Community Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Online-focused leadership programme Research in Practice, which is delivering the programme on behalf of the DHSC, said it would consist of: Five day-long online learning sessions delivered over three months, with some ‘homework’ between each. Three online group-based learning sessions exploring race, disparity and allyship.

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Therapist Government Social Worker Mental Health 235

Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) found that just half of services were able to meet demand for services including one-to-one therapy or counselling, group-based interventions, helplines or advocacy for child or adult victims/survivors and family members.

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Government Advocacy Interviewing Disability 251

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Non-statutory placements make up over half of practice learning provision for social work students in Scotland, leaving some graduates underprepared for practice, research has revealed. “Thus, there are no CPD requirements or other regulatory processes in place,” said the study.

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Administration Mental Health University Social Worker 299

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. The research, carried out from May to June 2023, follows a similar YouGov survey conducted for the regulator in 2020. This was strongly linked to retention risk.

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Social Worker Interviewing Disability Mental Health 203

Community Care

AUGUST 7, 2023

Children whose parents are referred to family drug and alcohol courts (FDACs) are more likely to be reunified with their families than those involved in standard care proceedings, research has found.

Interventional 195

Interventional Interviewing Mental Health Social Worker 195

Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And research suggests the problem appears to be getting worse, at least in children’s services. The research also found a link between practitioners’ feelings about their workload and their job satisfaction. This was compared with 51% in wave 1 (November 2018 to March 2019).

Social Worker 189

Social Worker 189

Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2024

The research found: 56% of councils did not have a reunification policy or strategy. Of this group, 69% cited funding constraints and 65% recruitment and retention issues as barriers to providing extra support. Of this group, 69% cited funding constraints and 65% recruitment and retention issues as barriers to providing extra support.

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Government 222

Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Also, some children are part of very large siblings groups, where it is just not possible for them to all to stay living together. All the children were supported in their siblings groups by staff members and each sibling group had the chance to go in our fun ‘photo booth’ to have a picture altogether.

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Adoption Foster Care Interviewing Social Worker 237

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. LIIA and SESLIP also conducted focus groups attended by 150 people.

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Social Worker 209

Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is the Public Law Working Group? The Public Law Working Group (PLWG) was set up in 2018 by President of the Family Division of the High Court Sir Andrew McFarlane to propose reforms that would ease mounting pressures on family court and social work professionals. Longstanding concerns but abolition rejected.

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Government Social Worker Consultation Adoption 231

Martin Webber

JUNE 22, 2022

Here's an opportunity for a social work researcher or academic to join the Social Work Research Podcast working group.

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2022

The social workers in schools (SWIS) project is testing, primarily, how far placing practitioners in secondary schools affects child protection enquiry rates, when compared with a control group. Findings from the evaluation, led by WWCSC’s research partner, CASCADE at Cardiff University, are due in January 2023.

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School Social Work Schools Social Worker Anxiety 243

Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

Authorities across England cut provision to people needing care and support and carers, for example, by closing day centres or reducing respite services, without making use of the so-called Care Act easements, found the research by the University of Manchester. “She went to a day centre, you know, for five hours.

Interviewing 310

Interviewing Home Care Anxiety Social Worker 310

Community Care

MAY 3, 2023

A scheme to provide school designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) with supervision from social workers has had no impact on measured outcomes, research has revealed. The two groups were broadly similar in terms of factors including pupil composition, performance and prior children’s social care outcomes.

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Schools Interventional Social Worker School Social Work 130

My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 13, 2023

For the past few years, I’ve researched data and statistics surrounding mental health in the LGBTQIA+ community during Pride Month. I think it’s important to understand what mental health challenges exist for unique communities and groups of people, and these statistics help paint that picture.

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Mental Health Disorder Anxiety Depression 321

Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Ofsted has called on the government to extend its powers to enable it to scrutinise social care groups that run multiple children’s homes. It published research last week which concluded that groups had some influence and control over the day-to-day running of their children’s homes. Groups’ influence over children’s homes.

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Consultation Interviewing Welfare Government 260

Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

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. Sub-groups for each workstream will be set up shortly and they will then report their findings to the wider strategic group.

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Social Worker Diversity Government Interviewing 257

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. first appeared on MQ Mental Health Research. What are Adverse Childhood Experiences?

Healthcare 128

Healthcare Government Interventional Mental Health 128

Community Care

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Over three-quarters said that they felt stressed due to workload, while almost a quarter did not feel safe at work, according to the research carried out for Social Care Wales by Opinion Research Services (ORS).

Social Worker 277

Social Worker Government 277

Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

There was “a universal recognition of the fact that change is needed” among a group, consisting largely of sector leaders, that the regulator has convened to tackle social work’s worsening recruitment and retention issues, Sarah Blackmore told adults’ directors last month.

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Social Worker Government University Consultation 201

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Social workers’ wellbeing at work is lower than that of other health and social care staff groups, in the wake of Covid, research has found. The majority of the 1,737 respondents to the UK-wide survey from May to July 2022, as well as of the 380 social workers who completed the research, worked in Northern Ireland.

Social Worker 268

Social Worker Mental Health Engagement 268

MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Even though instructional videos about getting help for mental health tend to have stronger results than narrative films alone, cinema therapy continues to be a popular tool for many groups looking to help adolescents with their mental health. Clinical terminology isn’t easy for adults to use correctly, let alone younger age groups.

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Mental Health PTSD Communication Psychosocial 98

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

This is being carried out by a sub-group of the Public Law Working Group, set up by the President of the Family Division to develop recommendations to improve the way the system works for children and families. Supervision orders unsuccessful in a quarter of cases, research finds. Retaining the status quo is not an option.

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Interviewing Social Worker University Government 261

Community Care

MARCH 23, 2022

Councils that spend more on early help and those with wealthier populations are more likely to receive an outstanding or good Ofsted grade, research has found. In contrast, researchers found no statistically significant link between how much authorities spent on safeguarding per child and the Ofsted outcomes they achieved.

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Child Welfare Welfare University Government 271

My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 30, 2022

For the past few years, I’ve done research surrounding mental health and the LGBTQIA+ community during Pride Month. I think it’s important to understand what mental health challenges exist for unique communities and groups of people, and these statistics help paint that picture. LGBTQ individuals are 2.5

Mental Health 237

Mental Health Psychiatric Disorder Anxiety 237

Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Also, most councils did not set minimum requirements for children on CIN plans to be visited by social workers or other lead practitioners, the research found. The research found that, in 2021-22, the proportion of children’s social care referrals that resulted in no further action (NFA) ranged from 1.6%

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Interventional Disability Social Worker Government 244

University of Connecticut

MARCH 19, 2024

Parekh’s research goal is to investigate both the barriers and the facilitators of engagement for Black and African American older adults in activities they enjoyed before the pandemic. A body of research shows a direct relationship between isolation and negative health outcomes for older adults.

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Engagement Interviewing Interventional Schools 111

MQ Mental Health

APRIL 12, 2024

Applications to become an MQ fellow are open for researchers in the United States. Much of my prior research had focused on the biology of chronic psychosis using brain imaging and genomic tools and had pointed to a promising treatment lead involving supplemental folic acid. first appeared on MQ Mental Health Research.

Schizophrenia 59

Schizophrenia Psychiatry Psychiatric Interventional 59

Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That was one of the key recommendations from research for Social Work England into the state of education and training , which found that the pandemic had significantly disrupted practice placements and posed significant challenges to students’ learning and wellbeing due to the shift to online working. Of the 56 NQSWs surveyed, 69.7%

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Diversity Social Worker Communication Consultation 212

Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The Department for Education said it would set up a national workload action group to identify solutions to “unnecessary” pressures on practitioners, while also promising steps to reduce the burden of case recording and free social workers from some case work with children in need.

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Social Worker Case Management Government Communication 247

Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It said it would be notifying the first group of authorities to be assessed this week. During the first phase, the CQC gave pilot councils three weeks to submit documents under 48 categories, some of which required multiple submissions, found LGA research with the authorities. ”

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Government Social Services Social Services 210

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

After establishing a dedicated national DoL court to deal with applications for these orders in June 2022 , family courts president Sir Andrew McFarlane enlisted the research body to collect and analyse data on children subject to the court’s applications and orders. “We know that in two-thirds of cases, restraint is permitted.

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Social Worker Recovery Mental Health Psychology 330

Martin Webber

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We're setting up a working group to help shape the future of the Social Work Research Podcast.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Joan Hunt’s review of two decades of UK research on kinship care (Family Rights Group , 2020) shows recurrent patterns of significant unmet need in the support provided to all types of kinship families. Coram Harmony Music Group provided music therapy to the children and therapeutic parenting to me. Variability of support.

Social Worker 247

Social Worker Adoption Consultation Anxiety 247

Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Juggling work and study “I’m a bit of a research junkie and really like the theory element so that was enjoyable and the lecturer was great,” says Joanne, who works in adult services in South Wales. One NQSW who took part in the research said this contributed to their decision to leave children’s services. “I

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Social Worker University Communication Social Services 209

MQ Mental Health

AUGUST 31, 2023

MQ researcher Dr Max Taquet and his team from the University of Oxford have found evidence that the ongoing cognitive problems that some people experience after contracting COVID could be caused by blood clots. Lea Milligan, CEO MQ Mental Health Research Max looked at blood tests from 1,837 people who had been hospitalised with COVID-19.

Mental Health 98

Mental Health University Clinic Interventional 98

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Between 2019-21, researchers analysed the impact of DfE intervention in 24 authorities after they were rated inadequate by Ofsted, through interviews with leaders, managers, social workers, partners and government-appointed advisers, and an analysis of outcomes. ‘Chaotic and stressful’ working environments.

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Interventional Consultation Social Worker Government 223