Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The number of frontline children’s social workers employed by English councils or children’s trusts has tumbled by 8% since 2020, official data shows. The Department for Education’s annual workforce census, released today , also showed that the proportion of vacant children’s social work posts and of roles held by agency workers have soared to record levels, with caseloads also rising for the first time since records began in 2017.

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My Brains Not Broken

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Earlier this week, I wrote about intrusive thoughts, what they look like, and what we can do about them. Intrusive thoughts can be hard to recognize – I went years before I even knew what they were – but we can deal with them and manage them in a healthy way. There are many ways to deal with intrusive thoughts, and I wanted to share some of the best ways I’ve found of doing so.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Council leaders have offered social workers and other care staff in England and Wales a £1,925 pay rise for 2023-24, matching last year’s increase but well below unions’ claim. Employers said the proposal was their “full and final pay offer” and that it would put additional pressure on already tight budgets.

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Nnatasha Tracy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I get nothing done because of depression. Or, I suppose, to put it more accurately, I get almost nothing done because of the symptoms of depression. I use to-do lists. I prioritize what needs to be done. I chunk things into small pieces. I use all the techniques you can think of to try to overcome this inability to actually get things done, and yet it doesn't seem to work.

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National Casa Gal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

At National CASA/GAL Association for Children, we are grateful for the groundbreaking work of the trailblazers who have worked diligently to improve the child welfare system. Read More. The post Black History Month — a message from our CEO appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Numbers fall for first time since 2017 despite increased need due to cost of living crisis ‘High stress, high demand, high burnout’: life as a social worker in England Social workers are quitting in record numbers as they struggle to cope with more challenging caseloads stemming from austerity, the pandemic and the cost of living crisis. The scale of the crisis in children’s social work is revealed in figures for 2022 published by the Department for Education, which show the number of profession

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

John says ‘we can’t do the work we trained for’ and tells of ‘constantly firefighting’ in under-resourced job Social workers in England quitting in record numbers John* has a motto: “You don’t choose to be a social worker , social work chooses you.” It reflects his experience giving up his first career to become a carer for a family member with mental health problems.

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Health & Social Care Workforce

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Victoria Grimwood is a Pre-Doctoral Local Authority Fellow at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, King’s College London.

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Social Workers Speak

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Johanna Thomas is a member of NASW-AR: Effort to merge 4 state boards into newly created mental health board fails to clear committee Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Johanna Thomas, a former president of the National Association of Social Workers’ Arkansas chapter , said the bill would likely create a bottleneck in the licensing of more than 10,000 licensed mental health professionals.

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Social Workers Speak

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Johanna Thomas is a member of NASW-AR: Effort to merge 4 state boards into newly created mental health board fails to clear committee Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Johanna Thomas, a former president of the National Association of Social Workers’ Arkansas chapter , said the bill would likely create a bottleneck in the licensing of more than 10,000 licensed mental health professionals.

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Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

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