Mon.Oct 17, 2022

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Hunt U-turns on IR35 reform for agency social workers

Community Care

Jeremy Hunt has scrapped plans to abolish the IR35 rules for agency social workers and other public sector staff working off payroll. His predecessor as chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, had announced the abolition of the 2017 rules in his “mini-budget” on 23 September. However, Hunt reversed this – and most of the other taxation measures Kwarteng unveiled last month – in a statement to the media this morning.

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Self-Care A-Z: Be a Self-Care Winner and Quit!

The New Social Worker

Our culture’s implicit and explicit curricula socialize and reward learning how to “not quit.” With this cultural saturation, we internalize that quitting is bad. We aren’t taught the knowledge, skills, nor value of how to quit.

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Broken care system is putting our loved ones at risk | Letters

The Guardian

Angela Crabtree says staff in care settings should have nurse training, while Helen Clutton says the nature of people employed is key. Plus letters from Sheila Preston and Tony Leather I agree with most of Jenny Morrison’s article regarding pay, training and lack of an effective complaints procedure in private care homes, but there is also a lack of acknowledgment of how competent staff need to be to take on a role where direct contact with people is vital ( Britain’s care system is broken from

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Apprenticeship power

Social Care

"We wanted to offer a complete apprenticeship route to help colleagues progress from support worker, nursing associate, student nurse, all the way to registered mental health nurse." [Image copyright Cygnet Health Care]. Never underestimate the value of social care apprenticeships. As Apprenticeship Manager for care provider, Cygnet Health Care , I have seen the truth of this statement first hand.

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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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How Case Management Software Impacts Foster Care Services

Famcare

There are about 424,000 kids in foster care in the US, according to surveys. More than 5% of these kids have been in foster care for 5 years or longer, proving what social workers have been saying all along: better management of foster care needs to be a priority! Numerous governmental and nonprofit organizations work to enhance foster care and find these kids and teenagers better homes.

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Patient, Nurse, and Solution Provider: Cheri DiStefano Pays It Forward

Relias

Cheri DiStefano had been working in the corporate world for over a decade when she felt a calling to go to nursing school. Many people consider career changes, but few follow through. She took that brave leap, and it turned out to be the first of many challenging and rewarding events to come. After considering a career change for a couple of years, her mind kept going back to the idea of entering the healthcare profession.

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Ukraine and New Paradigms in Social Development: The Work of the Kamenets Podisk / IFSW Partnership

Social Service Workforce

By Rory Truell, IFSW Secretary-General

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Social Work Faculty Presentations at CSWE Annual Program Meeting

University of Connecticut

CSWE APM 2022 We are proud to announce the presentations that UConn School of Social Work faculty will lead at the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) 2022 Annual Program Meeting (APM), from November 10 through 13. The following list of presentations and sessions represents the wide range of scholarship that School of Social Work researchers are engaged in, including human rights, child welfare, COVID-19, political social work, refugee and immigrant rights, and more.

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