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Agile working failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland, finds study

Community Care

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Our findings (consistent over the last five years) indicate that agile working models in Scotland are failing to meet the needs of social workers.”

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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

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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The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

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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Councils urged to look beyond social work to widen pool of future DCSs

Community Care

A DfE spokesperson added: “Our children’s social care implementation strategy sets out ambitious plans to reform the system to improve outcomes for children and families, and our continued support for social workers and their leaders will underpin the success of those reforms in the years to come.”

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A Day in the Life of a Social Worker

KVC

March is National Social Work Month and KVC is honoring the incredible ways that social workers, clinicians, and other professionals improve the lives of children, adults and families. They bring compassion, knowledge, and care to their work and this makes a powerful positive impact in our communities every single day.

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Ouch! Appreciative Inquiry without the appreciation. How easy is using a strengths-based approach?

Learning Social Worker

I also considered the power, communication and relational issues of my inquirer. There is a proliferation of methods, approaches and theoretical constructs, based on a ‘strengths-based’ ethos, used in the fields of social work, education and health and social care. Does my own inquiry of others lack appreciation?

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9 Best Social Work Books You Need Now | Student

Social Work Haven

Recommended Books for Preparing to Study Social Work Recommended Books for Student Social Workers Recommended Books for Newly Qualified Social Workers Recommended Books when working with Adults Recommended Books for Direct Work with Children Recommended Books for Practice Educators Recommended Books for Approved Mental Health Practitioners.