Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

Rises in child poverty fuelled by benefit cuts was associated with more than 10,000 more children being taken into care between 2015 and 2020, a new study has estimated. The research , which is currently being peer-reviewed, suggests 10,356 more children living in English local authority areas became looked after than would have been the case had poverty levels remained at 2015 levels.

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Gary Direnfeld

JANUARY 5, 2022

I am a late bloomer. Back in my day, one needed grade 13 to go to university. I wasn’t a good student. I lasted to grade 12 and then dropped out. If it wasn’t for music, I wouldn’t have made it that far. I gained an interest in photography and a year later applied and then attended a program at Seneca College. There I took an elective in psychology and with that applied as a mature student to York University.

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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 Guardian

JANUARY 5, 2022

Over 11,000 care workers off for Covid reasons, internal health system staffing data shows Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Care operators are facing acute staffing shortages caused by Omicron with more than 90 declaring a “red” alert, which means staffing ratios have been breached. Over 11,000 care home workers are off for Covid reasons, according to internal health system staffing data seen by the Guardian.

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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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The Guardian

JANUARY 2, 2022

Mother says her 24-year-old son’s care at a hospital in Cheshire is ‘worse than being in prison’ The family of an autistic man confined to an apartment and fed through a hatch are planning a legal challenge against his conditions, in a case that will increase pressure on the government to end the practice of keeping people with severe learning disabilities in “modern-day asylums”.

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Community Care

JANUARY 7, 2022

Councils will need to recruit more adults’ social workers to deal with hundreds of thousands more assessments and reviews per year on the back of care funding reforms, the government has confirmed. The additional assessments and reviews will be required from 2023-24 onwards when the government implements its cap on care costs and a more generous system of means-testing, bringing many more self-funders into local authority care and support.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 7, 2022

[Note: Below is an excerpt from an article in the most recent issue of the journal Social Work, co-published by NASW and Oxford University Press. The article was written by Laura Nissen , PhD, MSW, professor and Presidential Futures Fellow, School of Social Work, Portland State University; and Anna Scheyett, PhD, MSW, dean and professor, School of Social Work, University of Georgia, Athens.

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Social Work.Career

JANUARY 6, 2022

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 30 free webcasts that I could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest to you, […]. The post Free Mental Health Webinars, January 2022 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.

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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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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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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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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Mia Ives-Rublee. President Biden has announced his intent to appoint social worker Mia Ives-Rublee, MSW, to his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Ives-Rublee is currently director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. She earned her master’s in social work at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

Photo credit. A nervous breakdown can happen to anyone, including someone who seems to have a high level of emotional resilience. People have different physiological and biological makeup, some are naturally able to cope with heavy or extreme stress, while others are easily overwhelmed. It does not mean you are weak, it only tells how much the brain can take.

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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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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

An “unstinting focus on improvements” by managers and a sustained investment in hiring more social workers has led to a council being rated good by Ofsted, three years after an inadequate rating. The inspectorate rated the impact of leaders on social work practice with children and families at Wakefield council as outstanding, and said challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic had not “tempered the drive and determination to improve services”.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and rise in racial injustices signaled the need to engage students in macro-level interventions to maximize their contributions to their schools, communities, and society. School social workers are uniquely positioned to elevate student voices, hone their critical thinking skills, and capitalize on their strengths and assets.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 5, 2022

Tanya Bulls, DSW, LCSW. Christine Limone, PhD, LCSW. Monday, February 21, 2022. 2 pm – 4 pm. 2 CEC. $40 – UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors. $50 – All Others. Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete. School social workers don’t always receive discipline-specific clinical supervision in their school setting. The lack of supervision is inconsistent with known best practices of the social work profession.

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The New Social Worker

JANUARY 5, 2022

Can Siri and Alexa be programmed with social work values, knowledge, critical thinking, and communication skills? Is this the "new" social worker of the future? Can SocBots learn and adapt to provide better, more ethical services?

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Community Care

JANUARY 7, 2022

The Scottish and Welsh governments are seeking an urgent meeting with the Home Office to raise concerns over its now-mandatory requirement for UK councils to take unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Since 14 December, the Home Office has compelled all British local authorities to sign up to its previously voluntary national transfer scheme (NTS), which enables councils for whom unaccompanied children make up more than 0.07% of their child population to refer children to other authorities.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 6, 2022

How did you get through the most depressing times? I think having support and love from friends and family is so important in going through hard times. My best friend in the entire world is the reason I am here today. Everyone needs support and someone to talk to regardless of it being friends, family, significant other, therapist, professor etc. We all deserve the same resources and we all deserve to live our best and most authentic lives by being the best version of ourselves.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 5, 2022

Closure to admissions is increasing pressure on hospitals unable to discharge patients, say health bosses Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Hundreds of care homes are closing their doors to new admissions because of the rapid spread of Omicron, increasing pressure on embattled hospitals that are unable to discharge patients into the community.

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Nnatasha Tracy

JANUARY 6, 2022

Can a doctor have a good bedside manner and be medically competent? That is the question. In my experience, these two things rarely go together. This is a shame because I consider them two sides of the same coin when treating patients. You can't just be good at one of them and expect to get the best possible outcomes. And I'm not the only one who says this, research bears this out as well (see more below).

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The Social Care Elf

JANUARY 6, 2022

Louise Arsenault provides a fascinating overview on the challenges and complexities of sharing mental health data in the UK. The post Infrastructures fit for purpose? The complex challenges in sharing mental health data appeared first on National Elf Service.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

The end of 2021 brought more outstanding reporting on various dark corners of the “child welfare” system. ? If you tear a child from a parent’s arms, then demand money to give the child back, what’s the right word for the payment? If you said “child support” you must work for a family policing agency – since almost anyone else would call it what it is: Ransom.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 5, 2022

Son of infected resident describes situation as ‘unmitigated disaster’, with questions raised over booster shot timing Follow our Covid live blog for the latest updates NSW restrictions ; NSW vaccination rates by postcode Vaccine rollout and rates tracker ; Cases and data tracker Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing A south-west Sydney nursing home is battling a major Covid outbreak with families now questioning the timing of booster shots and why positive cases were kept in cl

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CAPC

JANUARY 6, 2022

We're welcoming the new year with a look at the most-read blog posts in 2021.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 7, 2022

Publication of Cadernos GEPE Magazine. It is with great joy that we from the Editorial Committee of Cadernos GEPE, from the Study and Research Group on Ethics at UFPE, inform you that, on December 31, 2021, our new journal was published on the University Journal Portal Federal de Pernambuco – Brazil and, therefore, we congratulate the authors for their excellent contribution.

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Gateway Foundation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Detox and withdrawal are two of the most commonly used words regarding the struggles of quitting a substance. Although detox and withdrawal may be related, the terms cannot be used interchangeably. Understanding the difference between detox and withdrawal can make overcoming substance use disorder less intimidating and more manageable. The sections below will review the differences… The post What’s the Difference Between Detox and Withdrawal?

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The Guardian

JANUARY 3, 2022

Four Seasons Healthcare boss says depriving residents of their right to see loved ones is ‘an absolute outrage’ Coronavirus – latest updates One of the UK’s biggest care home operators is calling on the government to lift visiting restrictions after it recorded one Covid death in the last fortnight. Four Seasons Healthcare, which operates 165 care homes, said close to 4,000 residents were living under strict lockdowns because of outbreaks, but the Omicron variant was proving so mild in a well-va

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Michigan Social Work

JANUARY 6, 2022

MSW students Deena Etter , Madeline Loss , Courtney Marsden and Nevo Polonsky have been selected to the Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF) Program. Administered by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the program attracts outstanding graduate students who have a commitment to excellence in leadership and management of public policies and programs.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

JANUARY 6, 2022

Press play to listen to Self-Care Starts with Self-Compassion. [link]. Transcript: An attorney once told me that I was “soft” during a conversation. He said, “well, you’re a social worker and social workers are soft.” His statement wasn’t even relevant to the conversation. I asked him about Georgia law to advocate for a client. My immediate thought was I go into every kind of neighborhood imaginable with only my wit, charm, and power of persuasion.

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Gateway Foundation

JANUARY 7, 2022

If a family member, friend or spouse likes to gamble, you might wonder if it’s something to worry about. What if they get addicted to gambling? Who is at risk for developing a gambling addiction anyway? Maybe you’re questioning your own habits. Not everyone who gambles develops a gambling disorder. But some people are more… The post Common Risk Factors for Gambling Addiction appeared first on Gateway.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 6, 2022

Staffing and A&E demands risk exacerbating backlog caused by Covid pandemic, says committee Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Plans to tackle the “catastrophic impact” of the Covid pandemic on patients in England waiting for NHS treatment could be derailed by emergency care demands and a lack of staff, MPs have said. With about 6 million people already waiting for planned treatment, the backlog caused by the pandemic is a major and “unquantifiable” challenge as mo

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Famcare

JANUARY 6, 2022

Nonprofits mostly start with great ideas and big hearts trying to address a problem nobody else seems to care about. From Doctors Without Borders to Feeding America, Americares Foundation, Direct Relief, and United Way Worldwide, there are countless examples of large, successful nonprofits around us—but even these were only just ideas at some point.

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