Social Work Futures

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As I’m making my way through a book project (Anticipatory Social Work!!!) I’m doing a lot of working and thinking about and structuring activities to guide the profession into meaningful, direct and generative questions for individuals and collectives. The future of social work isn’t only “out there.” It is connected to the things we are doing, the places we are looking, the places we aren’t looking…right now.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I have had several messages and conversations this week about violence in schools. They were all unrelated. They all had the same themes. Those themes included disbelief at the intensity and frequency of violent events across all age of students. The other theme was the disbelief that instead of walking out the disruptive student, the entire class is evacuated from the classroom instead.

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Famcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the US, there are more than 700,000 caseworkers , according to data from 2020. If you're a member of this sizable workforce, you are well aware of the difficulties faced by those who work in the nation's human services. It's never been more challenging to serve the people with a big number of individuals in need of your help, a growing workload, and a slow rate of growth among new employees.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

By Andy Bilson. In a recent report, the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (“the panel”) asked safeguarding partners to review their policies on bruising in non-mobile infants “to check for consistency with the evidence base and national guidelines.”. The panel acknowledges that there are a small number of children who are seriously harmed or die, where bruises have been seen by staff with a responsibility to protect children before more serious injuries have taken place.

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Social Work Futures

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Here’s a collection of links that I’ve been gathering up the last year – exploring the future of higher education. They come at the subject from a wide variety of angles – and represent a continuing horizon scan of things I’m interested in, and may be of interest to colleagues across higher ed. This sector is shifting and evolving just as most are.

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My Brains Not Broken

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I put a lot of pressure on my writing. Sometimes writing about mental health is a release. It helps me express things I can’t say, and put into words a feeling or emotion I’ve had trouble explaining. But it’s also difficult, in many ways, to write when experiencing anxiety. In those moments, it feels like every word has to be perfect or flow naturally.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Councils will be able to deliver an extra 200,000 care packages over the next two years through what chancell0r Jeremy Hunt described as the “biggest increase in funding” adult social care sector had received in its history. As widely trailed , Hunt used his autumn statement today to announce a two-year delay to the adult social care charging reforms, including the £86,000 cap on care costs, which are now due to come into force in October 2025, beyond the next election.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack The Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Bridget McCormack, has written a dissent in a case involving termination of a child’s rights to her parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights).

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My Brains Not Broken

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I have said it many times on My Brain’s Not Broken – I am not a mental health professional. I have life experience and have discussed the topic with many professionals over the years, but this isn’t my line of work. However, I love to do research and find out what the experts are saying. After sharing my own perspective on the importance of feeling , I decided to poke around the Internet and see what mental health professionals are saying about the importance of feelings and em

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The power within all of us. Self Care Week , the annual national awareness campaign, encouraging support for self care across communities, families and generations, is back and lead, once again, by the Self Care Forum. Running 14- 20 November, this year’s theme, ‘Exercise self care for life’, is another suitably empowering call to action, which seeks to inspire more people to be proactive in the management and improvement of their own mental and physical health.

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Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The government will review the local authority designated officer (LADO) role after an inquiry into the abuse of disabled children identified “major failings” in relation to the function. Education secretary Gillian Keegan announced the review in a statement to Parliament after the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel published the report of phase 1 of its inquiry into serious abuse and neglect of disabled children in three residential special schools in Doncaster.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

UK has scored ‘a series of economic own goals’, Institute for Fiscal Studies says after autumn statement Autumn statement: key points at a glance Autumn statement 2022: all our coverage The British people “just got a lot poorer” after a series of “economic own goals” that have made a recovery much harder than it might have been, a leading thinktank has said.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." So why do some of the very judges who order a family "executed" preside over public celebrations of the aftermath?

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Prosper Health Collective

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

At the age of 18, we receive the legal right to make life-changing decisions. Government systems recognise this age as the point where most individuals reach enough of a level of physical and mental maturity to be responsible for the path they decide to take in all areas of life. The thing is, when do you really feel like an adult? Many people never quite feel they reach that point, others say that the first paycheque, bill or mortgage payment finally drives the point home.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Social Work England has finalised training standards for approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) and the new role of approved mental capacity professional (AMCP) following consultation. The social work regulator made minor changes to its draft proposals for each set of standards on the back of feedback from 47 respondents to the AMHP consultation and 31 to the AMCP one.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Healthcare organizations have been using a quality improvement framework consisting of six attributes — safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable — for decades. But new research has expanded the framework to include elements that address more recent challenges in healthcare and in society. Why the Six Domains of Health Care Quality emerged.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Photo of demonstrators at the 2018 Women’s March from Mirah Curzer of Unsplash. By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA. The political climate approaching the 2022 Midterm Elections may very well be ranked with the years leading up to the Civil War as a period when the nation was facing the greatest threat to democracy. While that danger has by no means dissipated, it has certainly has been stalled by the Midterm Elections outcome.

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Prosper Health Collective

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We often talk about feeling particular emotions, like feeling anxious, feeling sad, feeling angry or feeling happy. But what about the experience of having multiple emotions at once? Is this possible? Is this common? Yes we can, and frequently do, experience multiple emotions at once. We can even experience quite different emotions, seemingly opposing emotions , at the same time.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts will have to stop using agency social workers from next June, its Department of Health (DoH) has said. Staff working through agencies at the trusts, which deliver statutory social services in the country, are being offered permanent contracts, a process that will take “a number of months”, said the country’s chief social worker.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Exclusive: Acute lack of social care means people are not able to leave, often causing their health to worsen ‘ A doctor told me I could be here for months’: patients stuck in England’s hospitals As many as one in three hospital beds in parts of England are occupied by patients who are well enough to be discharged, with a chronic lack of social care meaning many do not have suitable places to go.

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Doin' The Work

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Episode 59 Guest: Turquoise Skye Devereaux, MSW Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. www.dointhework.com. Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify. Follow on Twitter & Instagram , Like on Facebook. Join the mailing list Support the podcast Download transcript. We are now offering our Racial Justice & Liberatory Practice Continuing Education Series at Columbia University , Michigan State University , and the University of Houston.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Youth suicide rates have consistently risen over the past decade, and stigma related to mental health may create a barrier to young people seeking help. Schools are a common intercept point for mental health and suicide prevention programming. In the latest Children & Schools , a journal co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press, an article looks at the issue of schools and youth suicide prevention.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Almost all councils lack the funding or the workforce to meet adult social care costs this winter, their directors have warned. Ninety four per cent of directors disagreed that they had sufficient money to fund care over the coming months, while the same proportion disagreed that there were enough social care staff locally to meet needs this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor denies postponing financial pain as fiscal watchdog’s figures show eight years of income growth wiped out In the Commons Rishi Sunak is making a statement about the G20 summit. These statements are normally routine, and just summarise what was said or decided at the meeting. They don’t normally include fresh announcements. Sunak started by talking about the missile incident in Poland.

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International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

IFSW is pleased to announce that the Volume 19, Issue 3 (2022) of the International Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics has just been published. Pascal Rudin, who is a member of the Journal’s […].

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The New Social Worker

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

COVID-19 caused a steep decline in all adoptions. However, prior to the pandemic, important demographic changes were already occurring across public and private adoptions. These changes have important implications for social workers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The NHS will be given the majority of a £500m fund for adult social care, designed to speed up hospital discharge and bolster the care workforce. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said today that 60% of the funding would go to integrated care boards (ICBs) – which, since July, have been responsible for NHS commissioning – with 40% allocated to councils.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Sector hit by staff and funding shortages warns against giving residents legal right to see guests Care homes face being “vilified” if they are forced to allow in visitors under new plans being considered by the government, ministers have been told. The care minister Helen Whately said stopping relatives from visiting loved ones in care homes as a precaution against the spread of Covid-19 showed “a lack of humanity”.

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Health & Social Care Workforce

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Karl Womack is a disability activist and poet who lives in a care home. (544 words) Karl about Karl My name is Karl Jonathan Womack. I was born in 1966.

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International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Along with other partners, IFSW is delighted to launch the 2023 World Social Work Day poster. The theme, ‘Respecting diversity through joint social action’, stems from the People’s Charter for […].

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A lack of social work capacity, high staff turnover and a spike in demand led to delays in children receiving help and protection at Stockton-on-Tees council, Ofsted found in its latest visit to the authority. In a probe in September focused on the North East council’s front door service, inspectors found that eighty children were waiting to be allocated to a social worker due to staff shortages in assessment teams and increased demand.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Exclusive: Care England calls for Ofgem investigation into suppliers’ practices in letter seen by the Guardian Energy suppliers have been accused of profiteering by charging “horrendous and financially crippling rates” to care homes facing huge bills this winter. The chief executive of Care England, the largest body representing independent providers of adult care, has accused gas suppliers of being “unduly onerous” in their practices.

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The New Social Worker

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

World Change-Maker is a clearly written book that will be helpful to social workers, social work students, social work educators, and social work clients. Read The New Social Worker’s review.

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Bipolar Bandit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has failed to recognise the pressures facing children’s social care services in England in his autumn statement today , sector leaders have warned. The package included some additional support for children’s social care over the next two years, with Hunt allocating funding previously earmarked for the adult social care charging reforms for councils to invest in either service.

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