Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

How apprenticeship qualification rate compares The achievement rate is slightly below the average for undergraduate social work programmes, generally, in 2021-22 (86%), meaning there was a higher qualification rate from traditional university courses than apprenticeships.

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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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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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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Liberty Protection Safeguards shelved At the same time, the government has shelved its plan to replace DoLS with the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) until after the next election, following repeated delays to its planned implementation date. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. Promoting social work’s role in society and raising public awareness of, and confidence in, the profession.

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2023

He must also wrestle with the severe pressures in the care system for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children , in the wake of a High Court judgment that ruled the government’s policy of routinely placing young people in hotels was unlawful.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

About 400 more social work apprentices could be recruited over the next year in England courtesy of a £12m fund designed to boost practitioner capacity adults’ services, announced by the government today.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The trainees will be employed, and based, in their children’s services departments, and follow existing three-year university social work apprenticeship programmes, with councils then deciding whether to hire them on qualification.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

All the figures will be uprated each year in line with the government’s consumer prices index measure of inflation. We are pleased to see the government taking such a positive step forward in recognising the value of foster carers,” she said. We estimate that means another £7bn this year, and £9bn next year.”

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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. What are Adverse Childhood Experiences? first appeared on MQ Mental Health Research.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2023

” The Association of Directors of Children’s Services attributed the trends to an erosion of preventive services, driven by government spending cuts to councils in the 2010s and resulting in authorities encountering children when their needs had grown more complex.

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

As part of those plans, the Scottish Government has been consulting on proposals to introduce a National Social Work Agency to oversee the profession, including a national pay and grading framework. Scottish Government proposes National Social Work Agency. Push and pull factors. Value of caseload limits.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Decline in provision of statutory placements The SSSC/SWEP-commissioned report – based on written evidence from stakeholders, data analysis and research with councils, universities third sector bodies, practice educators and students – found the relative provision of statutory placements had declined in recent years.

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Community Care

JANUARY 11, 2024

The government will give councils funding to train more staff as social workers in adults’ services through apprenticeships. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will give councils and adult social care providers just over £20m between them to fund social work and nursing apprenticeships in 2024-25.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Also, government safeguarding adviser Alan Wood called for the establishment of a multidisciplinary child protection service, to develop specialist expertise and improve inter-agency working. MacAlister has said repeatedly throughout the review process that there is no scenario in which children’s social care will not need more money.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

There was “a universal recognition of the fact that change is needed” among a group, consisting largely of sector leaders, that the regulator has convened to tackle social work’s worsening recruitment and retention issues, Sarah Blackmore told adults’ directors last month.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The government has delayed its response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care until next year. ” After being set out by the care review, the view that university courses were not sufficiently evaluated was rejected by academic leaders. Resource concerns following autumn statement.

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Reimagining Social Work

DECEMBER 9, 2023

A personal reflection on the repeal of s7AA and te reo In this guest post from Kerri Cleaver (Lecturer, Whare Wānanaga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury), Kerri explains her personal response to recent government changes.

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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

APRIL 12, 2023

By Lorraine Currie The timeline provided by Community Care , from the 2014 Cheshire West judgment to the government’s postponement of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) , is incredibly helpful in reminding us of events we would otherwise forget. Cut in best interests assessor training However, we are losing the workforce.

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Community Care

MARCH 16, 2023

Its chief executive, Ruth Allen, said taking a job with the Home Office’s National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) was a “risk to professional objectivity and could compromise the judgment of social workers”, in the light of government rhetoric about adult asylum seekers exploiting the system by claiming to be children.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When those receiving information, advice, universal services or signposting are excluded, the number being directly supported by councils fell from 108,520 to 101,925, continuing a drop from 121,520 in 2015-16. Social care secretary back in post as government mulls delay to cap on care costs. Related articles.

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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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Community Care

MAY 22, 2022

The government must introduce national pay scales for social workers, tied to a “vastly improved” learning and development offer, to boosts skills, reward expertise and retain staff in practice, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care said today. By Mithran Samuel and Rob Preston.

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Save the Social Worker

JUNE 29, 2023

It’s funny how I was never taught this in university. 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. But it looks like this method of getting help from the government is not working. That may be the case for you too.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The panel, which is appointed by government to advise on safeguarding and analyse serious cases, said practitioners were frequently overreliant on parents’ accounts of events, and did not probe further, and linked this to the lack of supervision. Related articles.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 2, 2023

Date: 18th January, 2023, Hybrid Mode, (Hybrid event/ in person Nelson Mandela University). CO-HOSTED BY IASSW/ ASSWA/ NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY/JOHANNESBURG UNIVERSITY/ASASWEI. Please register to get meeting link : [link]. Time: 9h00 to 17h00.

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Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

It has launched the consultation in the wake of the government’s decision in April to delay introducing the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) – its planned replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) – beyond the next election, due in 2024.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2024

In addition, the researchers, from Kingston University, Sheffield University, the National Children’s Bureau and Ofsted, identified poor outcomes for children who had suffered neglect, particularly older children on child protection plans. These were often older children and adolescents.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Councils’ ‘spending power’ – the maximum amount they have at their disposal – will rise by 3% a year in real terms, faster than from 2019-21, However, this includes £3.6bn for councils to fund the government’s reforms to adult social care, announced last month. average for government departments.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Government. Article by Diana Ling, MA, Program Manager; and Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH, Senior Health Strategist; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin. If a client who is pregnant is using alcohol, the safest thing to do is to stop drinking. Every day matters.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While agile working was received positively when it involved adequate desk space, spaces for quite and concentrated work and good access to peer support, this was rare, found the research by social work academics at the University of Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian University. Stress and lack of peer support.

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Community Care

MARCH 23, 2022

As other reports have done, it said the situation had been exacerbated by government cuts to welfare, which had deepened child poverty, and less resource for preventive services since 2010, which had shifted the balance of children’s provision towards statutory support. Shift towards statutory spending.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 21, 2024

As many governments are struggling to enact these goals, we see from this edition that social work academics, students, and practitioners are already taking an active role IASSW is thankful to Prof.

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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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The Guardian

MAY 13, 2024

For the past 40 years we have talked of Thatcher’s children – the generation of children brought up in the 1980s at a time of mass unemployment and social security cuts, which I witnessed at first hand as an MP in a mining constituency.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2022

. ‘Need for specialist expertise’ On the eve of the panel’s report, former government safeguarding adviser Sir Alan Wood proposed creating specialist units as the best way of reducing child deaths.

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