Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

The NWAG’s remit is to “streamline and reduce unnecessary regulatory, central government and local level workload drivers” and consider “effective and efficient case recording and recording of the child’s voice”.

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Community Care

JUNE 29, 2023

In a recent report, a committee of Senedd members called on the Welsh Government to take steps to address this through a workforce sufficiency plan that addressed routes into the profession, pay and conditions and career pathways.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social Work England has convened a group including representatives from government, employers and professional bodies, to tackle the severe recruitment and retention pressures being faced across the country. Social work leaders have come together to forge solutions to mounting workforce challenges in England.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

On the back of this, the college said it would “address possible issues of access” Lack of diversity The study also reiterated longstanding concerns about the lack of diversity among DCSs. Disappointment with national government policy commitment to children’s services (25%). This is within your gift.”

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Community Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The news follows longstanding calls from sector bodies for the government to produce a social care workforce strategy similar to the 1 5-year plan for the health workforce issued by NHS England in June. It will work with other organisations, including think-tank the King’s Fund, in developing the strategy.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

‘Pressing issue’ of remuneration Whilst Social Work England has acknowledged it does not govern remuneration, NOPT urges the regulator to leverage its influence to address this pressing issue.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2022

Children adopted from care falls to lowest in 21 years, government figures show. Government signals shift towards national adoption services under latest strategy. Related articles. Children’s minister’s call for directors to prioritise adoption lambasted by sector heads. 18-month waits.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Temporarily registered social workers are being urged to restore their full registration to stay in practice with the government expected to end provisions enabling them to work in the near future. The Department for Education calculates average caseloads for children’s social workers in England as 16.3. Take our survey.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2023

We don’t expect the government to wave a magic wand, but we do need the political will to invest in a long-term plan to ensure good care is available to everyone, everywhere.” Foster diverse and sustainable providers, focused on outcomes. “We need to act now to save social care. Improve support for carers. More follows

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

It helps raise awareness about issues such as gender equality, women’s rights, and the need for diversity and inclusion. We urge governments, donor agencies, and other stakeholders to prioritize investment in women, especially in social workers who provide crucial and transformative services during crises.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Association of Director of Children’s Services (ADCS) said the figures showed government needed to invest in recruiting more foster carers. “A However, without the support from national government this is becoming increasingly difficult as the number of children coming into care continues to rise.”.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 28, 2020

Psychologists, businesses, and the government have all responded to the current movement to address racism. The post Importance of Addressing Internalized Racism in Clinical Practice (SCP Diversity Committee) first appeared on Society of Clinical Psychology. Race and social problems, 6(2), 181-200. Download our Blog Submission Form !

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Children’s minister David Johnston New children’s minister Addressing this week’s meeting, organised by Foundations, recently-appointed children’s minister David Johnston said FGCs were a key plank of the government’s ambition to reduce the number of children going into care. “I

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Social Work With Adults

JUNE 29, 2022

The rise of the Black and Minority Ethnic AMHP Leads Forum has helped to counter the over-representation of our diverse communities within detention numbers. The rise of the Black and Minority Ethnic AMHP Leads Forum has helped to counter the over-representation of our diverse communities within detention numbers.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

83% of councils said they were experiencing problems recruiting children’s social workers, and 72% retaining them, found a Local Government Association survey conducted last spring. Turnover has also increased, from 15% in the year to September 2021, to 17.1% in the year to 2022.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

At long last the federal government has released state and national foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022. It’s not clear if they’re violating regulations the federal government won’t enforce or if the states actually have found a loophole.)

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JULY 2, 2022

The People´s Global Summit was initiated by 26 diverse global organisations representing hundreds of millions of people. The governments that made these commitments have prioritized competition over collaboration and sovereignty over solidarity. Diversity, belonging, reciprocity and equity. Development of the Charter.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The agency would be responsible for social work qualifications, workforce planning, improvement, training, professional development and pay and grading and, under current plans, would be a part of the Scottish Government, not an independent entity. Pause National Care Service legislation, urge leaders.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Leaders also suggested there were challenges in retaining social workers who were just doing child protection work, rather than having a diverse caseload including children in need, as was the case outside the pathfinder areas. We see it as a key part of their development,” she said.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

“The core purpose of the fair cost of exercise, an initiative led by the government, was aimed at increasing the care fees paid by local authorities to ensure the care sector’s sustainability,” Green added. “This reality must now be realised.”

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Michigan Social Work

MAY 16, 2023

The tour provides a unique opportunity for faculty to learn more about the state’s economy, government, geography, educational systems, history and the diverse communities and cultures. The annual Michigan Road Scholar Tour is a five-day traveling seminar through the state of Michigan for U-M faculty.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

How health and social care services operate in a diverse society including concepts such as social need, informed choice, personalised services, institutional and structural discrimination. The concept of self-care and how to maintain, or seek support to maintain, your wellbeing through periods of uncertainty, change and stress.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Regardless, we will continue to celebrate and acknowledge the contribution of one of the most diverse, rewarding and life affirming career sectors in the country. The recruitment campaign launches just as the Government announces its Winter Plan for social care, explaining how the sector will be supported in coming months.

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Social Care

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Care Workforce Pathway and Care Certificate will help new and existing care colleagues chart a bright and rewarding future [Image created by freepik.com ] A positive direction for social care I’m pleased we've begun 2024 with the Government's announcement of this workforce reform package.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It is expected that this book will be used by academics, policy makers, social work students, lecturers, non-governmental and government agencies, and other stakeholders to promote advocacy for vulnerable client groups affected by climate change. Climate Change & Gender Diverse Populations: Sexual Orientation, LGBTQ Community members 7.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2023

Be a diverse and inclusive employer, which supports and motivates its people so they can deliver for the people we serve. Develop its work with employers and the public to resolve more concerns locally (where it is safe and appropriate to do so).

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MQ Mental Health

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We hope this shows how every year the conversations also advance in depth, we see more comprehensive, bold and diverse examples of research that improves mental health interventions on areas that matter to people the most. The lack of transparency, accountability and good policies from our elected governments.

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Community Care

MAY 11, 2022

The improvement came despite government figures showing the council’s full-time equivalent social worker vacancy rate more than doubled, from 15.7% to 37%, from September 2020 to September 2021, with its agency worker rate rising from 18.2% over the same period. Highly skilled, well-trained social workers’.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Diversity is not an adjunct descriptor of the U.S. Thus, it is equity that holds the power to protect our nation’s people, as diversity without equity often breeds injustice. Society of Clinical Psychology) Diversity Committee. Such interventions seeking to thwart systemic inequities (e.g., References Cited. Dispenza, F.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

By some estimates, nationwide, there may be as many children in hidden foster care/blackmail placements as there are in the kind where the numbers are officially reported to the federal government and the public. That means that instead of tearing apart families 206,000 times per year, it’s more like 412,000.

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Social Work With Adults

JANUARY 31, 2024

A shining example of this is the work they have led on the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standards, helping to reflect, enable and empower the rich diversity of our care sector colleagues.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Across multiple disciplines, women have built and maintained organizations, created social justice movements, governed with compassion, and brought order where there was once chaos. Women are no strangers to leadership.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

The book, made up of diverse first-person testimonies from children and young people, is described as “a unique learning and reflection opportunity” for professionals working in the family justice system.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Ofsted said that by placing social workers in schools – for which Newcastle is one of several government-funded pilots – the city was identifying children’s needs early and preventing some escalating to children’s social care.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

With those in need, practice was culturally sensitive – in the context of Leicester’s very diverse population – and ensured further support and safety plans were well-informed by children’s views. The inspectorate said the council now had stronger governance of children’s services, of which it had undertaken a full restructure.

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MQ Mental Health

AUGUST 16, 2023

Alarming statistics expose a chilling cycle of gender-based violence perpetuated by the government. Thus, WARMI was born—a network of Latin American women from diverse disciplines who strive to promote mental health care for women and celebrate the beauty of diversity.

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Relias

JUNE 21, 2023

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts across the U.S. Since then, DEI efforts in healthcare , government, education, and business have progressed further. DEIB is one of the most common of several variations of the DEI acronym used by organizations to reflect newer considerations related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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