Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The flexibility comes despite Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) concerns that breaches would risk undermining national rules on councils engaging child and family social workers, of which the price caps are a part.

Engagement 289

Engagement Consultation Social Worker Administration 289

Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is certain to be delayed again, with the government yet to consult on how to put the scheme into practice. However, the government is yet to confirm that it will need to delay LPS again. However, the government is yet to confirm that it will need to delay LPS again.

Consultation 333

Consultation Government Advocacy Hospitals 333

Community Care

MAY 1, 2024

The government’s axing of a social work leadership training scheme risks undermining support for practitioners as well as the retention of managers, principal social workers have warned. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

Social Worker 203

Social Worker Communication Mental Health Government 203

Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Agency social worker pay in would be capped to the equivalent earned by permanent staff under government plans to reduce the use and cost of locums in statutory children’s services. They treat skilled social workers as a commodity, rather than engaging with them as professionals.” A ban on agency project teams.

Social Worker 305

Social Worker Engagement Consultation Government 305

Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They described how this had worked in the past with children with more complex needs, who did not want to engage face to face. For example, some workers who were interested in gaming and digital activities used these as a tool for engagement, which resulted in positive connections.

Case Management 205

Case Management Communication Adoption Self-harm 205

Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Councils that had made progress highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

Social Worker 262

Social Worker Anxiety Government Interviewing 262

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.

Social Worker 339

Social Worker Government Interviewing Social Services 339

Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Meanwhile, council spending on independent children’s homes more than doubled from 2015-16 to 2021-22, according to research by market analysts Revolution Consulting. “If the government were minded there are things they could do to manage and sort that.”

Social Worker 280

Social Worker Diversity Government Adoption 280

Community Care

APRIL 19, 2023

The government should set an expectation that frontline children’s social workers carry out face-to-face practice, in the light of concerns about the rise of remote working. Consultation on the proposals is open until 11 May 2023, and you can respond by completing this online survey. A ban on agency project teams.

Social Worker 295

Social Worker Consultation Recovery Engagement 295

Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Councils will face targets on improving adult social care in return for funding in the forthcoming financial year, the government has confirmed. ADASS added that, should that happen, the government would need to “re-evaluate its expectations” of councils.

Government 253

Government Hospitals Consultation Engagement 253

Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The challenge for councils of recruiting significantly more practitioners to implement the cap and associated reforms next year at a time of mounting staffing pressures was cited by many respondents to a DHSC consultation on guidance to implement the changes. . Get full coverage on the government’s adult social care reforms.

Social Worker 314

Social Worker Consultation Government Therapist 314

Community Care

APRIL 18, 2023

Crocker’s year at the helm was dominated by proposals to overhaul children’s social care – from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s inquiry into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson – and the government’s response to them.

Social Worker 330

Social Worker Government Consultation Engagement 330

Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Councils that had progressed highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

Social Worker 221

Social Worker Government Anxiety Interviewing 221

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 5, 2024

On 18 December the project had a one-day Expert consultation workshop on ‘Co-creating spaces and empowering tribal communities’ aimed to promote cooperation and knowledge exchange among organizations who engaged in the sphere of education, health, and livelihood. Pravin Yadav (Project Co-ordinator).

Consultation 98

Consultation Schools Mental Health Engagement 98

Community Care

JULY 12, 2023

The DfE consulted on the proposals, which include capping the pay of agency staff to the equivalent of permanently-employed social workers , between February and May this year, and is due to report back on the consultation this September. “My sense is that we have been listened to by the DfE.”

Social Worker 217

Social Worker Consultation Government Interviewing 217

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. ‘Chaotic and stressful’ working environments. Related articles. ‘Repair work’ needed to help staff.

Interventional 237

Interventional Consultation Social Worker Government 237

Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

Councils would require an “unfeasible” increase in adult social work numbers to implement the government’s care reforms unless they change systems, according to a report last week. Cap on care costs: government change reducing benefit for less wealthy becomes law. By Patrick Grafton-Green and Mithran Samuel.

Government 281

Government Social Worker Case Management Consultation 281

Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

The regulator had also been “inundated” by applications from practitioners and others to take part in the group’s work, said Blackmore, the regulator’s executive director of professional practice and external engagement. in September 2021.

Social Worker 214

Social Worker Government University Consultation 214

Community Care

APRIL 13, 2022

Though the council had implemented a “robust contract management cycle” since taking ownership of the trust in 2019, the report said current governance arrangements limited the authority’s ability to challenge poor performance. No redundancies. First children’s trust.

Government 288

Government Case Management Consultation Interventional 288

The Guardian

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Others used the council’s public consultation to voice their objections. Next, campaigners in Bristol engaged pro bono lawyers to challenge the legality of the proposal. Readers took to social media with their outrage. Continue reading.

Disability 87

Disability Consultation Engagement Government 87

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.

Diversity 140

Diversity Disability Consultation Engagement 140

Community Care

MARCH 9, 2022

‘Lack of transparent information on future need’ “It is thus unclear how LAs can meaningfully engage with providers given that – based on the material presented in the sufficiency strategies – LAs do not have transparent and/or reliable information around future need,” the report said. Related articles.

Government 206

Government Welfare Communication Consultation 206

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. Reform has social work values built in. Social work and social care values are at its core. Image created by freepik.com]. Funding the vision.

Engagement 143

Engagement Social Worker Adoption Therapist 143

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. It is due to report in spring 2023. Toughened standards pledge.

Disability 281

Disability Schools Government Welfare 281

Community Care

JUNE 1, 2023

Children will not get the protection they deserve from the government’s response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), its chair has warned. The government said it would introduce a redress scheme following “extensive engagement” on the nature of the scheme, though without setting a timeframe for this.

Government 252

Government Consultation Social Worker Engagement 252

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. When, for instance, my daughter rang from holiday to say she had got engaged, I cried. More than that, they respect me and see me as a whole person.

Empathy 52

Empathy Disability Home Care Consultation 52

Beyond Advocacy

MAY 29, 2023

Louis-based community and organization development consulting firm that helps individuals, groups, and organizations, find their paths to empowerment. Saturday morning discussion titled Whither Political Social Work , on the future engagement of social workers in legislative and political settings.

Social Worker 52

Social Worker Schools LMSW Advocacy 52

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

However, while it still going ahead with national rules, the DfE has made significant changes to its original plans, following a consultation that exposed a wide gulf in views on the issue, in particular between permanent and agency social workers.

Social Worker 342

Social Worker Consultation Engagement Government 342

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Just a week later, two of our sons were engaged in some rough horseplay. This is a judgment call to quickly consult an attorney about. And with extremely rare exceptions, the government isn’t going to provide one, either. She bounced off, and I wound up taking her to the emergency room. She got two small stitches under her eye.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Child Welfare Interviewing Foster Care 98

Psychological Health Care

APRIL 6, 2024

Fortunately, there is a growing awareness of the issue with organisations such as Safe Work Australia , Mind Your Head , unions and Government organisations placing a spotlight on prevention of harm and management of workplace mental health.

Mental Health 53

Mental Health Human Resources Psychology Communication 53

Clinical Philosophy

APRIL 13, 2022

These notes are locked in a drawer in my consulting room (which, naturally, is also locked). And yet when we turn to the advice, instructions, rhetoric and rules of the bodies and bureaucracies which govern psychologists' practices, something rather different sometimes shows its face. Nobody gets to see them except me.

Psychotherapy 59

Psychotherapy Clinic Psychology Engagement 59

Social Workers Speak

JUNE 29, 2023

He now consults with the association. The group and its local chapter specifically pointed to “pervasive, complex and interlaced obstacles that stand in the way of patients” suing to challenge government interference when seeking an abortion. For most of his time there, he managed its office of social justice and human rights.

Substance Abuse 52

Substance Abuse Anxiety Social Worker Crisis Intervention 52

Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To properly address the social determinants of suicide, organizations can engage in activities that both directly and indirectly improve the mental health of their clients. Hopelessness may lead to worsened depression, which could then lead to thoughts of suicide and possibly dying by suicide.

Depression 98

Depression Disorder Human Services Mental Health 98

Social Work With Adults

APRIL 4, 2023

Meanwhile, I am very pleased the Government continues to fund Skills for Care’s package of support across workforce training and development, which includes specific support for social workers.

Social Worker 98

Social Worker Mental Health Adoption Government 98

Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

P enjoys going out for a meal, attending and engaging in church activities, colouring, painting and talking about her childhood memories. In NRA & Ors, Re [2015] EWCOP 59 judgement made it clear that it is well established that the approach to the existence of a deprivation of liberty is governed by the Guzzardi principle.

Self-harm 52

Self-harm Mental Health Social Worker Consultation 52

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.

Mental Health 49

Mental Health Consultation Adoption Disability 49

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Unfortunately, Maine’s equivalent of the federal Government Accountability Office, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability (OPEGA) did indeed fall for it in a report released last week. And, of course, if you don’t know about a right, you don’t have that right. Emphasis added.]

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Interviewing 98