The Frontline

MAY 28, 2021

The murder of George Floyd, so devastating, so public, captured on camera and circulated worldwide acted as a catalyst to bring people together to support Black Lives Matter. The post One year on: Being anti-racist is a start, but it’s not enough appeared first on Frontline.

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The Frontline

MAY 27, 2021

But the murder of George Floyd just over a year ago captured the attention of the world in a way and on a scale that I had never seen before. It had a big impact on me personall y. Some of my Black colleagues worked with us on a video to educate others on microaggressions, which was a hugely brave and generous thing of them to do.

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Hospice Chaplaincy

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In Today’s episode, Saul talks to Ronald Greer about his new book, “The Quiet House.” Ron Greer is the Director of the Pastoral Counseling Service at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, having been with this ministry for forty years.

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Irish Socail Worker

MARCH 16, 2021

Please see details below relating to an upcoming one-day virtual seminar on disclosure of sexual abuse and violence. Please contact joseph.mooney1@ucd.ie for more information or to submit an abstract to present.

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The Frontline

MAY 25, 2021

This is different from previous years, where I have predominantly focused on the social justice side of race. There was something about the picture of George Floyd with his daughter, that reminded me of the deep familiar grief that racism has inflicted on myself, my family, and my community.

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As we mark the one-year anniversary of International Federation of Social Workers Europe’s (IFSW Europe) presence in Ukraine, we are reminded of the incredible journey we’ve engage in together. Report […]

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Hospice Chaplaincy

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The conversation is on Zamir’s ground breaking new publication “A Guided […]

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

‘A gross failure of the system’ [link] Lord Laming on the Victoria Climbié case Victoria Climbié While Laming acknowledged in his report that these agencies were “underfunded, inadequately staffed and poorly led”, he described Victoria’s death as an “inexcusable” and “gross failure of the system”.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2024

Free Loaves on Fridays , a new anthology containing letters, stories and poems by 100 care experienced children and adults, was launched last week. Speaking at the launch, Pierre said she hoped Free Loaves on Fridays humanised care leavers and challenged “the stigma and stereotypes that still exist”. “I

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Save the Social Worker

APRIL 28, 2024

Chances are, if you have a book on social work from university, you might have shelved it, never to read it again. Charlie Munger, the billionaire partner of Warren Buffett , one of the world’s greatest investor, has been famously described as a ‘walking book with hands and legs.’ Take a look at your shelf now.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2024

The DHSC is making £8m in an additional funding round with a further £4m allocated in the spring and authorities able to make one bid at each stage. charge on the pay bill of larger employers, including councils. These are covered by the apprenticeship levy, a 0.5% The DHSC will inform successful authorities in March.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. ” This was not just based on his experiences as a child but also on what he learned reading his case files while training to be a social worker. “It showed there was lots of good practice going on,” he says.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Victoria Atkins has replaced Steve Barclay as health and social care secretary, after the latter spent one year in post in his second stint in the job. Atkins takes up her post ahead of what is likely to be another tough winter for the health and adult social care systems, following the busiest October on record for A&E departments.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

One-third of social workers across England have experienced racism from people they work with in the past year, a survey of almost 2,000 practitioners has found. It said that yesterday’s report removed the excuse of lack of data for inaction on tackling “a blight on our profession”. More follows.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Pause also called for much better recognition of birth parents and improved data on, and monitoring of, recurrent removals, so agencies could understand the scale of the problem, in a report issued today. The charity said its ambition was for no birth family to have more than one child taken into care.

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My Brains Not Broken

APRIL 17, 2024

I know we all have good days and bad ones, but I’m talking about something different. It’s those days when everything feels a little off, or when every decision you make seems to be the wrong one. One of which is just…drinking water. Do you ever feel like your day just isn’t going well?

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 25, 2023

Each month on the blog, I’m going to share a song with you. You might know them for their biggest hit “San Francisco,” but The Mowgli’s were one of my favorite bands during the 2010s – I saw them live twice, bought their music and listened to their albums on repeat.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

A report from the Children’s Commissioner for England last year found that 37% of children in care had been separated from at least one sibling in their initial placement. We then printed and framed these on the day so that all the children left with a photo memory of the afternoon. If they don’t, it’s not happening.”

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By drawing on a literature review and focus groups, interviews, and surveys of PEs, course providers and local authorities, the review provided a comprehensive exploration of the challenges faced by PEs. NOPT also agrees with the research findings, which validate discussions that have occurred throughout the profession for many years.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As busy and as difficult as one’s job may be, that person may never know the challenge of needing to go to the bathroom with kids of an age or need, that require continuous supervision. Parenting wee ones or kids with special needs whose needs require contant attention is utterly draining. Are you following me on Facebook yet?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

As of 16 November, 45,875 social workers had completed their renewal application form, submitted two pieces of continuing professional development (CPD) – one of which had been reflected upon with a peer – and paid their £90 fee. Access the guidance on Inform Children or on Inform Adults. This is 45.3%

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

One of the most concerning recent developments in social care has been the huge growth in the number of children with highly complex needs made subject to deprivation of liberty (DoL) orders. “These children are known to us – the majority were already on care orders. The event takes place on 10-11 October 2023.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It can be difficult to appreciate the impact of mental illness on one’s capacity to meet the daily demands of life and on the capacity to manage stress. Having a mental health diagnosis is like carrying additional weights on one’s back. Are you following me on Facebook yet? Mental illness.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The call was about the one child who was continually acting out, skipping school, getting into trouble. That child had great grades and only concentrated on school work. Given the difference, there was also a split between the kids, one good, the other bad. However the focus was the one in trouble. The other acted in.

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Community Care

AUGUST 26, 2022

More than half (58%) said it was having a ‘severe’ impact on the lives of people accessing service, with a further 33% saying the effect was ‘significant’ Food bank use and homelessness risks. One practitioner said: Every family known to social care needs support via section 17 – every family.

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can be tough acknowledging harms from one’s family of origin. It can lead to defensive posturing, extolling only the virtues of one’s past. So doing, one omits the challenges and sometimes untoward behavior that occurred that also shape and influence one’s own adult behavior and life. Own your past.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The pressures on councils were laid bare in other survey results , with directors reporting rising waiting lists for assessments and reviews since the spring and predicting that they would overspend their budgets by 3.5% ADASS did not ask directors for details about specific NHS tasks that had been passed on to councils.

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 12, 2023

Control your breathing (make sure it’s steady – check on your physical self in this moment). The link between mental health and physical health is a very real one, and our physical health can absolutely be impacted by mental health challenges. Challenge one of the thoughts you’re having.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Three-quarters of social workers are yet to renew their registration, with one month to go until the deadline. This involves submitting the renewal application, paying the £90 fee and providing two pieces of continuing professional development, one of which must have been reflected upon with a peer.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on children in care and care leavers said new legislation and binding targets may be needed to tackle the adverse effect of being placed far from home. The report also highlighted the of multiple placement moves on children’s ability to put down roots, and develop relationships, in a place.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

If anyone knows the impact that negative media coverage has on social workers, that person is Sharon Shoesmith. I would love to see social workers work as one strong professional body, a bit like the BMA [the British Medical Association that supports UK doctors and medical students]. It was one route or the other.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Editor’s Note: Jacqueline Jones is the MSW Field Coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and one of my colleagues in the UAB Department of Social Work. I will expand on using one specific realm of technology in social work education: artificial intelligence or AI. It is not human. Please leave me a comment.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“It was a good chance to consolidate and reflect on my practice and has been transformational in many respects,” she says. All social workers who qualified in Wales on or after 1 April 2016 must complete the programme during their first three-year registration period. But I am glad it is out of the way.”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Social Work England said 5,478 practitioners had submitted two pieces of CPD, detailing learning from reflecting on one of the pieces with a peer, equivalent to 5.5% However, this year, the regulator has doubled the amount of CPD practitioners need to submit, while introducing the new requirement for peer reflection on one piece.

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Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 11, 2024

You feel like you’re out of your mind with this person, but yet with no one else. Do know one rarely wins arguments with such a person. That’s the first step in healing and then dealing… Are you following me on Facebook yet? Gaslighting can be crazy making. It just may be that you have been gaslighted.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Yesterday I posed a question to Educational Assistants on my Facebook page. In one class alone over 11 evacuations in 27 school days. Violence, even in Kindergarten, is leaving EAs and ECEs injured and on leave. One or two could be ignored. Click on the link to access the comments.) You can help.

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