Community Care

APRIL 30, 2024

The government has proposed overhauling a key disability benefit in the face of its “spiralling” caseload and costs, in a move labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” by charities. It was introduced in 2013 to replace disability living allowance (DLA) for people of working age. What is PIP?

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Peers have overturned a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit for less well-off people, and also voted to bring forward its implementation date from October to April 2023. The government has estimated that the Lords change would cost £900m a year compared to its favoured approach.

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Hospital Discharges Consultation Government Hospitals 282

Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week.

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Social Worker Disability Schools Government 253

Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Longstanding concerns amid passion for role These ranged from navigating the emotional labour of supporting struggling students to grappling with institutional racism and advocating for fellow disabled and neurodivergent colleagues because of a lack of support and reasonable adjustments within organisations.

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Social Worker Interviewing Diversity Disability 228

Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

.” Family inspiration Much of her career was spent working with adults with learning disabilities, a reflection of the fact that her career in social care was inspired by her own experience caring for her brother, who has profound and multiple learning disabilities.

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Hospital Discharges Diversity Government Disability 230

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The lack of an appointed care minister comes with significant decisions needing to be made about the sector including: Whether there will be a delay to the government’s adult social care charging reforms, in the light of the economic situation. Care minister role may be downgraded.

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Government Mental Health Interviewing Disability 258

Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. The college called on the government to fund an expansion of medical school places and psychiatry training posts.

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Healthcare Mental Health Government Psychiatry 344

Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

There was also recognition for the former chief executive of social work charity Frontline, Josh MacAlister, who recently led a government-commissioned review of children’s social care. ‘Believe in yourself’ An MBE was also awarded to social care consultant, and expert by experience, Jak Savage.

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Social Worker Disability Foster Care Government 255

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Regulations require them to consult the relevant local authority before making a decision about a person’s eligibility and to co-operate with the council about arranging for its staff, such as a social worker, to participate in the MDT. ICBs are responsible for determining eligibility for CHC.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Healthcare Recovery 337

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 28, 2022

This outcome further disables the child come adulthood and also financially burdens society. We need a government in power who understands that the investment in meeting the needs of all children is not only an investment in the child, but all of society. That will not be a conservative government. It is so short-sighted.

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Private Practice Mental Health Administration Government 190

Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There are “significant risks” around the government’s capacity to deliver its already delayed plan to introduce a cap on care costs by October 2025, the public spending watchdog has warned. Government has set out its ambition to meet this challenge and now needs to demonstrate how it is delivering on these plans. “If

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Social Care

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Care Workforce Pathway and Care Certificate will help new and existing care colleagues chart a bright and rewarding future [Image created by freepik.com ] A positive direction for social care I’m pleased we've begun 2024 with the Government's announcement of this workforce reform package.

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Diversity Disability Consultation Engagement 140

Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

They said that these placements required a specific skillset on carers’ part, as did other specialist placements, such as those for disabled children. DfE fostering plans The report comes in the wake of the Department for Education’s consultative strategy for children’s social care, published last month.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

A draft report and best practice guidance from the supervision review will go out for consultation later in the year. Domestic abuse, mental health problems and substance misuse predominated and a third of the children had special educational needs and disabilities. There is an urgent need for this review.

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Interviewing Social Worker University Government 267

Social Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Yet, providing unpaid care to someone who has a health condition, who is older or who has a disability, can have a profound impact on their health, wellbeing, paid work and relationships. People don’t see themselves as unpaid carers but as partners, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, and close friends first. Image created by freepik.com ].

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Social Care

JANUARY 12, 2024

Social care colleagues will have better training, clearer career paths and improved job prospects following the announcement of government plans to develop the domestic care workforce. I was invited to join the Department of Health and Social Care’s Expert Consultation Group for the Pathway.

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Empathy Disability Home Care Consultation 52

Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found that Gloucestershire council failed to appropriately assess or meet Miss X’s needs or support her partner, Mr L, in caring for her, leading him to burn out and leave. Disabled man left in unsuitable accommodation for 27 months, finds ombudsman. Related articles.

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Hospitals Communication Social Worker Disability 258

Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I am so pleased to be writing this blog, celebrating the publication of ‘ People at the heart of care ’, the Government's adult social care reform White Paper. Increasing the upper limit of the Disabled Facilities Grant. Reform has social work values built in. Social work and social care values are at its core.

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Engagement Social Worker Adoption Therapist 143

Community Care

MAY 14, 2023

In P, R (On the Application of) v London Borough of Croydon , P had a range of disabilities, and, in March 2020, aged 25, returned from a specialist college to live with her parents.

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Advocacy Disability Communication Consultation 150

Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, rather than statutory principles, it recommended a new provision, placed at the beginning of the MHA, requiring the government to draw up the revised MHA code of practice having regard to and including the principles set out in the independent review.

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SECTIONED

JANUARY 30, 2019

Hard-pressed GPs will be able to refer patients to someone else and free up their consulting room at a time when we face a GP shortage. The activities they proposed were completely inaccessible to me as a disabled person. I was not able to take this up because my disability means it is completely inaccessible.

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Mental Health Disability Schizophrenia Consultation 64

MQ Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Ask this question to yourself - are people with lived experience in the room (consulted) when you are forming policies and programs for them? They must be meaningfully involved in every domain of mental health activity including service delivery, research, training, and governance. Nothing about us without us" -Niharika.

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Mental Health Consultation Adoption Disability 49

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Physical Needs Assessment : Health Status : Social workers evaluate the individual’s physical health, identifying any chronic illnesses, disabilities, or immediate health concerns that may require attention. Basic Needs : Assessment includes evaluating access to necessities such as food, shelter, clothing, and transportation.

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Justice and Corrections Interventional 95

Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Alison Mohr Boleware is government relations director for NASW-TX: [Video] One in three teens report feeling of hopelessness about future. Valley Central News. The Hechinger Report. But those cancellations cover less than 1 percent of total student loan debt.

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Mental Health Domestic Violence Social Worker Clinic 40

Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“The government has committed to offer more support for carers through its reform funding and there are new rights for unpaid leave in the new Carer’s Leave Act , but that won’t be enough. These scores will inform the single-word rating.

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Nursing Home Social Worker Government Social Services 255

Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. Promoting social work’s role in society and raising public awareness of, and confidence in, the profession.

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Social Worker Government Mental Health Adoption 283

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

A serious and complex condition is defined as a condition “serious enough to require specialized medical treatment to avoid the reasonable possibility of death or permanent harm” or a chronic condition that “is life-threatening, degenerative, potentially disabling, or congenital; and requires specialized medical care over a prolonged period of time.

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Clinic Social Worker Self-harm Medicare 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. KNSD-TV exposed the numerous warning signs that were ignored before Arabella was, in effect, adopted to death.

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