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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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Special guardianship order (SGO) for child previously in care: an SGO gives the carer parental responsibility (PR) for the child, with the right to make nearly all decisions without consulting their parents. “This isn’t inevitable, but it demands action, leadership and funding from government. ” . ”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This would be backed by government funding to finance support services for families identified in the plan. A one-month consultation on its proposals closes tomorrow (30 November), with the group then intending to draw up revised best practice guidance for immediate implementation, potentially ahead of longer-term reforms to the order.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

A children in care practitioner from the East of England said: “Cases have become more complex due to lack of services or early interventions not being put in place. Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show. Advanced or consultant practitioners had lower caseloads (24.3 for seniors.

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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. Ongoing LADO review Meanwhile, the government’s review of the LADO role is ongoing.

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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. The DfE’s intervention in Doncaster ended in 2021, enabling the council to choose to bring services back in-house.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The government has pledged action to tackle “excessive” workload pressures on council children’s social workers as part of its response to the care review. Without an urgent intervention from ministers, the current workforce will be unable to make much of a difference to all the families needing support.”

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

Children making significant progress in residential care due to effective therapeutic interventions, making them ready and willing to move to a family-like setting. 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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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We were trained regularly and intensely in non-violent physical intervention. The previous conservative government of Mike Harris wanted to create a crisis in education to enable privatization. This government, so far, has been successful in this agenda. Serious violence. It got leaked to the public and was forestalled.

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MQ Mental Health

JUNE 29, 2023

This review also discusses the impact of economic crises on mental health, underlying factors, and promising intervention targets at individual, community, and societal levels. The consultations were carried out through group interviews to discuss, refine, and enrich the recommendations developed from the literature review.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Twenty per cent rise in children’s social workers quitting sector last year, suggest government figures. This in turn was linked to social workers’ biggest concerns: staff shortages – in relation to which 73% of respondents were very concerned and 20% a bit concerned – and workload (59% very concerned, 31% a bit concerned).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

For them, intervention by the family police is, literally, the norm. In addition, Emily takes a “holistic approach” to her family’s health that includes “declining certain medical interventions during her pregnancies and declining to vaccinate her sons.” She says she doesn’t even take ibuprofen for headaches.

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Social Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

SCIE and Channel 3 Consulting believe the sector needs to focus on two interventions. The second intervention is about reframing arguments around the impact of digital technology on frontline practice. "Technology, used well, can augment and enhance human conversations." Image supplied by freepik.com ]. On the periphery?

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The assessment process enables you to appreciate your client’s perspective on their situation, identify their priority areas for intervention, and recognize the strengths they bring to the therapeutic process. Informed Consent: Social workers get informed consent from clients before initiating any interventions or services.

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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. Untreated stress can cause physical problems and lead to more serious mental health issues.

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Social Workers Speak

JUNE 29, 2023

A senior crisis intervention specialist who has worked at the Chandler Fire Department for 16 years, Henry (’05 BSW, ’07 MSW) said a crisis can happen lightning fast, anytime and anywhere. He now consults with the association. For most of his time there, he managed its office of social justice and human rights.

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Michigan Girl's Café

MAY 26, 2021

nonprofit agencies, research, and government), core competencies and skills, educational and licensing requirements, best and challenging aspects of the job, compensation and employment outlook, self-assessment questionnaires and checklist to see if the job would be a good fit based on interest and skills.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

Monitor interventions Social workers monitor interventions that have been put in place to ensure they are helping the person and their family. They use evidence-based practice to make sure these interventions are effective and review them regularly if necessary. Can social workers refer clients to other professionals?

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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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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. But that has failed repeatedly. Also labeled a “misconception”: “Caseworkers alone make child safety decisions.”

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

The best interests assessment training gives you the chance to update your skills in practice interventions and deepen your knowledge base about current research and policy in contemporary social work practice. 4 (6) MCA) and consulted with family and carers (s.4 Necessary to prevent harm and proportionate to risk of harm. 4 (7) MCA).

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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.

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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. This is the work they are trained to do and have been doing for years, and I don’t think they have even been consulted for their views. What a waste.

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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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Save the Social Worker

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Rather, you slowly expand the intervention outwards. Similarly, in planning a sustainable intervention for someone, rather than looking at how to do it yourself, or whether it will even work, start with the smallest thing you can do first. It’s easy to rail at the government and say, You should do this! They grow outwards.

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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. However, overall, the CQC said authorities’ plans were short-term.

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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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Society of Clinical Psychology

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Talking with Colleagues Despite their area of expertise, psychologists may feel they are not in a position to intervene with colleagues (Smith & Moss, 2009) and may be more likely to report colleagues to governing bodies instead. Psychologist suicide: Incidence, impact, and suggestions for prevention, intervention, and postvention.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They lead to interventions, including child protection investigations and taking children into care, which can themselves harm children and families. For my latest article, we consulted four sets of parents who had been investigated because of bruises in pre-mobile children and found not to have harmed their child.

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Stop Abuse Campaign

JULY 26, 2022

To sign up for home visiting, families can consult with their doctor or visit their state’s government website for more information. These first five years of life are crucial to a child’s physical and mental development, so early intervention is key. The service is free and voluntary, and participants can opt out at any time.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

I would love to learn more about interventions that improve the mental wellness of oppressed youth. While I would very much like to teach at an institution that values both pedagogy and research, I am also open to working at a non-profit or research division as a consultant, associate, or executive director.

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