Community Care

MAY 27, 2022

The number of council child and family social workers in England quitting children’s services altogether rose by 22% last year, suggest government figures. of employed children’s social workers appear to have quit the sector in 2020-21, up from 7.2% of social workers of this age leaving in 2020-21 – up from 17.6%

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Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

Social workers could more than double the time they spend with children and families through more efficient case management systems and fewer meetings. Half of social worker time spent on admin. Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show. Related articles.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The number of social workers leaving children’s posts in English councils or trusts has spiked to its highest point in at least five years, according to Department for Education figures. The number of FTE agency workers increased by 3% on the year to 5,977, a fourth consecutive annual rise.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Children’s social workers’ caseloads are bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. A third of social workers said their caseloads had increased “a lot” over the past year, while a further 36% said they had risen “slightly”.

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Save the Social Worker

AUGUST 23, 2022

Two years of doing social work Two years after working full-time as a social worker, it ended. Celebrating the end of my time as a social worker. In many ways, it symbolised how my career as a social worker ended with a whimper. and Singapore in social work settings. It just happened.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

Social workers’ quality of working life continued to decline following the end of Covid lockdown measures despite other frontline professionals reporting improvements, according to a new study. But social workers’ overall wellbeing recovered from phase three to four, as it did for other professionals. in phase one.

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Community Care

JUNE 8, 2022

A care review recommendation to require all registered social workers to carry out 100 hours a year of client-facing work has drawn criticism from academics. “To address the culture and incentives associated with unnecessary bureaucracy, attention must be given to getting social workers back to practice.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Social workers at Bradford council felt uninvolved and “done to” in its efforts to improve since an inadequate rating in 2018, the authority’s government-appointed commissioner has said. Staff felt ’done to’ instead of ‘worked with’. Related articles.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

The study said there were reported cases of students qualifying without any statutory experience, a point that was reflected in SASW’s survey of 344 students and newly qualified social workers, 17% of whom had not undertaken social work tasks during their placements.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

SASW – the Scottish branch of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) – also called for guaranteed reflective supervision and training, reduced administrative burdens and paid overtime for practitioners. Increases in the latter are negotiated by employers’ body COSLA and unions each year.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Sue Coyle Social workers play an important role in health care, even more so as health care services become increasingly integrated. The impact that social workers have on their patients, the patients’ families and the health care team as a whole varies depending on the setting and the specialty.

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Relias

MARCH 3, 2024

Theme for this year’s Social Worth Month is “empowering social workers.” ” Though it’s easy to understand why this is important, I’d like to take the time to innumerate a few of the many ways social workers help our society. This is why I love celebrating social work month.

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Community Care

MAY 14, 2024

Regional caps on the amount that councils should pay agencies to hire social workers will not come into force until spring 2025, the Department for Education (DfE) has said. Agency requirements on council children’s services in full Working within regions to agree and implement agency social worker price caps.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

Ofsted has praised social workers at a West Midlands council for their efforts to keep families together, while warning that high caseloads and case management system issues risk undermining their good work. “Some social workers also reported having to work in their own time to stay up to date with recording.”

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 30, 2023

Congratulations to the thousands of social workers graduating from Master of Social Work programs nationwide. Statistics are being compiled for 2022; however, according to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) , more than 25,000 social work students graduated from accredited Master of Social Work programs in 2021.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Meyer, PhD, LCSW, assistant professor of nonprofit studies and public administration at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Pace “Right now, the LGBTQIA+ community is under attack,” says Seth J. Threats to libraries, education, LGBTQIA+ books, and learning about or discussing queerness is taking place across the U.S.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Meyer, PhD, LCSW, assistant professor of nonprofit studies and public administration at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Pace “Right now, the LGBTQIA+ community is under attack,” says Seth J. Threats to libraries, education, LGBTQIA+ books, and learning about or discussing queerness is taking place across the U.S.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

President Biden has announced his intent to appoint social worker Mia Ives-Rublee, MSW, to his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. She earned her master’s in social work at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Mia Ives-Rublee.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication? This is a very common question a lot of people ask in relation to the role of the social worker in health and social care. Social workers play an important role in promoting the health and wellbeing of people in the community.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 18, 2022

Early in their careers, social workers learn the concepts of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization. But how does self-care play out in real-life scenarios, when new social workers might not get the best supervision or insight into how to handle the stressors that come with the job of being a social worker?

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

A report for social work leaders has proposed specific caseload limits for practitioners to help mitigate the mounting workload burdens many face. Scottish Government proposes National Social Work Agency. Caseloads bigger, more complex and harder to manage, say children’s social workers. cases, adults’ 19.5

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Sue Coyle Social workers play an important role in health care, even more so as health care services become increasingly integrated. The impact that social workers have on their patients, the patients’ families and the health care team as a whole varies depending on the setting and the specialty.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) began approving vaccines in late 2020. Adherence to masking and social-distancing guidelines remain difficult to guarantee. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) provides information on how to reach people with limited access to COVID-19 vaccines in the Connect to End COVID resources.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Drakeford was hailed for maintaining his social work values and commitment to social justice, after announcing he would be stepping down from the role in March 2024. This was followed by stints in several ministerial roles, including as health and social services minister from 2013-16, before he became first minister in 2018.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Social workers are helping these men and women while they are incarcerated. In April of 2020, Pastor Tony Lowden, then executive director of the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry, spoke to a virtual meeting of the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The proposals was one of three put forward by the LGA to “rapidly increase the children’s social worker workforce and retain those currently in post” in the context of vacancy rates that reached a record high of 20% last September. 17.6% of posts were held by agency workers, up from 15.5% as of September 2021.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 5, 2022

School social workers don’t always receive discipline-specific clinical supervision in their school setting. The lack of supervision is inconsistent with known best practices of the social work profession. This webinar is intended for experienced and new school social workers, principals, and building administrators.

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 25, 2022

School social workers don’t always receive discipline-specific clinical supervision in their school setting. The lack of supervision is inconsistent with known best practices of the social work profession. This webinar is intended for experienced and new school social workers, principals, and building administrators.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Laming’s report made 108 recommendations, designed to increase the priority placed on children within government, local authorities and other agencies, enhance joint working and significantly improve the quality of practice by social workers and other agencies. I’m very clear that in social work it’s not about the chat.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The flexibility comes despite Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) concerns that breaches would risk undermining national rules on councils engaging child and family social workers, of which the price caps are a part.

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inSocialWork

APRIL 19, 2022

Stephen Pimpare, PhD is founder and director of the Public Service & Nonprofit Leadership Program at the University of New Hampshire; he has previously taught at the Columbia University, NYU, Simmons, and Hunter College schools of social work. Congressional Hunger Center.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

Why do you need to know about famous social workers? Famous social workers play an important role in our society, providing much-needed support to individuals and families who are facing difficult life situations. This list in this article comprises the 41+ most influential social workers currently alive.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

Editor’s note: In this blog post, four social worker educators share a sample from their new and free resource about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in social work education. Alexander Rubin , LCSW, is a clinical assistant professor based in field education at the University at Buffalo School of School of Social Work.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 15, 2023

As a private clinician, and Manager of the Social Work Department at the Valley Hospital, collectively we view our purpose as making a difference, making connections, making meaning and making a life- all of which entails breaking barriers on a daily basis. On a professional level, in 2022 our social workers advocated to receive higher wages.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2023

The High Court ruled last week that it was right for the regulator to see the family court judgment because the need for public safety outweighed the social worker’s right to respect for his privacy. However, the regulator’s request for disclosure was rejected, without an oral hearing, by Judge Ahmed.

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Save the Social Worker

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

When I was a student social worker in the U.K., My supervisor’s sandwich in the car made me wonder if there was a better way to handle the overwhelming nature of social work. 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.

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inSocialWork

MARCH 26, 2024

She holds an MSW from Stony Brook University with a concentration in planning, administration and research, and a PhD from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Generative AI and Social Work: It’s NOT the End of the World as We Know It (No. 2024, Mar 26). 326)[Audio podcast episode].

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