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. And here I am telling you to read more social work books? If you want to get better at social work, serving the clients who come into our lives better, you need to read. What about in social work?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Social Work England issued the warning on the back of an increase in cases referred to it about people misusing the title ‘social worker’, which is protected in law. “In our business plan we explained that we are investigating the reasons for this increase so we can find the best way to reduce this. .

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Social Work With Adults

JANUARY 31, 2024

Lyn, enjoying the stunning vistas of her home country, Australia, on an earlier trip.for all the amazing adult social work This is my farewell post before I step down as Chief Social Worker for Adults. I must also pay tribute to the civil servants with whom I have worked.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

The findings follow those of a 2021 survey of almost 2,000 social workers that found that over a quarter (28%) had experienced racism from people they worked with over a 12-month period, while almost one in five (18%) disagreed that their organisation was doing enough to tackle the problem.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2024

Case study One example of asset-based working is in relation to Joanna, who was eighty years old, had reduced mobility and had lost confidence in using her bathroom safely. To address this gap, the demonstrator project liaised with the social work team manager in Larne, County Antrim, to build better connections.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

. “To build sustained political backing to transform care and support in England, we not only need the trust of decision-makers in Government and their confidence that the solutions we’re proposing will work. “And then I met a friend who worked in social care full-time, so she said, ‘why don’t you give it a go full-time?’. “I

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Community Care

MARCH 10, 2024

Fitness to practise (FTP) delays are set to rise further due to pressures on Social Work England’s budget, the regulator has confirmed. Social Work England has reduced hearing numbers in recent months to tackle a projected overspend on its 2023-24 budget. Social Work England managed to clear the legacy cases in June 2023.

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The New Social Worker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

SaraKay Smullens reviews the film Bruised, directed by and starring Halle Berry.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

However, this work was not being captured by the official figures, published by NHS England, she warned. “While AMHPs work hard to prevent detention being the outcome of an assessment, they report that frequently when it is the only safe option, it often is not possible because no bed is available,” said Cheney.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Improving salary has overtaken achieving a better work-life balance as the biggest temptation for practitioners to move roles, found the research. 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.

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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. The world of social work is so vast and there are so many opportunities to make a difference. As social workers, how many of us are putting on our mask first? Not many of us.

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Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It's been an eventful year for adult social work. We have done this in collaboration with our colleagues in the social care workforce who, together with us, work alongside people and communities to enable them to lead the best possible lives. including the] graduate scheme for mental health social work students, ThinkAhead."

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And last year, she was named the social justice advocate of the year at the Social Worker of the Year Awards for her work championing the rights of people with learning disabilities to vote. Can you tell me about your work with Promote the Vote? As a social justice advocate, where do you think activism fits within social work?

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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.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

Roles and requirements The chief’s responsibilities include advising ministers and civil servants on social work practice and workforce issues; providing leadership to adult social work, including to the Adult Principal Social Worker Network, and advising on the national escalation of safeguarding issues from local safeguarding adults boards.

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ofsted’s praise for trust In their 2023 report , inspectors praised WCF for making “significant progress” in improvement areas identified in the two previous inspections and said most staff were positive about working for the trust, due to its supportive culture and accessible leadership team.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 9, 2024

I love meeting and working with people. 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 went back to work. 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.

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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. She has over six years of experience supervising students during field placements and eight years of social work practice experience.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2024

“The book holds up a mirror to the system, exposing both the wonderful potential that good, well-funded social work can have, as well as the lifelong consequences when children are let down,” said Pierre, who spent time in care before becoming a social worker.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

The Department for Education has axed a social work leadership training programme in what has been described as a “kick in the teeth” for the profession. The DfE will not renew funding for the Pathways programme when its initial two-year period comes to an end in July, revealed Frontline yesterday. ” More follows

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Community Care

JULY 28, 2023

Racism is driving black and minority ethnic social workers out of permanent local authority posts into agency work, research with over 1,000 practitioners has found. In response to the Big Listen report, social work leaders in London stressed the need for urgent action on race equality in the workplace.

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Community Care

JULY 7, 2023

By Clare Jerrom Some social work students face delays in joining the workforce due to the marking and assessment boycott academics are carrying out at 145 UK universities. However, Social Work England said it could not ease requirements for students to have formally graduated from their courses before registering with the regulator.

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Social Care

MAY 10, 2024

"[As] a profession, [we are] proud to celebrate our cultural diversity and the wealth of unique perspectives, experiences and innovations our global majority nurses bring to our practice." It’s a powerful concept when you consider our role in supporting others to remain physically, mentally and economically active.

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Community Care

MAY 1, 2024

It called on councils to widen the pool of potential DCSs, including by looking beyond managers with a social work background and tackling the lack of diversity in the role, particularly in relation to race. The report also showed an ongoing increase in the share of DCS posts held by women, to two-thirds (102), up from half in 2018.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The long-awaited children’s social care implementation strategy, which will be published today by the Department for Education (DfE), also includes plans to support councils recruit up to 500 social work apprentices and consultative proposals on reducing authorities’ reliance on agency staff.

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

To mark World Social Work Day, Community Care is hosting a free webinar with two expert speakers about wellbeing and secondary trauma. As part of our celebrations, we are making this webinar free to attend for all social workers and social care professionals.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 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. Get together more often with police and health colleagues to share learning and to ensure that the social work role is understood.

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Community Care

MAY 5, 2023

However, during Ramadan, I was struck by the realisation that the opportunity to start work early, grab a coffee and mould a routine around my busy work schedule was actually a luxury. So the breakfast on the go and the dashing out to work didn’t happen for me. For me, social work is at its best when it reflects humility.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 30, 2023

To be honest, there’s much more work to do. Our attitude toward mental health permeates through so many aspects of our lives. It’s a vital part of our experience, the way we view the world, and the way society treats us. It’s easier said than done, but there’s a role for each of us in this work.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. The sad thing is [her situation] was known, but it was not shared with other services,” he says now.

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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. “It allowed me to feel comfortable airing my concerns,” she added.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In May this year, the council recruited an extra social work team to manage the pressures but inspectors found that this had not been effective in ensuring a timely and safe response to children who met thresholds – including some at risk of significant harm. ” Practice better beyond the MASH. Related articles. ‘An

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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. Shifting social work culture It was so positive to see the memories the children and young people made together.

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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.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

SASW’s campaign is focused on the majority of social workers who work in Scotland’s 32 councils, of whom there were 6,271 in 2022 compared with a current registered population of 10,997 (source: Scottish Social Services Council). A reduction in administrative burdens to enable more time for direct work. Flexible working.

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Social Work Futures

JUNE 1, 2022

One of the relevant steps in trying to think about what “social work of the future” might look like, is to rigorously map out what some of the issues, signals and drivers of change for the profession are right now. Here’s a map of my own view of the social work change ecosystem now and ahead about 1-5 years.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

It will work with other organisations, including think-tank the King’s Fund, in developing the strategy. “We can’t simply recruit our way out of our retention challenges.

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