Adoption Consultation Disability Social Worker 
Community Care
JANUARY 14, 2024
The Department for Education’s (DfE) revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children has removed the previous requirement for child in need assessments and casework to be reserved for qualified social workers. Child protection enquiries and casework will remain ring-fenced for social workers.
Community Care
APRIL 11, 2024
It is the worst case of child abuse and neglect that I have ever seen,” said a hospital consultant who treated Victoria in her final days. The need for children’s services to shift from crisis response to prevention was also a key conclusion from Josh MacAlister’s Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, which reported in 2022.
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Social Work With Adults
MARCH 19, 2024
Jason Brandon, Office of the Chief Social Worker for Adults: It’s National Social Work Week , one of the most important events in the social work calendar. This year's theme focuses on social workers' capacity to adopt innovative and community-led approaches.
Community Care
MARCH 31, 2022
Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. By Professor Judith Harwin and Lily Golding. There is an urgent need for this review.
Social Work With Adults
DECEMBER 1, 2021
At least £150 million to support adoption of technology and digitalisation. Increasing the upper limit of the Disabled Facilities Grant. This is the next big step in the reform journey, one in which social care practitioners will have such a key and important role to play. Funding the vision.
Community Care
MARCH 8, 2024
Since Lyn Romeo announced her retirement in October last year , the tributes to the now former chief social worker for adults from across the profession have been warm and fulsome. Lyn Romeo is without a doubt a social worker for social workers! Will be hugely missed by many and certainly me.
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. Parents of disabled children who need constant care may be exhausted.
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