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40% of family support staff have personal experience of domestic abuse, finds survey

Community Care

Four in ten family support and early help workers have personal experience of domestic abuse, a survey has found. of the 350 practitioners surveyed, for a scoping study into early help and family support staff’s domestic abuse knowledge and skills. Women accounted for 90.9%

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What Does KVC Stand For?

KVC

Do you believe every child deserves to be safe and connected to a strong family? ” (Notably, JoAnn Ball — a Junior League member at the time — and her family personally picked up the torch. Each is a nonprofit that provides direct services to children and families. Subscribe here!

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Social Work With Adults

We have continued to relentlessly seek improvement in the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, friends and carers. 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.

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Social workers’ quality of working life continues to decline post-lockdowns, study finds

Community Care

But social workers’ overall wellbeing recovered from phase three to four, as it did for other professionals. But researchers found social workers’ quality of working life continued to decline, with scores of 68.92 Overall wellbeing recovers. Quality of working life continues decline. in phase three, 73.67 in phase two and 80.63

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Deprivation of liberty: ‘We’re managing risk – not helping these children recover’

Community Care

Councils, and occasionally NHS trusts, have sought the orders under the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court – its backstop power to protect vulnerable people. Barnett-Jones, whose background is in child protection, is associate director of system and impact at the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (NJFO).

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Get ready for Self Care Week

Social Care

Self Care Week is a well-established public health initiative, its purpose is to embed support for self-care across communities, families, and generations. New resources to help people get ready for winter Self Care Week returns 13-19 November this year. We know messages are amplified when spoken by many.

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Does the DfE’s care review response address the pressures behind social workers leaving their jobs?

Community Care

Evidence] points to a need to act now to attract higher numbers of people to join, rejoin and stay in the profession,” it wrote in Stable Homes, Built on Love , its proposed children’s social care strategy, issued for consultation earlier this month.