Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 16, 2023

” Needless to say, things are not going well in public education. They want the public to know all students are affected. We need an appropriately funded public education system for all. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Violence, even in Kindergarten, is leaving EAs and ECEs injured and on leave.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 3, 2024

They are living, breathing community centers, filled with people who have psychosocial needs – people who could benefit from the support of a social worker. MSW, a consultant who runs Social Work Consulting Services for Libraries. Then, in 2020, the libraries shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come. Fifty years ago, the same Mark Allen, then a young journalist working in Manchester, responded to a job advert at a publishing company and became the editor of a new social care magazine.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Social Work England is commissioning research into the profession’s mounting recruitment and retention challenges, particularly in councils. This in turn would inform its approach to regulating the profession, it said, given the potential for current workforce pressures to lead to increased levels of risk to the public.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But with the family justice system emerging from the pandemic with more cases than previously – despite a decrease over the past year – and significant delays across both public and private law proceedings , Cafcass has set itself a colossal task. Reducing staff turnover and improving retention. Having safe caseloads.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Incoming Association of Directors of Children’s Services president Andy Smith is passionate about social work’s potential to improve children’s lives. He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Social Work England is to review the fees it charges practitioners under its new strategy, covering 2023-26. Social workers have been charged £90 a year for registration, and its renewal, since 2015, firstly under the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and then Social Work England since 2019.

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Community Care

JULY 26, 2023

Police forces across England will, in future, stop attending mental health-related incidents unless there is a significant risk to safety or a crime being committed, and refer cases to health or social care services instead. The Metropolitan Police has estimated that its officers spend, on average, 14.2 hours in A&E and 8.5

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

No minister has been appointed for adult social care, six weeks into Liz Truss’s premiership. Despite a full ministerial team being appointed to the Department of Health and Social Care on 7 September, the DHSC said their responsibilities had not yet been decided upon.

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Community Care

JULY 19, 2023

The government is seeking a new chair for Social Work England , in the wake of Lord Patel’s resignation from the role in March. The successful candidate will hold the post for up to three years, earning £450 a day for 80 days’ work a year. Keegan said this would require changes to social work standards.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 20, 2024

MQ has contributed to an All-party parliamentary Group report that is calling on the UK government to ‘unlock the trauma trap’ of Adverse Childhood experiences (ACEs) and free the nation’s children with a population-wide public health strategy. Read the full report The post MQ joins calls for a public health strategy on trauma.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In many of the 26 serious case reviews (SCRs) analysed, practitioners did not understand the implications of families having no recourse to public funds (NRPF) , offering them inappropriate advice or refusing support, it found. Top tips on supporting families with no recourse to public funds. Related articles.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

No agency social workers are left practising in Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts , says the region’s Department of Health (DoH). High quality social work services require stable and consistent social work teams, in which social workers feel valued.

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Community Care

JUNE 2, 2023

Approved mental health professional (AMHP) leads have sounded the alarm over the Metropolitan Police’s decision to withdraw from attending mental health-related incidents in London by the end of August. He also said that officers spent, on average, 14.2 hours in A&E and 8.5

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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. While the response from ministers again was positive, the report’s impact was critically undermined by its timing.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Department for Education has renewed calls for children’s social workers who are not currently practising to return to the profession temporarily to ease staffing pressures caused by Covid-19. Many local workforces are facing pressure due to Covid-19,” he posted on social media just before Christmas. “We Related articles.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated most councils as good in pilot assessments for its new system of appraising the quality of local authority adults’ social care. Though assessors did not directly observe the quality of frontline practice, the commission reported on the calibre of social work across the five authorities.

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Nicole Clark Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

There are two things I know for sure about social work and public health: One: Social work and public health are naturally complimentary fields, perfect partners in improving community health and wellbeing. Two: People are just as confused about what public health is as [.]

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Ontario used to be the envy of the world for its public education. There is simply no greater an investment in our future and that of our kids than an appropriately funded public education system. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Your teachers care about the students they serve.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The government has pledged action to tackle “excessive” workload pressures on council children’s social workers as part of its response to the care review. a year earlier, according to an Association of Directors of Children’s Services survey.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Less than 1% of social workers reported to Social Work England last year were referred to a hearing or found to have impaired fitness to practise (FtP), show figures released by the regulator. Of 2,328 referrals received from December 2020 to November 2021, 0.5% In a further 0.3% In a further 0.3% High referrals.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social work leaders have come together to forge solutions to mounting workforce challenges in England. Social Work England has convened a group including representatives from government, employers and professional bodies, to tackle the severe recruitment and retention pressures being faced across the country.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In its long-awaited response to the care review, the Department for Education (DfE) highlighted the urgency of addressing social work’s increasing workforce challenges. Almost one in five (19%) of council children’s social worker posts in England lay vacant as of June 2022, up from 14.6% This is borne out by the data.

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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. Local authorities’ current social care functions would be transferred either directly to the NCS or to regional care boards.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Police have opened an investigation into abuse of patients at a mental health hospital uncovered by the BBC. Panorama filmed staff assaulting , inappropriately restraining and secluding and verbally abusing and humiliating patients at the Edenfield Centre run by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2024

Social workers are significantly less likely to have high morale or to recommend the profession to friends or family than in 2020, research released this week has found. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. This was strongly linked to retention risk.

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Community Care

JANUARY 4, 2022

Social workers including a former president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year honours list. Jenny Coles, president of ADCS from 2020 to 2021, was awarded a CBE for her services to children’s social care. Welsh mental health practitioner awarded MBE.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

Increasing qualifications levels for the adult social care workforce – linked to higher pay – is among the ideas under consideration by the group developing a 15-year strategy for the adult social care workforce. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Beverley Tarka this week became the first black president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) since its establishment in 2007. That visible leadership role acts as a role model for people in the field and even people outside the field of social care.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2024

In both cases for mental health and substance misuse problems, and in Boden’s for a history of offending, including in relation to domestic abuse. Before social worker 2’s return, an agency worker (‘social worker 3′) was asked to carry out an updated assessment.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 27, 2024

By Denise Johnson, LCSW-C Senior Practice Associate March 2024 In February 2024, a major healthcare cybersecurity attack occurred, affecting many patients and providers including clinical social workers (CSWs). NASW has developed a uniform set of technology standards to guide social workers in their practice.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In recognition of World Social Work Day 2024 Auburn University invites you to register and attend a virtual webinar on Safe and Sustainable Water Management for Menstrual Health and Hygiene on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 from 11:am-12:30pm ET/ 3pm-4:30 GMT.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Over 40% of social work staff in the UK have faced abuse from service users, their families or members of the public this year, research has found. The majority [of complaints] were completely valid and deserved due to me simply not having enough time in the working day and personal time to manage the caseload I currently have.”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Social workers temporarily registered in England and Wales during the pandemic will no longer be able to practise after today. Social Work England will remove temporarily registered practitioners – who numbered about 6,500 as of this summer – while Social Care Wales will close its temporary register to its five remaining members.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2023

Ruth Perry, the headteacher of Caversham Primary School, took her own life while awaiting the publication of an Ofsted inspection report that downgraded her school from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’. Last year, directors and academics criticised Ofsted’s assessment system for perpetuating the sector’s retention problems.

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