Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

Sixty five thousand people in England have been waiting at least six months for an adults’ services assessment as unmet needs mount, directors have warned. The figure, dating from the end of February, is six times that recorded in September last year, and comes with most directors reporting they have had to prioritise assessments for cases of suspected abuse or neglect, hospital discharge or reablement following a temporary residential care stay.

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The Guardian

MAY 13, 2022

Academic and social worker who was less interested in theories than in practical solutions From the time of her research in the late 1980s, Ann Buchanan, who has died aged 80, was interested in the outcomes experienced by children in care. Through her work as a social worker, she showed that in adulthood such children developed significant mental health and other problems.

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Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

By Rob Preston and Mithran Samuel. A council’s lack of social work capacity is leaving children inadequately protected, Ofsted has found, as it downgraded its children’s services to inadequate. Inspectors found “serious and widespread failures” in core areas of social work practice at Sefton council, including assessment, planning and management oversight, and said that these had not been “sufficiently understood” by leaders.

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Interventional Social Worker Welfare Mental Health 250

A Splintered Mind

MAY 13, 2022

Can you be so forgetful that you’d forget that you were dating somebody? For a few groggy moments, I was convinced that I had. As I dealt with forgotten bills, paperwork unearthed from the Jurassic era, and various and sundry things I had meant to get to sometime around last September, I wondered if maybe, perhaps possibly, I was forgetful. Oh, everybody forgets things!

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Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

By Rob Preston and Mithran Samuel. Inspectors have praised Hull council’s care leaver service in their fifth monitoring visit to the authority since an inadequate rating in 2019. Ofsted found that “skilled” staff were “providing greatly improved support to care leavers”, and felt “extremely well supported” by managers, on the back of significant investment from a “stable and determined leadership team”.

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Social Workers Speak

MAY 13, 2022

Rebekah Gewirtz and Jon Schnauber: We need to ensure calls to 911 get the best response. The Berkshire Eagle. Of the many reactions to a Pittsfield Police officer’s fatal shooting of Miguel Estrella, Melissa Helm’s has stuck with us for its simple truth: “No one should have to lose their life because they are experiencing a mental health crisis.” Helm is the executive director of the Berkshire County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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Anxiety Social Worker Depression Addiction 40