MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The UK government recently published guidance from the department of health and social care into improving the mental health of babies, children and young people. This week (5-11 February 2024) is Children’s Mental Health Week. Early years are formulative, and can set the course for mental health in later life.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The UK government recently published guidance from the department of health and social care into improving the mental health of babies, children and young people. This week (5-11 February 2024) is Children’s Mental Health Week. Early years are formulative, and can set the course for mental health in later life.

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Social Care

JULY 20, 2022

Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, Deborah Sturdy, and Skills for Care CEO, Oonagh Smyth, look at the progress being made to create a national voluntary framework to support the safe and effective delegation of healthcare interventions to the social care workforce. Image created by freepik.com ]. Building on best practice. Find out more.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2022

A council is at risk of losing control of its children’s services after the government intervened in the light of a damning Ofsted report. Mixed picture on outsourcing as review urges tougher intervention. Over the longer-term, intervention should be extended to authorities repeatedly rated requires improvement.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 20, 2024

MQ has contributed to an All-party parliamentary Group report that is calling on the UK government to ‘unlock the trauma trap’ of Adverse Childhood experiences (ACEs) and free the nation’s children with a population-wide public health strategy. You can read more about Early Intervention measures here.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

The government has handed social care an extra £500m for 2024-25 following last-ditch pleas for ministers to ease funding pressures on councils. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove announced the top-up to the planned local government settlement for the coming financial year, in a statement to Parliament today. cash rise worth 4.7%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Delayed intervention can mean that the measures eventually put in place are less likely to be effective – or might not make any positive difference at all – because the child and family might have already reached crisis point. Are children being supported at the right time? Again, it’s vital to ascertain why.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Knowledge of social work intervention strategies is central to the social work role. Social workers use different intervention strategies to support individuals, families, and communities in times of crisis, using multiple interventions and strategies. Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies.

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) found that just half of services were able to meet demand for services including one-to-one therapy or counselling, group-based interventions, helplines or advocacy for child or adult victims/survivors and family members.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Next year’s 10% hike in the national living wage (NLW) will trigger adult social care cuts without increased government funding for councils, a survey has found. The notices trigger a stop on new spending and generally lead to significant cuts to non-statutory services and government intervention in the running of the authority.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2022

As a result, councils lack funds to invest in early intervention, to help children stay with their families, he said. Sitting alongside the minister, Department for Education (DfE) director of children’s social care Fran Oram said the government would bring forward reforms to ensure the market functions much more in the interests of children.

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Despite the focus of current government reforms on intervening early to help children stay with their families, they are insufficiently focused on those on child in need (CIN) plans, said the rights watchdog.

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The Guardian

JULY 30, 2023

Brian Bell says ministers have let social care become reliant on low-paid and vulnerable foreign workers Ministers have allowed England’s creaking social care system to become too heavily reliant on low-paid foreign workers who are vulnerable to exploitation, the government’s migration adviser has warned.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Good practice in family group conferencing must not be diluted as the intervention gets rolled out across children’s social care services. I think family group conferencing is so important and the evaluation confirms that,” he said. “It is reducing by significant proportion the number of people going into care.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The “full spirit of the Care Act” is not being met, the government has said as it plans to reintroduce performance assessments of council adult services. Government intervention. Councils would have the right to make representations before any statutory intervention was carried out.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

At the same time, the Local Government Association released research showing authorities as a whole were on course to exceed their approximately £4.7bn care placement budgets by £680m (14%), following a similar overspend last year. Inflation on supplies and salaries have been significant.

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

They found that rates of child in need interventions linked less robustly to increases in poverty than higher-level actions. Despite wider evidence linking families’ socioeconomic conditions to child welfare and child protection interventions, the report said poor-quality data and other related factors had hindered analysis in the UK.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In addition, staff who need to be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) to perform their role will have their annual fees paid for by the Scottish Government. A report by spending watchdog the Accounts Commission earlier this year said that real-terms funding from the Scottish Government to councils had fallen by 4.2%

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Over three-quarters of 3,490 respondents to a Community Care poll selected this option over better multi-agency working, lower thresholds for intervention or the creation of a dedicated child protection service.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

The PSW network’s intervention comes on the back of the number of medically fit people awaiting discharge reaching 14,000 in early January – the highest level on record – due to a lack of social care, community health and other services to support them on their return home.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. The college called on the government to fund an expansion of medical school places and psychiatry training posts.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The number of children in need in England has fallen for the third successive year, to its lowest level since 2013, according to official government figures. Closures due to lockdown measures during this period led to a 31% decline in referrals from schools and a 7% decrease overall, which contributed to the falls in interventions.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals. “There is little or no accountability when services fail people.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The sharp rise in child protection enquiries follows the final report of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, which warned that the system was “increasingly skewed to crisis intervention” and needed to be rebalanced towards early help and family support. Care review concerns .

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Community Care

APRIL 6, 2023

A government asylum age assessment body that the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has urged practitioners not to take jobs with has started work.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

A children in care practitioner from the East of England said: “Cases have become more complex due to lack of services or early interventions not being put in place. Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show. Quality undermined. I am looking for jobs away from local authority social work.”.

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2023

That was among the messages from Foundations , the new evidence body created from the merger of What Works for Children Social Care (WWCSC) and the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF), which formally started work yesterday. But there are major gaps in evidence about which approaches and interventions work.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Government guidance states that these children should not be unfairly disadvantaged as, often, the only reason they did not go into care was because a relative stepped in to care for them. “This isn’t inevitable, but it demands action, leadership and funding from government. ” . ”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They interventions reflect mounting adult social care workforce shortages, with a 55,000 rise in vacancies and a 50,000 drop in filled posts in 2021-22 , and waiting lists for assessments, care packages and reviews. Mounting adult care pressures. Authorities are planning £1.3bn in adult social care savings in 2023-24.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Stable Homes, Built on Love includes a number of measures designed to tackle the issue, including recruiting more foster carers – which the government is backing with £27m from 2023-25 – while the government has recently announced further funding to build children’s homes.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The government must invest in specialist placements to reform a care system not working for vulnerable teenagers and protect them from exploitation. As of March 2021, 10- to 15-year-olds accounted for 39% of children in care, and those over 16 23%, according to government statistics. Horror stories’. Photo; motortion/Adobe Stock.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Warning of £3.7bn funding shortfall over next 18 months piles pressure on Liz Truss after campaign pledges Adult social care in England is in serious crisis, Tory council leaders have warned the government, as it faces a £3.7bn funding gap and a growing staffing shortage that has brought many local care providers to the brink of collapse.

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Save the Social Worker

JUNE 29, 2023

They can’t just want something, but they need to have the ‘can-do’ for your intervention to work. Planning, may sometimes require pushing If you’re honest with yourself, you probably hate bureaucratic forms that you need to fill in for the government too. Just think about your taxes. Or maybe you’re applying to buy a house.

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inSocialWork

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Jazmin Graham Just as the COVID-19 pandemic exposed cracks and disparities in many facets of society — including health care, governments, education and more — long COVID continues to disproportionately disrupt the lives of certain people. Jazmin Graham, LCSW , is a Licensed Clinical Social Work supervisor.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Social worker pay at Cafcass will be “uncompetitive” in many places unless the government gives the family courts body more freedom to set salaries, its chief executive has warned. At last week’s meeting, Cafcass board members said the organisation had offered a lower pay rise than local government employers in five of the past six years.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

“It must, I observed, surely be for central government to monitor and, if necessary, get a grip upon what is a long-standing national problem.” ” Crocker said he hoped the government’s response to the care review “will include meaningful solutions to the placement shortage crisis we are currently facing”.

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

During this time, trusts and ADMs have been considered in other areas subject to government intervention due to poor performance and eventually rejected on the advice of DfE-appointed commissioners. However, since then the tide appears to have turned away from the trust model, with only one created during that time, in Bradford.

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