Fri.Feb 24, 2023

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40% rise in number of social workers quitting children’s posts annually over past five years

Community Care

The number of children’s social workers quitting their posts annually has risen by 40% in five years, Department for Education figures have shown. While councils lost 3,880 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in the year to September 2017, this jumped to 5,422 in 2021-22, according to the DfE’s annual workforce census, published yesterday. Though the size of the workforce increased over that time, this was only by 11%, from 28,496 to 31,634 FTE social workers.

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National Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Grants aim to improve support to children impacted by the child welfare system – spotlight on CASA for Children of DC

National Casa Gal

Read More. The post National Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Grants aim to improve support to children impacted by the child welfare system – spotlight on CASA for Children of DC appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Getting used to being a non-drinker

Living Sober

I went out with a bunch of girlfriends recently. A big group of us hitting the town for dinner and a comedy show. Pretty unusual for me to be out and about in town - let alone on a Wednesday night! - but yes it definitely happened. Walking through town I was gobsmacked at all the people getting amongst it […] Getting used to being a non-drinker was first posted on February 25, 2023 at 9:18 am. ©2019 " Living Sober " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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CMMI Summarizes Results from Palliative Care Projects

CAPC

White paper synthesizes evaluation results from projects aimed at improving care for people living with serious illness.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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Social Work Recap: soaring vacancies, social care users left in debt and Shamima Begum

Community Care

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From the soaring vacancies in the children’s social work sector and Community Care’s Festival of Learning to a campaign busting the myths around social work, here’s this week’s selection: Children’s social work vacancies soar to highest-ever levels Photo: nadia_snopek/Adobe Stock The Department for Education’s (DfE) annual workforce c