Community Care

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This in turn would inform its approach to regulating the profession, it said, given the potential for current workforce pressures to lead to increased levels of risk to the public. a year earlier, according to Association of Directors of Children’s Services research published last year. in the year to 2022. in the year to 2022.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

Children’s services leaders must foster the conditions for professional curiosity and challenge to improve the quality of child protection practice, the national safeguarding body has said. This was after his father, who played a significant role in his care, was removed from the family home. .

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Help with submitting your CPD Community Care Inform users have plenty of learning they can benefit from that can contribute to their CPD for registration renewal. Access the guidance on Inform Children or on Inform Adults.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At Community Care Live, a panel of experts discussed the role of learning and development in attracting and retaining early-career social workers. Sophie Gilbert, head of learning academy, Birmingham Children’s Trust For me it would be: don’t stay put. Build, grow and follow your areas of interest and passion. What do they say?

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Speaking to Community Care, Elaine opened up about her biggest influences, misconceptions about supporting people with learning disabilities and how leaders can help social workers facilitate change. We started Promote the Vote in 2015, to support adults with learning disabilities to vote. As an adult, you get to vote.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The “full spirit of the Care Act” is not being met, the government has said as it plans to reintroduce performance assessments of council adult services. People can access outstanding quality and tailored care and support. People find adult social care fair and accessible. ” Lack of carer support.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Incoming prime minister Liz Truss has appointed new cabinet ministers to take responsibility for social care, as the sector battles the cost of living crisis and widespread staffing shortages, while facing substantial policy change. Adult social care funding reforms.

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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. Almost as many (44%) said they had seen a small increase. Related reading.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The NHS will be given the majority of a £500m fund for adult social care, designed to speed up hospital discharge and bolster the care workforce. ICBs and councils are expected to agree how the funding is used with the DHSC monitoring how it is used, to inform future funding decisions. 13,000 people stuck in hospitals.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Local Government Association (LGA) made the call in a briefing ahead of a House of Commons debate last week on the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. The vacancy rate for social workers in local authority adults’ services rose from 7.5% This pushed the FTE vacancy rate up from 16.1%

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Community Care

JULY 25, 2023

The government must phase in its standards regime for currently unregulated care placements to avoid a “catastrophic” loss of provision, after a study found 20% of existing beds were set to close. The quick guide is available to all Inform Children subscribers.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Beverley Tarka this week became the first black president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) since its establishment in 2007. Being a role model “I think it’s very important,” she tells Community Care. “I want to have a focus on inclusion and diversity. So why has Tarka stayed put?

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

Four in ten people whose discharge from hospital is delayed are awaiting a social care package, according to NHS data. The figure, revealed today in a government plan to reduce hospital pressures, came as council leaders criticised ministers for a narrative of “blaming” social care for delayed discharges.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Adults make most of the decisions about a child’s life from where they live, what they eat and when, where they go to school, what clothes they have and much more. Autonomy can positively benefit mental health and lack of independence can, for adults, increase symptoms of depression. Childhood doesn’t usually involve much autonomy.

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Mental Health PTSD Communication Psychosocial 98

Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The government will review the local authority designated officer (LADO) role after an inquiry into the abuse of disabled children identified “major failings” in relation to the function. What is the LADO role? The services were suspended and have since been closed by the Hesley Group.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Older people are being unlawfully detained in mental health hospitals “in very many cases” because of poor practice around the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), the Care Quality Commission has warned. CQC urges government to fund better pay for care staff to tackle ‘gridlocked’ system. Related articles.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is mainly because ordinary residence will normally determine which local authority is responsible for arranging and funding a person’s care plan. It takes into account the decision of the Supreme Court in R (Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2023] UKSC 31.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. One council employee commented: The fear from communities and parents are that we are just going to take their children away.”

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Social Worker Interviewing Adoption Government 220

KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Caring Women Founded KVC The organization that is now KVC Health Systems began in 1970 as a multi-story brick home in downtown Kansas City, Kansas called Wyandotte House. A group of caring women from the Junior League of Wyandotte and Johnson Counties created Wyandotte House because they saw children in need. Subscribe here!

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Community Care

MAY 9, 2023

Farrah Khan (credit: Community Care) “I always think of it like a champagne fountain,” said Farrah Khan, chief officer, family help, at Leeds council, on a conference panel session. “If Credit: Community Care What needs to happen next? If you pour champagne, it’s going to trickle down.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The government must invest in specialist placements to reform a care system not working for vulnerable teenagers and protect them from exploitation. The commission’s report said these statistics were likely to be “the tip of the iceberg”, while it also highlighted the growth in the number of older children entering care.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

They will do one of two courses approved by regulator Social Care Wales, both managed and delivered by partnerships of employers and universities. My children have left home but other members of the team have teenagers and were very overwhelmed.” But she says it was difficult to juggle work and study.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Proposed expectations of graduates The proposed knowledge, skills and behaviours that Social Work England consulted on included: How multiple and intersecting oppressions and disadvantages impact people, families, and communities, and affect the demand for social work services.

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Social Work Haven

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This personal statement will suit social work students who will soon qualify as social workers, and may want to look into applying for a Newly Qualified Social Worker role within children services. Having completed two placements as part of my social work degree, I have gained some experience in working with children and families.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Adults make most of the decisions about a child’s life from where they live, what they eat and when, where they go to school, what clothes they have and much more. Autonomy can positively benefit mental health and lack of independence can, for adults, increase symptoms of depression. Childhood doesn’t usually involve much autonomy.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

The FDA has now approved a 4th vaccine, Novavax, that is approved for a 1st and 2nd dose to children and adults age 12 and up. More information on the different vaccinations is available on the CDC’s website. Recent CDC information shows that more than 1 million people have died of COVID-19 in the US as of November 2022.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support. Mediator : They facilitate communication and resolve conflicts between individuals or within families to promote healthy relationships.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On this side of the Atlantic, the UK’s Online safety Bill, passed last year, aims to better protect children and young people from malicious content by making it tech companies responsibility to tackle illegal and harmful material on their sites. You are not alone and people do care. Get help now by clicking this link.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The UK government recently published guidance from the department of health and social care into improving the mental health of babies, children and young people. The guidance makes clear that children are more likely to develop poor mental health if they experience many adverse risk factors. What does the guidance say?

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The UK government recently published guidance from the department of health and social care into improving the mental health of babies, children and young people. The guidance makes clear that children are more likely to develop poor mental health if they experience many adverse risk factors. What does the guidance say?

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inSocialWork

AUGUST 22, 2023

Work with adorable children every day! We will discuss the common misperceptions of school social work, address the reality of day-to-day practice in educational settings — and give an informed heads-up to anyone considering a career in school social work. Alyssa Ernst & Stephanie Stodolka Summers off! Workdays over at 3:30 p.m.!

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Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

By Tim Spencer-Lane The Supreme Court has handed down its long-awaited judgment in R (Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2023] UKSC 31. This interpretation is supported by the care and support statutory guidance under the Care Act 2014, issued by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

The Department for Education calculates average caseloads for children’s social workers in England as 16.3. To retore their registration , practitioners in England must provide, among other things, information on their employment since leaving the register and any previously undeclared health conditions that may affect their practice.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A deeper understanding of these factors can help healthcare organizations better serve these communities, address the root causes, and ultimately provide more beneficial effects and lasting change. Lack of funding and access Native American health care faces the constant challenge of finding resources to meet patient needs.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The ensuing chapters examine poverty and its impact on children and adolescents, older adults, adults with disabilities, veterans, immigrants, and other vulnerable groups. The truth is, these forward-thinking individuals enhanced the quality of life within and outside their communities for generations. Did You Know?

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

In social work, we write case notes and record information daily; part of record keeping. Maintaining high-quality social work case notes and recording fosters collaborative working relationship between the social worker, other professionals, and the adults/children they support. It helps with accountability too.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 14, 2023

Check out my disclosure for more information. I purchased this book while studying for my social work degree and it turned out to be my go-to resource for all information social work theory related. The Social Worker’s Guide to the Care Act 2014 In adult social care, the most significant piece of legislation is the Care Act 2014.

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