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Omicron infections in wider workforce ‘adding pressure’ to ‘exhausted’ social workers

Community Care

Social workers are under increased pressure because of Omicron-related staff absences elsewhere in social care and rising assessment workloads, sector bodies have warned. Vacancies across adult social care rose from 9.2% Mounting staff shortages. to 9.4% , from November to December 2021, up from 6.1%

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Reinstate hospital social workers to improve discharge outcomes, PSWs urge Barclay

Community Care

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. Managing chaos, doing our best for patients and supporting each other: hospital social work under Covid.

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Social care staff carrying out tasks previously undertaken by NHS, without extra funding, say directors

Community Care

Regulations require them to consult the relevant local authority before making a decision about a person’s eligibility and to co-operate with the council about arranging for its staff, such as a social worker, to participate in the MDT.

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Government Covid funding for adult social care ends

Community Care

“This pandemic is not over, social care staff continue to do their utmost to keep those who draw on social care safe with limited resources. Social care honours colleagues lost to Covid. Government scraps mandatory vaccination for social care staff. With less funding this becomes harder and harder to deliver.”.

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World Social Work Day: lived experience informs the very best social work

Social Work With Adults

Jason Brandon, Office of the Chief Social Worker for Adults: It’s National Social Work Week , one of the most important events in the social work calendar. This year's theme focuses on social workers' capacity to adopt innovative and community-led approaches.

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ADASS president: ‘If you see black women in leadership, you believe you can achieve that too’

Community Care

Three in ten of the social workers whom Tarka and her colleagues lead are black, Asian or from an ethnic minority, but this diversity is not reflected in adults’ services’ leadership cadre. “I was fortunate to qualify as a social worker and then did a masters in strategic leadership. ”

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Diana Lee Guida Brown

Social Work Blog

Diana’s first job as a social worker at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital earned her recognition by Glamour Magazine (September 1965) as being a “Girl with Go Jobs.” Other “Go Jobs” would include being Chief Social Worker at the Archdiocese of Newark Mt.