Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Welsh councils must be legally required to set maximum manageable caseloads for their children’s social workers and to take all reasonable steps to maintain them. This should be backed by a “comprehensive workforce sufficiency plan”, potentially including national pay and conditions, to ensure authorities have enough practitioners to implement safe workloads.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

And Michigan’s leading family advocate blasts a Children’s Rights McLawsuit consent decree for making things “much worse.” How many times have you read what journalists covering child welfare call “the fatality series”? A now-defunct publication that purported to advise journalists on how to cover child welfare actually said: “Do the fatality series” – with what seemed like the implication that it should be done the usual way: by scapegoating efforts to keep families together and setting off a f

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Over three-quarters of social work roles are not being advertised on a part-time or flexible-hours basis, despite a rise in their proportion since last year. Twenty three per cent of online adverts studied by the Social Workers Union (SWU) on two dates earlier this year offered part-time or flexible hours, up from 18.7% in a similar exercise last year.

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Social Care

JUNE 9, 2023

"Caring, unpaid, for older, disabled or chronically ill relatives or friends is something most of us will experience in our lives." [Image created by freepik.com ].to make the case for support. New research released for this year’s Carers Week reveals we need to think and plan differently for people with unpaid caring responsibilities. The YouGov research, using a poll of 4,000 adults across the UK, found 50 percent of the population has had some sort of experience of providing unpaid care, ei

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