Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding.

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Case Management Communication Adoption Self-harm 199

Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Looking back now, Laming says poor communication between services was the catalyst behind their failure to save Victoria.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Social Services 336

Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Disappointment with national government policy commitment to children’s services (25%). The college said this meant the government needed to tackle the “negative effects of multiple government departments generating policies around children” and improve funding for new duties for councils. This is within your gift.”

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Diversity Government Interviewing Empathy 208

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Citing the wider body of research into the practice, it said local authorities had generally adopted agile working to make efficiency savings, not in response to social workers’ needs. The final year’s survey included questions on the impact of Covid-19. Pause National Care Service legislation, urge leaders.

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Social Worker Criminal Justice Government Adoption 264

Relias

MARCH 5, 2024

Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away. In an interview with Social Work Today , John Jay said, “As organizations adapt to and become more accustomed to delivering telehealth, telehealth is going to be more prevalent in behavioral health moving forward.

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Human Services Telehealth Communication Disability 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As the story explains: The system that promises to monitor these facilities and protect children from abuse often devalues the child’s perspective of what happened — communicating to them time and time again that they are untrustworthy and unbelievable. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them. That’s where Arabella died.

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Adoption 83

The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It means active listening – letting the service user speak (or communicate in whatever way they find easiest), and becoming an active part of their account, reflecting their thoughts and helping them use their own perspective to improve their own self-knowledge and self-efficacy. Listening goes beyond ‘sitting quietly in a living room’.

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Social Worker Self-harm Psychiatric Welfare 40