can show that it cares about the Cafcass workforce and that it understands that valuing employees is vital to future performance. “Failure to reward staff properly sends the opposite message.”

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Social Worker Government 265

Community Care

MARCH 7, 2022

Both the CMA, in its interim report, and care review lead Josh MacAlister have issued warnings about the high level of profits in the children’s home market. Relevant articles. Limit profit-making from children’s services or risk cartel’, directors urge – Community Care. Providers question minister’s claims.

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My Brains Not Broken

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

After writing my most recent post about misunderstanding the meaning rest , the idea continued to sit in my mind. What I love about this variety of rest is that each type of rest fills a unique need for people. When you think about it, rest and mental health have a lot in common.

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Mental Health 130

My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 30, 2023

In this interview, we talked about NOWINCLUDED, shrinking the stigma, and the importance of taking charge of your mental health. NOWINCLUDED is a community created by Black people for Black people to talk and learn about health issues that impact us, including mental health. Thank you for talking with me, Tiffany!

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Interviewing Mental Health Clinic Disorder 130

University of Connecticut

MARCH 14, 2024

The editor’s choice are articles that best embody the mission of the journal to publish work that is both empirically and theoretically rigorous, while also being of wide general interest. Read more about Feely’s work. The study includes data collected from families at birth and repeated at ages 3, 5 and 9.

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Social Services Social Services 106

Social Work Futures

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Here’s a little bit about the program. And more about OCAD in general – located in Toronto. Here’s a terrific little video piece they did ABOUT foresight in general. THANK YOU OCAD. You are amazing. Always inspired by your efforts!!!

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Schools Engagement Communication 177

University of Connecticut

MARCH 19, 2024

Pepper Older Americans Independence Center grant, Assistant Professor Rupal Parekh is leading a pilot study about the impact of social isolation and loneliness on the health and well-being of Black and African American older adults in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. There's likely an impact in the long run with health and health outcomes.”

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Engagement Interviewing Interventional Schools 111

Community Care

JUNE 25, 2023

The Department for Education (DfE) stressed that consent was generally “not the most appropriate lawful basis” to pass on information in a safeguarding context. Practitioners should instead rely on other justifications, notably their legal duties or public function.

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Government Consultation Anxiety 209

Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

In the children’s sector, about one in 12 social workers quit local authority practice in the 12 months to September 2021 – a 20% rise on the previous year – according to a recent Department for Education analysis. ” Rising vacancies and turnover. Emotional support lacking.

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Social Worker Mental Health Government Administration 268

Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The government is running a national campaign offering Covid-19 vaccinations to children aged 12 and over, and it has extended its offer of flu vaccines to those in years 7 to 11 (generally those aged 11 to 16) this school year, having previously only rolled out the jab in primary schools. Mother’s opposition.

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Welfare Administration Government Schools 307

My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Here are some statistics that paint a complicated picture of suicide prevention in this country: From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention : Suicide rates for females in all age groups over age 25 showed recent declines, while rates for those aged 10–14 and 15–24 have generally increased.

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Mental Health Advocacy Schools 246

Community Care

JULY 26, 2023

” He also raised concerns about social care’s capacity to respond to mental health calls diverted by the police, adding: “Mental health services are funded via councils social care budgets which are already under considerable pressure. “Anybody can go into crisis and that can sometimes happen quite quickly.

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Mental Health Disorder Government Welfare 221

Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In response to the consultation, the regulator pledged to address specific concerns about the content and structure of the proposed 78 statements, as well as the “crowded landscape” of social work education standards to which the statements would be added.

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Consultation Social Worker Government Diversity 228

My Brains Not Broken

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There are many symptoms for anxiety and anxiety disorders: feelings of panic or doom, shortness of breath, trouble sleeping, a general sense of uneasiness…the list goes on and on. Where did it come from, why do we have it, and what can we do about it? I’ve never thought about self-doubt in terms of competence.

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Mental Health Anxiety Disorder Depression 246