Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Barriers to implementation Participants reported challenges and barriers to adoption and implementation of digital safeguarding at both national and local level. Image: Dzmitry/Adobe Stock Addressing these requires policy changes and for the government to adopt a digital safeguarding approach.

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Case Management Communication Self-harm Adoption 194

Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

At the same time, the Local Government Association released research showing authorities as a whole were on course to exceed their approximately £4.7bn care placement budgets by £680m (14%), following a similar overspend last year. Inflation on supplies and salaries have been significant.

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Government Mental Health Interviewing Adoption 215

Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The consultations close on 11 May, 2023. Social worker pay : The DfE has rejected the care review recommendation for national pay scales for social workers on the grounds that this risked destabilising the local government pay system for insufficient benefit. A report proposing reforms to agency social work.

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Consultation Social Worker Foster Care Government 192

Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This would be backed by government funding to finance support services for families identified in the plan. A one-month consultation on its proposals closes tomorrow (30 November), with the group then intending to draw up revised best practice guidance for immediate implementation, potentially ahead of longer-term reforms to the order.

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Government Social Worker Consultation Adoption 231

Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

With the right strategy and proper investment, kinship care offers the potential for better outcomes for children and considerable savings for local authorities and national government. But it also means we need specialist kinship care teams – on a par with current looked-after children’s teams and adoption support teams.

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Adoption Social Worker Foster Care Healthcare 305

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. Pause National Care Service legislation, urge leaders.

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Social Worker Criminal Justice Government Adoption 261

Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Mixed response to lead practitioner role The proposed lead child protection practitioner role, which the DfE adopted from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care , drew a mixed response from respondents to the consultation on the reforms.

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Social Worker Adoption Diversity Consultation 256

Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Under section 22C of the Children Act 1989, councils should prioritise these placements over all others for children in care, where adoption is not being considered. “This isn’t inevitable, but it demands action, leadership and funding from government. ” . ”

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Foster Care Government Interventional Interviewing 245

Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

In 2020, it published five decisions which adopted a radically different approach to determining ordinary residence for the purposes of section 117 (one of which was the Worcestershire case). However, the DHSC changed its mind and challenged its own guidance. She was assessed as lacking capacity to decide where to live. of the guidance).

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Mental Health Hospitals Adoption Disorder 192

Social Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Our resources focus on important carers’ rights that are almost universal – including the right to an assessment, eligibility for a free flu jab, asking GP practices to identify them as carers, and the right to be identified and consulted before a relative is discharged from hospital. "We Image created by freepik.com ]. Working and caring.

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Adoption Consultation Disability Hospitals 113

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

A draft report and best practice guidance from the supervision review will go out for consultation later in the year. We have recommended that there needs to be a bespoke IRO role and service and that the government should set up and finance a national, fixed-term ‘supervision orders support fund’, akin to the adoption support fund.”

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Interviewing Social Worker University Government 261

MQ Mental Health

JUNE 29, 2023

Stakeholder consultations involving representatives from key sectors, including people with personal experiences of mental health conditions, researchers from health and social sciences, community and charity organizations, mental health practitioners, and leaders from both private and public sectors. No to austerity.

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Mental Health Healthcare Interventional Consultation 52

Social Care

APRIL 21, 2023

We knew care staff were facing unprecedented challenges and we wanted to make sure they had the basic technology infrastructure to support video consultations with health professionals and to make sure residents could stay in contact with friends and family while visiting was restricted.

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Adoption Communication Consultation Government 93

Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I am so pleased to be writing this blog, celebrating the publication of ‘ People at the heart of care ’, the Government's adult social care reform White Paper. At least £150 million to support adoption of technology and digitalisation. Reform has social work values built in. Social work and social care values are at its core.

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Engagement Social Worker Adoption Therapist 143

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

During that period, state, local, federal government and neighbors stepped in. Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.

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Child Welfare Welfare Adoption Foster Care 76

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. And see also this story from Searchlight New Mexico, which focuses on a Native American child adopted by a well-meaning white couple.

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Child Welfare Welfare Adoption Administration 40

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The government is pressing ahead with the use of scientific age assessments of asylum-seeking young people in the face of severe criticisms. It has issued regulations that would permit the use of specified scientific methods to inform age assessments of asylum-seeking young people.

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Government Adoption Social Worker Consultation 193

Social Work With Adults

APRIL 4, 2023

Meanwhile, I am very pleased the Government continues to fund Skills for Care’s package of support across workforce training and development, which includes specific support for social workers.

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Social Worker Mental Health Adoption Government 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Unfortunately, Maine’s equivalent of the federal Government Accountability Office, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability (OPEGA) did indeed fall for it in a report released last week. As the state data tables available here show, in Maine entries into foster care skyrocketed more than 50% between 2017 and 2019.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Interviewing 98

MQ Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Ask this question to yourself - are people with lived experience in the room (consulted) when you are forming policies and programs for them? They must be meaningfully involved in every domain of mental health activity including service delivery, research, training, and governance. Nothing about us without us" -Niharika.

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Mental Health Consultation Adoption Disability 49

Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. Promoting improvements to social work, including the adoption of evidence-informed practice.

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Social Worker Government Mental Health Adoption 277

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For my latest article, we consulted four sets of parents who had been investigated because of bruises in pre-mobile children and found not to have harmed their child. Pre-mobile infant bruising should not automatically prompt section 47s, say government advisers. Harming children and families. ” Related articles.

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Self-harm Hospitals Adoption Consultation 359

Social Workers Speak

JANUARY 6, 2022

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) reached a potential news audience of more than 250 million readers in December, thanks partly to coverage of the Kentucky governor announcing pay raises for social workers, mention of NASW in a People magazine on adult adoption, and an op-ed on the drug syringe program in New Jersey.

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Code of Ethics Adoption Social Worker Mental Health 96

Ultimate Youth Worker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In 2017 the Australian Government asked the National Children’s Commissioner to lead the development of National Principles for Child Safe Organisations as part of the Child Safe Organisations project. In June 2018, the Australian Government tabled its response to the Royal Commission’s recommendations. Check out our Consultation page.

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Youth Worker Government Communication Diversity 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 103