Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

There is no requirement for an independent stage to the complaints process, though people can refer their complaints to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) within 12 months of the relevant decision, after exhausting their council’s complaints process. The PSOW already has such a power.

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Advocacy Interviewing Government Disability 246

Community Care

JULY 16, 2023

Age assessments are generally the responsibility of the local authority in which the claimant first presents (known as a “spontaneous arrival”), or where they have been moved to under the government’s National Transfer Scheme (NTS), which is designed to relieve pressure on ports of entry, such as Kent.

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Social Worker Interviewing Government 169

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In an interview published this week with his constituency’s local paper, the Harborough Mail, O’Brien said he was honoured to have been appointed to the DHSC and commented on its priorities across health and social care. The DHSC appears to be an outlier among government departments in not having agreed ministerial portfolios.

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Government Mental Health Interviewing Disability 244

Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Councils that had made progress highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

Social Worker 239

Social Worker Anxiety Government Interviewing 239

Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Pearce told Community Care that these should include a calculated fair cost for care and rules on provider behaviour, in an interview at this year’s National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC). “Both the CHA and the LGA have made the government aware of the impact of the lack of sufficient funding in this sector.

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Government Mental Health Interviewing Adoption 206

MQ Mental Health

JUNE 26, 2023

This Pride month, MQ is delighted to share an impactful interview with one of our wonderful ambassadors Amazin LeThi. She’s spoken with governments, worked with the White House, helped multiple sports organisations and continues to do so much to help people around the world. That helped me a lot. That helped me survive.”

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Interviewing Mental Health Depression Government 52

Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Councils that had progressed highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

Social Worker 197

Social Worker Government Anxiety Interviewing 197

Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

. “Although the easements were only invoked by eight local authorities, the professionals from the other 15 local authorities around England interviewed for this study reported similar anxieties and made similar decisions relating to reduction of services and changes in services to cope with pandemic conditions,” said the report.

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Interviewing Home Care Anxiety Social Worker 304

Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By drawing on a literature review and focus groups, interviews, and surveys of PEs, course providers and local authorities, the review provided a comprehensive exploration of the challenges faced by PEs. NOPT also agrees with the research findings, which validate discussions that have occurred throughout the profession for many years.

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Social Worker Interviewing Diversity Disability 210

Community Care

MAY 25, 2022

The recommendation matches a proposal put forward in a piece for Community Care last week by former government safeguarding adviser Sir Alan Wood. In its response to the panel’s report, the Association of Directors of Children’s Services said there was learning for all local areas and government from it.

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Government Social Worker Interviewing Engagement 337

Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Disappointment with national government policy commitment to children’s services (25%). The college said this meant the government needed to tackle the “negative effects of multiple government departments generating policies around children” and improve funding for new duties for councils. This is within your gift.”

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Diversity Government Interviewing Empathy 192

Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’ve always felt most comfortable working with the sickest of the sick, and I have a lot of sympathy and empathy for their plight because I’ve increasingly noticed that they are most neglected by treatment providers and the government. I’ve detailed high profile cases based on media reports and my interviews with family members.

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Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 97

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Around 100,000 civil servants from multiple government agencies have voted to strike in a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs According to Pat Leahy , political editor of the Irish Times, the Irish government is doubtful about the prospect of a breakthrough in the coming weeks in the talks on the Northern Ireland protocol.

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Interviewing Government 90

Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) issued the message after the government disclosed that 200 unaccompanied children remained missing after being placed in hotels after arriving in the UK. “I am concerned that without this support they are more vulnerable to abuse and harm.

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Government Interviewing Social Worker 225

Community Care

MARCH 16, 2022

Subsequent improvements led government-appointed commissioner Helen Lincoln to recommend that the North West authority keep control of its services , in a report in the same year. It praised the council’s investment in training for less-experienced managers and Gent’s “close oversight of exit interviews” to inform future retention strategies.

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Social Worker Interviewing Government Communication 217

Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

The last point was highlighted by social worker from the North West, who was interviewed for role which was advertised as being open to part-time hours. “I put in a lot of hard work for the interview and it went really well.

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Social Worker Interviewing Therapist Government 195

Community Care

JULY 12, 2023

“We are pushing the point to government over and over and over about how important it is to go ahead with the reforms,” she said. ADCS president John Pearce said he recognised the need to address the pull factors for agency work, in an interview with Community Care at last week’s conference.

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Social Worker Consultation Government Interviewing 193

Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding. Image: Dzmitry/Adobe Stock Addressing these requires policy changes and for the government to adopt a digital safeguarding approach.

Case Management 188

Case Management Communication Adoption Self-harm 188

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1. That is false and it's actually dangerous for children because it fosters and perpetuates a culture of ACS using these invasive and distressing and degrading tactics.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Interviewing Domestic Violence 122

Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The government has legislated to replace DoLS with a new system, the Liberty Protection Safeguards, but is yet to set out a timetable for implementation, with the Department of Health and Social Care scotching a recent that it would come into force in October 2023. Related articles.

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Mental Health Hospitals Patient Safety Government 258

Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social Work England has convened a group including representatives from government, employers and professional bodies, to tackle the severe recruitment and retention pressures being faced across the country. Social work leaders have come together to forge solutions to mounting workforce challenges in England.

Social Worker 250

Social Worker Diversity Government Interviewing 250

Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Foundations study, based on survey responses from 80 councils (52% of the total), interviews with staff from 35 of these and round table discussions with 31 kinship carers, examined how far authorities provided support to the different types of kinship carer. ” . ”

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Foster Care Government Interventional Interviewing 236

Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Social work is generally seen as a clinical field, so if you do choose to pursue roles outside of “traditional” social work, it might take some time to learn how you can sell yourself in the application and interview phase and prove that your skills are transferable. Make sure you approach salary negotiations at the right time.

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Social Worker Clinical Social Work Clinic Interviewing 96

Community Care

JUNE 6, 2022

North East Lincolnshire council has for now avoided having its children’s services transferred to an independent trust, after a government commissioner’s review found such a move posed a “significant risk” of causing services to deteriorate further. Persistent underperformance.

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Government Interviewing Social Worker 196

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

They were based on interviews with 44 parents of 59 children from 13 local authorities in England and Wales. Focus groups put forward parents’ joint recommendations on the reform of supervision orders based on the key recommendations arising from the individual interviews.

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Interviewing Social Worker University Government 254

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It involved five annual online surveys, which were answered by between 78 and 157 of the 404 practitioners who qualified in 2016, interviews with a sample of participants in years one, three and five and focus groups in years two, three and four. The final year’s survey included questions on the impact of Covid-19.

Social Worker 256

Social Worker Criminal Justice Government Adoption 256

The Guardian

JULY 3, 2022

Exclusive: shadow health secretary says service in England would be brought in over several parliaments Labour will aim to bring in a national care service in England with just as much ambition as the 1945 government that brought in the NHS, the shadow health secretary has said, launching a review of how it would work.

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Interviewing Government 75

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. ‘Chaotic and stressful’ working environments.

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Interventional Consultation Social Worker Government 214

Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Interview with Ms. Interview about her work. Brief film/interview. Professor of Practice, Government and Technology – Harvard Kennedy School. Joy Buolamwini, Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab , poet of code, data scientist and algorithmic justice activist. Presentation of her work. Presentation of her work.

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Interviewing University Communication Therapist 147

Community Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The council came under government intervention in 2019 after an inspection found children were not being protected, cases were being “inappropriately closed” and leaders did not understand the extent of the failings. IROs raised concerns when needed, but managers’ inconsistent responses hindered the effectiveness of the process.

Social Worker 252

Social Worker Interventional Government Interviewing 252

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

At the same time, Truss pledged to reverse the rise in national insurance, implying that the government would borrow the money to fund the increase. During the Conservative leadership campaign, Truss said she wanted to divert the additional funding allocated to the NHS this year (source: The Guardian) – raised through the 1.25

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Healthcare 230

Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

During an interview with BBC Radio, Severwright touched on the misconceptions around social care, people’s difficulty in accessing care due to budget cuts, and the importance of “thinking differently” when creating care plans. You can listen to her full interview here.

Disability 184

Disability Social Worker Interviewing Advocacy 184

Prosper Health Collective

MAY 30, 2023

Back in the 1970s, John Gottman, a psychologist received funding from the US Government to study relationships. Individual interviews with each partner where family of origin, history of prior relationships, commitment to the relationship and other factors thatmight impact on the relationship are explored.

Counseling 98

Counseling Therapist Medicare Interviewing 98

Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services urged the government to “move at pace” in tackling the issue, while the British Association of Social Workers England said the figures were “not a surprise” as practitioners’ working conditions had been “deteriorating year after year”.

Social Worker 191

Social Worker Government Interviewing Therapist 191

Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In an interview with Community Care, Jones, who is emeritus professor of social work at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London, said he had recommended that trusts recruit from a wider pool of staff, beyond social workers, and cut administrative burdens for practitioners, and this was now being put into practice.

Social Worker 258

Social Worker Anxiety Government University 258

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Practice educators interviewed for the research reported barriers to them taking on students, including limited management support, employers not reducing their workload in their core role, vacancies in their team and the need to provide additional supervision to NQSWs.

Administration 291

Administration Mental Health University Social Worker 291

Community Care

APRIL 4, 2024

Ofsted said senior leaders were working with Cafcass’s sponsor government department, the Ministry of Justice, to secure the best possible pay deal for staff within the civil service rules. However, pay rises at Cafcass had lagged behind council settlements in six of the previous seven years.

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Welfare Social Worker Empathy Interviewing 279