Doin' The Work

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Dawn shares what voting means to her as a Black woman, and stresses that voting is important at all levels of government – national, state, and local. Dawn shares what voting means to her as a Black woman, and stresses that voting is important at all levels of government – national, state, and local. Episode 34. Guest: Dawn Brown, MSW. Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW. . www.dointhework.com. Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify.

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Advocacy LCSW Disability Social Worker 40

Doin' The Work

AUGUST 3, 2020

They talk about how to get involved in prison abolition on a local level, tracking government budgets to see how much spending is going to policing and the construction of new jails, and connecting with others who want to do something about it. They talk about how to get involved in prison abolition on a local level, tracking government budgets to see how much spending is going to policing and the construction of new jails, and connecting with others who want to do something about it.

Child Welfare 40

Child Welfare LCSW Disability Welfare 40

Social Work Futures

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

What does it look like when an entire government or a large government agency commits to a futures lens? Africa Foresight Academy (both private sector and government mentioned). Foresight, insight and oversight: Enhancing long-term governance (2019).

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

We also know that retaining enough experienced social workers is a big challenge and ADCS urges the government to use this opportunity to develop a national recruitment and retention strategy to encourage more people into the profession, and crucially to want to stay.

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Government Social Worker Consultation Interventional 105

The Guardian

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Local government Politics Society Rishi Sunak Michael Gove Tax and spending Council tax Social care Business UK newsAfter years of austerity followed by Covid, local authorities are millions short on budgets. What has happened to ‘levelling up?’

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Government Consultation 94

Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. The Welsh Government’s consultation runs until midnight on 7 November 2022.

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Consultation Government Administration Healthcare 91

Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The government has ended statutory interventions in two council children’s services, while removing a commissioner appointed to direct improvements at a third.

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Interventional Government 70

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.

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Government Schools Consultation 93

Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

The government has decided to produce one overarching code to ensure the principles of the MCA are embedded in the LPS from its introduction. By Tim Spencer-Lane, legal editor, CC Inform.

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Government Therapist Hospitals Consultation 87

Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The government is examining how councils can place more social work students to meet its ambitions to increase numbers coming into the profession. It added: “The government plans to invest in new and existing training routes for people who want to become social workers.

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Government Social Worker Consultation 81

Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2022

Social care’s “increasingly unsustainable reliance” on agency staff needs urgent government intervention, a provider body has warned. Government seeks overseas care staff to fill mounting shortages.

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Government Interviewing Interventional Home Care 82

Martin Webber

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The use of the Mental Health Act 1983 in England has increased considerably between 1984 and 2016. A new analysis of this trend has been published in the October edition of the British Journal of. Approved Mental Health Professionals Mental health social work

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Mental Health Government 130

Community Care

MAY 11, 2022

The government has increased weekly payments for care home residents with nursing needs by 11.5% as vacancies for nurses working in social care continue to mount.

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Nursing Home Government Clinic 72

Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

‘Adding further pressures to underfunded sector’ A Local Government Association spokesperson said: “The loss of funding streams for social care puts councils and providers onto an even more unstable footing and highlights how volatile the financial situation is within social care.

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Government Hospital Discharges Hospitals Disability 71

Community Care

MAY 27, 2022

The number of council child and family social workers in England quitting children’s services altogether rose by 22% last year, suggest government figures. Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show. By Charlotte Goddard and Mithran Samuel.

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Government Social Worker Administration Case Management 98

Community Care

APRIL 6, 2022

The House of Lords has rejected – for a second time – a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit to less wealthy people. “The government talk about levelling up for disabled people, but really they are doing the opposite.

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Government Disability 96

Community Care

APRIL 27, 2022

A government change reducing the cap on care costs’ benefit to less wealthy people has become law, following a parliamentary battle. The government says its change will save £900m a year.

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Government Hospitals Social Services Social Services 87

Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Those who were managers rose to 21.7%, up from 19.9%, a trend described as “concerning” by Josh MacAlister who is leading the government-commissioned children’s social care review. Government examining how councils can take more social work students.

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Government Social Worker Adoption Administration 103

Swhelper

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

By Fernando Tormos, Gustavo García-López, and Mary Angelica Painter After a hurricane strikes, governments and electric utility companies go to work restoring a sense of normalcy to their communities. While governments […]. Fernado Tormos.

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Government Recovery 60

Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Campaigners have accused the government of undermining practitioners’ knowledge and experience with its proposals to tighten age assessments for unaccompanied young people claiming asylum. Story updated 3 November 2021.

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Government Social Worker 70

Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In its latest adoption strategy , published in July, the government said it wanted to cut waits for children with a placement order to less than 18 months, saying it was “unacceptable” that 1,000 children were waiting longer than this.

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Adoption Government 107

Community Care

JANUARY 7, 2022

Councils will need to recruit more adults’ social workers to deal with hundreds of thousands more assessments and reviews per year on the back of care funding reforms, the government has confirmed.

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Government Social Worker Case Management 100

Community Care

APRIL 28, 2022

The UK government must fully fund the introduction of a £10.50-an-hour minimum wage for adult social care care workers in England, its migration advisers have urged. Government to consider recommendations. “We

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Government 72

Swhelper

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Government Can Do to Address Energy Insecurity. Sanya Carley. By Sanya Carley and David M. Konisky Energy insecurity—defined as the inability to pay one’s energy bill or avoid utility disconnection—is a pervasive and growing problem in the United States. Approximately 4.7

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Government 61

Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

The way ordinary residence is determined for mental health aftercare remains unsettled, despite the government winning a court ruling relating to its radical new approach to the issue. Learn about the government’s new approach. High Court rules against government… .

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Government Mental Health Consultation Engagement 84

Community Care

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The government’s care funding reforms will do very little for those with longstanding needs and modest wealth, following changes that reduce their benefit for the less well-off.

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Government 88

Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2022

Social work caseloads will be explicitly addressed in a government-commissioned independent review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland, launched last week. The UK government has said MacAlister cannot assume additional government funding to implement his recommendations.

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Government Engagement University Disability 82

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

The government has reinstated a change to the cap on care costs that will reduce its benefit to less wealthy people. ” The government also overturned a Lords vote to bring forward the implementation of the cap to April 2023, in order to maintain its planned October 2023 start date.

Hospital Discharges 74

Hospital Discharges Government Consultation Hospitals 74

Community Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

English councils need £2.7bn more in funding for children social care by 2024-25, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned, ahead of the government’s spending review this week.

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Government Recovery Interventional Disability 77

Community Care

JANUARY 28, 2022

The government should be responsible for ensuring there are enough secure placements for looked-after children to address the current shortage, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said.

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Government Social Worker Youth Worker Advocacy 78

Community Care

JANUARY 7, 2022

The Scottish and Welsh governments are seeking an urgent meeting with the Home Office to raise concerns over its now-mandatory requirement for UK councils to take unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

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Government Welfare Administration Communication 71

Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

People with less wealth and in poorer regions will have significantly reduced protection against “catastrophic” care costs due to a government change to the way the cap on care costs will work, an analysis has found.

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Government Home Care 70

Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

Currently, children’s social care services are run outside of council control in 11 of the 152 English council areas, either because of voluntary decisions by councils or through government imposition.

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Government Social Worker Adoption Consultation 76

The Guardian

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak said to have agreed to decision not to follow public health advice on testing in vulnerable settings Public health advice is no longer being followed under Boris Johnson’s “living with Covid” strategy to end mass testing, senior civil servants have acknowledged in a leaked account of a cross-Whitehall briefing.

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Government 114

Community Care

APRIL 12, 2022

People who take Ukrainian refugees into their homes should not have the money they receive for doing so counted for the purposes of care charges, the government has said.

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Government 65

Community Care

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The government will assess the percentage of agency social workers in the children’s services workforce as a measurement of how successful its latest spending review has been. Cafcass asks government to fund agency social worker recruitment as staff reach ‘breaking point’.

Social Worker 73

Social Worker Government Disability Adoption 73

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

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Government 91

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Another day, another assault by this government on the very voters who gave it such a stonking majority. People trusted Boris Johnson on social care and HS2. Will they punish him for these twin breaches of faith? The change in social care subsidies in England, sneaked out under the shield of their own sleaze scandal, is a finely targeted strike on older, less affluent homeowners living in northern English seats. These are the very people Boris Johnson now likes to claim as his own.

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Government 86

The Guardian

APRIL 27, 2022

I felt every emotion you could think of when I heard the news that the government’s early policy on care homes in England – when elderly and vulnerable people were discharged from hospitals into care homes without being isolated – had been ruled unlawful. The anger rose because the ruling is proof that our government was so extraordinarily reckless.

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Government Hospitals 63

The Guardian

AUGUST 2, 2022

But there is an alternative Does the Albanese government really want to be remembered as the one that stripped many older Australians of their fundamental legal and human rights? The federal government has recently made numerous, welcome commitments to improve the lives of older people living in residential aged care. Granting aged care providers an immunity provision relating to restraint practices is unjust.

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Government 57