Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

Under section 25 of the Children Act 1989 , such secure welfare placements may only be made if a child either has a history of absconding, would likely abscond from any other setting and, if they did so, would likely suffer significant harm; or would likely injure themselves or others if placed in any other setting.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

You asked, what is a social worker home visit checklist? A social worker home visit checklist serves as a comprehensive guide for social workers conducting home visits to assess the holistic health and well-being of their clients. Over the years of practice, I have also found this tool useful.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2024

Though the inquiry stressed that Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden were responsible for the 10-month-old’s death on Christmas Day, 2020 – for which they were jailed for life last year – it said practitioners knew that the couple posed a risk of significant harm to him.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

Children making significant progress in residential care due to effective therapeutic interventions, making them ready and willing to move to a family-like setting. Local authorities being “increasingly concerned about the high cost of residential care” and so exploring foster care with children.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Healing Justice Values Alongside Therapeutic Interventions. Our priority was to address how racism, patriarchy and heteronormativity deeply harms Detroiters and the marginalized body’s ability to feel safe, secure, and have a right to exist. This was community care that in the Field, we might call an “intervention” at the meso level.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Having a thriving social network of friends and family makes you healthier because the support of other people reduces the harmful effects of stress. Your self-worth increases and you feel positive about the future. Self-love is not selfish, and it is important to give back to yourself. Try something new I must confess.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The local authority children services also have a duty to safeguard children, who may be at risk of harm. How do you prepare for a social work interview? Preparing for a social work interview within children’s services requires you to prepare with intention. Why do you want to be a social worker?

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Social Work Haven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Helps us understand our role as social workers. What are the 9 core social work competencies in the UK? Skills and Intervention. Contexts & Organisations.   Identify and behave as a professional social worker, committed to professional development. The social work title is protected in UK law.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As social workers, sometimes we may have feelings that hurt or emotions that sting the most. REMEMBER, quotes can help uplift and inspire you as a social worker. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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Social Worker Mental Health Self-harm Interventional 98

Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As a Newly Qualified Social Worker a few years ago, I understood that to become effective at what I do as a social worker , there was a need for me to write good Care Act 2014 needs assessments. A needs assessment is carried out by social services to decide your care and support needs.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

To become a Best Interests Assessor, social workers have to be registered with Social Work England for at least 2 years and enrol on a postgraduate BIA-DOLS qualification. Necessary to prevent harm and proportionate to risk of harm. That is why a social work to-do list may help us manage better.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Collaboration with clients in all aspects of LTSS planning and provision … to maximize dignity and self-determination.” Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Collaboration with clients in all aspects of LTSS planning and provision … to maximize dignity and self-determination.” Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission.

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Nursing Home Medicare Medicaid Self-harm 93

Social Workers Speak

MAY 20, 2022

Byrd is executive director of NASW-PA: First, do no harm: Pennsylvania youth deserve protection from conversion therapy | Opinion. Jeff Feldman, representing the National Association of Social Workers New Jersey , testified at the committee meeting that his organization supports banning adult conversion therapy. CT News Junkie.

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Advocacy Hospice Social Worker Self-harm 40

Social Workers Speak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Gwen Bouie-Haynes, executive director of the Mississippi chapter of the National Association of Social Workers , said her organization has been working in concert with other groups to hold clinics across the state, to help people in rural areas fill out paper applications that are then sent onward to the MHC. “It The Washington Post.

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Self-harm Mental Health Social Worker Disability 40

Community Care

APRIL 28, 2022

A lack of oversight caused by frequent changes of social worker led to a toddler suffering significant harm, a case review has found. However, the health visitor did not make a referral to the multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH), leaving Child Au “at risk of serious neglect and significant harm”, the review found.

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Social Worker Self-harm Consultation Interventional 297

Reimagining Social Work

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The mainstream history of state social work since the nineteenth century is bound up with interventions targeted at problem populations – people pushed to the margins of liberal capitalist societies. Is it because we prefer to engage in self-protective “defensive practice” regardless of the cost to children and their families?

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Child Welfare Self-harm Welfare Justice and Corrections 40

Social Workers Speak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Foundation and the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work have been awarded a $3.3 Historically‚ social workers, like teachers and nurses, tended to be women and were undervalued.”

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Social Workers Speak

JULY 22, 2021

This can result in emotional or behavioral issues including: substance use, self harm, chronic depression, suicidal tendencies, etc. Professional Responsibilities: I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with an expertise in trauma therapy, specifically for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. …

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Domestic Violence LCSW Clinic Social Worker 40

Social Work Tech

MAY 16, 2017

As a clinical social worker, I often worry about my clients. When a client has self-harming or suicidal behavior (thoughts, plan, gesture, or attempt), no matter how meticulously I dot my i’s and cross my t’s to keep them safe, I worry. It’s a hell I’m familiar with. So I made a new one.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The panel acknowledges that there are a small number of children who are seriously harmed or die, where bruises have been seen by staff with a responsibility to protect children before more serious injuries have taken place. Is a bruise ‘reasonable cause to suspect significant harm’? Harming children and families.

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Self-harm Hospitals Adoption Consultation 360

Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

A council’s response to children at immediate risk of harm has “deteriorated” after senior leaders failed to speedily put in place extra funds to boost social work capacity, Ofsted has warned. It linked this to caseloads, which remained high for too many social workers. ” Caseloads remain too high.

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Social Worker Self-harm Government Interventional 236

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As a social worker have you ever stopped to think about what makes Tuesday such a special day of the week? However, let’s pause for a moment and reconsider this day that falls squarely in the middle of our workweek as a social worker. Let’s use this day to practice self-care and peace of mind.

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Social Worker Interventional Self-harm Empathy 52

Social Work Futures

OCTOBER 5, 2020

What they have in common – is that I think they’ll be of interest to future facing social workers. The child welfare system disproportionately harms Black children and families through systemic over-surveillance, over-involvement, and the resulting adverse outcomes associated with foster care.

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Child Welfare Welfare Self-harm Communication 130

Community Care

MAY 30, 2022

The “turmoil” in Bradford’s children’s services led to practice failings in Star Hobson’s case that meant allegations of harm against her were not treated sufficiently seriously, a review has found. Social workers felt uninvolved in ‘inadequate’ council’s attempts to improve, says commissioner.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. This scholarship, created by Mary and her late husband, Raymond, will provide financial support to a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Social Work program.

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Criminal Justice Schools Social Worker Mental Health 98

The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It means active listening – letting the service user speak (or communicate in whatever way they find easiest), and becoming an active part of their account, reflecting their thoughts and helping them use their own perspective to improve their own self-knowledge and self-efficacy.

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