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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

Social work skills and training gaps However, echoing previous research, (SCIE/BASW, 2019), interviewees said their workforces were not sufficiently digitally skilled, and that current case management systems were not able to adapt to the ways in which children communicate.

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Councils to consider outsourcing care assessments to manage impact of cap on care costs

Community Care

The government’s adult social care funding reforms will increase demand for assessments, reviews and the case management of people needing care and support by bringing more existing self-funders into the system. The DHSC has also released a consultation paper seeking views on both. Worsening workforce situation.

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DfE pledges action on ‘excessive’ workload pressures for children’s social workers

Community Care

The Department for Education said it would set up a national workload action group to identify solutions to “unnecessary” pressures on practitioners, while also promising steps to reduce the burden of case recording and free social workers from some case work with children in need.

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Does the DfE’s care review response address the pressures behind social workers leaving their jobs?

Community Care

“[Evidence] points to a need to act now to attract higher numbers of people to join, rejoin and stay in the profession,” it wrote in Stable Homes, Built on Love , its proposed children’s social care strategy, issued for consultation earlier this month. This is borne out by the data.

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Social workers could double time spent with families through more efficient systems, report claims

Community Care

Social workers could more than double the time they spend with children and families through more efficient case management systems and fewer meetings. By contrast, they spent half of their time on case recording, administration or other IT tasks, and significant time in meetings. Half of social worker time spent on admin.

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Council takes children’s services back from country’s first trust

Community Care

This was also echoed in the Ofsted report, which said failures in the implementation of the case management system last year meant children’s records and performance records were inaccurate and staff were forced to use time-consuming manual workarounds. Unmet need. No redundancies.

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

We started providing foster care case management services in Kansas in 1996. Learn more about our leadership , direct services , consulting and training , and more! At the time, 30% of children were in congregate care placements. Today the national average is 14%. Yet KVC’s rate is far better than the national average.