Community Care
JANUARY 18, 2023
Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
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. A record 6,028 FTE social workers joined a new employer in 2022-23, up from 4,826 in 2021-22. The hike was driven by a 24.9% The hike was driven by a 24.9%
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Community Care
MARCH 31, 2023
The British Association of Social Workers England has warned of the risks of diluting the social worker role after the government unveiled plans for more assessments to be carried out by non-social work qualified staff. At the same time, the vacancy rate for council adult social workers rose from 9.5%
Community Care
APRIL 19, 2023
The government should set an expectation that frontline children’s social workers carry out face-to-face practice, in the light of concerns about the rise of remote working. “If a social worker is able to work remotely then the mandatory ‘cool off’ period will have little impact.
Gary Direnfeld
JULY 24, 2022
It was the recovery that would pose a challenge. With regard to my recovery as is often the case, it wasn’t linear. I truly developed and considered my recovery plan. The more support, the easier the recovery. No, recovery wasn’t linear. My hope is that others consider the points to my recovery.
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. An inspirational social work leader’: tributes paid to children’s director who died after contracting Covid.
Save the Social Worker
JANUARY 3, 2021
Social worker burnout. As social workers have moved to working from home , what is usually left in the social work office is now brought home. Moving from a passionate social work student, eager to change the world, to someone who wants to quit the sector, doesn’t happen in a day. Then on weekends.
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