Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come. Fifty years ago, the same Mark Allen, then a young journalist working in Manchester, responded to a job advert at a publishing company and became the editor of a new social care magazine.

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Interviewing Social Worker Psychiatric Adoption 204

Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Champions of asylum-seeking children and anti-racist practice, respectively, were among social workers recognised in the New Year Honours. Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler.

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Social Worker Disability Foster Care Government 262

Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

Community Care’s Choose Social Work campaign aims to counteract the negative media coverage of the profession, and show the brilliant work social workers do every day. If anyone knows the impact that negative media coverage has on social workers, that person is Sharon Shoesmith.

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Social Worker Psychosocial Hospitals Social Services 258

Community Care

APRIL 19, 2023

The government should set an expectation that frontline children’s social workers carry out face-to-face practice, in the light of concerns about the rise of remote working. “Consideration must also be given to the increased use of remote working in recent years,” it added.

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Social Worker Consultation Recovery Engagement 300

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

An effective pay freeze for social workers and other health and social care staff in Northern Ireland is “unsustainable and unfair”, sector leaders have warned. “This sends out entirely the wrong signal on how health and social care staff are valued by society.

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Social Worker Government 234

Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

High levels of social worker turnover undermined engagement with six young people with histories of social care involvement who were later convicted of violent offences, a review has found. The seven young people were aged 15-20 at the time of the 2021 deaths.

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Engagement Social Worker Interventional Schools 218

Community Care

MAY 9, 2023

Social work leaders must integrate anti-racism into all aspects of practice to achieve change, experts told a conference recently. Self-reflection Fellow panelist Kristel Campbell, a trainee social worker with 20 years’ experience within youth justice, called on service leaders to look critically at their own biases.

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Diversity Social Worker Psychology University 271

Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Department for Education (DfE) has backed a care review proposal for a five-year early career framework (ECF) for the development of children’s social workers, but rejected its call to introduce national pay scales to recognise progress. “We do not intend to create new DfE-led pay scales.

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Social Worker Consultation Government Adoption 259

Community Care

JANUARY 23, 2023

At what stage does someone stop being seen as a social worker and only seen as a manager? I have noticed that if I introduce myself by name and state my profession is social work but I am also a manager, people will look at me strangely. Indeed I do, I replied, but firstly I am a social worker.

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Social Worker 258

Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

I’m sat at the hospital with a client, wondering what I should do. And until this client feels assured of what will happen, I don’t think I can leave. Boundaries aren’t always crystal clear in FSC social work. Welcome to the world of FSC social work Kudos to you. It’s Christmas tomorrow after all.

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Social Worker Domestic Violence Administration Case Management 130

Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Sector bodies have heavily criticised the government’s provision of one-fifth of the resources called for by the care review to reform social care in its response today. The review said that £1bn should be made available over the first two years.

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Domestic Violence Government Social Worker Consultation 272

Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The government has pledged action to tackle “excessive” workload pressures on council children’s social workers as part of its response to the care review. a year earlier, according to an Association of Directors of Children’s Services survey.

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Social Worker Case Management Government Communication 262

Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

Racism is a significant presence in the social work sector. According to survey findings published in March 2022 , one in four social workers had experienced racism from colleagues or managers at least once in the preceding 12 months. We must do better.” We must do better.”

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Social Worker 172

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.

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Hospitals Social Worker Recovery Rehabilitation 288

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. By contrast, the proposed update to the guidance mentions ‘social worker’ just 23 times.

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Social Worker Consultation Engagement Youth Worker 218

Community Care

JUNE 21, 2022

Almost two-thirds (63%) of more than 1,100 readers who answered a simple multiple-choice question – “what would most improve child protection in England?” Caseloads bigger, more complex and harder to manage, say children’s social workers. ” – opted for lower caseloads. Related reading. Sir Alan Wood.

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Social Worker Case Management Government University 273

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 21, 2024

The thing is, as you advocate for your kids, you are actually telling the n-rcissist what is important to you. The distress caused by the conflict can actually cause more emotional harm to kids than what you are hoping to achieve by advocating and losing. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Be supportive.

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Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 147

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 19, 2023

Editor’s Note: Christa McCrorie (she/her), LICSW-PIP, is an adjunct instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a social worker with a private practice, Creative Therapeutic Solutions, LLC, where she specializes in queer needs and trauma processing.

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Private Practice Domestic Violence Social Worker University 182

Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

This is part of a monthly series of posts to share a few things I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). For people involved in foresight practice, the practice of scanning, organizing and creatively interpreting “signals of change” in the ecosystem is a primary and foundational part of the work.

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Welfare Engagement Social Worker Interviewing 228

Community Care

MAY 24, 2022

Care review proposals for “expert” social workers to both lead safeguarding cases and chair child protection conferences pose a “massive concern”, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has warned. Care review urges national social work pay scales to reward expertise and boost retention.

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Social Worker Engagement Government 237

Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

Councils would require an “unfeasible” increase in adult social work numbers to implement the government’s care reforms unless they change systems, according to a report last week. The report assumed 80% of affected self-funders would do so, resulting in an additional 17,000 assessments per year.

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Government Social Worker Case Management Consultation 286

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. “The majority of participants over the last five years have consistently described ‘agile working’ in negative terms,” the report said.

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Social Worker Criminal Justice Government Adoption 270

Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In its long-awaited response to the care review, the Department for Education (DfE) highlighted the urgency of addressing social work’s increasing workforce challenges. Almost one in five (19%) of council children’s social worker posts in England lay vacant as of June 2022, up from 14.6% This is borne out by the data.

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Social Worker Consultation Mental Health Case Management 200

Social Work Futures

MARCH 24, 2023

[link] Is all social work – “disaster social work” now? Generally social workers work on “slow disasters” but in recent years…it just feels like the boundaries between all these things is blurring. Is social work ready?

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LCSW Recovery Social Worker Engagement 268

Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

Of all the 80 recommendations in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care’s final report last month , the one that has met with the greatest opposition is its proposed abolition of the independent reviewing officer role. So what does this have to do with IROs? So why did the review make the recommendation?

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Advocacy Social Worker Government Welfare 341

Community Care

JUNE 24, 2022

pay increase for Cafcass workers, after management warnings that it risked a staffing exodus over government wage constraints. The proposed increase – equivalent to what unions are urging for local authority social workers in England and Wales – would also cover fuel rates and other allowances.

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Social Worker Government 275

Save the Social Worker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We watched a video twice, and we were told to write about what we saw. When I look back, I realised that was an exercise to teach us how to write good case notes in social work. Case notes are a part of every social workers’ life. What had happened to him. You might not work with your client forever.

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Social Worker Family Services Engagement University 130

Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A council has become only the fifth to be rated outstanding in all categories by Ofsted, after inspectors found it was delivering “exceptional” practice that made children feel “loved”, under visionary leadership.

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Interventional Disability Social Worker 246

Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

Newly qualified children’s social workers are struggling to manage their workloads leaving some questioning their future in the profession, Community Care’s annual caseloads survey has found. An ASYE practitioner in the West Midlands said they had 28 cases and worked around 55 hours a week. “I I feel out of my depth’.

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Social Worker Case Management Social Services Social Services 281

Community Care

AUGUST 26, 2022

The cost of living crisis is ‘severely’ affecting people accessing children’s and adults’ services, fuelling a host of issues including poverty, debt, mental ill-health and domestic conflict, social workers have warned. ” The social worker added. Related reading.

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Social Worker Self-harm Schools Mental Health 299

Social Work Futures

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This is part of a monthly series of posts to share a few things each month that I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). This blog is a place where I’m doing that “out loud” and in public to both share what I’m finding, and encouraging readers to do the same.

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Welfare Engagement Interviewing Healthcare 185

Save the Social Worker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That night, I go home, wondering if I should just quit social work. What makes this book real is that John shares the stories of clients he’s met as a social worker, making this book much more varied in his perspective than just one man’s story. Why are social work books so boring? Just read this.

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Mental Health Counseling Self-harm Therapist 130

Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

‘Little progress’ Overall, Ofsted found “little progress” in the quality of social work practice for children in need of help and protection since it rated North Somerset’s children’s services as ‘requires improvement’ in March 2020. Changes to leadership disrupt improvements.

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Social Worker Case Management 255

Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Tashara Robinson, LICSW Travel Social Worker I’ve been a social worker for the past 8 years, and let me tell you, it’s been a wild ride. I’ve navigated through various social work roles such as working within an Employee Assistance Program, to working with foster children and families within CPS.

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Social Worker Clinical Social Work Clinic Interviewing 96

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.

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Social Worker Government Mental Health Schools 271

Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

"Moving Social Work focuses on increasing physical activity [opportunities for disabled people] and the benefits this generates for mind and body." In this spirit, the Moving Social Work (MSW) programme aims to harness the skills and values of social workers to support the health, wellbeing and human rights of people with disabilities.

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Disability Substance Abuse Social Worker Interviewing 115

Save the Social Worker

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I remember the first time I walked into a client’s room as a student social worker. What could I start with? Social work isn’t just about the outcomes. Starting out as a social worker, you may have wanted to do some form of the following. Often as busy social workers, we have a packed agenda.

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Engagement Social Worker Interviewing Therapist 130