Social Care

APRIL 10, 2024

[Image created by freepik.com ] Caring at home and work is tough I know from my own experience how challenging it can be juggling a busy work life and looking after a family member, in my case my mum at the end of her life. Not being able to step away from caring.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As busy and as difficult as one’s job may be, that person may never know the challenge of needing to go to the bathroom with kids of an age or need, that require continuous supervision.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

Practitioners are having to step in to carry out welfare checks on adults going without the care they need due to mounting staff shortages in residential and home care, said the British Association of Social Workers (BASW). Vacancies across adult social care rose from 9.2% to 9.4% , from November to December 2021, up from 6.1%

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Coffey, the work and pensions secretary since 2019, will take responsibility for one of the three priorities Truss articulated for her premiership in her opening speech yesterday : putting the NHS on a “firm footing” Social care one of four priorities for Coffey. Cost of living impact.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 26, 2024

By Greg Wright, NASW Communications Director While most of the nation is sleeping, the work of overnight crisis hotline worker “Beth” is just beginning. Working remotely from home, still wearing a bathrobe and a chemise, Beth takes calls from people experiencing a variety of crises.

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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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The programme aims to develop skills and knowledge in applying analysis in assessments, collaborative working and applying professional judgment in complex situations. It includes taught days at university, work-based training, observation of practice and self-directed study and reflection.

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Social Worker University Communication Social Services 231

Save the Social Worker

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Social work isn’t just about the outcomes. But what you will come to see as you do more and more of social work, is that outcomes are often mediated through relationship. in social work, it’s the relationships between you and the client that matter. Often as busy social workers, we have a packed agenda.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A report proposing reforms to agency social work. Social work training and development: An early career framework will be established, replacing the ASYE, as recommended by the review. It said it did not want to risk children facing more changes of practitioner or managers being drawn away from supervision.

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Consultation Social Worker Foster Care Government 213

Save the Social Worker

JUNE 29, 2023

You’ve learnt: The psychology (and abnormal psychology) The socioeconomic theories, and why there is still poverty Sociology But then you come into Day 1 of your social work career, and you hear people saying, You just have to ‘case manage’ this. You might ask a family member who’s running a business if they have any available openings.

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Case Management Government Social Worker Psychology 243

Community Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Advanced fostering practitioner Vivian Okeze-Tirado was working at home when she was crowned overall winner at this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards. At home with her son and husband, she had the ceremony playing on one laptop while working on another. Career change. I came in to make positive change.”.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In return for £400m in additional cash for 2023-24, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) expects councils to take action in relation to any one of reducing waiting times, addressing workforce shortages, tackling delayed discharges from hospital or improving fee rates for providers.

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Save the Social Worker

JULY 18, 2022

I’m no expert on social work. I’ve been complained about many times from clients. But those experiences in social work, however much of a ‘failure’ it was, taught me what not to do, and how the small, micro skills in social work could really make a difference between a happy client, and a not so happy one. Small talk.

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Psychology Empathy Social Worker Schools 246

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s a picture from the Twitter feed of Prof. It provides astoundingly small amounts of cash or basic goods so children can stay home or return home because, guess what, they were taken, or are now trapped in foster care, because of poverty alone. Check out the story in Business Insider. ● Don’t you feel better already?

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Domestic Violence Foster Care Interviewing Advocacy 115

Community Care

JUNE 2, 2023

Approved mental health professional (AMHP) leads have sounded the alarm over the Metropolitan Police’s decision to withdraw from attending mental health-related incidents in London by the end of August. Detentions under both sections rose by 8% from 2020-21 to 2021-22, according to Home Office statistics.

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Mental Health Welfare Disorder Government 264

MQ Mental Health

MAY 10, 2024

The Sunday Times, powered by WorkL, has revealed the Best Places to Work in the UK for 2024, and has included MQ Mental Health Research in the small organisations category. We are so proud to have MQ recognised as a fantastic place to work. As work itself is being increasingly recognised as a significant driver of mental illness.

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Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

The council, which was rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted at the time but has since been upgraded to ‘good’, said there was a “disconnect” between the failings identified in the review and current practice, and that a “huge amount of work” had been done to improve its systems since 2019. Nurse’s concerns. Referral overturned. Missed opportunities.

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Hospitals Government Engagement Social Worker 246

Social Work With Adults

MARCH 19, 2024

Jason Brandon, Office of the Chief Social Worker for Adults: It’s National Social Work Week , one of the most important events in the social work calendar. To mark the day, I’m delighted to present this blog from Jak Savage MBE , social care consultant and individual employer of personal assistants (PAs).

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The weeks leading up to Christmas had been a heady mix of meals, drinks, celebrations and friends, most of whom live in the same building of luxurious flats overlooking Westminster, a stone’s throw from Vauxhall, Waterloo and Tate Britain. What would I do? Risk coming out, or lie about who I am? I knew I could never do it.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

These include children and young being placed far from loved-ones and social networks, or in unsuitable, and sometimes unlawful, accommodation, and enduring multiple placement breakdowns. Mixed history Councils working together across regions to commission care placements is nothing new.

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Social Work Futures

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Sometimes there are words that are more “pop culture” words that emerge from the mainstream (they are a little like popcorn…not much substance). The list is always a work in progress – things that might refresh our perspectives and our imaginations. ” It’s an occupational hazard for anyone working in foresight.

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Relias

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Demand for home healthcare continues to rise, and at the same time home health aide staffing remains an ongoing challenge for agency administrators. To ensure you can maximize your share of the home health market, consider developing your own pool of home health aides by training them from the ground up.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Councils’ ‘spending power’ – the maximum amount they have at their disposal – will rise by 3% a year in real terms, faster than from 2019-21, However, this includes £3.6bn for councils to fund the government’s reforms to adult social care, announced last month. in real terms a year, lower than the 3.3%

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The Critical Blog

JULY 3, 2023

From then on, Mr Dixon became more actively involved in the conversation. The nurse in the home where he lives helped organise some music on an MP3 player with some headphones for Mr Crossley to listen to the music that he enjoys. However, Mr Merry took his seat on the opposite side of the room from them and sat at a distance.

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Save the Social Worker

AUGUST 23, 2022

Two years of doing social work Two years after working full-time as a social worker, it ended. Some truths of the social work profession may be presented in this article, which may not be very pretty It had become another job. You handle a lot of paperwork I worked in both the U.K. and Singapore in social work settings.

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Save the Social Worker

AUGUST 23, 2022

Two years of doing social work. Two years after working full-time as a social worker, it ended. Some truths of the social work profession may be presented in this article, which may not be very pretty. Personally, I didn’t think that I could do any job like that, where I was clocking in and out, to get a paycheck , and go home.

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Social Worker Administration Counseling Hospitals 130

Save the Social Worker

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But supervision that works with you, for you. Good supervision doesn’t just involve telling you what’s not working. It’s about telling you what’s working as well. It’s about telling you what’s working as well. The tendency is for us to focus on what isn’t working, rather than what’s working. It was slow.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We have seen growth in bad things: cost of living, instability at home and abroad, and care worker turnover. Thoughts from Tom Milnes. A home is somewhere we spend most of our lives in. But not all homes are safe, stable or comfortable and this can negatively impact how a person develops. [Image created by freepik.com ].

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Community Care

JUNE 16, 2022

These are the kind of messages I send every five weeks when my team are due to ‘intake’ new referrals and start our work with new families. ” Within minutes, I had an email from my manager asking what annual leave I had booked over the next three weeks. Family members of mine worked in settings where Ofsted inspected.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This included speeding up the development of a national practice framework for children’s services and asking the Care Inspectorate Wales to carry out a rapid review into structures and processes around decisions to add or remove a child from the country’s child protection register. ” Related articles.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It was clear at the time that the majority of traditional residential care homes simply didn’t have the resources or expertise to fully support residents as they progressed on their journey with dementia. We are united as a team in excellence, from the care we give our residents to the opportunities that we provide our staff with."

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same. That’s exactly the choice battered women face – because of mandatory child abuse reporting laws that drive them away from getting help. ● I stand back a little bit from crowds. What do you want from me?

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Foster Care Child Welfare Welfare Advocacy 98

Social Care

JUNE 27, 2023

Image created by freepik.com ] Making delegation business as usual The delegation of healthcare activities is not new – parents are trained to undertake highly technical interventions to support children living with complex conditions. Mrs A resented being told when to come home, which sometime made providing care challenging.

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Beautiful Voyager

MAY 8, 2022

A page from Jacob's Apartment by Joshua Kemble. So it's been a very busy, and exciting time, where a lot of publishing doors and opportunities have opened. And it's extremely busy. One thing that's helped me with not overthinking is being swamped with so much work I've barely got time to think. Your creativity?

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Mental Health 105

Blurt It Out

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s the response we heard the adults around us trot out each time they were asked how they were; they probably learned it from the adults around them. We’re Disconnected From Ourselves Sometimes we become disconnected from ourselves. Should we talk about ‘how we are’ at work , home, school or uni?

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Blurt It Out

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s the response we heard the adults around us trot out each time they were asked how they were; they probably learned it from the adults around them. We’re Disconnected From Ourselves Sometimes we become disconnected from ourselves. Should we talk about ‘how we are’ at work , home, school or uni?

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Communication Psychology Engagement Schools 52

Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 8, 2022

In the family law world, January is a busy month. I have to imagine that with this lockdown upon us, those whose lives together were difficult enough, are even more so without a break from each other. Be sure whoever you choose has a knowledge and background working with separating couples. Things come to a head.

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