Community Care

APRIL 9, 2024

Excluding providers financed through tax havens will also affect private equity-owned organisations, where companies are bought out by investment firms using funds backed by high levels of debt, which must then be serviced through the providers’ profits. ”

Consultation 252

Consultation Government 252

Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

About council ‘bankruptcy’ notices Five authorities with social services responsibilities – Birmingham, Croydon, Nottingham, Slough and Thurrock – have issued a section 114 notice in the past three years, meaning they were unable to meet their legal requirement to set a balanced budget.

Government 249

Government Disability Social Services Social Services 249

Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Children’s dissatisfaction with current arrangements There is also a lack of existing services offering support or facilitation for sibling relationships, while research indicates that young people may be dissatisfied with the provision that does exist in terms of quality, frequency and degree of supervision by social workers.

Adoption 237

Adoption Foster Care Interviewing Social Worker 237

Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

The funding will top-up the existing social care grant, which authorities can spend on either children’s or adults’ services. Historically, adult social care has received about 60% of the grant but, in his statement, Gove highlighted the pressures on children’s services in particular as a rationale for the boost.

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Government Disability Interventional Social Services 260

Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As part of our Choose Social Work campaign, we asked each of them for the best piece of advice they would give to new social workers. But also, it’s okay that you don’t stay in a team or a service and that you try different things. So, that would be my advice: don’t just go into a service and stay there for the rest of your career.

Social Worker 264

Social Worker 264

Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

A DHSC spokesperson said: “Our chief social worker recruitment campaign remains open until 20 May, and we will be announcing an appointment to this role in due course.”

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Social Worker Government Communication Social Services 196

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. At the same time, councils in England have found it increasingly difficult to retain staff in children’s and adults’ services , with rising turnover and vacancy rates.

Social Worker 234

Social Worker Government 234

Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is also evident in her accomplishments as the head of service for learning disabilities and preparation for adulthood at Bradford council. I felt strongly that our role as social workers was to look at what’s the biggest decision that somebody can be involved with. Practitioners need the best.

Disability 312

Disability Social Worker Mental Health Hospitals 312

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

As social work educators, we find ourselves at a point where the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT intersect with our professional practice more and more often, and we ponder these challenges with much philosophical debate in academic settings. Our advice? How to cite: Rubin, A., Sage, T. &

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LMSW LCSW Child Welfare Confidentiality 246

Community Care

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By Beverley Tarka, president, ADASS When ADASS and carers’ organisations launched the Carers Challenge in October, our goal was to unearth the gold standard work social care teams and voluntary organisations are doing to support unpaid carers. One example was from the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

Hospital Discharges 199

Hospital Discharges Hospitals 199

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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. ” Practice better beyond the MASH.

Social Worker 286

Social Worker Adoption Interventional Foster Care 286

Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In July, as part of our Choose Social Work campaign, we published an interview with Sharon Shoesmith , director of education and children’s services at Haringey Council when the Peter Connelly case (known at the time as Baby P) hit the headlines. Support those using services to link with the local media to tell their story.

Social Worker 245

Social Worker Foster Care Schools Interviewing 245

Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Scottish Government must pause its ‘disruptive’ plans to remove social care from council control, in order to shore up local authority services that face real-terms cuts in 2023-24. minimum wage for adult care workers in services commissioned by councils and £140m to meet workforce costs arising from the 2022-23 pay deal.

Criminal Justice 287

Criminal Justice Government 287

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 9, 2024

Years ago, working from home, our son came to my office to grab some time with me. She let me know I blew off our son. I see it and I am instantly reminded of when I blew off our son and thus, to take a break, to spend time with our son back then. I love writing. I love presenting. I love what I do. I blew him off.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 147

Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Inspectors found some “exceptional practice” at the council, which it credited to the authority’s “deliberate corporate investment” in children’s services helping to create a “skilled and stable workforce”. We were letting our children down’. Our commitment to improving experiences for children remains our top priority.

Social Worker 305

Social Worker Interventional Engagement Disability 305

Community Care

APRIL 4, 2024

The inspectorate praised the family court body – England’s largest social work employer – for the “remarkable” achievement of delivering high-quality practice across its 19 service areas and for improving from the high baseline set by its 2018 inspection. in the year to September 2023).

Welfare 281

Welfare Social Worker Empathy Interviewing 281

Community Care

MARCH 20, 2024

There has also been a significant jump in the proportion of respondents citing cuts to local services as among the three biggest challenges facing the profession now and in the immediate future. At the same time, both workforces have been a significant growth in the number of new recruits, year on year. At the same time, 67.5%

Social Worker 282

Social Worker Government Social Services Social Services 282

Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

During a strike at Barnet Council , approved mental health professional manager Gill Robinson said the strike was the culmination of years of mental health services being “largely forgotten about” and “undervalued”. Read our guidelines page and contact our community journalist at anastasia.koutsounia@markallengroup.com.

Social Worker 198

Social Worker Mental Health 198

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Greater Manchester Police said it was reviewing the footage with the Crown Prosecution Service to determine whether anyone should be prosecuted. In consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, we are reviewing footage from Panorama with a view to prosecuting anyone who’s captured committing a crime.”

Hospitals 340

Hospitals Mental Health Patient Safety Clinic 340

Community Care

AUGUST 25, 2022

Ofsted has praised “highly effective” information sharing as it noted continuing progress at Hull council’s children’s services, which were graded ‘inadequate’ in 2019. DfE ends intervention in ‘inadequate’ children’s services following progress. Related reading.

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Interventional Social Worker 240

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

to recruit 461 social work apprentices to bolster their children’s services workforces. The trainees will be employed, and based, in their children’s services departments, and follow existing three-year university social work apprenticeship programmes, with councils then deciding whether to hire them on qualification.

Consultation 253

Consultation Social Worker Government University 253

Community Care

MAY 25, 2022

A council is at risk of losing control of its children’s services after the government intervened in the light of a damning Ofsted report. ‘Presumption’ services will be removed. A new director of children’s services, Martin Birch, started in post last month, pledging to improve.

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Interventional Government 319

Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The notices trigger a stop on new spending and generally lead to significant cuts to non-statutory services and government intervention in the running of the authority. Prior to the statement, the CCN said its members were facing a combined overspend of £639m in 2023-24, half of which was accounted for by children’s services.

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Government Interventional 223

Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

First adults’ services ratings since 2010 The reports mark the regulator’s first published assessments of local authority adults’ services performance since 2010, when the previous ratings system was scrapped by the coalition government. The pilot has highlighted best practice which we now need to replicate elsewhere.

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Government Mental Health Engagement Social Worker 228

Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2023

Those were among the findings of a Local Government Association survey , which the LGA said showed that a “workforce crisis” was threatening council services. a year previously, according to Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) research.

Social Worker 269

Social Worker Government Mental Health Social Services 269

Community Care

JULY 28, 2023

Minoritised staff in London and the South East said they felt forced to leave council posts because of “poor experiences, lack of support and economic necessity”, said the report of the 2022-23 Big Listen survey, carried out by the sector-led children’s services improvement bodies for the two regions.

Social Worker 209

Social Worker 209

Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And research suggests the problem appears to be getting worse, at least in children’s services. Read our guidelines page and contact our community journalist at anastasia.koutsounia@markallengroup.com. Do you have a experience or opinion to share or write about?

Social Worker 189

Social Worker 189

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Anything we can do to ease their load while showing our gratitude not only gives them a boost, but also acts in the interest of the children they serve. Our education workers. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. Still heroes.

Private Practice 203

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 203

Community Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The law on social care for disabled children Comprehensive information on the law on disabled children is available to anyone with a licence for Community Care Inform Children, on our disabled children knowledge and practice hub.

Disability 334

Disability Government Welfare Disorder 334

Community Care

OCTOBER 19, 2023

COSLA’s position is that the offer is “as far as local government can go without impacting on essential services and jobs locally” However, UNISON, the biggest of the three unions, warned the employers’ body against imposing the deal in the face of its members opposition. in April 2023, falling to 6.7% in September.

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Government Schools Social Worker 192

KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

Answering this question gives us a chance to tell you about our history and our future… both where we’ve been and where we’re going. In 2003, to bring our name in line with the scope of our work, Kaw Valley Center became simply KVC Behavioral Healthcare. Learn more about KVC’s history.

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Healthcare Welfare Foster Care 98

Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. This presented challenges for children’s social care, but services were quick to adapt.

Case Management 194

Case Management Communication Self-harm Adoption 194

Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The fact that there are still people with autism detained under the act isn’t of itself necessarily wrong but there’s evidence that they are being detained for too long and without therapeutic service.” She added: “Today is a huge blow for our community, but we will continue to fight to raise the standard of mental healthcare.”

Mental Health 363

Mental Health Government Disability Psychiatric 363

Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

As part of our celebrations, we are making this webinar free to attend for all social workers and social care professionals. The webinar is relevant to all social workers and social care professionals, whether working in children’s or adults’ services, and is free to watch live. Register now for your free place at the webinar.

Psychology 262

Psychology Social Worker 262

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Councils in England will share £4m to help them prepare for assessments of their adult social services by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The regulator is currently testing its approach to assessing adults’ services with five authorities: Birmingham, Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Nottingham and Suffolk.

Engagement 232

Engagement Social Services Social Services 232

Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Reduction in use of reablement Firstly, the number of people receiving short-term packages to maximise independence (ST-Max), such as reablement services, was 4% lower in 2022-23 (251,260) compared with the record high of 2019-20 (261,065) and 1.2% below 2014-15 levels (254,550). And while the number of these packages grew by 2.8% in 2016-17.

Government 335

Government Disability Mental Health Social Services 335

Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Department for Education“presumes” it will remove North East Lincolnshire’s children’s social care services from the council unless a commissioner reports “compelling reasons” not to. Following its publication, director of children’s services Lisa Arthey resigned. We will not shy away from this challenge,”.

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Government Social Worker Adoption Consultation 244