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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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Child Abuse Prevention Month

Social Work Blog

Below is an advocacy opportunity, educational resources, and related organizations to help social workers and others engage in Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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KVC Health Systems Ranks in Top 1% of Employers Nationwide with 77 Work Wellbeing Score

KVC

This began a shift to reclaim the values-driven culture of KVC’s early days, creating a highly engaged, exceptional place to work. Learn more about work wellbeing and engagement, how KVC has created a positive, supportive culture, and how that culture benefits employees, clients, and supporters alike.

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Covid delays in adult safeguarding have led to ‘severe consequences’ for people needing services

Community Care

“Delayed issues are less likely to be case managed, instead becoming safeguarding concerns,” the report said. “Delays in referral have meant that there have been more acute or severe consequences, making preventative measures more difficult to implement or situations have been more likely to require crisis management.”

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My name is Nyarueni

Social Service Workforce

By Glynis Clacherty, lead researcher on the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action's Community Engagement in Case Management project. .

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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. First children’s trust.

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Reforms would require ‘unfeasible’ boost to social work numbers without system change, says report

Community Care

” It also said that councils needed to continue to increase the “productivity” of the social work workforce – an area of work that Newton focuses on – by streamlining processes, particularly case management systems. ” Related articles.