Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The lack of adult social workers is the sector’s biggest concern as it prepares to deliver the cap on care costs, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has found. Get full coverage on the government’s adult social care reforms. More social workers needed amid shortages.

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Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

Social Work England is seeking views on proposed standards it will use to approve and monitor best interests assessor (BIA) training courses. “I think we need providers to respond to the consultation [on this point],” she said.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Department for Education has scrapped its national assessment and accreditation scheme (NAAS) for children’s social workers. The DfE’s original plan was for all children’s social workers to be assessed by 2020, which it later revised to rolling out the scheme from that year following a series of trial phases.

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Government Social Worker Consultation Interventional 360

Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

The government will “strongly encourage” councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision, it said today. It confirmed its support for authorities appointing designated social care officers (DSCOs), in its improvement plan for SEND and alternative education provision (AP).

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This had led to “unparalleled dependency”, whose numbers had grown by 13% over the same period, accounting for 17.6% of the workforce.

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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.

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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 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. A requirement for a minimum six-week notice period for agency social workers.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You asked, what are the 10 roles of social workers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of social workers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Justice and Corrections Interventional 95

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. of FTE children’s services posts were held by agency workers, up from 15.5%

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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. Inadequate’ councils bore brunt of sharp rise in social workers quitting posts last year, analysis shows. Related articles.

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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.

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Government Social Worker Case Management Consultation 283

Beyond Advocacy

MAY 29, 2023

Scores of macro practice social workers and students will gather at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis-based community and organization development consulting firm that helps individuals, groups, and organizations, find their paths to empowerment. The keynote speaker for the conference is Rebeccah L.

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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. Bipin Jojo, Dean, School of Social Work also graced the occasion.

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Consultation Schools Mental Health Engagement 98

Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication? This is a very common question a lot of people ask in relation to the role of the social worker in health and social care. Social workers play an important role in promoting the health and wellbeing of people in the community.

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Mental Health Interventional 52

Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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

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Engagement Social Worker Adoption Therapist 143

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Department for Education (DfE) has ditched plans to cap agency social worker pay to the equivalent of permanent staff in local authority children’s services. The changes came after the DfE received over 1,200 responses to the consultation on the rules , 70% of which were from individual social workers.

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Social Worker Consultation Engagement Government 342

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.

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Disability Schools Government Welfare 283

Social Work With Adults

APRIL 4, 2023

"Although progress towards real and sustained care sector reform remains challenging, the voice of adult social work has a powerful and constructive role to play." Recruitment and retention of adult social workers, indeed of social care professionals as a whole, remains a critical issue to resolve.

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Social Worker Mental Health Adoption Government 98

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.

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Social Workers Speak

JUNE 29, 2023

Mel Wilson is a member of NASW-DC: Lancaster city police looking to hire social worker Lancaster Online Mel Wilson was on staff with the National Association of Social Workers for 20 years until he retired about 18 months ago. He now consults with the association. Also because it’s a good structure model.”

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Substance Abuse Anxiety Social Worker Crisis Intervention 52

Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

To become a Best Interests Assessor, social workers have to be registered with Social Work England for at least 2 years and enrol on a postgraduate BIA-DOLS qualification. P enjoys going out for a meal, attending and engaging in church activities, colouring, painting and talking about her childhood memories. 4 (7) MCA).

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Self-harm Social Worker Mental Health Consultation 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Just a week later, two of our sons were engaged in some rough horseplay. By the way, Councilmember Oh’s child was interviewed separately and told the social worker what happened – just like Dr. Goldman’s children. This is a judgment call to quickly consult an attorney about. She got two small stitches under her eye.

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Hospitals Child Welfare Interviewing Foster Care 98

Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

How to Address the Social Determinants of Suicide. 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. Write letters, tweet at your local politicians, and encourage others in your community to do the same.

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Depression Disorder Human Services Mental Health 98

Save the Social Worker

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

After 2 years in social work, I admit. I haven’t used the self that well in social work. As pompous as this might sound, I thought I wasn’t that bad a social worker. But I share this because I want you to know that 2 years of life on the frontlines, led me to see how little university had taught me about social work.

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Social Worker Interventional Administration Therapist 246

Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. .” “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.

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Nursing Home Social Worker Government Social Services 261

SECTIONED

JANUARY 30, 2019

The main beneficiary of social prescribing will be GPs – the NHS England announcement was headed “An army of workers to support family doctors” for good reason. 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.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

JULY 26, 2022

A trained professional—often a nurse, social worker, or child development specialist —conducts home visits periodically throughout pregnancy and the first five years of the child’s life, connecting participants with prenatal care, advice, and support throughout their journeys and ensuring that each child has a chance at a healthy future.

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Domestic Violence Substance Abuse Confidentiality Mental Health 98

Community Care

JUNE 24, 2022

The National Care Service (Scotland) Bill would make social care the responsibility of the Scottish Government, and allow ministers to transfer local authority functions to the NCS nationally or to new care boards, which the bill would create to commission care locally. More evidence needed on children’s services transfer.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. This scholarship, created by Mary and her late husband, Raymond, will provide financial support to a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Social Work program.

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Criminal Justice Schools Social Worker Mental Health 98