Community Care
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The NHS will be given the majority of a £500m fund for adult social care, designed to speed up hospital discharge and bolster the care workforce. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said today that 60% of the funding would go to integrated care boards (ICBs) – which, since July, have been responsible for NHS commissioning – with 40% allocated to councils.
Swhelper
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Deona Hooper, MSW. A few days ago, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) concluded its annual conference in Anaheim, California, and the theme was “Leading Critical Conversations: Human Rights are Global Rights” Since then, the conference has been the center of discussion on Social Work Twitter due to the unaddressed sexual harassment allegations reported to senior CSWE […].
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Community Care
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
A lack of social work capacity, high staff turnover and a spike in demand led to delays in children receiving help and protection at Stockton-on-Tees council, Ofsted found in its latest visit to the authority. In a probe in September focused on the North East council’s front door service, inspectors found that eighty children were waiting to be allocated to a social worker due to staff shortages in assessment teams and increased demand.
The Guardian
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Outer borough of Haringey tops UK league for low-paid jobs relative to local cost of living Campaigners have demanded higher pay for social care workers in the capital, as new analysis put the outer London borough of Haringey at the top of the UK league for jobs paying below the real living wage. As inflation hit its highest level for 41 years, protesters from the community campaign group Citizens UK gathered outside a Haringey care home, run by the private chain Barchester Healthcare, to call f
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The New Social Worker
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
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National Casa Gal
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Cuts in the VOCA cap could significantly impact funding to CASA/GAL state organizations and local programs and ultimately children in need. Read More. The post Please spend two minutes to contact Congress to ask for their support to increase the VOCA Cap appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
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Michigan Social Work
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Lecturer Laura Yakas is the recipient of a 2022 James T. Neubacher Award Honorable Mention. The U-M Council for Disability Concerns established the James T. Neubacher Award in 1990 as a memorial to Jim Neubacher, a U-M alum who was a columnist for The Detroit Free Press and an advocate for equal rights and opportunities for people with disabilities.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
By Andy Bilson. In a recent report, the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (“the panel”) asked safeguarding partners to review their policies on bruising in non-mobile infants “to check for consistency with the evidence base and national guidelines.”. The panel acknowledges that there are a small number of children who are seriously harmed or die, where bruises have been seen by staff with a responsibility to protect children before more serious injuries have taken place.
Relias
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
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