Community Care

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Department for Education has renewed calls for children’s social workers who are not currently practising to return to the profession temporarily to ease staffing pressures caused by Covid-19. With staff absences within public services a mounting concern since the rapid rise of the Omicron variant, children’s minister Will Quince urged practitioners on Social Work England’s temporary register to contact their council’s children’s services department or sign up with a local agency.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 4, 2022

Yesterday’s news in the province of Ontario was devastating. We vented our anger. Today we must plan, be purposeful. The question is about how to manage, particularly with school aged kids at home. If you are the parent who does everything in the home and where the kids were coddled, those days may be through. Today is about being purposeful. Today is about discussions with your kids.

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Community Care

JANUARY 4, 2022

Social workers including a former president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year honours list. Jenny Coles, president of ADCS from 2020 to 2021, was awarded a CBE for her services to children’s social care. Coles was director of children’s services at Hertfordshire council for 11 years before retiring in August last year.

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 4, 2022

I’ve said it too many times on this blog, but it’s another new year (and another new year during a pandemic!) and I thought it would be good to share this message again: I don’t like New Year’s Resolutions. It’s not that I think they’re foolish or misguided – to be honest I don’t have many opinions on them as a concept – but I know that they are not a realistic way for me to achieve my goals.

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The New Social Worker

JANUARY 4, 2022

What’s your best self-care advice? Have you thought about it lately? Do you follow it regularly?

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Nicole Clark Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2022

Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know. First off: Happy New Year! Now, let’s get into the topic of improving capacity versus scaling up. This is inspired by a comment I heard several months ago about a colleague’s frustration with their organization’s focus on scaling quickly, with little regard to making [.]. The post Ask Nicole: Improving Capacity vs.

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Michigan Social Work

JANUARY 4, 2022

Jim Toy, MSW ‘81, has died. Toy’s lifelong LGBTQ+ activism resulted in inclusive policies at the university and legislation at the state and local level. One of those results is the Spectrum Center, which was the first such university office of its kind. Toy received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from U-M last May. Read more about Toy's life and impact: Michigan’s first openly gay man, prominent Ann Arbor LGBTQ activist, dies at 91.

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Famcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s been estimated that globally, around 76 million people have been diagnosed with anxiety disorders due to the pandemic. Many of these people were healthy individuals with no previously diagnosed mental health issues. Others were already diagnosed with mental health issues, but the virus served as a trigger for their disorders and made them worse.

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Michigan Social Work

JANUARY 4, 2022

Assistant Professor Sunggeun (Ethan) Park has been elected treasurer of the Society for Social Work and Research. In his vision statement, Park listed the following goals: maintaining fiscal accountability and responsibility; promoting inclusive and transparent fiscal decision-making processes and representing the voices of early-stage scholars with marginalized identities and interests.

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