Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

The SSSC is due to launch a supported year for NQSWs across the country next year , following piloting by a group of 10 employers. This will mirror approaches in England, with the assessed and supported year in employment , Wales ( the consolidation programme ) and Northern Ireland ( the assessed year in employment ).

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Children’s social workers play a vital role in helping the country’s most vulnerable families, which is why we’re boosting training opportunities and strengthening rules on using agency staff.” Half of councils have been given a share of £11.7m to recruit 461 social work apprentices to bolster their children’s services workforces.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Increases in the latter are negotiated by employers’ body COSLA and unions each year. “It is a unique opportunity to unify the workforce, and work with key partners and employers to find solutions to current workforce challenges around recruitment and retention.”

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Relias

APRIL 5, 2024

To help clients with disabilities find meaningful, stable jobs, many organizations have turned to customized employment. In this person-centered employment model, intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) organizations partner with clients to seek out and obtain employment opportunities.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), which represents agencies across the economy, released the figures as part of its regular labour market tracker, produced with research body Lightcast. The REC, which has opposed the rules , welcomed the opportunity for further consultation on how they would work.

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Community Care

JUNE 22, 2023

Temporary staff were significantly more positive than permanent colleagues about their workloads, supervision, employer, the resources they were given and their ability to manage their role, found the Local Government Association’s (LGA) latest social work health check. This received one of the lowest average scores in the survey, 67. “It

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

Almost a quarter of the 62 respondents doing their assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) said their caseloads were “completely unmanageable” and a further almost half said theirs were “hard to manage”. Employers are supposed to protect 10% of NQSWs’ time for learning and development. Lack of supervision.

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

The SWU is campaigning for employers to increase the number of part-time roles to enable social workers who cannot work full-time to re-enter practice, and help tackle mounting staff shortages. “Flexibility is essential to retain staff with protected characteristics and boost workforce opportunities for development.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Yet almost as disconcerting were the several opportunities missed to save Victoria by the numerous services she had been in contact with prior her death, including social services, hospitals and the police. ‘A Looking back now, Laming says poor communication between services was the catalyst behind their failure to save Victoria.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The cap should include the worker’s pay; the employer’s national insurance contribution; the apprenticeship levy (if applicable); holiday pay; pension contribution (if applicable); administration fees, including for the agency and any managed service provider, and any other fees. .”

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Engagement Consultation Social Worker Administration 276

Community Care

JUNE 28, 2023

Partnerships, in which practitioners from councils and trusts work alongside each other, either through secondments or being transferred to a new employer, had historically been a common way to deliver mental health services.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One in five children’s social work posts lay vacant in English councils this summer in the wake of practitioners reporting rising stress and workloads and reduced job satisfaction and support from employers. 61% felt valued by their employer, down from 56% at wave 3. 61% felt valued by their employer, down from 56% at wave 3.

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Social Worker 260

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

Hunt said the measure would help more care leavers into employment, in line with one of the central objectives of the budget, to reduce the number of adults currently out of work. Fifteen councils were funded to pilot the scheme in 2022-23, in addition to five who were enabled to do so, along with three private providers, from 2017-18.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

However, members are open to exploring new standards that focus on the support employers and education providers should give to PEs and standardisation of how the existing PEPS are enacted.

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Social Worker Interviewing Diversity Disability 219

Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

It plans to introduce a replacement accreditation programme later this year, designed to be “more sustainable” and deliver “a better overall experience for social workers” that was “more meaningful” for them and employers. This is likely to be based on remote testing, rather than the in-person model delivered through NAAS assessment centres.

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Social Care

JANUARY 10, 2024

Both developments will be essential in supporting learning and development opportunities for people who work in adult social care, as well as boosting recruitment and retention, which are persistent challenges for employers. Following the Call for Evidence last year, the first phase of development is now complete.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To be judged as outstanding, councils will have to demonstrate consistently good performance in relation to criteria including addressing care leavers’ health and emotional wellbeing, relationships and education and employment. However, this was disproportionately high compared with the 11% of all young people in that age group who were NEET.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Employers would also be encouraged to improve their support to kinship carer employees. The strategy provides an important opportunity to raise the profile of kinship care and it does make some welcome steps forward,” said chief executive Cathy Ashley. in funding to support foster care recruitment and retention.

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Michigan Social Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Pre-employment transition services are federally-mandated by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act (2014) to prepare autistic transition-age youth for the workforce prior to exiting high school. The grant builds upon previous efforts involving virtual interview training for transition-age youth.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. “Many referred to the added ‘stress’ of trying to locate and secure a desk or workspace each day. discussions about cases.”

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Community Care

JULY 11, 2023

Overseas recruitment drive Skills for Care estimated that employers recruited 70,000 staff from abroad in 2022-23. Sector bodies welcomed the fall in vacancy numbers but warned that social care could not rely on overseas recruitment to solve its workforce problems, amid widespread low pay and lack of opportunities for progression.

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Community Care

JANUARY 23, 2023

As far as we’re concerned, the dispute is not over, notwithstanding the fact that the employer is now going to impose the pay award. Our position has always been that the employer cannot impose the pay award. Napo general secretary Ian Lawrence said: “Cafcass decided the dispute was over. We understand members are desperate for money.”

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Community Care

APRIL 8, 2022

Also, employers have been permitted to recruit care workers from abroad since February – but only if they earn £10.10 Through our recruitment resources, and by working directly with providers, local authorities, and the Department of Health and Social Care we are aiming to support employers to tackle this challenge. “At

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The ongoing longitudinal survey of local authority children’s practitioners has identified significant differences in the experiences of doing the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) between those who qualified through university programmes and those trained through Frontline and Step Up to Social Work. ”

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University Social Worker 216

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Responding to last week’s announcement, Homecare Association chief executive Dr Jane Towson said: “Ultimately it is the unfavourable pay and terms and conditions of employment experienced by the workforce that has led to a shortage of homecare workers, resulting in inadequate homecare capacity.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

Crocker also reiterated stinging criticisms of employment agencies – first articulated last July – particularly the increasing practice of supplying managed social work teams rather than individual practitioners. “We really need to be emphasising that at every possible opportunity.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Build a Professional Network: Networking is critical for professional growth, and it can also open doors to new opportunities. These connections can provide valuable insights into salary negotiation strategies and potential job opportunities. Ask your employer or new employer during negotiations if they’ll pay for training.

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Social Care

AUGUST 3, 2022

The announcement, earlier this year, of £500m to support workforce training, progression and wellbeing will give all those working in social care the opportunity to develop their skills and expertise, whether that’s providing skilled, high quality care and support, or moving into more senior roles as managers and leaders.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

LIIA and SESLIP found that it also adversely affected recruitment and retention too, with staff reluctant to work in a “negative and critical environment” and some opting to move out of frontline roles when opportunities arose. The media’s negative coverage of the job does not help. We need to highlight good stories.”

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2023

It promised to invest in one-to-one counselling, group-based mental health and wellbeing sessions, a helpline, coaching to support wellbeing, a workforce wellbeing fund for employers to draw upon for their own initiatives and a pilot scheme to test the collective purchasing of occupational health provision for small and medium-sized providers.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It was an opportunity to discuss current initiatives and their implications and also an opportunity for DHSC colleagues to observe front line practice in a variety of settings. CareTech: "This [has been] an opportunity for the sector to help shape these initiatives to. have a positive impact on our workforce.

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Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

“Courses vary so much in how and even whether they currently expect some form of shadowing opportunity. As the supervisory body responsible for authorising DoLS applications in England, it is local authorities’ responsibility to appoint BIAs.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2017, Community Care was up for sale and Mark took up the opportunity to reunite with his favourite publication. We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come. How has social work changed in 50 years?

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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. Alternatively, ASYE programmes should be boosted to fill in gaps in learning, it said.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It’s safe to say I’ve seen it all, and I can personally attest to how many opportunities there are within the social work field! This is great because there is a possibility to earn more (because some of these online mental health agencies are corporations instead of nonprofits) AND offer the opportunity to work from home!

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

New research presents opportunity for prevention for staff and families. This presents an opportunity for the care and health sectors and all employers to look at prevention in a positive way by identifying unpaid carers early and making sure they have access to the information and advice that they need.

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Disability Communication 81

Relias

APRIL 24, 2023

Employment for individuals with autism is a pressing issue worthy of attention. According to recent studies , the employment rate for adults with autism is alarmingly low. Fortunately, there are strategies for supporting adults with autism in gaining and maintaining employment. and health insurance.

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