Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

of OT posts in council adults’ services departments were vacant, up from 8.9% Working with adults with executive functioning challenges , where highly specialist clinical psychologist Dr Emma Cameron will support practitioners to build their understanding and confidence in this practice area. days in 2021-22.

Rehabilitation 255

Rehabilitation Therapist Hospitals Social Worker 255

Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated most councils as good in pilot assessments for its new system of appraising the quality of local authority adults’ social care. However, the CQC said the authority needed to do more to engage with groups defined as harder to reach.

Government 233

Government Mental Health Engagement Social Worker 233

Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Incoming Association of Directors of Children’s Services president Andy Smith is passionate about social work’s potential to improve children’s lives. While such a belief is commonplace among senior managers in local authority children’s services, for Smith, it is personal.

Social Worker 270

Social Worker Diversity Government Adoption 270

Community Care

JUNE 1, 2023

The closures – in the context of the widely accepted placement shortages and instability for children – highlighted the need for tighter control of the market, said the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), Local Government Association (LGA) and Ofsted.

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Government Social Worker Disorder 251

Community Care

APRIL 11, 2023

The government has dropped a pledge to invest in new social work training routes as part of a halving of committed spending on developing the adult social care workforce. This came in a policy paper setting out next steps on taking forward its 2021 adult social care white paper, People at the heart of care.

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Government Social Worker Mental Health Counseling 260

Community Care

JUNE 21, 2022

An ‘inadequate’ council has made significant progress in services for care leavers and older children in care under “determined” senior leaders, but practice remains inconsistent, Ofsted has said. ‘Frustration’ over mental health services. More recent Ofsted reports.

Mental Health 201

Mental Health Social Worker 201

Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Mounting workforce pressures The initiative comes with the latest workforce figures for English local authorities revealing a deteriorating picture across children’s and adults’ services, including that: One in five (20%) full-time equivalent children’s services posts were vacant as of September 2022, up from 16.7%

Social Worker 260

Social Worker Diversity Government Interviewing 260

Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The system for challenging councils on their adult social care decisions is failing those who need it, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned. Council complaints processes England Under 2009 regulations , all councils must have a formal adult social care complaints system but may determine the form this takes themselves.

Advocacy 259

Advocacy Interviewing Government Disability 259

Social Work With Adults

JANUARY 31, 2024

Lyn, enjoying the stunning vistas of her home country, Australia, on an earlier trip.for all the amazing adult social work This is my farewell post before I step down as Chief Social Worker for Adults. It was a privilege and an honour to take on this role over 10 years ago, the first of its kind in England.

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Social Worker Empathy Mental Health Diversity 143

Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

About 14,000 hospital beds in England are occupied by a person medically fit for discharge, up by one-third on pre-pandemic levels, said the delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services. This is in addition to £500m made available for a wider range of services to reduce delays, including home care.

Hospitals 242

Hospitals Government Home Care Social Worker 242

Community Care

JULY 12, 2023

Merger of child in need and targeted early help The changes are part of a wider planned reform, to merge targeted early help and child in need services under a new ‘family help’ function. ” “It would be dangerous if specialist skills and awareness are lost across family help.”

Social Worker 225

Social Worker Consultation Mental Health Government 225

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

By Tim Spencer-Lane Determining the ordinary residence of a service user is sometimes a highly contested matter. Under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) there is the added ingredient that the person cannot be charged for services and therefore the costs for the relevant local authority are often higher.

Mental Health 251

Mental Health Hospitals After Care Social Services 251

Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

The review said some legislation included “outdated definitions”, while there was also “poor alignment” with the Care Act 2014, which deals with the assessment of young people before they turn 18 in preparation for receiving adults’ services.

Government 244

Government Disability Interventional Social Worker 244

Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Wales remains the only UK nation not to have commissioned a review of its children’s social care services, after the Welsh Government resisted calls to do so following the inquiry into Logan Mwangi’s murder. Logan Mwangi murder: review to probe children’s services’ role in safeguarding boy. ” Related articles.

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Government Domestic Violence Social Services Social Services 196

Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Over three-quarters of 3,490 respondents to a Community Care poll selected this option over better multi-agency working, lower thresholds for intervention or the creation of a dedicated child protection service. The cuts to services over the years have made doing this work incredibly difficult. They found no safeguarding concerns.

Social Worker 342

Social Worker Government Interventional University 342

Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Introducing specialist child protection social workers is posing workforce challenges for the councils testing the system. The latter point was raised by Wolverhampton director of children’s services (DCS) Alison Hinds at this week’s NCASC session.

Social Worker 259

Social Worker Adoption Diversity Consultation 259

Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The government has given the adult social care workforce a £300m boost through the winter which providers can use to increase staffing numbers or pay. It also announced that it would expand specialist vaccination teams to ensure all care home staff, residents, those who are housebound and their carers are offered a Covid-19 booster vaccine.

Home Care 267

Home Care Hospitals Government Social Services 267

Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The government must invest in specialist placements to reform a care system not working for vulnerable teenagers and protect them from exploitation. Recruiting and training 2,000 specialist youth foster carers for teenagers unable to live with their family or whilst on remand. Families ‘ignored’ by services.

Youth Worker 242

Youth Worker Government Schools Foster Care 242

Social Work With Adults

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

[Image created by freepik.com ] A growing and valued demographic Older people represent the largest group of people accessing social care services. For every referral into adult services there are five times fewer social workers than for children’s services. However, they remained, as one said ‘that hopeful person.’

Social Worker 91

Social Worker Interviewing Disability Mental Health 91

Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

After 2 years being a social worker in a Family Service Centre (FSC) in Singapore, earning all of $3600 per month, before having a pay bump to $3690 in my second year (which I asked for), I realised that we were so sheepish about talking about money, that social workers were actually struggling. Well, well. I’m going to talk about it.

Domestic Violence 130

Domestic Violence Social Worker Social Services Social Services 130

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

A council whose children’s services will be transferred to an independent trust next year has improved its provision for care leavers, Ofsted has found. Council cedes control of children’s services. We have been working extremely hard to drive improvements in the services we deliver to children.

Social Worker 209

Social Worker Interventional Disability Mental Health 209

Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

It recommended that councils spend £205m a year on ‘edge of care’ services to support those young people either at risk of coming into care or who could return to their families where it was safe to do so. Social work at its best is face-to-face’.

Social Worker 288

Social Worker Administration Government Case Management 288

Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The government must fund better pay and training for adult social care staff to tackle a deepening workforce crisis that is undermining the quality of services. Related articles. per hour per social care employee. percentage points from September 2021 to March 2022 – but this was reducing profitability. Photo: Kate Terroni/CQC.

Government 247

Government Hospital Discharges Hospitals Mental Health 247

Community Care

JUNE 7, 2023

Family valued – under this model, families are offered family group conferences (FGCs) prior to statutory intervention, to enable them to develop their own solutions to problems, with services commissioned to act on the outcomes of FGCs. Practitioners are also trained in the restorative practice approach underpinning the model.

Interventional 194

Interventional Mental Health Interviewing Government 194

Community Care

JULY 11, 2023

The Department for Education has proposed far-reaching changes to social workers’ roles under Working Together to Safeguard Children, its guidance on services for children in need of help and protection in England.

Social Worker 209

Social Worker Consultation Engagement Youth Worker 209

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Following an inspection in July, Ofsted found children and families were receiving a much better service at Luton since it was last inspected in 2020, when inspectors found serious decision-making failures across child protection in the context of significant workforce instability.

Social Worker 226

Social Worker Adoption Foster Care Disability 226

Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 10, 2022

In 2012, the Institute of Medicine projected that at least 20% of older adults would experience some mental health concerns (Eden et al., identified as geropsychology specialists compared to 15.4% as child and adolescent psychology specialists (Moye et al., What are some core domains of knowledge in working with older adults?

Clinic 105

Clinic Psychology Mental Health Interventional 105

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Among the inadequate-rated councils, the inspectorate particularly highlighted improvements at Surrey and Newham, found disabled children’s services had recovered since a visit last year West Sussex, and said progress was “modest but fragile” at Medway. Care planning gets better. Some practice continued to be ineffective.

Disability 246

Disability Social Worker Interviewing Adoption 246

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Step Up to Social Work – 14-month specialist children’s course, delivered by partnerships of universities and employers, with placements delivered through host employer. Frontline – specialist children’s course, delivered by Frontline in partnership with local authorities where trainees are placed.

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University Social Worker 221

Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The regulations say that DRE includes payments for community alarms, privately-arranged care services that the person requires and any specialist items needed to meet the adult’s disability.

Disability 232

Disability Government 232

The Guardian

MARCH 9, 2023

Those in need are paying the price The net loss of social workers from children and families services should rightly ring alarm bells in Westminster and across the country ( Social workers in England quitting in record numbers, 23 February ). The social care workforce has faced a decade of Tory neglect, writes Dr Phoebe Beedell.

Social Worker 45

Social Worker Family Services 45

Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

Children’s services leaders must foster the conditions for professional curiosity and challenge to improve the quality of child protection practice, the national safeguarding body has said. Long-term reductions in resources for early help and prevention services.

Self-harm 188

Self-harm Mental Health Engagement Social Worker 188

Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Macro Social Workers can pursue these careers: Researcher Lobbyist Community Organizer Advocate for Law & Policy Change Community Funding Policy Proposals Program Evaluation Policy Analyst Community Specialists Program Development Specialists. Mezzo Social Work.

Domestic Violence 59

Domestic Violence Community Outreach Rehabilitation Case Management 59

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. Post-pandemic factors’ pressuring services. More regulation of social work agencies needed.

Social Worker 265

Social Worker Government Mental Health Schools 265

Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A proposed national framework , setting standards and outcomes for children’s services. Agency social work: The department has proposed bringing in national rules to reduce the cost and use of agency social workers in children’s services. This will bring together existing targeted early help and child in need services.

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Consultation Social Worker Foster Care Government 196

Social Work Awards

AUGUST 16, 2023

The full list of finalists are: Student Social Worker of the Year 2023 Supported by Bradford Social Work Teaching Partnership Name Place of study Alex Cadoux University of Warwick Amy Ibbotson Sunderland University Aravind Satheesh University of East Anglia Charlotte Higgins Manchester Metropolitan University Karla Coppendale West London (..)

Social Worker 52

Social Worker University Mental Health Disability 52

Social Workers Speak

JUNE 29, 2023

A senior crisis intervention specialist who has worked at the Chandler Fire Department for 16 years, Henry (’05 BSW, ’07 MSW) said a crisis can happen lightning fast, anytime and anywhere. in collaboration with Ellen Rice, MS, Katie Robbins Case, LICSW, and Michelle Nelson, BGS, College of Public Affairs and Community Service.

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Substance Abuse Anxiety Social Worker Crisis Intervention 52