Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I’ve navigated through various social work roles such as working within an Employee Assistance Program, to working with foster children and families within CPS. It’s safe to say I’ve seen it all, and I can personally attest to how many opportunities there are within the social work field!

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Save the Social Worker

JULY 12, 2023

Yes, but I’ve decided to go back into church work, to plan programmes and work with people with intellectual disabilities. If you’re considering a switch into social work, know this. Very often when I see new entrants into the social work sector, I would ask them, So why did you join? He gave a pained smile.

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Community Care

JUNE 28, 2023

rise in the number of overseas applications to register in England from 2019-20 to 2021-22, the British Association of Social Workers’ Diaspora Social Work Special Interest Group has produced the standards to improve recruitment and induction. Read more in World Social Work Day: the social workers crossing oceans to practise in the UK.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

BASW made the call after launching its own professional development scheme for new international recruits to UK social work. Employers, particularly in England, have turned to international recruits in recent years to tackle persistently high social work vacancy rates in children’s services and adult social care.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

‘No impact’ from government cash boosts However, most respondents (84%) reported that recent government funding rises, such as the MSIF workforce fund, had had no impact on their financial sustainability, with two-thirds saying the same about the fair cost of care work. . rise in the salary floor due in April 2024.

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Save the Social Worker

APRIL 4, 2023

You want to do good and have a social service career in Singapore. Don’t wilt in your social service career. It’s easy to get a foot in If you have the qualifications, such as a social work degree, or a psychology degree, getting a role in the frontlines of social service is not difficult. I don’t just mean money.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

Though the Department of Health and Social Care is not directing the strategy, it has representation on the group, alongside ADASS, the British Association of Social Workers, Social Work England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and provider umbrella body the Care Provider Alliance, among others. He cited the sector’s 9.9%

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Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

Money is the one thing we don’t often talk about when we are in social work. You may think that because you’ve joined the non profit sector, you can’t talk about money. And you can’t think about money. The point of this article isn’t to tell you to quit social work. You may not make the most money here.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. For this campaign to be a success, we need your support.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2023

The government has dropped a pledge to invest in new social work training routes as part of a halving of committed spending on developing the adult social care workforce. Commitment ditched However, in this week’s next steps document, there was no reference to investing in new routes into social work.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

The government’s forthcoming response to the care review will begin to address mounting pressures on the social work workforce, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said. “It’s driving professionals into agency working – it feels more flexible.

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Community Care

MAY 22, 2022

The Department for Education-commissioned review’s final report called for the introduction of a five-year early career framework for practitioners on qualification, with progression, and pay, tied to knowledge and skills. By Mithran Samuel and Rob Preston.

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Community Care

APRIL 7, 2022

But we need to ensure that they’ve got enough support around them and that they’ve got manageable caseloads and they’ve got the right support and career progression to stay in the profession and not get burnt out quickly.”. More regulation of social work agencies needed. Post-pandemic factors’ pressuring services.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel inquiry into Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson murders (May 2022) – this called for the creation of multi-agency safeguarding hubs to lead child protection cases, in order to improve inter-agency working and practice skills. By Mithran Samuel and Anastasia Koutsounia.

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Save the Social Worker

AUGUST 23, 2022

Two years of doing social work Two years after working full-time as a social worker, it ended. In many ways, it symbolised how my career as a social worker ended with a whimper. Some truths of the social work profession may be presented in this article, which may not be very pretty It had become another job.

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Save the Social Worker

AUGUST 23, 2022

Two years of doing social work. Two years after working full-time as a social worker, it ended. In many ways, it symbolised how my career as a social worker ended with a whimper. Some truths of the social work profession may be presented in this article, which may not be very pretty. I worked in both the U.K.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We condemn those targeting abuse towards individuals and the social work profession.” She is the former director of children’s services at Lambeth and Bristol councils, and was chief executive of the former College of Social Work. ” More details on Arthur reviews. ” Related articles.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

He was also supportive of its decision to back his recommendations to create expert child protection practitioners to lead safeguarding cases in pilot areas, introduce an early career framework to improve post-qualifying social work training, boost foster carer recruitment, enhance support for kinship carers and increase leaving care grants.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Before joining the DfE, Coutinho, an MP since 2019, spent a month as minister for disabled people, and her previous roles have included working for centre-right think-tank the Centre for Social Justice in areas including regeneration policy. New minister’s praise for social workers. Sector faces shake-up and demand pressures.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

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. Read about why we’re launching this campaign , and the five steps you can take to support it. Haringey Council swiftly sacked her.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Department for Education had pledged to produce an “ambitious and detailed government response and implementation strategy” by the end of this year, following the publication of the care review’s final report in May. Resource concerns following autumn statement.

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Community Care

JANUARY 17, 2024

By Tim Spencer-Lane In Rachel Meade v Westminster City Council and Social Work England (2200179/2022 and 2211483/2022) , a social worker won multiple claims for harassment, on account of beliefs protected in law, against her employer and the regulator. Regulator begins investigation Social Work England begun an investigation in November 2020.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The figures provide evidence for a phenomenon directors have raised increasing warnings about over the past several months, to the point of ADCS president Steve Crocker calling for agencies to be regulated or banned outright within social work to tackle the issue. Mounting workforce pressures. to £22.2m, from 2020-21 to 2021-22.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The government must fund better pay and training for adult social care staff to tackle a deepening workforce crisis that is undermining the quality of services. This was evidenced in the fact that, according to the NHS Confederation, two in five people are not able to leave hospital when ready, in large part because of a lack of social care.

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The Frontline

APRIL 25, 2023

I probably knew I would always want to work in a profession that involved relationship building and helping people, but I never considered social work at the early stages of my career path. I did different degrees at university that were not social work related. I think it’s a lot down to where you work as well.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Coffey, the work and pensions secretary since 2019, will take responsibility for one of the three priorities Truss articulated for her premiership in her opening speech yesterday : putting the NHS on a “firm footing” Social care one of four priorities for Coffey. Adult social care funding reforms.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 2, 2024

The pursuit of achievement, earning money, staff politics, deadlines, tech stress and juggling work and family life all make our work a prime source of potential stress, no matter the industry we work within, be it the private, public or charity sector. April is Stress Awareness Month. sick days a year. sick days a year.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We thought we would show the Oakland, California lawmaker some love for all her hard work in the House of Representatives. Census Bureau estimates a third of eligible voters in the United States did not cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election, so there is much work to be done to get more Americans to exercise the right to votes.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In June, Madeline Howe had $40,000 in student loan debt she was paying on loans for a master’s degree in social work. When I graduated in 2007, I deferred my loan for a year as I was unable to pay my monthly rate as I looked for a job,” said Howe, who works in the child welfare system. . “I Federal work includes the U.S.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

More than a third of the 506 respondents – all of whom work for English councils or children’s trusts – said their caseloads were “completely unmanageable”, up from 23% the previous year. My current caseload is making it hard to plan or do any in-depth pieces of work. A further 52% said their cases were “hard to manage”.

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Gateway Foundation

JULY 31, 2023

These gamblers might stop in the casino from time to time, spending a moderate amount of money on blackjack or slots and leave by the end of the night. People approach gambling differently, with their motivations, behaviors and attitudes varying slightly. People can also display characteristics of more than one type of gambler.

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The Frontline

MAY 10, 2023

Anton Grizzle started the Frontline programme in 2015 as a recent graduate and currently works in advocacy for children and young people. Anton’s understanding of and sensitivity to the structural barriers faced by vulnerable children clearly underpins his work. Social work still offers me the chance to fulfil those things.

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Ultimate Youth Worker

JANUARY 15, 2021

It also helps us to look at the areas of our lives that we need to work on. The wheel of life measures eight segments of our life: Career. The wheel of life measures eight segments of our life: Career. This category looks at all the aspects of your career. Is your career where you want it to be by now?

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The Frontline

MAY 10, 2023

Anton Grizzle started the Frontline programme in 2015 as a recent graduate and currently works in advocacy for children and young people. Anton’s understanding of and sensitivity to the structural barriers faced by vulnerable children clearly underpins his work. Social work still offers me the chance to fulfil those things.

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Learning Social Worker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Even though people at every level are working really hard, somehow things do not change. Over several decades I have worked for different kinds of health, social care, or education organisations and I have lived experience as a carer. I created a ‘messy map’ to make sense of my observations and shared it on Twitter.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I will be the first to admit that completing mental capacity assessments during the early stages of my career was overwhelming. Making decisions may sometimes come as a challenge to some people. This may be due to an illness or tiredness, and the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) (2005) may be used as a decision support tool.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW Sixty years ago, on the day before the March of Washington for Jobs and Freedom, NASW Social Work Pioneer W.E.B ” Black women working as welders during World War II. DuBois died. Upon his death, author and poet Maya Angelou led a march to the U.S. embassy in Accra. embassy in Accra.

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