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. “It

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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

APRIL 3, 2023

Social workers and other children’s services staff and volunteers will be mandated to report child sexual abuse (CSA), Suella Braverman pledged yesterday. This was one of IICSA’s central recommendations, which it said would combat systemic under-identification of CSA.

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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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Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

of FTE children’s services posts were held by agency workers, up from 15.5% The number of frontline “case holding” social workers working in children’s services fell by 8% , from September 2020 to September 2022. of social work posts in council adults’ services were vacant as of September 2022 , up from 9.5%

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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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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. Beyond that, she feels a debt of gratitude to an authority she says has invested significantly in her career since she joined as a residential social worker three decades ago. “I

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The inquiry also urged the creation of Child Protection Authorities for England and Wales responsible for improving practice by statutory agencies and other instutitions, advising government on policy and, where they consider necessary, inspecting organisations. Mandatory reporting requirement.

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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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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Adult social care staff are carrying out tasks previously undertaken by the NHS in most areas, without compensatory funding, council heads have reported. Seventy per cent of directors said this was the case, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey carried out in September and October of this year.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

With the right strategy and proper investment, kinship care offers the potential for better outcomes for children and considerable savings for local authorities and national government. But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services. The need for specialist practitioners.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Since Lyn Romeo announced her retirement in October last year , the tributes to the now former chief social worker for adults from across the profession have been warm and fulsome. Lyn Romeo is without a doubt a social worker for social workers! Will be hugely missed by many and certainly me.

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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. 4 (6) MCA) and consulted with family and carers (s.4 That is why a social work to-do list may help us manage better. 4 (7) MCA).

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. . ” For the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, president Beverley Tarka said: “Families up and down the country are facing constant struggles to get the support they need to care for loved ones.

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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 Workers Speak

JANUARY 6, 2022

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) reached a potential news audience of more than 250 million readers in December, thanks partly to coverage of the Kentucky governor announcing pay raises for social workers, mention of NASW in a People magazine on adult adoption, and an op-ed on the drug syringe program in New Jersey.

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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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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. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. But she did not see her mother.

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