Teaching & Learning in Social Work
MARCH 29, 2024
LCSW, is a tech consultant for universities, social work departments, and social work agencies. She is an expert in generative AI, machine learning in social work, social media use, online education, and teaching with technology. Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,
Community Care
APRIL 17, 2024
He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s.
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Community Care
APRIL 11, 2024
In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. “It But, the crossbench peer says, some of that outstanding work has been lost.
Community Care
MAY 3, 2022
But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services. Currently kinship care is wedged uncomfortably into systems designed primarily for fostering and adoption and is often the poor relation in a hierarchy of rights and support.” But many are now at breaking point.
Community Care
AUGUST 18, 2023
The issue in this case was which of two local authorities was responsible for providing and paying for “aftercare services” under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (“MHA”) for a particular individual. What does section 117 say? However, the DHSC changed its mind and challenged its own guidance. of the guidance).
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Approaches in which people are not allocated a fixed desk and work at different times and locations depending on need have become increasingly common, but practitioners are consistently negative about them, found a five-year study into newly qualified social workers published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). .
Community Care
MARCH 8, 2024
Munro saw the role as serving three overarching functions: Providing professional advice to government, including on the challenges in delivering social work services and the profession’s contribution to achieving local and national outcomes. “They did a really great job.”
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