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Knowing When to Move: Caring for a Senior Family Member

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Today's blog is written by guest blogger, Sharon Wagner, from Senior Friendly. We truly appreciate her for sharing these helpful insights for seniors and their families. Discover how you can help your family member or loved one by being there in the ways they need.

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Specialist child protection role poses workforce challenge for test-bed authorities

Community Care

Issues included retaining staff, maintaining safeguarding skills among other social workers and avoiding disruption to families as a result of the reform. Introducing specialist child protection social workers is posing workforce challenges for the councils testing the system.

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‘Exceptional’ direct work helps council improve to ‘outstanding’ despite staffing challenges

Community Care

The turnover rate in the year to September 2021 was 30.6%, double the rate from 2017-18, since when it has increased year on year. In a report this week, inspectors praised the quality of direct work with both children in need of help and protection and those in and leaving care. over the same period. Exceptional’ direct work.

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Multiple and complex needs found in backgrounds of children deprived of liberty

Community Care

The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (Nuffield FJO) found that children had, on average, 4.2 But despite this many also faced multiple breakdowns of their care arrangements or were placed in unlawful unregistered accommodation. Children had up to eight areas of need, with two-thirds having four or more.

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Social Worker of the Year: ‘As social workers, we promote social justice’

Community Care

Advanced fostering practitioner Vivian Okeze-Tirado was working at home when she was crowned overall winner at this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards. When the hosts introduced the overall winner, Okeze-Tirado had no idea they were describing her until they read out her name. “At Career change. Acting as referee.

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Surviving Ofsted: a team manager’s story

Community Care

At about 10:30am, I messaged the manager of one of the assessment teams to ask if she thought a particular family’s situation would progress to a child protection conference and for a quick chat about allocation. Family members of mine worked in settings where Ofsted inspected. By a safeguarding team manager.

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7 Ways To Improve Your Human Services Organization

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In an interview with Social Work Today , John Jay said, “As organizations adapt to and become more accustomed to delivering telehealth, telehealth is going to be more prevalent in behavioral health moving forward. How can you make it clear to your staff members that you value them? But what does showing appreciation look like?