Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

This is why we wrote an article to offer guidance and considerations for the social work field educator with a student placed in their agency. The full article can be downloaded here and shared with your local social services agencies. Our goal is to introduce use cases, debates, and potential policies.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. “It But, the crossbench peer says, some of that outstanding work has been lost.

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

The proposals , which form part of a cooperation agreement between the Labour administration and the Plaid Cymru group in the Welsh Senedd, would restrict registration of service providers to those operating a non-profit model. ” Reliance on private sector.

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2023

Deputy minister for social services Julie Morgan also said action was already being taken to improve support for practitioners and enhance workforce planning. She said her professional experience of a workload weighting system was that it left practitioners focused on administration, rather than children.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 2, 2024

The UConn School of Social Work (SSW) is proud to announce that Professor Cristina Mogro-Wilson was elected to the board of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education (GADE). Wilson, an at-large board member, will join the current board in supporting GADE’s mission to promote excellence and equity in social work doctoral education.

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

The purpose of this article is two fold: To share about the world of FSC social work, and what you should be mindful of before you join To help you assess whether this is something for you When people asked me where I worked at, I used to describe the FSC as a GP (general practitioner) for social services. I’m not joking.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Last week, Virginia’s Director of Social Services, Danny Avula, gave a presentation to the state Commission on Youth. At worst, they are ignoring those regulations and the federal Administration for Children and Families chooses to look the other way.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Age UK said LPS had been “effectively kicked into the long grass for a future administration to deal with” – though there is no indication of whether an incoming Labour government would implement the system. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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Save the Social Worker

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It’s a major problem in social work, with as many as 45% of time being spent on administrative paperwork, as shown in Ferguson’s 2016 study of U.K. social workers in 2 different sites. Looks like we, as social workers, do spend a lot of time in the office! and also 2 years in a social service agency in Singapore.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The family police agency in New York City, the Administration for Children’s Services, has opposed legislation to require it to tell families their rights – not extend any additional rights, just tell them the rights they already have. So think carefully before you click here. ●

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts will have to stop using agency social workers from next June, its Department of Health (DoH) has said. ‘Anxiety’ over agency ban.

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Save the Social Worker

JUNE 29, 2023

Coordination may be messy paperwork If you don’t like paperwork, social work might hurt you. This is the part where many social workers start hating. Ferguson’s study of time use in social work, found that up to 45% of time was spent on administrative work, more than anything else.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It’s all in a report commissioned by the Administration for Children’s Services itself. Yesterday: Context for the new study : The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ?

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

She was perhaps the embodiment of the “policy influencer” and instrumental in developing the Social Security Act. To date, Richman is the only social worker to serve in the program.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The sector continues to face challenges from years of chronic underfunding in social services.”. MacAlister, whose care review is due to make recommendations in late spring, pledged to address the decline in case-holding social workers.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

But, as Hawaii News Now reports , that simply wasn’t true: DHS officials said “the testimony submitted was the incorrect version and the error was not caught until after.” … Social Services Division Administrator Daisy Hartsfield added: “What actually occurred is that we immediately began discussions to consider how we can cease Social Security payments (..)

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Save the Social Worker

MAY 9, 2023

SSNET draws together the case notes of different agencies like the Family Service Centre, the EIPIC Centre for the child with learning needs, the Social Service Office under MSF, and puts them all together. Sometimes social work can feel a little like this. It’s definitely more efficient. I know, I know. Just try it.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 4, 2024

SSW Associate Professor and Director of the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute Kathryn Libal and Professor Megan Berthold presented research at the first-of-its-kind conference on refugee resettlement that brought together practitioners, researchers and public officials to explore “Reimaging Refugee Services in the United States.”

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inSocialWork

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. The post Child Maltreatment: Reporting Inequities in Rural Counties appeared first on UB Social Work. Dr. Smith received her Ph.D. Episode Transcript Download.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

Beverley Tarka, ADASS president, 2023-24 “The government has listened to calls from directors and others in adult social care to make resources available earlier to support planning for winter,” said Association of Directors of Adult Social Services president Beverley Tarka.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

.” The pressures were leading to delays for some children, inspectors found, though they noted that senior managers recognised the issues at hand and were trying to recruit both social workers and administrative support staff.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

This article outlines the results of a multisite case study with students, teachers, and administrators across two racially and ethnically diverse middle schools in the Pacific Northwest. University–School Partnerships: Successes and Challenges in Designing and Implementing Strategies to Promote Racial Equity.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

We need social care workers being where they are and they can’t just take on this work because of workforce issues in social work.” ” She said Social Work England would provide the administration for the group and also make use of the data it holds on the profession to inform its work.

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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

It is not possible to provide service stability and strong positive cultures if there is heavy reliance on agency social workers; Northern Ireland has already taken action to curtail their use in its statutory social services.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The absence of comprehensive planning for families and children raises fears of a return to cruel family separation policies seen during the Trump Administration. It has consequences that touch health care, social services, education, and the lives of everyday citizens.

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Save the Social Worker

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As you can see from the above graph, as much as 45% of a social worker’s time is spent on admin. If you don’t handle your administrative work, it’s a guarantee that you will underperform as a social worker. It’s why sector administrators are focusing on technology, volunteers, and shared services. Make no mistake.

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Famcare

MARCH 7, 2022

You end up spending very little time with the client while going through the plethora of administrative tasks associated with a case. With all of the documentation, extensive paperwork, legalities, and meetings, it's easy to lose sight of what really matters, which is the client you're serving.

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Relias

MARCH 3, 2024

We can be mental health professionals, case managers, or administrators, but we are also more than the sum of these. We can work within the human services realm or serve outside of traditional social service organizations, bringing all our strengths where ever we go. We are communicators. We are connectors.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 15, 2023

Social workers are tasked uniquely to assist patients in the most difficult psycho-social circumstances and guide patients families and medical providers with navigating medical care coordination and social service challenges in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic. We must adapt to change manage stress and innovate.

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Social Work Bubble

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I typically see clients every hour on the hour, and have about 44 sessions each week, not including my hour for supervision, and the time I have towards administrative supervision duties of my own, treatment plans, progress notes, and collaborative meetings with my patients’ case managers, doctors, and other professionals.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 27, 2022

Nancy earned an MSW from the University of Southern California, while working for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, where she rose from a direct services worker to assistant program deputy and staff development administrator.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. One of those two things has now prompted the Biden Administration to propose regulations to curb this practice. At least 45 kids died of abuse or neglect in North Carolina in 2021, according to the U.S.

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Michigan Girl's Café

MARCH 8, 2019

The overview focused on the sphere of work ("Social workers are social service professionals committed to improving the social and behavioral lives of individuals, families, and communities." Macro social workers are labeled as "administrative social workers" who engage in research, policy, and administration.

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Relias

JANUARY 16, 2023

While many behavioral health and social service organizations have moved toward implementing trauma-informed practices, it is rarely recognized in organizations serving the IDD population. For those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who have experienced abuse, trauma-informed care can prove very helpful.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Because Curts didn't have a stable housing alternative, on June 15, 2022, investigators from the Jackson County Children’s Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services and two policemen came to take her children into protective custody. Anybody see the problem here yet? If not, consider how the reporter circles back to Ms.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Truman administration. He wanted us to think of other ways we could contribute to the civil rights movement – participating in leadership councils, teaching in universities, managing social service organizations.” Granger continued to fight for military desegregation, lobbying a committee in the President Harry S.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Findings establish that an understanding of social theories may be difficult to effectively implement due to the existence of factors such as austerity measures, cutbacks in social care services, time restrictions and rigorous policies existing within the social services sector (Jordan & Drakeford, 2013).

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