CAPC

MAY 17, 2023

New interactive course offers an introduction to palliative care, how it is delivered, its impact on quality of life, and the growing population of patients who need it.

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CAPC

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Thank you to all health care professionals who have taken courses!

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Community Care

APRIL 10, 2024

each towards training courses for care staff and continuing professional development (CPD) for regulated practitioners in 2024-25. Setting out the details of the care skills element this week , the DHSC said the fund would provide reimbursements of between £55 and £2,035 for almost 200 specific courses.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Analysis of placement handbooks from 23 of the 83 social work course providers in England. A focus group with representatives of nine course providers. Consistency of placement paperwork and student assessment frameworks across course providers (though this was not supported by course providers interviewed by the research team).

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Interviewing Disability Social Worker Mental Health 229

Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

of apprentices qualified as a social worker in 2021-22, including all of those who completed the course. The achievement rate was higher for postgraduate courses (89%), which encompass university master’s schemes and the three fast-track programmes: Frontline, Step up to Social Work and Think Ahead.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By drawing on a literature review and focus groups, interviews, and surveys of PEs, course providers and local authorities, the review provided a comprehensive exploration of the challenges faced by PEs. NOPT also agrees with the research findings, which validate discussions that have occurred throughout the profession for many years.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Social Work England will use the standards to approve, re-approve and monitor courses for people to qualify as AMHPs and AMCPs in England, a role it also performs for AMHP courses and those for best interests assessors, the closest equivalent role to the AMCP under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS). What the standards say.

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Consultation Mental Health Therapist Confidentiality 277

The Guardian

JULY 18, 2022

Besides working at her local food bank, Jacqui ‘the dinner lady’ Haynes feeds the people in her neighbourhood. Now it’s her turn to be treated When Jacqui Haynes was a child, she had a habit of bringing strays back to the family flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London.

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Community Care

MAY 20, 2022

While the three courses have differences, they are of similar lengths (around 14 months), involve similar levels of financial support for students (tax-free bursaries of between £17,000 and £20,000 with no tuition fees) and involve the trainee being placed in a host local authority or – in Think Ahead’s case – an NHS mental health trust.

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Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

Social Work England is seeking views on proposed standards it will use to approve and monitor best interests assessor (BIA) training courses. Existing BIA courses were allowed to continue, with the regulator ready to approve any new programmes under previous standards set in 2009.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

This was borne out in the results of the survey, carried out by Nick Perry, an AMHP from East Sussex council and visiting lecturer on the AMHP training course at Brighton University. It found that: 74% of respondents believed pre-assessment interviews could be put to more therapeutic effect if there was more focus on them in training courses.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Placement rules in Scotland Under the 2003 Framework for Social Work Education in Scotland , course providers must ensure that: Students spend at least 200 days in practice learning. The 12-month length of the practice learning qualification (PLQ) course and limited provision was another factor limiting supply of practice educators.

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Administration Mental Health University Social Worker 299

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 25, 2022

Collect the key course materials as soon as you can. Start by getting a copy of the course syllabus as soon as possible, along with the textbook and other materials such as PowerPoint slides, lecture notes, and handouts. The syllabus is your road map for the course, and the other content will make the ride through the semester smooth.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

A DHSC spokesperson said: “Our chief social worker recruitment campaign remains open until 20 May, and we will be announcing an appointment to this role in due course.”

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Social Worker Government Communication Social Services 179

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Currently, I serve as the Masters of Social Work (MSW) Field Coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which means teaching seminar courses for field education. I received an email that morning about exploring a specific AI platform, ChatGPT, for teaching social work courses. What is AI?

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Community Care

JULY 7, 2023

Students have also said that the boycott and previous strike action by UCU have also affected those in other year groups, who have missed learning and had work go unmarked that they need to progress in their courses or secure placements. “Anyone wishing to practise as a social worker in England must be registered by law.”

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Photo: Momius/Adobe Stock Apprenticeships are the fastest-growing source of recruitment into social work , with 43% growth in the number starting courses from 2021-22 to 2022-23. The pre-existing 14-month Step up to Social Work course has also expanded during this time, through increased DfE funding.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Following a consultation , the regulator will now move ahead with plans to assess social work course providers against a set of statements of their students’ readiness for professional practice, from 2024. Social Work England’s education and training standards , against which it assesses social work courses providers.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MAY 20, 2022

In social work education, one lesson we can take away from the COVID pandemic has brought many lessons to social work education is to be ready when a crisis or disruption requires an instructor and students to quickly shift an entire course, a class session, or even an assignment. Make sure to include this information on your course syllabus.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lyn Romeo (photo: DHSC) The DHSC’s chief social worker for adults, Lyn Romeo, added: “We know that mental ill health affects people across the life course and that social workers working with people in many areas will be providing support in relation to their mental health often alongside other multiple needs.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 26, 2023

Assignments can range from reading a chapter in the course textbook to a 20-page research paper and more. To get started with drafting the why of an assignment, ask yourself the following questions: What are the course objectives or student learning outcomes? Of course, these guidelines will vary by the type of assignment.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Undergraduate degrees – three-year generic university course, with 70-day practice placement in year 2 and 100-day placement in year 3. Postgraduate degrees – two-year generic university course, with 70-day placement in year 1 and 100-day placement in year 2.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

And though, of course, DCYF and other foster care apologists will blame opioids, plenty of states with serious opioid abuse problems don’t tear apart families at such an obscene rate. The data, of course, tell a different story. It wasn’t always so. Entries into care in New Hampshire began to skyrocket in 2015.

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Social Work With Adults

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Lyn Romeo: I am delighted to support the launch of a free online training course for social work in disaster situations. Maris Stratulis, National Director, BASW England, and Joe Hanley, lecturer and researcher in social work at the Open University, have kindly drafted this week’s blog promoting this excellent course.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In the light of this, the report called on the regulator, course providers and employers “to develop mandatory CPD modules” for graduates education had been affected by the pandemic. The research also explored concerns around a lack of content on equality, diversity and inclusion on courses.

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Social Work Futures

MAY 24, 2022

The “future of social work” is of course, much bigger than social work. Of course, no one really knows what the future of social work will be…we are strangers to that future. What might we realize then that we don’t realize now? What will we have accomplished… and what will we be up against?

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Community Care

JANUARY 11, 2024

They spend the rest of the time carrying out their substantive role, though employers also arrange social work placements for them, in line with Social Work England’s requirements for students to do 200 days of practice learning across their course.

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Social Worker Government University 243

Ultimate Youth Worker

JUNE 6, 2023

Courses for YOU! 300 $250 Aaron Garth Case Noting for Youth Work This online course is tailored specifically for youth work professionals aiming to enhance their proficiency in writing compreh. beginner 0 Lectures 6 hours Preview this course Add to Wishlist $300 $250 Professional Supporting Young People Experiencing Addiction 0 0 0.0

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The Guardian

APRIL 25, 2024

We are, of course, the only part of the UK to avoid strike action in NHS. He says he has been in the post for little more than a year. We are investing record [sums in the NHS], ensuring it can employ record numbers of staff delivering the best performing A&E units in UK.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Therapists are, of course, mandated reporters of “child abuse.” OCFS does something else: It designs the online training course for mandated reporters. Indeed, in what may be the first genuinely useful thing it’s done in decades, if ever, it improved that training course. The new course is a muddled mess of mixed messaging.

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The Masked AMHP

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today, its main use is in severe treatment resistant depression, as well as in catatonia and the depressive phases of bipolar affective disorder.The most recent statistics for the UK indicate that over 1,800 patients received courses of ECT during the year 2021. The average number of treatments per course

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 20, 2024

We can, and must, do better in preventing adverse child experiences and in mitigating the life course consequences.” There is a graded dose-response relationship between ACEs in childhood and unfavourable life course outcomes, but it is possible to both prevent their occurrence and mitigate their impact.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

They will do one of two courses approved by regulator Social Care Wales, both managed and delivered by partnerships of employers and universities. These tangible incentives provide an additional motivating factor, especially when people are required to do the course on top of an already pressured day job.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

They spend the rest of the time carrying out their substantive role, though employers also arrange social work placements for them, in line with Social Work England’s requirements for students to do 200 days of practice learning across their course. According to Skills for Care , 740 people started social work apprenticeships in 2021-22.

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Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 2, 2022

While I found that program basic, I took a psychology course as an elective and fell in love with it. I was required to take a course on Canadian Political Science. It looked like I was going to fail that course as I just couldn’t understand the material. I went from part time to full time at Calderone shoes.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2022

The government will consider the MAC’s recommendations carefully and respond in due course.”. “This report calls for cross-Whitehall consideration including on funding for social care, pay, conditions and workforce strategy, alongside immigration policy. More follows…

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The Critical Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The book is very well structured and clearly lends itself to being a course reader for SENCOs, aspiring SENCos and other SEN professionals undertaking professional development courses.

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