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Case Manager Stress Relief For Social Worker Performance Anxiety

Famcare

Performance anxiety can often add to the high stress experienced by social work case managers. After all, social worker performance isn’t about how many widgets you make or how much profit you brought to the bottom line. That's the mindset that leads to social worker performance anxiety.

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COVID-19 and Mental Health-The Role of Social Services Organizations

Famcare

It’s been estimated that globally, around 76 million people have been diagnosed with anxiety disorders due to the pandemic. Many of these people were healthy individuals with no previously diagnosed mental health issues.

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No agency social workers left practising in Northern Ireland trusts

Community Care

No agency social workers are left practising in Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts , says the region’s Department of Health (DoH). Other roles had been filled by newly qualified social workers who graduated this summer.

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Welsh Government consulting on eliminating profit-making provision for children in care

Community Care

. “Our ambition is to redesign how we look after children and young people, and eliminating private profit from the care of children is a key component of this,” said Julie Morgan, the Welsh Government’s deputy minister for social services. ” Reliance on private sector.

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Agile working failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland, finds study

Community Care

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). .

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‘Why social work needs to become more skilled in kinship care’

Community Care

. ‘Professional expect you to get on with it’ In our 2014 survey , a grandmother and kinship carer said: “When dealing with housing, social services and benefit departments, they treat you as if you’re making a big deal and that you should just get on with it.

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Sometimes the most caring thing to do is to remove a child from their family | Sonia Sodha

The Guardian

But a shocking thing about this case is that several loving relatives raised the alarm with social services, the police and his school. But his voice and the anxieties of the adults around him went unheeded; a social worker concluded after a brief visit that there were no concerns.

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