Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Our findings (consistent over the last five years) indicate that agile working models in Scotland are failing to meet the needs of social workers.”

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers. ”

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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. “It

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Social Work England is to review the fees it charges practitioners under its new strategy, covering 2023-26. Social workers have been charged £90 a year for registration, and its renewal, since 2015, firstly under the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and then Social Work England since 2019. the year before.

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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. Every adult must be supported to call out child sexual abuse without fear.

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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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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Social workers dedicate their lives to helping others, including some of the most vulnerable people in our society. However, research shows members of the social work profession are more likely to experience work-related stress, burnout, and a lower quality of life compared to other professions and the general population.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

Curious to know the differences between a Psychologist vs Social Worker? Well, it is vital to note the difference between psychology and social work because they both seek to help individuals in different ways. Do social workers use psychology? Is psychology degree equivalent to social work?

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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

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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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 1, 2022

Rarely do I meet with such a person as a teen, although they may have contact with other social services. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

In Professor Joan Hunt’s 2021 study of social workers working with kinship carers, practitioners highlighted the unique complexities of carers’ roles. This means changes need to be made in the training and development of social workers to provide a more adequate and detailed focus on kinship care. Related articles.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The implementation of the Care Quality Commission’s new performance assessment scheme for local authority adult social services next April, which council leaders want to see delayed. How the sector will manage the coming winter, including how £500m allocated to bolster the workforce and help clear hospital beds should be used.

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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

It further said that staff working in chidren’s homes in England should be subject to professional regulation, in the same way as social workers, a recommendation previously rejected by the Department for Education. What the inquiry found. ” More follows.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

English authorities would need to carry out an estimated 105,000 extra Care Act assessments a year because of an influx of self-funders into the system on the back of the reforms, which are due to be fully implemented in October 2023, found the study by the County Councils Network and consultancy firm Newton. ” Related articles.

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Save the Social Worker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Whilst this does focus on macro social work, reflecting on some broader trends within the social service sector, it also looks at how you , the individual social worker, can apply some lessons to your own career. Samo Burja There are two areas where social technology may be helpful. What’s the fuss?!

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Save the Social Worker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Whilst this does focus on macro social work, reflecting on some broader trends within the social service sector, it also looks at how you , the individual social worker, can apply some lessons to your own career. There are two areas where social technology may be helpful. Technology is not always the answer.

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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. I remember the first time that I used it with a family.

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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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Relias

AUGUST 30, 2023

Additionally, these facilities should employ therapists or other mental health professionals or have a robust network of mental health providers to consult with or refer patients to. Social workers and case managers : Social workers and case managers are more likely to see clients living in their everyday environment.

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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). 21A of the MCA.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This tradition became the remit of community social workers following the advent of individual casework as social workers’ mode of working with communities, families and individuals experiencing structural inequalities. Erin Kennedy, social work educator, teaching students about climate change in China.

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2023

Most locums working for the region’s five trusts – which are responsible for statutory social services – have accepted a permanent contract, with other agency workers still having the opportunity to do so, said the Department of Health (DoH).

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2023

However, the region’s Department of Health (DoH) said that “good progress” was being made towards ensuring that all social workers at the five trusts – which are responsible for social services in their areas – were permanently employed.

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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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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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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

Moving children and families between teams as their contact with services continues or develops creates an organisational imperative which is itself damaging and disruptive. These might not be tasks and contributions which always require an experienced social worker, so the skills mix within teams and services is important.

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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

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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