Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) found that just half of services were able to meet demand for services including one-to-one therapy or counselling, group-based interventions, helplines or advocacy for child or adult victims/survivors and family members.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

The government has handed social care an extra £500m for 2024-25 following last-ditch pleas for ministers to ease funding pressures on councils. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove announced the top-up to the planned local government settlement for the coming financial year, in a statement to Parliament today. cash rise worth 4.7%

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

"Moving Social Work focuses on increasing physical activity [opportunities for disabled people] and the benefits this generates for mind and body." In this spirit, the Moving Social Work (MSW) programme aims to harness the skills and values of social workers to support the health, wellbeing and human rights of people with disabilities.

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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

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. The college called on the government to fund an expansion of medical school places and psychiatry training posts.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The number of children in need in England has fallen for the third successive year, to its lowest level since 2013, according to official government figures. Closures due to lockdown measures during this period led to a 31% decline in referrals from schools and a 7% decrease overall, which contributed to the falls in interventions.

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Domestic Violence Interventional Social Worker Schools 304

The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Click to find out more This chapter provides: an understanding of the framework for the SEND CoP within the context of past legislation and guidance; identification of the current principles underpinning the current CoP; a consideration of definitions and terminology within the field of SEND; a discussion of medical and social models of disability.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They interventions reflect mounting adult social care workforce shortages, with a 55,000 rise in vacancies and a 50,000 drop in filled posts in 2021-22 , and waiting lists for assessments, care packages and reviews. Mounting adult care pressures. Authorities are planning £1.3bn in adult social care savings in 2023-24.

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

During this time, trusts and ADMs have been considered in other areas subject to government intervention due to poor performance and eventually rejected on the advice of DfE-appointed commissioners. “The wholly owned company was set up at a time when Ofsted deemed our children’s services to be inadequate.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The council came under government intervention in 2019 after an inspection found children were not being protected, cases were being “inappropriately closed” and leaders did not understand the extent of the failings. Practitioners were also praised for effectively safeguarding disabled children.

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Social Worker Interventional Government Interviewing 253

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Among the inadequate-rated councils, the inspectorate particularly highlighted improvements at Surrey and Newham, found disabled children’s services had recovered since a visit last year West Sussex, and said progress was “modest but fragile” at Medway. Support for disabled children improving. Related articles.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

may have fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that can occur in a baby exposed to alcohol before birth. Government. About one in 20 pregnant people report binge drinking in the past 30 days, and up to five percent of school children in the U.S.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

First adults’ services ratings since 2010 The reports mark the regulator’s first published assessments of local authority adults’ services performance since 2010, when the previous ratings system was scrapped by the coalition government. ” Nottingham (indicative rating: requires improvement).

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2022

The government has also made promoting choice and control a key plank of its social care reforms, set out in a white paper published last year. TLAP said research had found social workers, while committed to personalisation, felt conflicted and struggled to find the right intervention when the individual did not want full choice and control.

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Social Worker Interventional Disability Government 231

Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2022

A London borough has agreed to pay £2,500 to a disabled boy and his adoptive mother after issuing care proceedings on “incomplete and flawed information”. The court did not recommend a care order after Y’s guardian noted that some recommendations for support and intervention had been made but had not implemented.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

Children making significant progress in residential care due to effective therapeutic interventions, making them ready and willing to move to a family-like setting. They said that these placements required a specific skillset on carers’ part, as did other specialist placements, such as those for disabled children.

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Foster Care Self-harm Social Worker Anxiety 310

Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

In fact, to warrant an intervention from a social worker, there often needs to be multiple different needs. Within my first 3 months, I was able to hold a decent conversation about housing requirements, why couples fought, and how to get childcare subsidies from the government. That’s where I think the first thing to be aware of is.

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Community Care

MAY 19, 2022

‘Considerable investment’ in social work has helped a council under government intervention since 2017 improve to ‘good’ after successive inadequate judgments by Ofsted. Supervising social workers praised by foster carers. Services for children in care and care leavers were also rated good.

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Social Worker Disability Interventional Government 250

Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

An overview of the three broad areas of social work in Singapore If you’re looking for the most money in the sector, go to the Ministry The Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF), being under the government, may offer the best benefits across the sector. You will be a civil servant, and that does come with fairly good perks.

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Domestic Violence Social Worker Social Services Social Services 130

Community Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It includes a directory of useful tools, specific guidance on working with disabled and older children and advice on recording direct work. The inspectorate said the council now had stronger governance of children’s services, of which it had undertaken a full restructure. The hub is available to all CC Inform Children subscribers.

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Social Worker Foster Care Diversity Disability 266

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The assessment process enables you to appreciate your client’s perspective on their situation, identify their priority areas for intervention, and recognize the strengths they bring to the therapeutic process. Informed Consent: Social workers get informed consent from clients before initiating any interventions or services.

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Justice and Corrections Interventional 95

Social Care

JUNE 8, 2023

Building on the success of the NHS Volunteer Responders Programme in healthcare settings over the pandemic, the Government has now expanded the scheme into social care - forming a joint NHS and Care Volunteer Responders Programme. Care providers can now ask volunteers to help people in their local areas across a range of care settings.

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Healthcare Disability Interventional Government 52

Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Safeguarding teams took no action in response “serious” concerns about the care of disabled people segregated in mental health hospitals, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. It also warned that there were signs councils were withdrawing resources from discharge planning for people subject to the MHA.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, rather than statutory principles, it recommended a new provision, placed at the beginning of the MHA, requiring the government to draw up the revised MHA code of practice having regard to and including the principles set out in the independent review.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

Mike Oliver , an English disability rights campaigner and author, is widely recognised as the founder of the social model of disability. His work has had a significant influence on government policy in relation to disability rights and access to services. He was made a CBE in 2009 for his services to disabled people.

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SECTIONED

JANUARY 30, 2019

The activities they proposed were completely inaccessible to me as a disabled person. I was not able to take this up because my disability means it is completely inaccessible. In addition, many of the activities required payment (the specialist centre was free at the point of use). What do I mean by “inaccessible”? What a waste.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Social workers can work in different settings, such as schools, hospitals, non-profit organisations, government agencies, and private practice. Social workers offer a wide range of services, including counseling and therapy, individual and group sessions, to help people deal with emotional, psychological, and behavioural issues.

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Case Management Social Worker Healthcare Mental Health 52

Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2024

Boys were overrepresented in disability, risks outside the home and physical abuse, and girls in sexual abuse, child mental health and risks in and outside the home. Black children were overrepresented in physical abuse, risks outside the home and neglect, and Asian children in physical abuse, domestic abuse and disability.

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MQ Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The disability rights movement has the philosophy of “nothing about us, without us” - the same when applied to mental health can help us prevent exclusionary policies and actions, while also taking advantage of the experiences these experts have. Millions of people experience anxiety and depression in their life.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“The government has committed to offer more support for carers through its reform funding and there are new rights for unpaid leave in the new Carer’s Leave Act , but that won’t be enough. These scores will inform the single-word rating.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. Promoting social work’s role in society and raising public awareness of, and confidence in, the profession.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The report recommended that the government take steps to ensure CSE data is collected separately from criminal exploitation and other forms of child sexual abuse and in a consistent way. But the investigation said there was “no or limited evidence” their disability was taken into account in assessments. Children in residential care.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

In a 2021 study, 83 percent of healthcare providers reported positive behavior change in patients after conducting alcohol screening and brief intervention with them. What is alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT)? Government. ounces); and a single glass of wine (5 ounces).

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

In a 2021 study, 83 percent of healthcare providers reported positive behavior change in patients after conducting alcohol screening and brief intervention with them. What is alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT)? Government. ounces); and a single glass of wine (5 ounces).

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Interventional Social Worker Human Services Healthcare 85

Community Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It followed a late 2020 focused visit to the authority – formed in 2019 after local government reorganisation in Dorset – which warned of serious failings in relation to management oversight and social work practice. ” ‘No strategic response’ to children’s needs.

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Social Worker Disability Communication Interventional 245

MQ Mental Health

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Thanks to these we all have the right to our own opinions, express our own opinions, to have an education, to privacy, to a family life or our choosing, to be treated fairly and to not be punished by Governments without fair reason. This means viewing disability as a societal problem, not exclusively a medical science issue.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Tokenism about racism Children’s Rights is a group that once actually claimed, in a fundraising pitch, to be “driving a national conversation about the urgent need to end unjust government intervention in the lives of Black children and families.” That makes especially offensive how that whole issue is handled in this McLawsuit.

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