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Case Workers in Family Services Benefit from Social Services Software

Famcare

For those working in child services, an understanding of family situations is vital in being able to help improve child welfare. Fortunately for those agencies, utilizing the right social services software can help streamline processes and effectively “humanize” the various situations.

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SymposiumGender-based Violence: New Directions in Research, Policy and Social Services

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

This results in challenges in policy-making and the design of prevention and intervention programs, as well as deepens the silence on the experiences of violence that in some cases lead to the loss of girls’ and women’s lives. Gender-based violence is a fact of life for many women, girls, children, and adults with disabilities.

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8 hacks to make SSNET One Singapore laser fast

Save the Social Worker

First, a caveat I was a social worker in a Family Service Centre from October 2019 to October 2021, and used the SSNET One system then. Sometimes social work can feel a little like this. It’s brought a new age to social services and added a glossy veneer to what social work looks like today.

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Here’s the lowdown on the social work salary in Singapore

Save the Social Worker

After 2 years being a social worker in a Family Service Centre (FSC) in Singapore, earning all of $3600 per month, before having a pay bump to $3690 in my second year (which I asked for), I realised that we were so sheepish about talking about money, that social workers were actually struggling. Well, well.

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Should you take a FSC social worker job?

Save the Social Worker

You’re thinking of doing social work in the family service centre (FSC). Just as your GP doctor would see any ailment you had before deciding where best to direct you, or to help you, the FSC social worker is also similar. But I will give it anyway, especially as someone who did badly at a Family Service Centre.

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Agency social work to be banned in Northern Ireland trusts next year

Community Care

Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts will have to stop using agency social workers from next June, its Department of Health (DoH) has said. ‘Anxiety’ over agency ban.