Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

Child in need cases have been opened up to non-social work qualified staff despite concerns that the policy will increase risks to children. Child protection enquiries and casework will remain ring-fenced for social workers.

Disability 329

Disability Consultation Social Worker Youth Worker 329

Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The council approved its pay policy statement for 2022-23 last week but will allow amendments to unsocial hours, overtime and standby and callout allowances to be made after negotiations with unions are finalised. Once agreement on these changes has been reached, the pay policy statement will be updated to reflect the changes.”.

Social Worker 245

Social Worker Consultation 245

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Up to £550m from increasing the adult social care precept – the part of council tax that must be spent on adults’ services – by a maximum of 2% (up from a 1% limit in 2022-23). Most of the grant is spent on adults’ services. The £2.14bn improved better care fund (iBCF), the same as in 2022-23.

Hospital Discharges 217

Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Disability 217

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Reduced service capacity Workforce shortages had resulted in reduced service capacity. This risked leaving people in deprived areas, who are more dependent on state services, going without care, it warned. This risked leaving people in deprived areas, who are more dependent on state services, going without care, it warned.

Home Care 321

Home Care Government Disability Hospitals 321

Community Care

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

That news come with the DfE planning to introduce rules later this year designed to curb the use and cost of agency staff in local authority children’s services. Councils are employing record numbers of children’s social workers on the back of a 25% boost to recruitment last year, official figures have shown. the year before.

Social Worker 196

Social Worker Recovery Engagement 196

Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In his statement to Parliament yesterday – which reversed most of the tax cuts in Kwasi Kwarteng’s September mini-budget – Hunt said savings on government spending would be necessary to put the public finances on a sustainable footing, heralding a repeat of the austerity policies of the 2010s. Jeremy Hunt. then to 9.9%

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Government Social Services Social Services 279

Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2023

DfE children in need census 2023: key figures Council children’s services received 640,430 social care referrals in 2022-23, down 1.5% (9,840) on 2021-22. The number of annual child protection enquiries has hit a new high but the proportion of those finding abuse or neglect has continued to fall, official figures show. in 2021-22.

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Government Social Worker Mental Health University 310

Community Care

APRIL 26, 2023

Care worker pay should be raised, charges for services cut and people be provided with clear rights to support as part of a shift to a more personalised, accessible and fair adult social care system, set out today. “We need to act now to save social care. “We need to act now to save social care. Redesign and reward the workforce.

Diversity 194

Diversity Consultation Government Social Services 194

Community Care

JULY 11, 2023

International recruitment has been helping to fill some of the gaps, but it’s not a proper, long-term solution to the workforce challenge,” said the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ joint chief executive, Cathie Williams. However, this remains well above the 110,000 recorded in March 2021.

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Government Home Care Social Services Social Services 174

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Responding to last week’s announcement, Homecare Association chief executive Dr Jane Towson said: “Ultimately it is the unfavourable pay and terms and conditions of employment experienced by the workforce that has led to a shortage of homecare workers, resulting in inadequate homecare capacity. 52% rise in vacancies.

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Hospital Discharges Government Recovery Hospitals 225

Community Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

Such a policy is in place in Scotland and Wales , where care staff in state-funded roles receive a minimum rate of £10.90 One is that many are exploited in their home country in terms of middlemen asking for very large fees to so-called help them get a place in Britain and that can be £10,000. But] there are two main problems.

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Government Interviewing 171

Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services. As a result, they are extremely unlikely to have had any substantial preparation for the upheaval to their lives and lack the advice and information they need about their rights in the short and long term.

Adoption 305

Adoption Social Worker Foster Care Healthcare 305

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

OCTOBER 24, 2023

CSWE identifies it as the “official companion document” to Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS). Educational Policies (EP) : These are the five major program design elements that serve as the competency-based framework in social work education.

Communication 130

Communication Consultation Administration Diversity 130

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

MARCH 3, 2023

Mounting workforce pressures The initiative comes with the latest workforce figures for English local authorities revealing a deteriorating picture across children’s and adults’ services, including that: One in five (20%) full-time equivalent children’s services posts were vacant as of September 2022, up from 16.7%

Social Worker 256

Social Worker Diversity Government Interviewing 256

Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

The proposals , which form part of a cooperation agreement between the Labour administration and the Plaid Cymru group in the Welsh Senedd, would restrict registration of service providers to those operating a non-profit model. Plan to cut care population. Related reading. ” Reliance on private sector. .”

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Consultation Government Administration Foster Care 293

Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

Kate Shoesmith, deputy chief executive, the REC By Kate Shoesmith We welcome the fact that the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) is no longer calling for curbs on agency social work in England to be implemented earlier than the government’s April 2024 target date. What are the proposed rules on agency work?

Social Worker 179

Social Worker Engagement 179

Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Unlike Tolhurst, Coutinho will not combine her responsibilities for children’s social care and vulnerable children with oversight of schools policy, while her appointment also returns children’s social care to being the responsibility of a junior minister. Tolhurst had held the role at the more senior minister of state level.

Social Worker 225

Social Worker Disability Government Schools 225

Community Care

JULY 20, 2023

Social work bodies have voiced their disappointment at the absence of any references to the profession in the health service’s long-term workforce plan, issued by NHS England last month.

Mental Health 162

Mental Health Healthcare Therapist Social Worker 162

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

The aim of the review is to see if the supervision order can be made more robust and to put forward short- and long-term recommendations for reform. Ensuring the provision of support and services is not a valid reason. But what do parents think and what are their experiences of supervision orders? Main route to reunification.

Interviewing 261

Interviewing Social Worker University Government 261

Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Councils are being urged to look beyond social work for potential directors of children’s services (DCSs), after a survey found two-thirds had a background in social care.

Diversity 200

Diversity Government Interviewing Empathy 200

Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’re thinking of doing social work in the family service centre (FSC). But that also means that as much as you’re well versed in the range of social policies, you won’t have the chance to go deep. And until this client feels assured of what will happen, I don’t think I can leave. Welcome to the world of FSC social work Kudos to you.

Social Worker 130

Social Worker Domestic Violence Administration Case Management 130

Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Councils underfunded home care and older people’s care home services in England by just under £2.9bn in 2021-22, according to an analysis by provider bodies. “Nor do the figures account for the urgent need for improved pay, terms and conditions of employment for care workers.”

Home Care 211

Home Care Nursing Home Hospitals Government 211

Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

The term ‘child in need’ encompasses all those supported by children’s social care, including children in care, those on child protection plans, care leavers, disabled children receiving statutory services and children on CIN plans. ” Who are children in need? .” ” Who are children in need?

Interventional 244

Interventional Disability Social Worker Government 244

Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Narrowing gap in quality Among the strategy’s priorities is to further improve the quality and impact of social work practice, in order to deliver an exceptional service to every child. The goal would be challenging at the best of times. Increasing volume of feedback from children, with a greater proportion of this being positive.

Social Worker 268

Social Worker Interviewing Consultation Government 268

Community Care

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Both warned that a perceived lack of funding for the reforms and significant recruitment demands – particularly for social workers – would mean implementation in October 2023, as planned, would damage services at a time of already significant pressures. Six councils ready to start early implementation.

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Government Social Worker 272

Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2023

That was the message from sector bodies yesterday after home secretary James Cleverly announced a raft of policies designed to cut annual net migration from a high of 745,000 in 2022. Not only will this lead to individual and family suffering, but it will increase pressure on council and NHS services and further extend waiting lists.”

Government 209

Government Disability 209

Social Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

Together, we are keen to promote the contributions of people with lived experience, and their carers, in developing better public services. From the findings, we identified four key policy recommendations for making sure co-production is embedded meaningfully in adult social care.

Diversity 98

Diversity Disability Communication Engagement 98

Community Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Councils piloting the cap on care costs have paused their work after the government announced a two-year delay to the policy. They will also enable self-funders to have their local authority arrange their placement in a care home, at council rates, through the full implementation of section 18(3) of the Care Act 2014.

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Government 211

Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 10, 2024

House of Representatives, will return to the Hill on Wednesday, March 13, to celebrate another Social Work Day on the Hill , an event he created shortly after retiring from Congress in 2013 after 15 terms and 30 years of service. She, too, will be leaving Congress at the end of her term after losing her primary race for the Senate.

Social Worker 52

Social Worker University Schools Human Services 52

Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

W hen the National 988 Suicide Prevention Crisis Hotline goes into effect July 16, 2022, it will probably be the most significant public policy initiative impacting behavioral healthcare since the Medicaid expansion. Creates paradigms for linking persons in crisis to stabilization and long-term treatment services and.

Social Worker 104

Social Worker Medicaid Criminal Justice LCSW 104

Community Care

JULY 25, 2023

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) issued the warning after a report published last week found several providers of semi-independent placements for 16- and 17-year-old looked-after children and care leavers were planning to shut beds because of the introduction of regulation this year.

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Government Consultation 188

Community Care

AUGUST 24, 2023

It is offering £6,000 to any council taking an unaccompanied child from Kent within five days of a notification to do so, extending a policy recently reintroduced for transfers of young people from Home Office-commissioned hotels. Half this number (51) had been waiting for a permanent placement for two weeks, she added.

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Government Foster Care Engagement 181

Community Care

APRIL 8, 2022

The staff vacancy rate across adult social care services in England hit 10% last month, show figures released today. At the same time, the number of filled posts in services has continued to fall, down 4.6% At the same time, the number of filled posts in services has continued to fall, down 4.6% The rate rose from 9.8%

Nursing Home 243

Nursing Home Government Home Care Therapist 243

Community Care

MARCH 27, 2023

Tackling systemic risks In terms of improving the transition from education to employment, the regulator will, from next year, assess social work course providers against a set of statements defining students’ readiness for professional practice on graduation.

Social Worker 242

Social Worker Diversity Consultation Mental Health 242

Community Care

AUGUST 26, 2022

The cost of living crisis is ‘severely’ affecting people accessing children’s and adults’ services, fuelling a host of issues including poverty, debt, mental ill-health and domestic conflict, social workers have warned. Almost as many (44%) said they had seen a small increase. Related reading.

Social Worker 292

Social Worker Self-harm Schools Mental Health 292

Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That was among the findings from its latest State of the Nation’s Foster Care report, this year based on a survey of 3,352 carers and 99 fostering services. Both carers and fostering services also raised issues about the impact of social worker turnover on children. Social work turnover concerns. Related articles. Need to boost pay.

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Social Worker Communication Government Foster Care 293