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71 Common Interview Questions Every Social Worker Must Know

Social Work Haven

Preparing for interview questions you may be asked during a social work interview is vital. “By This holds true for interviews as well, where you are likely to outshine others tomorrow by preparing today. TIP #2 –The role of the social worker requires a unique set of skills. Tell us a bit about yourself.

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How social workers’ role would change under Working Together overhaul

Community Care

The Department for Education has proposed far-reaching changes to social workers’ roles under Working Together to Safeguard Children, its guidance on services for children in need of help and protection in England. By contrast, the proposed update to the guidance mentions ‘social worker’ just 23 times.

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Council improves to ‘good’ after increasing social worker numbers to cut caseloads

Community Care

A council criticised by inspectors for high caseloads has improved to a good Ofsted rating after hiring more social workers to reduce workloads. The council’s full-time equivalent of social workers rose from 345 to 368 between 2017 and 2020, during which time average caseloads fell from 19.5 Direct work praised.

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Eileen Munro on the legacy of her child protection review

Community Care

Our interview with Eileen Munro is part of a series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary. In a survey the following year, children’s social workers reported spending 59% of their working time doing case-related paperwork.

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Children waiting up to six weeks to see social workers, as authority downgraded to ‘inadequate’

Community Care

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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How to take action and improve the public’s perception of social work

Community Care

Community Care’s Choose Social Work campaign aims to counteract the negative media coverage of the profession, and show the brilliant work social workers do every day. We look after x% of our children who cannot be supported in their own families and we have the services of x foster carers and x qualified social workers.

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Conversations on Social Work Careers: Jennifer Luna Interviews Lauren Gutierrez

The New Social Worker

Conversations on Social Work Careers - New video series launch! Jennifer Luna, MSSW, Your Social Work Career Coach, interviews Lauren Gutierrez, LCSW, school social worker, clinical supervisor, and creator of Social Work Scrapbook.