Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Children who met thresholds were left waiting up to six weeks to see a social worker due to “significant, widespread and systemic” weaknesses in a council’s front door service, Ofsted has found. An inspirational social work leader’: tributes paid to children’s director who died after contracting Covid.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You asked, what are the 10 roles of social workers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of social workers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Leeanne Olivant, NOPT In the dynamic landscape of social work, practice educators (PEs) stand as vital pillars. The role’s critical importance in nurturing the next generation of social workers and retaining experienced practitioners was highlighted in a Social Work England-commissioned review, which reported last month.

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Twenty three per cent of online adverts studied by the Social Workers Union (SWU) on two dates earlier this year offered part-time or flexible hours, up from 18.7% 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.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social work leaders have come together to forge solutions to mounting workforce challenges in England. 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. a year earlier.

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Community Care

JULY 12, 2023

The DfE consulted on the proposals, which include capping the pay of agency staff to the equivalent of permanently-employed social workers , between February and May this year, and is due to report back on the consultation this September. A requirement for a minimum six-week notice period for agency social workers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Junior minister Neil O’Brien is understood to be covering the adult social care brief and has carried out visits to social care services, according to sector sources, but has made no public statements specifically in this capacity of which Community Care is aware. Care minister role may be downgraded.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

You Asked, Case manager vs Social Worker – What is the Difference? – Social workers and case managers are both integral parts of the healthcare industry. Who is a social worker? Knowing the distinctions between these roles can aid in determining the ideal career path in human services.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

Researchers said this picture was endorsed by council principal social workers and safeguarding leads across easement and non-easement areas. It was based on: 48 in-depth interviews with people over 70 who had been supporting their spouse or partner living with dementia to live at home.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

The study said there were reported cases of students qualifying without any statutory experience, a point that was reflected in SASW’s survey of 344 students and newly qualified social workers, 17% of whom had not undertaken social work tasks during their placements.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. One local authority-employed social worker said: The view of the public is that social workers are incompetent.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. You can listen to her full interview here. The system at the moment is in firefighting mode, it’s trying to keep people safe with the bare minimum,” she said.

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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. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick admitted in Parliament this week that their legal status was a grey area. .

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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. Inadequate’ councils bore brunt of sharp rise in social workers quitting posts last year, analysis shows. Related articles.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

“They say, ‘I want to know who my social worker is, I want them to tell me what they’re doing, I want them to turn up on time, I don’t want to be waiting in a line’. “And we’ve taken the conscientious decision in most of those cases that until the case is heard in court, the same social worker should hold that case.

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In this spirit, the Moving Social Work (MSW) programme aims to harness the skills and values of social workers to support the health, wellbeing and human rights of people with disabilities. Equipped with this information, we went about creating and testing training and education materials for social workers.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

The government’s forthcoming response to the care review will begin to address mounting pressures on the social work workforce, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said. But it’s the wrong thing for children because their social workers can leave at any moment.”

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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. Boost to social worker numbers despite funding constraints helps council improve Ofsted grade.

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Social Worker Interventional Government Interviewing 253

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Coffey, the work and pensions secretary since 2019, will take responsibility for one of the three priorities Truss articulated for her premiership in her opening speech yesterday : putting the NHS on a “firm footing” Social care one of four priorities for Coffey. Prospects for children’s social care.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. By Professor Judith Harwin and Lily Golding. Related articles.

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Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

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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Community Care

MAY 5, 2022

The authority lost its good rating – earned in 2016 – after inspectors found deficits in the quality of assessments, direct work, evidence to court and supervision, amid rising turnover of social workers, in a full inspection in March. Government figures show York’s turnover rate for children’s social workers leapt from 13.2%

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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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Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Their stories motivated me to become a better social worker and write Breakdown. Emergency programs doing bed searches could report to the government and units could be closed if discrimination is not resolved. . What is your main work role?

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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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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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Community Care

MAY 18, 2022

“Serious procedural failings” led a council to wrongly assess that a man presented a risk to his son, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found. The council’s social worker also noted that Mr F’s son had reported seeing his father drinking while in the family home.

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Save the Social Worker

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I remember the first time I walked into a client’s room as a student social worker. Social work isn’t just about the outcomes. Starting out as a social worker, you may have wanted to do some form of the following. in social work, it’s the relationships between you and the client that matter.

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Social Work Futures

MARCH 15, 2023

As a social worker…what I’m most interested in are the following questions: Can Chat GPT help busy professionals manage unwieldy tasks lists in ethical ways? Here’s one piece: The need to protect the data in our brains – and – an interview with Dr. Nita Farahany about her new book The Fight for Your Brain.

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Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This is an essential learning space for social workers committed to future readiness and the expansive and equity-centered thinking that is required to thrive there. (an Interview with Ms. Associate Professor of Social Work, Columbia University. Author of “The Social Life of DNA.” Brief film/interview.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Inadequate’ councils three times as reliant on agency social workers as highest rated authorities. Government appoints commissioner to work with ‘inadequate’ council due to lack of progress. from reserves to tackle children’s social worker shortage. Related articles. Inadequate-rated council finds £1.1m

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2023

” Foundations’ five priorities will make up 80% of its work over the next five years and will involve existing studies, as well as new work funded through its core grant from government, which it can use unrestrictedly.

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Interventional Mental Health Interviewing Government 189

Social Work Synergy

APRIL 15, 2020

We are proud to have her as a member of our faculty at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. Social workers are often unsung heroes, and that’s often ok with them. In fact, most people don’t even want to think about it; they hear “social work” and say, “OH, I could never do that.”

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 2, 2024

In an interview with The Guardian in 2019, she discussed the toll that the job can take on her mental health and the importance of taking care of herself. The pressure of Ofsted inspections and government policy changes were also blamed by large numbers, followed by pay.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Similarly, when Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia reported City Councilmember David Oh as a potential child abuser after one of his children was injured as he taught the child martial arts, Oh says the hospital social worker explained that she “typically reports injuries children suffer in all sports.” Emphasis added.]

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Social Work Haven

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Seventy-one percent (71%) of social work graduates in the UK are employed within 15 months post graduation. That is why it is vital to do your social work registration as soon as possible! In this article here, you can find the A to Z social work job interview tips. Read the pros and cons of social work here.

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