Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The number of annual child protection enquiries has hit a new high but the proportion of those finding abuse or neglect has continued to fall, official figures show. Directors warned that the 3.5% hike in the number of section 47 enquiries, from 2021-22 to 2022-23, reflected the erosion of preventive services on the back of “a decade of austerity” At the same time, an academic specialising in the overemphasis of safeguarding risks said that the increasing number of section 47s that d

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As we approach World Social Work Day 2024, we are excited to unveil the theme: “Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change”, which is rooted in the [link] drEHP and has been developed in partnership with the International Association of Schools of Social Work as well as the International Council on Social Welfare. The #WSWD2024 theme emphasises the need for social workers to adopt innovative, community-led approaches that are grounded in indigenous wisdom and harmonious coexistence with

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CAPC

OCTOBER 31, 2023

CAPC faculty and staff weigh about different points of care in a patients' disease trajectory.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Mel Wilson, MBA, LCSW – NASW Senior Policy Adviser Lewiston, Maine has become the latest city to capture the nation’s attention when 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in shootings at multiple locations in this town of less than 40,000 people. This tragedy followed a depressingly familiar pattern. The perpetrator used an assault weapon with a high-capacity magazine to commit the crime, reportedly suffered from a serious mental illness, was able to purchase the weapon legally,

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

County Councils Network says local bodies facing insolvency after increase in children being taken into care and ‘out of control’ costs “Out of control” increases in child protection spending since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic have put one in 10 of England’s biggest councils at risk of effective bankruptcy in the next few months, a survey has revealed.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Fast-track programme Think Ahead will train 320 more mental health social workers after the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) extended its contract up to 2027. The £18.9m extension covers two cohorts, starting in 2024 and 2025, each of 160 trainees, the same size as the 2023 cohort. Following a five-week grounding in social work law and theory, mostly delivered online, the participants will be placed in units of four to six in NHS or local authority mental health services and expected

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As we approach World Social Work Day 2024, we are excited to unveil the theme: “Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change”, which is rooted in the Global Agenda and […]

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) are delighted to launch the theme for the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development 2024: “ Buen Vivir: Shared Future for Transformative Change “. The theme will also be presented at the 2024 World Conference on Social Work and Social Development in Panama.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rising children’s services demand and care placement costs are deepening English councils’ financial problems, a study issued this week has found. Despite authorities budgeting to spend 11% more in real terms on children’s social care in 2023-24 than 2022-23, they are on course for a significant overspend on their financial plans, said the County Councils Network (CCN).

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 30, 2023

All those leaves. When our son was a young teen we had a basketball net on the side of the driveway. I kept it in perfect shape. All the kids in the neighborhood knew they could use it. They did. They even had permission to knock on the door if a car was in the way and they wanted to play. They did. Come fall with the leaves off our colorful maple making for a blanket on the front lawn, I stepped out to talk to a group of kids who gathered to play basketball.

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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.

Private Practice

International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) are delighted to launch the theme […]

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National Casa Gal

OCTOBER 30, 2023

“I’m excited to join the team at the National CASA/GAL Association,” says Kennedy. “As a foster parent, I’ve seen firsthand the positive influence child advocates have on youth and their families. Read More. The post Introducing National CASA/GAL’s new chief development officer Kate Kennedy appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Fee income for 20 largest operators – many private equity-owned – soars as councils struggle to meet costs The biggest private providers of children’s homes in England made profits of more than £300m last year, as concern mounts over the conditions some children are being placed in and the spiralling costs for councils. Fee income for the 20 largest operators of independent children’s homes totalled £1.63bn last year, a 6.5% increase on the previous year.

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CAPC

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How clinicians can help caregivers alleviate their distress—from a simple, "how are you" and assessment to the adoption of strategies that can improve their well-being.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 30, 2023

FSW is pleased to announce that the Volume 20, Issue 2 (2023) of the International Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics has just been published.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Suzanne Mumford (left) and Natalia Stan celebrate their team's thoroughly deserved recognition for a truly transformative project. Passion, motivation and the desire to do more We were delighted to win the Nursing Times Nursing in Social Care Award for a project we are both passionate about. This nurse-led research project, funded by care provider Care UK and The Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) in collaboration with Tympa Health , researched ways to identify and treat hearing loss and reversible

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Social Work.Career

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 60 free webcasts that we 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, November 2023 appeared first on SocialWork.Career.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Institute for Government says ‘crumbling’ services are far worse than when Tories took power in 2010 Britain’s public services are stuck in a “doom loop” of recurring crises as a result of ministers’ short-term policymaking, a thinktank has warned. Public services are performing worse than before the pandemic and much worse than when the Conservatives came to power in 2010, according to the Institute for Government (IfG) annual report on the state of public services.

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Nnatasha Tracy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As most of you know, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline morphed into the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline last year. This has broadened its scope and who it aims to serve. Millions have accessed the 988 Lifeline through calls, texts, and messages in the last year. This is extremely impressive. But how successful is the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at helping people, and would people call 988 again if they were in distress?

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Mental Health 78

International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 31, 2023

On October 17, 2023, the FAIR alliance delivered an “alternative budget speech” to Parliament, addressing key issues related to care work, poverty, distributive justice, and their economic implications.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

We suggest that the National office for the Court-Appointed Special Advocates program use this item from The Daily Show as a training video In 2018, r esponding to former Today Show anchor Megyn Kelly’s appalling attempt to justify blackface, (for which she has apologized) her colleague Craig Melvin noted that, as a CNN story put it, “this controversy is an opportunity to inform people — but said most people already knew how offensive blackface is.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

From pensions to health to social care, this government has done precious little to prepare for an ageing population Let “ the bodies pile high in their thousands ”, Boris Johnson supposedly said. Not once but often, the Covid inquiry has heard that he was for killing off elderly people, “ obsessed with older people accepting their fate ”. According to the invaluable diary of the chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, our prime minister was saying “ that’s nature’s way of dealing with o

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CAPC

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An article published in The Lancet: Health Longevity discusses how substance use disorder is a prevalent condition among older adults over the age of 65

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Disorder 59

The Social Care Elf

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The paper sets out and examines the impact of a local project called Promote the Vote running in West Yorkshire. The post Can rights-based practitioner-research contribute to both civic inclusion and inform the social care evidence-base? appeared first on National Elf Service.

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The Masked AMHP

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One day, while I was still working in a Community Mental Health Team, one of our nurses returned to base in tears. She had been visiting one of her patients, a woman with bipolar affective disorder. She knew she was relapsing and had been trying to support her and her relatives and had been striving to avoid a hospital admission for several days. The patient had shouted at her.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Fee income for 20 largest operators – many private equity-owned – soars as councils struggle to meet costs The biggest independent providers of children’s care in England made profits of more than £300m last year, as concern mounts over the conditions that some children are being placed in and the spiralling costs for councils. Fee income for the 20 largest operators of independent children’s care totalled £1.63bn last year, a 6.5% increase on the previous year.

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CAPC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Experts discuss considerations for regulators when shaping telehealth policy, and the positive impacts that telehealth has had for palliative care.

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Telehealth 59

MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Whether you drool over fashion week in February, dress up for Halloween in October, or enjoy putting on a party frock for the Holidays or New Year's Eve, dressing up holds a lot of power when it comes to self-perception. Research has shone a fascinating light onto the power costume can have on our mental health. So, with Juliette Burton's personal story backed up by research, let’s strip away the layers of misconceptions and adorn ourselves in the facts behind the various facades we can all adop

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Assistant Professor Fernanda Cross has been named a 2023 Anti-Racism Research & Community Impact Faculty Fellow. The Anti-Racism Collaborative is a partnership of U-M’s National Center for Institutional Diversity with the provost’s anti-racism initiatives and is intended to help support, connect and amplify scholars across the U-M campus who study racial inequality, racial equity and racial justice.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Judge accuses local authority of a ‘lackadaisical’ attitude to the 16-year-old’s care after regulated providers refused to give him a place A teenage boy who has been accused of multiple rapes was housed in Airbnbs by a local authority after regulated accommodation providers said it would be too risky for them to house him. Airbnbs and other temporary accommodation have been deployed because no secure placement can be found anywhere in England that is prepared to accommodate the child, who self-

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Gateway Foundation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Xylazine is among the most dangerous illicit drugs circulating in Illinois and the United States, and the number of xylazine-associated deaths is growing. This potent substance is naloxone-resistant, increasing the risk of overdose deaths. An opioid and xylazine combination is known as tranq, and sellers distribute it because it’s more potent and costs less than other illegal and nonprescription drugs.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Group therapy is an effective means to support positive mental health. It also has the added benefit of being cost-effective, because one clinician can treat many clients at once. However, group therapy facilitation is understudied within psychology, so the evidence-base for how clinicians can lead groups most effectively is limited. In a recently published article, we argue that identity leadership theory can help to address this lack of research, by providing a new and practical framework for

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Assistant Professor Rebeccah Sokol wrote in The Conversation about both the increase in gun deaths among children and teens and the research-backed strategies and tools to reverse this trend. “Reducing young people’s access to unsecured and loaded firearms can prevent firearm-involved deaths across all intents including suicide, homicide, and unintentional shootings.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It may be for a short stay, or for longer. But it is vital to tell a whole number of service providers that you have moved out Moving an older person into a care home brings a number of challenges – not least about what will happen to their property. Often a house or flat they have spent many years in will be left empty for a short time or quite a while.

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International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In a world marked by constant transformation and an ever-evolving social landscape, the role of social workers has never been more crucial.

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