Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 17, 2022

Amy Werman, DSW, LCSW , is a lecturer at the Columbia School of Social Work , with over 20 years of teaching experience in social work education. For the past 20 years, I have been educating MSW students. It is a question on a survey that I give my research students at the beginning of every semester. How do I know this?

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Online-focused leadership programme Research in Practice, which is delivering the programme on behalf of the DHSC, said it would consist of: Five day-long online learning sessions delivered over three months, with some ‘homework’ between each.

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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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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Improving salary has overtaken achieving a better work-life balance as the biggest temptation for practitioners to move roles, found the research. While pay was also the most compelling reason to move for respondents to our 2021 survey, a bigger proportion (55%) selected it in 2023 than in previous rounds of the research.

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Community Care

MAY 15, 2024

Survey methodology Researchers asked respondents a set of questions relating to each of the eight employer standards and a separate set relating to their experiences of their workplaces. Creating strong partnerships to support social work education and training: 76 (2022-23: 80).

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Rachel de Souza delivered the messages in a report issued today analysing Department for Education data – some of it previously unpublished – on children on CIN plans. Also, most councils did not set minimum requirements for children on CIN plans to be visited by social workers or other lead practitioners, the research found.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In response to the consultation, the regulator pledged to address specific concerns about the content and structure of the proposed 78 statements, as well as the “crowded landscape” of social work education standards to which the statements would be added.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The government will create a register of children who are not in school following longstanding safeguarding concerns around home education. Councils would also be able to share data with specified agencies, for example, in relation to safeguarding concerns, and would also be under a duty to support home educators on request from the family.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Those were among the findings of research released this week from the Department for Education and Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), illustrating the scale of the workforce pressures engulfing local authorities. Sharp rise in vacancy rate. The figure marks a significant jump on the 16.7%

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And research suggests the problem appears to be getting worse, at least in children’s services. The latest report (wave 5) of the Department for Education’s (DfE) longitudinal survey of council children’s social workers , conducted in autumn 2022, said 63% of practitioners reported that their overall workload was too high.

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Community Care

MAY 1, 2024

The chairs, whose statement was based on feedback from PSWs, also criticised the lack of “prior consultation, direct opportunity for feedback or prior notification” by the Department for Education before ending the Pathways programme.

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Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eighty three per cent of authorities said they were experiencing difficulties recruiting children’s social workers, with 72% saying retention was a problem, found the research, conducted in spring 2022 and responded to by 65 of the 152 authorities with social services responsibility.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 19, 2024

He started by delivering cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and alternative education programmes in prisons before becoming COO of City Gateway who provide support to at-risk children and women in Tower Hamlets. In 2020 Lea became the CEO of MQ Mental Health Research. Over the last four years he has transformed the charity.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Juggling work and study “I’m a bit of a research junkie and really like the theory element so that was enjoyable and the lecturer was great,” says Joanne, who works in adult services in South Wales. Feedback on consolidation is generally good, according to Tom Slater, education assurance manager at Social Care Wales.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Mandatory CPD or enhancements to the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) are needed to address skills and knowledge gaps left by the disruption to social work education caused by the pandemic. Of 166 students surveyed by researchers for this report, 60.6% Of the 56 NQSWs surveyed, 69.7%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Social Work England is commissioning research into the profession’s mounting recruitment and retention challenges, particularly in councils. a year earlier, according to Association of Directors of Children’s Services research published last year. a year earlier, said a Skills for Care report published this month.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The conference was attended by more than 130 participants who presented research, practices and policies on social policy and social work responses to crises.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 16, 2022

Global Dimensions in Social Work Education – Call for Proposal for SW Education Conference. this time of an increasingly interdependent and interconnected world, the social work profession is challenged to incorporate a global perspective in education, practice, and research that is culturally informed for the 21st century.

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inSocialWork

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Despite our stated values, both social work education and the profession itself have not been on the forefront of social justice efforts and support for trans communities, students and faculty. In short, this is a “call-in” to action for listeners to support the needs of trans people in social work education and in our communities.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 20, 2024

Contributor to the report, Keith Godfrey, Professor of Epidemiology and Human Development at the University of Southampton and the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre said: “Adverse child experiences have lasting impacts that impair a child’s ability to fulfil their potential. first appeared on MQ Mental Health Research.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2022

This is driving huge spending on placements by local authorities, with fees of £8,000 plus a week “not unusual”, Will Quince told the House of Commons’ education select committee last week. The Department for Education calculates average caseloads for children’s social workers in England as 16.3. How big are your caseloads?

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Our research shows disabled people want to have more conversations about physical activity with health and social care professionals, including social workers. Equipped with this information, we went about creating and testing training and education materials for social workers. Why this group specifically? please do contact us!"

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Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

Researchers found no statistically significant difference in outcomes for children between schools with a social worker and those without, What Works for Early Intervention and Children’s Social Care (WWEICSC) said today , following the trial which covered the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years.

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Community Care

AUGUST 7, 2023

Children whose parents are referred to family drug and alcohol courts (FDACs) are more likely to be reunified with their families than those involved in standard care proceedings, research has found.

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University of Connecticut

APRIL 23, 2024

Since 2007, Libal has taught at both the School of Social Work (SSW) and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute (HRI), specializing in human rights, refugee resettlement, social welfare and qualitative research methods. Megan Berthold , Scott Harding and several doctoral students in social work.

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2022

But the Department for Education has provided £4.79m in additional funding for What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) to extend the projects, and their evaluations, until August. Findings from the evaluation, led by WWCSC’s research partner, CASCADE at Cardiff University, are due in January 2023.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Throughout that period, she has worked in tandem with chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler, who is based within the Department for Education. Promoting research in relation to adult social work, leading to the development of 10 priorities for new research.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Graduates of fast-track training schemes feel more prepared for social work but experience greater stress and less satisfaction once in practice, research for the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed. Source: Longitudinal study of local authority child and family social workers (Wave 4), Department for Education (2022).

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. Researchers estimated that between 2015 and 2020, 6.7% Extra £1.4bn cost to public purse.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Drive to reduce care proceedings delays Reducing delay is the intended outcome of the meetings between practitioners before the case management hearing (CMH) , which were tested over 10 weeks last autumn by 22 councils and local Cafcass teams in the Department for Education (DfE) commissioned scoping pilot.

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Michigan Social Work

APRIL 5, 2024

Watkins is the founding director of the Gender and Health Research (GendHR) Lab, the Certificate Program in Mixed Methods Research, and the award-winning Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) Project, which leverages technology to provide mental health education and social support for young Black men.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JUNE 1, 2023

Prof Dr Azlinda Azman appointed new Higher Education DG Prof Dr Azlinda Azman , IASSW Treasurer has been appointed as the new Higher Education director-general effective Wednesday (May 31) until May 30, 2025, the Higher Education Ministry, Malaysia announced.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Eight minutes is all it takes to help us better train and educate social workers who serve clients who may be at risk for substance-related problems, including substance use disorders and substance-exposed pregnancies. We’re listening! Tell us what you know , think—and wish you knew—about client alcohol and other substance use.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

On locum staff, the Department for Education (DfE) has proposed rules to restrict their use in council children’s services to curb rising costs and practices such as agencies only supplying social workers through project teams.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The decision came on the back of a consultation, published in June, that saw 131 out of 141 respondents – including practitioners, sector leaders and researchers – endorse Ofsted’s proposal. NEET rates remain disproportionately high.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This is despite a 2017 literature review by Oxford University’s Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education indicating that outcomes for children placed with siblings in foster care were mostly better than for those placed apart from siblings.

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Social Work Futures

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Council on Social Work Education regularly goes through a lengthy process to revise its educational and practice standards. Foresight uses information from the airwaves, research, and other trend analysis to imagine possible futures where current trends continue, transform or stop altogether.

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