University of Connecticut

MARCH 14, 2024

The paper was selected as the editor’s choice article and the only article in the volume available to the public via open access. The research uses data from the national Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which surveys 5,000 low-income families in 20 cities across 16 states. Read more about Feely’s work.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. One local authority-employed social worker said: The view of the public is that social workers are incompetent.

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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.

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Michigan Social Work

MARCH 14, 2024

Candace Christensen has been named a Public Engagement Faculty Fellow by the U-M Office of the Vice President for Research. The fellowship offers an opportunity for faculty members to consider how they can prioritize outward engagement in their scholarly activity and translate it into meaningful public impacts. “My

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Community Care

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Department for Education-commissioned trial, run by Research in Practice, comes with care and supervision order cases having averaged 44 weeks from April to June this year, compared with a legal maximum of 26 weeks. The CMH identifies the main issues in the case and sets the timetable.

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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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Social Work With Adults

JANUARY 31, 2024

Elsewhere, we have seen the fruits of investment in: The Assessed and Supported Year in Employment for newly qualified social workers Publication of knowledge and skills post qualifying requirements Embedding of practice supervisors in adult social care and; A Capability Statement for Principal Social Workers.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 14, 2024

A Good Night’s Sleep Is Good For Us All Sleep is a biological necessity, and insufficient sleep has a huge impact on health, well-being and public safety. A lot of research was conducted as a response. And of course there is a need for more research into sleep health. Can We Really Sleep It Off?

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

The research , which is currently being peer-reviewed, suggests 10,356 more children living in English local authority areas became looked after than would have been the case had poverty levels remained at 2015 levels. Extra £1.4bn cost to public purse. Researchers estimated that between 2015 and 2020, 6.7%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is also the judiciary’s ambition through its relaunch of the public law outline (PLO) last year. Instead, Research in Practice, which delivered the pilot, examined the effectiveness of the process, in its evaluation report, published earlier this month.

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My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Suicide is not only an extremely serious topic, but a public health issue. There has been a tremendous amount of research and data surrounding suicide in the United States in recent decades. This data has been helpful in recognizing that suicide is a public health issue.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Their role is to consider the evidence and decide whether there is a reasonable prospect the person’s fitness to practise will be found to be impaired at a hearing – and also whether a hearing is in the public interest. ” .

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Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eighty three per cent of authorities said they were experiencing difficulties recruiting children’s social workers, with 72% saying retention was a problem, found the research, conducted in spring 2022 and responded to by 65 of the 152 authorities with social services responsibility.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

However, social care leaders have criticised the lack of funding for core services for the coming years, while the statement also did not provide further detail about public sector pay settlements for 2023-24. This responds to research that disabled people felt the two assessments overlapped and being repeatedly assessed.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Despite councils having budgeted 11% more in real terms for children’s social care in 2023-24 than 2022-23, County Councils Network research last autumn found that the 41 shire authorities alone were facing a combined £319m overspend during that financial year.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 24, 2024

Emily Wheeler, Director of Research Partnerships & Development Lea has been MQ’s CEO for four years and during that time he put the charity on an upwards trajectory. He introduced a new strategy, transformed the way research is delivered by setting up new partnerships, and grew MQ’s income by 165% with multiple year income pl edges.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Research shows public sector salaries have fallen significantly behind those in the private sector Teachers and social workers have experienced the worst pay growth in the UK in the past decade, while public sector salaries have fallen significantly behind those in the private sector, according to research.

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My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Today, I want to share some important statistics in an effort to spread awareness about the growth and prevalence of suicide as a public health issue. The Trevor Project’s research has found that they were 2.5 times more likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year (33%) compared to their LGBTQ peers (14%).

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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).

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

However, while charities welcomed the publication of the strategy, they said it did not go nearly far enough in improving support for kinship carers. The strategy’s publication was welcomed by the charity Kinship, which has long campaigned for one.

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Social Work Futures

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Foresight and design fictions meet at a policy lab: An experimentation approach in public sector innovation (2021). Finland Futures Research Centre/University of Turku (Multiple issues/reports). Foresight in the state public service in France: An overview (2020). European Policy Lab. Towards national systems level foresight?

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 16, 2022

this time of an increasingly interdependent and interconnected world, the social work profession is challenged to incorporate a global perspective in education, practice, and research that is culturally informed for the 21st century. worldview of social work curricula, research, and practice. justice”. More details at : [link].

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 2, 2024

The pursuit of achievement, earning money, staff politics, deadlines, tech stress and juggling work and family life all make our work a prime source of potential stress, no matter the industry we work within, be it the private, public or charity sector. Figures show employers can see a return of £5.30 sick days a year.

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

An academic has hailed the increasing recognition of social work research after earning a gong in the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours. ‘Recognition for social work research’ Jill Manthorpe. ‘Recognition for social work research’ Jill Manthorpe.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Shoesmith discussed why social workers are so often the focus of media and public blame when a child who is known to children’s services dies, and gave some practical advice about what social workers could do to speak out and improve the perception of the profession.

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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. Majority of social workers looking to leave their job within the next 16 months, says new research. Social workers also reported the toll these work pressures were taking on them.

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 11, 2023

The paper, written by 40 global experts, followed an extensive road mapping process of evidence reviews and consultation with mental health researchers, clinicians, policy experts and people with lived and living experience of mental illnesses and suicide. Find out more about how MQ’s research is changing the landscape of mental health.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 6, 2024

The research methodology is primarily qualitative, relying on interviews from five focus groups conducted in the state’s three largest cities: Hartford, Waterbury and Bridgeport. They articulate how public systems perpetuate harm, throw them out of the voting process, and say that nothing changes and they don’t vote. Singh agrees.

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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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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The survey, responded to by 90% of the CCN’s 36 members, comes ahead of the government’s autumn statement next week, in which it is expected to set out public spending cuts of over £30bn a year from 2025 onwards.

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inSocialWork

JANUARY 23, 2024

Our guest today is Theresa Moyers, PhD, a practitioner, researcher, author and leading scholar in the motivational interviewing approach. Her research focuses on disseminating evidence-based treatments, including motivational interviewing (MI) in the addictions field, as well as identifying active ingredients in MI.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Singh’s research, Beyond Bars: Examining the Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated People Released Under Public Act 15-84 in Connecticut, is a primarily qualitative study that examines the parole and reentry experiences of formerly incarcerated people who were beneficiaries of Public Act 15-84.

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Beyond Advocacy

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For Black History Month, the Public Broadcasting Company (PBS) series Eyes on the Prize has been the go-to source for the most comprehensive understanding of the struggle for civil rights for black Americans. So, hats off to the researchers and historians as we celebrate another Black History Month.

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Community Care

MAY 15, 2023

Those were among the findings of the sixth wave of research into Covid-19’s impact on health and social care practitioners, which started in May 2020 and has been carried out by academics from Ulster University, Queen’s University Belfast, Bath Spa University and University College London.

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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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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 12, 2024

Applications to become an MQ fellow are open for researchers in the United States. At that point in my career, I was experienced enough to know that I needed to shift my focus to achieve greater public health impact – to the area of prevention, where there is tremendous unmet need in psychiatry.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Associate Professor Margaret Lloyd Sieger has been awarded a National Institute on Drug Abuse K01 research grant of $881,147. Connecticut is a model in implementing public health policy to support families affected by prenatal substance exposure,” says Lloyd Sieger.

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