Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Remember those education workers who at the beginning of the pandemic, switched their approaches on a dime to as best as possible accommodate their students? Please, continue to remember and respect their role and efforts. Our education workers. Still heroes. Are you following me on Facebook yet?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Department for Education commissioned the review as part of its draft strategy, Stable Homes, Built on Love , in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. Special educational needs and disability (SEND): entitlement to SEND provision is governed by the Children and Families Act 2014.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, the vacancy rate for local authority children’s practitioners has fallen only slightly, while councils are continuing to increase their engagement of agency staff, amid Department for Education (DfE) plans to curb their use. on the year above, with locums making up 17.8% of the workforce, up from 17.6% the year before.

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Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

WWEICSC – formerly What Works for Children’s Social Care – was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to pilot SWIS in three local authority areas in 2018-19, and then to roll it out to 21 areas for the RCT.

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

Worcestershire County Council will take back control of early help, children’s social care and education services when its current contract with Worcestershire Children First ends in September 2024. A children’s trust will be disbanded with services returning to council control later this year.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2023

It said that, in particular, it would focus on: improving and strengthening the transition from education to employment; supporting and guiding early career development; making continuing professional development (CPD) routine, impactful and core to improving professional practice; the development and accountability required of specialist roles.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2024

The Department for Education’s (DfE) revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children has removed the previous requirement for child in need assessments and casework to be reserved for qualified social workers.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In response to the consultation, the regulator pledged to address specific concerns about the content and structure of the proposed 78 statements, as well as the “crowded landscape” of social work education standards to which the statements would be added.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To be judged as outstanding, councils will have to demonstrate consistently good performance in relation to criteria including addressing care leavers’ health and emotional wellbeing, relationships and education and employment. NEET rates remain disproportionately high.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Department for Education (DfE) has today launched England’s first kinship strategy. The long-awaited document includes plans to pilot giving some kinship carers equivalent allowances to foster carers and expanding the role of virtual heads to cover support for children of kinship carers in education.

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The Guardian

APRIL 18, 2024

It not only improved educational outcomes for children, particularly kids from deprived areas, but also reduced later need for education, health and care plans for those with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), and paid for itself.

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Disability 76

Social Work Futures

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Here’s a collection of links that I’ve been gathering up the last year – exploring the future of higher education. They come at the subject from a wide variety of angles – and represent a continuing horizon scan of things I’m interested in, and may be of interest to colleagues across higher ed.

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Community Care

APRIL 21, 2023

The Department for Education has asked the Law Commission for England and Wales to review the “patchwork of legislation” for the group , dating back to 1970. Special educational needs and disability (SEND): entitlement to SEND provision is governed by the Children and Families Act 2014.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

The council’s executive member for families, education and children, Hayley Whitaker, said: “We’re all extremely proud of Kirstie, and this well-deserved recognition is a testament to her hard work, and her impact on Central Bedfordshire residents.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The study, based on Department for Education data and a survey of 125 directors, found that children’s services faced an estimated funding shortfall of £778m in 2022-23, against a budget of £11.2bn. increase in referrals to children’s social care – in part, the result of the removal of lockdown restrictions – and a 9.6%

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The visit, which focused on work following strategy discussions, children’s assessments and plans, and pre-proceedings work, noted that longstanding difficulties recruiting and retaining staff were continuing to affect consistency and stability in some areas. the previous year, according to Department for Education figures.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2022

More care leavers were succeeding in education, employment and training than the national average, and all received their health histories, marking improvements on the 2019 inspection. Ofsted found “committed, caring and passionate” personal advisers ensured young people had trusted adults they could rely on.

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Mental Health Social Worker 196

Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While looked-after children statistics are yet to be released for 2022-23, the care population has continued to grow year on year, increasing by 2% in 2021-22. And, for the second year in a row , one in eight of the mainstream households that had approved status during 2022-23 had deregistered by the end of the year (5,125 of 40,130).

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Community Care

APRIL 9, 2024

On the back of this, the CMA recommended that the Department for Education set up a market oversight regime to monitor the finances of the largest and most difficult to replace children’s home providers, which the DfE agreed to take forward in last year’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy.

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Social Work Futures

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Council on Social Work Education regularly goes through a lengthy process to revise its educational and practice standards. Foresight uses information from the airwaves, research, and other trend analysis to imagine possible futures where current trends continue, transform or stop altogether.

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Schools 178

inSocialWork

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Candace Christensen, PhD & Meg Paceley, PhD Legislative attacks continue to target transgender and gender expansive people — and often, the response from our own profession has not been sufficient. In short, this is a “call-in” to action for listeners to support the needs of trans people in social work education and in our communities.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Another 826 have applied and paid their fee, but have not submitted the required piece of continuing professional development (CPD), down from 1,349 last year. As communities face new challenges every day, it is vital that social workers continue to maintain their registration to ensure they can support those with whom they work.”.

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Social Worker 235

Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed a second commissioner to direct children’s services improvements at Sefton council after the first, Paul Moffat, found it had “made a good start to its improvement work” under a new leadership team.

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Government Social Worker 248

My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It’s a public health issue, and we should do everything we can to push for more education and awareness around suicide prevention. But what does it mean to have more education and awareness around this topic? That said, I think this month is a good opportunity to have conversations and demand attention for suicide prevention.

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Mental Health Advocacy Schools 246

Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The latter, which focused on responses to child exploitation, found: “The local authority has ensured that social workers continue to respond effectively to the needs of vulnerable children and families during the Covid-19 pandemic. Children have continued to benefit from face-to-face contact and support from social workers.”

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Welfare Social Worker Government 294

Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

Director of education and children’s services at Haringey Council when the Peter Connelly case (known at the time as Baby P) hit the headlines of every news outlet in 2008, Shoesmith was removed from her post during a live TV press conference by the then secretary of state for children, Ed Balls. “I

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Social Worker Psychosocial Hospitals Social Services 248

inSocialWork

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Jazmin Graham Just as the COVID-19 pandemic exposed cracks and disparities in many facets of society — including health care, governments, education and more — long COVID continues to disproportionately disrupt the lives of certain people. Today our guest, Jazmin Graham, LCSW, tells us what she knows.

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Community Care

AUGUST 25, 2022

Ofsted has praised “highly effective” information sharing as it noted continuing progress at Hull council’s children’s services, which were graded ‘inadequate’ in 2019.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2022

The decline in the number of adoptions since 2015 is continuing while children are waiting longer on average to be placed despite an expanding pool of approved adopters, official figures show. The data was published this week as the Department for Education announced £144m in renewed funding for the adoption support fund (ASF) plus £19.5m

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Community Care

APRIL 25, 2023

Children who had experienced multiple placements were more likely to be moved while more children from England are being placed in Scotland and Wales, according to data Become obtained from the Department for Education (DfE) through freedom of information requests. However, Sacks-Jones said the government needed to go further.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Caseloads continue to be one of the leading factors affecting quality of practice and leading to social workers burning out or quitting. And research suggests the problem appears to be getting worse, at least in children’s services.

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Social Worker 189

Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Department for Education“presumes” it will remove North East Lincolnshire’s children’s social care services from the council unless a commissioner reports “compelling reasons” not to. According to Department for Education figures, Bedford’s vacancy rate fell from 38.6% We will not shy away from this challenge,”. in 2017 to 11.1%

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“We are committed to improving the quality of social work education and training, and maintaining a sufficient supply of social workers with the right skills, knowledge and values. ” It said it had commissioned Health Education England to develop a long-term framework for health and social care staff, including social workers.

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Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2023

70% of directors saying they were not confident they would have enough permament child and family social workers in post over the subsequent year, in response to a Department for Education poll conducted in January to March 2022. One in six roles (16.7%) filled by agency social workers as of last June, up from 15.6%

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My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 2, 2022

But as much as people bring it up when we talk about mental health, the stigma continues to exist and cause harm to people who experience mental illness or other mental health challenges. It’s going to take action and education to help shrink this stigma, and knowing this opportunity could pop up at any moment.

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Mental Health Self-harm Psychiatric Clinic 244

My Brains Not Broken

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Tilly’s Life Center (TLC) is a nonprofit educational program that helps teens overcome the serious obstacles they are met with on a daily basis. Additionally, TLC has launched an Educator Certification initiative to train and license educators to implement our curriculum in their classrooms. can positively impact their lives.

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