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Social workers from 22 bodies to develop resources to cut workloads

Community Care

MAY 9, 2024

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.

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Councils urged to join project to curb social workers’ workloads

Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

The so-called review testing and implementation network (RTIN) will work alongside the national workload action group (NWAG), which the Department for Education (DfE) has set up as part of its children’s social care reforms.

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Social workers doing more with less, seeing increased need and weighed down by admin, finds health check

Community Care

MAY 15, 2024

Creating strong partnerships to support social work education and training: 76 (2022-23: 80). The department has appointed a consortium of Research in Practice, Essex County Council and King’s College London to produce and test tools and resources to support employers in implementing the standards.

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40% of family support staff have personal experience of domestic abuse, finds survey

Community Care

MARCH 13, 2024

However, it also underlined the importance of wellbeing services, including counselling and reflective supervision, for practitioners, said the report, produced by social work academics from the University of Central Lancashire and King’s College London.

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Queen’s Jubilee honours: academic hails recognition for social work research after CBE

Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

Jill Manthorpe, professor of social work at King’s College London, was awarded a CBE – the highest mainstream award besides a knighthood or damehood – for services to social work and social care research.

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Surgeon General’s urgent call for mental health research

MQ Mental Health

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Among the projects the MQ Foundation is funding is a study by Dr. Katherine Young , a researcher who did post-doctoral work at the University of California - Los Angeles and is now based at King's College London.

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Episode: Louise Arseneault and Collaboration in Research

MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fresh from having a new paper published, Professor Louise Arseneault, Professor of Developmental Psychology at Kings College London, joined the MQ Open Mind podcast team, Professor Rory O’Connor and Craig Perryman, to chat about collaboration in research. This move took her career to the next level of impact.

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Four ways MQ is helping to prevent suicide

MQ Mental Health

AUGUST 30, 2023

An MQ Funded study, run by Dr Rina Dutta from Kings College London, used data to identify the risk factors so that schools can provide better targeted support. Using school data to identify at-risk children Nearly one in 10 young people self-harms or has suicidal thoughts.

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December Difficulties: Common Christmas Concerns To Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Professor Michelle Moulds, Kings College London The holidays often encourage rumination as we recall Christmases of the past at the same time as we look back over the year. In the USA, the National Eating Disorders Association exists to help inform and educate people about eating disorders. Where to turn for help?

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41+ Famous Social Workers You Need to Know About

Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

From 1950 until his death in 1973 he was the professor of social administration at the London School of Economics. Her activism led to the creation of The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund , which provides financial support for students to attend college. Eric Berne , a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, wrote the book Games People Play.

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From care management to ‘social work as we know it’: Lyn Romeo on her decade as chief social worker

Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is now recruiting for Romeo’s successor, while Trowler is at the heart of making the Department for Education’s (DfE) children’s social care reforms a reality. However, despite their short lifespan to date, the roles now appear to be fixtures.

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