Community Care

JULY 7, 2023

The UCU and UCEA have given vastly differing accounts of the impact of the marking boycott. The employers’ body said last month that 71% of member institutions reported that less than 2% of students would be unable to graduate this summer due to the boycott, with most of the rest (20%) being unsure of the impact.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

AMHPs do a great deal of work finding solutions to meet our needs, protecting our rights and ensuring that we are only detained when we are acutely mentally ill if necessary , which has in part led to this reduction,” said ADASS’s joint chief executive, Cathie Williams.

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2023

Expert body the Institute for Fiscal Studies has also argued that the settlement amounts to a significant real-terms cut for local government, including by understating the impact of inflation on the cost of services. Our aim in delivering a National Care Service is to end the postcode lottery in care provision.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Mental health and wellbeing: the latest of a series of surveys into Covid’s impact on health and social care staff, carried out last summer, found that social workers’ wellbeing at work was lower than other professions’ , and had fallen further during the pandemic. a year earlier, said a Skills for Care report published this month.

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Community Care

MARCH 20, 2024

For the vast majority of these practitioners, the loss of social workers with at least five years’ experience has had a negative impact on practice, found the association’s research, published yesterday. Loss of experienced staff having negative impact BASW found that 65.3% Of this group, 92.1% in the 2022 survey.

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My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 15, 2023

We have a tendency to think about issues and topics through our own lens. Today, I want to talk about the importance of making a positive impact – and how you can help. I know I’m not the first person to say this, but the way we treat people impacts their mental health. I’m no different.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 14, 2024

As one of the baseline needs of humans, sleep and sleep quality can have a huge impact on mental wellbeing. A Good Night’s Sleep Is Good For Us All Sleep is a biological necessity, and insufficient sleep has a huge impact on health, well-being and public safety. Issues with sleep can also be a symptom of mental illness.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2024

Changing language, she said, was a small thing that practitioners could do that would have “a big impact on care experienced people’s self-identity”, she added. If so, email our community journalist, Anastasia Koutsounia, at anastasia.koutsounia@markallengroup.com

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Read our guidelines page and contact our community journalist at anastasia.koutsounia@markallengroup.com. Social workers have also highlighted the impact of high caseloads on the quality of practice. Do you have a experience or opinion to share or write about?

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My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 12, 2023

This is especially relevant when it comes to mental health, because we as a society haven’t always had healthy ways to define our experience, which lead to further stigmatization. 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.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 15, 2024

Whether it’s painting, drawing, sculpting, cooking, knitting, sewing, writing, singing, playing music, dancing, the arts play a big role in our overall mental and physical health as well as our communities. But there’s evidence to show that creativity helps our mental health and our stress management.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While pay was also the most compelling reason to move for respondents to our 2021 survey, a bigger proportion (55%) selected it in 2023 than in previous rounds of the research. Improving salary has overtaken achieving a better work-life balance as the biggest temptation for practitioners to move roles, found the research.

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Social Care

APRIL 10, 2024

Having known the pressures across our profession, this act is welcome news. It is vital we set an example as a profession and support our care colleagues with caring responsibilities outside work to use these new employment protections where they can. Negative impacts on physical and mental health.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

“This disparity also reinforces further concerns about how racism and inequity is experienced by the children, families, adults, and communities who access our support services. . ‘A familiar, challenging and stark picture’ – PSWs Social care leaders said the results of the SC-WRES raised significant concerns.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For the ADCS, Minns raised concerns about the impact of this on council coffers. ‘We fail to support foster carers at our peril’ Following the release of the Ofsted data, NAFP chief executive Harvey Gallagher defended IFAs’ value, particularly in supporting and retaining foster carers.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And reflecting the impact of high rates of inflation, real-terms pay for the staff group was down by 6.7% The legacy of Covid for older adults , for which Age UK clinical lead Lesley Carter will examine the impact of the pandemic on physical and mental wellbeing and how practitioners can make a difference. days in 2021-22.

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Community Care

APRIL 9, 2024

Call for national rules to tackle profit levels However, the Association of Directors of Children’s Services has warned that there is no evidence that RCCs – whose full establishment is several years away – would have this impact and that national rules were needed to tackle what it has described as profiteering.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 2, 2023

Look Around, Look Within Mental Health America’s 2023 Mental Health Month campaign is focused on how surroundings impact mental health with the them Look Around, Look Within. MHA is calling for people to take some time to look around, look within , challenging people to examine the world and how it impacts our overall health.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

“The treatment of people with learning disabilities and autism under the current act shames our society,” he added. “The disproportionate impact on black people, who are four times more likely to be sectioned than white people, is appalling. Streeting echoed these comments in a debate today on the NHS.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The initiatives discussed were all focused on attraction, recruitment and retention, how best to implement them and the expected impact they could have in developing our workforce. have a positive impact on our workforce. CareTech have invested in developing our own leadership and management academy.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

‘Multiple factors’ behind cost rise – provider body “There are multiple factors that have impacted on the cost of providing children’s residential care as with all organisations. “Both the CHA and the LGA have made the government aware of the impact of the lack of sufficient funding in this sector.

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Social Work Futures

JANUARY 3, 2023

In my work preparing to deliver a meaningful and (hopefully) useful and relevant set of frameworks for social work as a profession to think about its future – I felt it was necessary to do the deepest dive possible about our history. But the truth of our profession includes both things. It was sobering. Link here.

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APRIL 15, 2024

Our family is supposed to be our sanctuary, a place where we feel loved, supported, and understood. These toxic family environments can have profound effects on our mental health, shaping our emotional well-being and sense of self.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 20, 2024

There is a strong correlation between ACEs and a range of significant negative outcomes that can impact people for their entire lives. There is a graded dose-response relationship between ACEs in childhood and unfavourable life course outcomes, but it is possible to both prevent their occurrence and mitigate their impact.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The committee was set up to examine the impact of the Children and Families Act 2014’s reforms in areas including adoption and family justice. Lack of data on impact of fostering to adopt. Adoptions continue to decline with children waiting longer to be placed, latest figures show. Call to reinstate national adoption register.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

‘We must become more anti-racist profession’ “The results paint a picture of widespread racism that has a serious impact on people’s mental health and career progression,” said Anna Bacchoo, WWCSC’s director of practice. “We We must work across organisations and agencies to become a more anti-racist profession,” said Bacchoo.

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Community Care

MARCH 1, 2022

As social workers, our main role is safeguarding children and young people. Adults have legal protection from assault – why shouldn’t children, some of the most vulnerable people in our society? Hidden impact of physical abuse. Our thresholds for significant harm will be maintained.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

We considered how we could adapt our longstanding ‘activity days’, which provide an informal setting for children in care to meet prospective adopters and foster carers, to a service for siblings. Positive evaluation The Coram Impact and Evaluation team undertook an evaluation of the pilot and the findings were overwhelmingly positive.

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Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

“[Because] of the cost of SWIS and the lack of evidence, our conclusion is that the SWIS model tested in the trial should not be continued or further rolled out by the DfE or schools.” No impact on social care outcomes It found that the rate of section 47s was 5.5%

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2023

.” Jen Salter, Wiltshire As a social worker, even throughout your career, you can stay in touch with young people and continue to impact on their adult lives.” ” If you’d like to share your own advice for the next generation of social workers, you can write a letter as part of our Dear Future Social Worker series.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Home care ‘highly sensitive to volumes of care’ It warned that home care businesses were “highly sensitive to the volume of hours delivered”, both because of the costs of overheads, such as employing a registered manager, training and office rent, but also because of the impacts on care workers’ salaries.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“The lesson the Scottish Government needs to take from this is that they need to fund local government, and the workers that serve our local communities, properly and UNISON will continue to lead the campaign for investment in councils and for staff to get the pay, reward and recognition they deserve.”. More on social worker pay.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

And it will test the impact of using family group decision making – a more general concept than FGCs – at an early stage of a child’s involvement with social care as part of its children’s social care reform programme. If we say we’re going to take them somewhere that is led by them, we cannot impose our agenda.”

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

As the wildfires continue to devastate our beloved Panhandle communities, it’s more crucial than ever to come together and extend our support. In Canadian and Fritch alone, the impact has been staggering, with acres of land scorched and countless families displaced. Donate Now!

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My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 30, 2023

NOWINCLUDED is a community created by Black people for Black people to talk and learn about health issues that impact us, including mental health. can impact our community’s mental health. What is NOWINCLUDED doing to change this? What are some of the most significant barriers to people receiving the care they need?

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Social Work England said they showed the impact of its “risk-based approach” to FtP cases – with priority given to the most serious issues. Our experience shows that registrants can be in the regulatory system for many years, causing a devastating effect on lives and careers. ”

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Blurt It Out

APRIL 16, 2024

However, when anxiety becomes excessive or disproportionate to the situation, it can significantly impact daily functioning and overall well-being. Physical Symptoms Of Anxiety When it comes to anxiety, our bodies often give us subtle signs that something isn’t quite right.

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