Community Care

MAY 8, 2024

Hundreds of social workers in England are being “left in limbo”, often unable to work, because of long and increasing delays in fitness to practise (FTP) cases. That was the warning from the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), Social Workers Union (SWU) and UNISON in a joint statement yesterday setting out their “significant concerns” about Social Work England’s operation of the FTP system.

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Social Care

MAY 10, 2024

"[As] a profession, [we are] proud to celebrate our cultural diversity and the wealth of unique perspectives, experiences and innovations our global majority nurses bring to our practice." [Image created by freepik.com ] Pride and recognition I’ve been in this profession for decades, but only in recent years has the wider world begun to realise the full range, experience and contribution social care nursing colleagues bring to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 8, 2024

Content warning: This blog references eating disorders and suicide For Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, the theme is 'Movement for Mental Health'. For many, that might translate to exercise, which is one interpretation of the theme. For those with eating disorders, movement or exercise holds some challenges. Whereas every May we are introduced to a different theme for Mental Health Awareness Week, every January, we are exposed to the invariable theme of countless adverts about fitness plans, c

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CAPC

MAY 10, 2024

A leading psychiatrist shares how to identify and address anxiety and depression in people living with serious illness, and when to refer to a specialist.

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Community Care

MAY 7, 2024

The government’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy is the biggest reform programme for children’s social care in many years. It is designed to ensure that many more children are supported to stay with their families or, with kinship carers; that those at risk are much better protected than is currently the case, and that those who do need to go into care receive a much better experience and, as a result, better life chances than now.

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The Guardian

MAY 9, 2024

About 50% of earnings ‘alerts’ for carer’s allowance overpayments not looked at by staff, figures reveal • Will DWP act on carer’s allowance scandal? Tens of thousands of unpaid carers are at risk of debt and criminal prosecution because their cases are lying unchecked on a government “alert” database of people being overpaid benefits, according to new figures.

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MAY 10, 2024

We’ve all found ourselves staring into space from time to time. Perhaps it’s because we’re bored, or we are lost in thought, with our minds elsewhere. Or if this happens regularly, we have been told that we are distracted and ‘away with the fairies.’ Before long, something pulls us back into the present moment and we continue our day without much thought of being elsewhere for a few moments.

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Community Care

MAY 9, 2024

Social workers and managers from 22 organisations are to help develop and test resources designed to cut workloads among children’s practitioners. They will work with the Department for Education (DfE) appointed national workload action group (NWAG) to identify and quality assure solutions to ‘unnecessary’ drivers of workload. The work of the review, testing and implementation network (RTIN), which comprises 21 councils and one children’s trust (see below), will cover are

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The Guardian

MAY 4, 2024

New research has found that every pound saved in closing police stations costs the rest of us £3 Every government looks to save money. Sometimes, it’s a priority to reduce spending, as with post-2010 austerity. Even when overall spending is rising, politicians may reduce spending in one area to make progress on a priority elsewhere. Doing things more efficiently is always a good idea.

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 10, 2024

Mental Health Awareness Week is this year 13th to 19th May. For 2024 the theme is ‘Movement for Mental Health’. Movement can have a positive impact on mental wellness whether that be through running, some more gentle activity or even through fundraising for charities such as MQ Mental Health Research. MQ Ambassador Dr Esther Beierl (pictured above) is a data scientist, trial statistician, and psychometrician in psychology and mental health research (currently University of Cambridge, previously

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Bipolar Bandit

MAY 5, 2024

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government has launched a £16m fund to tackle the exploitation of overseas adult social care staff. The resource is an extension of the international recruitment fund for the adult social care sector, issued last year to help councils and providers increase the employment of overseas staff.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MAY 6, 2024

The Society of Clinical Psychology maintains a list of empirically supported treatments (ESTs), using a set of requirements colloquially referred to as the “Tolin criteria” (Tolin et al., 2015). Under this practice, independent researchers may submit systematic reviews of treatments for consideration as an EST. As submissions have been coming in, a question was raised about whether all of these treatments should be considered psychological and therefore eligible for inclusion.

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Nnatasha Tracy

MAY 8, 2024

I've thought about what makes a person suicidal many times. Mostly, that's because I've been both actively and passively suicidal for prolonged periods of my life. It's hell, and I hate it. There are both general and specific things that make a person suicidal. Knowledge of these factors, along with ways to protect from suicidality, can help.

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Living Sober

MAY 8, 2024

Lurkers who hang around online recovery communities like ours are incredibly brave individuals who are driven to better themselves while also being mindful of self-protection.

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The Guardian

MAY 9, 2024

After the Guardian exposé there is pressure on ministers to save people from a system described as ‘setting carers up for a fall’ • DWP’s unchecked database leaves tens of thousands at risk of debt It has been a month since the Guardian revealed the shocking scale of the carer’s allowance overpayments scandal, and the misery and despair it has inflicted on tens of thousands of unpaid carers.

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International Federation of Social Workers

MAY 6, 2024

Over the last days we have witnessed devastating floods in many countries around the world.

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CAPC

MAY 9, 2024

The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), and Aliviado Health partner to release the NHPI Dementia Care Resources Provider Guide.

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Living Sober

MAY 7, 2024

"I was in denial. I did not realise that I was very sick, I could not see how this disease was destroying me, my family and my loved ones.

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The Guardian

MAY 6, 2024

Wiltshire coroner writes to health secretary after inquest of man who died after waiting more than 5 hours for ambulance A senior coroner has issued an official warning about the “significant disruption” being caused to ambulance services as vehicles wait for hours to transfer patients into hospital, highlighting that the problem now happens all year round rather than only in winter.

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Lawson Psychology

MAY 7, 2024

Understanding which mental health professional is right for you It can be really confronting trying to find the right person when it comes to your mental health treatment. There are so many different disciplines, qualifications, and roles under the ‘mental health’ umbrella. There are many things to consider when differentiating the various roles, including the levels of education, experience, continued professional development, supervision needs and whether they are regulated and/or

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 10, 2024

The Sunday Times, powered by WorkL, has revealed the Best Places to Work in the UK for 2024, and has included MQ Mental Health Research in the small organisations category. This nationwide workplace survey honours and celebrates Britain's top employers - which number over 500 organisations across industries and sizes - and acknowledges the best workplaces for women, LGBTQIA+ community, disabled employees, ethnic minorities, younger and older workers, and wellbeing.

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NASW Foundation

MAY 8, 2024

National Women’s Health Week starts each year on Mother’s Day to encourage women to make their health a priority. This message is especially important given that women’s drinking has increased.

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The Guardian

MAY 7, 2024

Public-sector workers call for pay rise, 500 additional staff and the de-privatising of out-of-home care Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast New South Wales child protection workers have warned that some of the state’s most vulnerable children are being neglected or put at risk of being removed from their families because resourcing problems in the sector have reached crisis point.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 6, 2024

Some forms of couple therapy have emphasized the importance of helping couples differentiate–helping them see each other as two separate individuals, instead of succumbing to a type of “twinning” where only alikeness is tolerated. There are certainly benefits to helping couples resist the draw to substitute being alike for being close. However, ignoring the nonconscious “sameness” of intimate partners is also missing an opportunity to make use of the right-brain natural attraction of similars

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Bipolar Bandit

MAY 5, 2024

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MAY 5, 2024

Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous) and the International Consortium for Social Development are thrilled to announce the 24th ICSD Biennial Conference, themed “Innovations in Social Work and Social Development: Uniting Communities across the Globe for Sustainable Change,” on January 8-10, 2025. They are pleased to invite you to join us in celebrating the 50th year of ICSD and the 25th DYUTI annual conference (hosted by the Rajagiri School of Social Work), which will merge with the

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Health & Social Care Workforce

MAY 6, 2024

Prof Ian Kessler of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce is Professor of Public Policy and Management at King’s Business School.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 7, 2024

Some forms of couple therapy have emphasized the importance of helping couples differentiate–helping them see each other as two separate individuals, instead of succumbing to a type of “twinning” where only alikeness is tolerated. There are certainly benefits to helping couples resist the draw to substitute being alike for being close. However, ignoring the nonconscious “sameness” of intimate partners is also missing an opportunity to make use of the right-brain natural attraction of similars

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The New Social Worker

MAY 6, 2024

Self-care interacts with and must be integrated into every aspect of life. As such, it’s linked to the five basic elements of nature: fire, water, earth, air, and space.

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Prosper Health Collective

MAY 7, 2024

It can be extremely common for women to experience a wide range of emotions during pregnancy and the post-partum period, whether this be excitement, joy, anxiety, overwhelm, doubt and sadness. The transition to motherhood brings about significant changes to a woman’s life including physical changes, hormonal changes, and lifestyle changes. This stage can bring about changes not only to a woman’s sense of identity but to her relationships.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

National Women’s Health Week starts each year on Mother’s Day to encourage women to make their health a priority. This message is especially important given that women’s drinking has increased substantially over the last two decades. Though men still drink more overall than women do, gender gaps in drinking have narrowed, and in some cases, women are now drinking more than men in the same age group.

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