Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Kirsty Hammonds, Coram In my role as child placement consultant in Coram’s activity days team, I come across many siblings who will not be able to live together permanently. The three-hour session was facilitated by nine professionals, including staff from Coram’s activity days team, social workers and play specialists.

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Adoption Foster Care Interviewing Social Worker 243

Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Leeanne Olivant, NOPT In the dynamic landscape of social work, practice educators (PEs) stand as vital pillars. The role’s critical importance in nurturing the next generation of social workers and retaining experienced practitioners was highlighted in a Social Work England-commissioned review, which reported last month.

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Social Worker Interviewing Diversity Disability 225

Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. I think that social workers have gotten a much better understanding of their role, responsibilities and their powers.”

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

Editor’s note: In this blog post, four social worker educators share a sample from their new and free resource about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in social work education. Alexander Rubin , LCSW, is a clinical assistant professor based in field education at the University at Buffalo School of School of Social Work.

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LMSW LCSW Child Welfare Confidentiality 246

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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding.

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Case Management Communication Adoption Self-harm 198

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Between 2019-21, researchers analysed the impact of DfE intervention in 24 authorities after they were rated inadequate by Ofsted, through interviews with leaders, managers, social workers, partners and government-appointed advisers, and an analysis of outcomes. Social workers urge inspection overhaul to enable more direct work.

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Interventional Consultation Social Worker Government 229

Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

The government’s forthcoming response to the care review will begin to address mounting pressures on the social work workforce, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said. But it’s the wrong thing for children because their social workers can leave at any moment.”

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Social Worker Case Management Interviewing Consultation 207

Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

“They say, ‘I want to know who my social worker is, I want them to tell me what they’re doing, I want them to turn up on time, I don’t want to be waiting in a line’. “And we’ve taken the conscientious decision in most of those cases that until the case is heard in court, the same social worker should hold that case.

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Social Worker Interviewing Consultation Government 273

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Meanwhile, the trust said it had suspended a number of staff pending investigation and commissioned an independent clinical review of the service, which experts interviewed for Panorama said had a “toxic culture” What did Panorama find? Related articles.

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Hospitals Mental Health Patient Safety Clinic 342

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Junior minister Neil O’Brien is understood to be covering the adult social care brief and has carried out visits to social care services, according to sector sources, but has made no public statements specifically in this capacity of which Community Care is aware.

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Government Mental Health Interviewing Disability 256

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Coffey, the work and pensions secretary since 2019, will take responsibility for one of the three priorities Truss articulated for her premiership in her opening speech yesterday : putting the NHS on a “firm footing” Social care one of four priorities for Coffey. Prospects for children’s social care.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Healthcare 243

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. By Professor Judith Harwin and Lily Golding. There is an urgent need for this review.

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Interviewing Social Worker University Government 266

The Frontline

JUNE 7, 2023

Naomi Allen was part of the 2017 Cohort of the Frontline programme and currently works as a consultant social worker, supporting current Frontline programme as they qualify as social workers. I first thought about social work when I was quite young.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 24, 2022

Prior to having met the child, I had an extensive interview with both parents. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Similarly I observe the child at play and parental interaction. It is important because only then can we know how best to address the concerns.

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Disorder Mental Health Private Practice Counseling 162

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are also advocating on behalf of clinical social workers with key federal regulatory agencies and other stakeholders. If you reviewed our December 21 post, you may also find it helpful to review this one. We are continuing to closely monitor this dynamic policy area so we can continue to provide updates to our members.

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Clinic Social Worker Self-harm Medicare 98

Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Simpson and Connect to End COVID-19 Communications Consultant, Susan Bodiker. Connect to End COVID-19 Campaign In 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation partnered with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work on a national $3.3

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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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Code of Ethics Adoption Social Worker Mental Health 96

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Similarly, when Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia reported City Councilmember David Oh as a potential child abuser after one of his children was injured as he taught the child martial arts, Oh says the hospital social worker explained that she “typically reports injuries children suffer in all sports.” Emphasis added.]

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Hospitals Child Welfare Interviewing Foster Care 98

Social Workers Speak

MAY 11, 2023

And for 25 years now, I have been a consultant working on projects related to promoting international classifications with the WHO, the World Health Organization. ” Seeking Payment for Social Work Internships Inside Higher Ed Within the larger social work field, sentiments are divided over paying students in training. .”

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Mental Health Therapist LCSW Clinic 52

Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

What is genogram in social work? A genogram uses a set of symbols to help social workers understand family dynamics. It is a useful tool for social work professionals to help gather information about a person’s family. It can help social workers absorb at a glance, key information with a high level of accuracy.

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Social Worker Interventional Psychiatric Clinic 92

Social Workers Speak

MAY 11, 2023

And for 25 years now, I have been a consultant working on projects related to promoting international classifications with the WHO, the World Health Organization. ” Seeking Payment for Social Work Internships Inside Higher Ed Within the larger social work field, sentiments are divided over paying students in training. .”

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission. Social workers who visit family or friends in nursing homes can encourage these residents to get vaccinated.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission. Social workers who visit family or friends in nursing homes can encourage these residents to get vaccinated.

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Nursing Home Medicare Medicaid Self-harm 93

Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Under a new federal rule to protect consumers from surprise health care bills, clinical social workers and other health care provider types must, effective January 1, 2022, provide a good faith estimate of expected charges. not enrolled in any health plan or coverage) or who are self-pay (e.g., Federal Rule Background and Definitions.

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Medicare Medicaid Clinic Social Worker 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Here’s how it worked: social workers at times coerced parents into signing [placement agreements that bypassed the courts], saying their children would be placed in foster homes far away if the documents were not signed. “I

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Under a new federal rule to protect consumers from surprise health care bills, clinical social workers and other health care provider types must, effective January 1, 2022, provide a good faith estimate of expected charges. December 2021. not enrolled in any health plan or coverage) or who are self-pay (e.g.,

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Medicare Medicaid Clinic Government 111

Parenthood Understood

JULY 2, 2021

A brief list: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Supervisor (LCSW-S). People often keep their same therapist but see someone else for assessment—the assessing psychologist typically writes a report and consults with the treating therapist to maximize the usefulness of the assessment.

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Therapist LCSW LMSW Psychiatric 59

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. Oh honey, that’s not how it works,” the social worker told Janell. But then … Three weeks later, her social worker surprised Lacie when she announced DCFS would be taking her children, after all. But she did not see her mother.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Who wanted a social media and marketing consultant who’d spent time in a mental hospital? Almost no interviews, despite the pile of applications. In addition to a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, I was also assigned a social worker. I finally gave up and tried my hand at freelancing.” Frank was quiet and earnest.

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Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52