Adoption Government Interventional Social Worker 
Community Care
JANUARY 18, 2023
Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Delayed intervention can mean that the measures eventually put in place are less likely to be effective – or might not make any positive difference at all – because the child and family might have already reached crisis point. It is also important to note that mixed heritage children were significantly over-represented in adoption.
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Community Care
APRIL 7, 2022
As he prepared to take over as Association of Directors of Children’s Services president, Steve Crocker said he was “awed” by the proficiency of social workers entering the profession. I know when I go and talk to newly qualified social workers in Hampshire, I am awed by their professionalism and experience and skills and ability.
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Children who met thresholds were left waiting up to six weeks to see a social worker due to “significant, widespread and systemic” weaknesses in a council’s front door service, Ofsted has found. An inspirational social work leader’: tributes paid to children’s director who died after contracting Covid.
Community Care
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Social workers have been urged to help tackle the impact on Gypsy and Traveller families of increased police powers to evict them from unauthorised camps, brought in this year. This isn’t about parenting; this is about state intervention into private and family life,” she says. You’re constantly living in anxiety’.
Community Care
JANUARY 26, 2022
“There is a presumption in cases of persistent or systemic failure that children’s social care services will be removed from local authority control, for a period of time, in order to bring about sustainable improvement, unless there are compelling reasons not to do so,” it said in its statutory notice. Council improves to ‘good’.
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. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.
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