Social Work Futures

JANUARY 18, 2023

Tech remains a fast moving space with huge implications for justice, solution-building, equity, access to resources and more. This is a list of some of my favorite and most important learning spaces/tools/resources! Oracle for Transfeminist Technology game and resource. Articles/Reports: What is Data Justice?

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Social Worker Government 147

Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Councils told the statistics body that the situation was caused, in part, by the deprioritisation of reviews during Covid-19 and staff shortages, it said in its annual adult social care activity and finance report. in real terms, to £26.9bn, including resources provided by people using care and support and the NHS. Related articles.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

Walker was appointed in September after Ofsted reported a “slow pace” of improvement in Bradford since its inadequate rating in 2018. Following Brockhill and Smith’s sentencing, the Department for Education said it would “not hesitate to remove service control” from Bradford after reading Walker’s report. Related articles.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2022

The inspectorate said the two organisations had overseen a decline in performance, with the “contracted arrangements” between the council and trust failing to sustain quality, in a report last week following an inspection in February, Ofsted. Related articles. Trust model ‘hindering’ progress. Significant budgetary pressure’.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In its latest report, the inspectorate praised senior leaders for investing in workforce recruitment, retention and wellbeing as well as understanding the impact of Covid-19 on staff, children, and their families. Good work is expected, delivered and celebrated,” it said in its report. “We Related articles.

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Social Worker Interventional Engagement Disability 305

Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Under the proposals , local authorities would be expected to present a fully resourced plan in their final evidence to court, in cases where they are seeking a supervision order or this may be the outcome of care proceedings. This would be backed by government funding to finance support services for families identified in the plan.

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Government Social Worker Consultation Adoption 231

Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The director of children’s services has resigned and the government has intervened in a council after Ofsted found children at risk of harm and social workers “significantly under-resourced”. Workforce ‘significantly under-resourced’. Related articles. The report also found practice weaknesses across several areas.

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Social Worker Government 261

Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Full-time case-holding practitioners reported an average caseload of 25.6, Full-time case-holding practitioners reported an average caseload of 25.6, Just 11% reported having lower caseloads. Related articles. My evenings are spent writing reports and recording visits and case notes. compared with 23.9

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

Related articles. Carers and council leads interviewed also reported, in line with other research, that the pandemic had led to an acceleration of cognitive and physical decline among people with dementia, suggesting carers’ needs for support and respite were increasing. ” (female carer, 70, non-easement area).

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Interviewing Home Care Anxiety Social Worker 310

MQ Mental Health

APRIL 2, 2024

Since 2019, the total annual cost of poor mental health to employers has increased by 25%, costing UK employers up to £56 billion a year – according to a report by Deloitte. Younger generations, Generation Z in particular, reported often feeling stressed a lot more than baby boomers. Figures show employers can see a return of £5.30

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Mental Health Healthcare Hospitals Psychology 105

Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In a report examining reasons for the high turnover of DCSs , leadership development body the Staff College said that authorities risked losing out on talented leaders from other service areas due to a belief that a social care background was a necessity for the role.

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Diversity Government Interviewing Empathy 201

Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

A report for social work leaders has proposed specific caseload limits for practitioners to help mitigate the mounting workload burdens many face. “CSWOs emphasised that operationally, caseload considerations must always attend to the complexity and demands of individual cases, worker capacity and geography,” the report said.

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Criminal Justice Administration Social Worker Government 314

Community Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In a report , which recommended the council lose control of its children’s services after failing to improve swiftly enough, commissioner Steve Walker said some experienced practitioners felt performance standards introduced by senior managers undermined their professional autonomy. Meanwhile, new staff reported their inductions were poor.

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Social Worker Government Administration 237

Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

The Care Provider Alliance’s analysis of councils’ fair cost of care reports suggested there was a £2.88bn shortfall in funding for care home services for older people and home care provision for all adults in 2021-22. Herefordshire has welcomed Brazil’s report and said it fully accepted the DfE’s decision.

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Disability Social Worker Interviewing Advocacy 192

Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

Of all the 80 recommendations in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care’s final report last month , the one that has met with the greatest opposition is its proposed abolition of the independent reviewing officer role. So what does this have to do with IROs? The IRO role and its history.

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Advocacy Social Worker Government Welfare 337

Community Care

MARCH 9, 2022

Just 34% reported changes in their demand for residential care and, while 41% provided forecasts of future need, just 10% presented a clear methodology for these estimates. Related articles. The review will be making detailed recommendations to address this when we report in the spring.”.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

“Our member surveys over the past two years have shown over half of social workers are seriously considering leaving due to unmanageable caseloads, rising pressures and a lack of resources. Without a fully staffed and resourced workforce, we will not be able to meet our obligations as individuals and teams will be overstretched.

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Social Worker Government Administration Adoption 305

The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

My passion for ‘Anti-racism in Social Work’ prompted me to frequently and sporadically distribute various articles, resources and relevant social work updates with those in my orbit via email. I believed there was a need to spotlight news and developments relevant to social workers and to share useful information and resources.

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Social Worker Diversity Consultation Mental Health 92

Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

That was the warning today from the Care Quality Commission in its annual state of care report for 2021-22, in which it described the health and social care systems as “gridlocked”, amid shrinking capacity and increasing unmet need for adults’ services. Related articles. per hour per social care employee.

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Government Hospital Discharges Hospitals Mental Health 243

Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In the latest report, inspectors said Warwickshire’s social workers listened carefully to children and praised the quality of direct work by practitioners, which ensured that children’s voices, wishes and feelings were heard. Related articles. Direct work praised. Inadequate’ councils make progress in latest Ofsted visits.

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Social Worker Foster Care Interviewing Diversity 282

Community Care

MARCH 23, 2022

As other reports have done, it said the situation had been exacerbated by government cuts to welfare, which had deepened child poverty, and less resource for preventive services since 2010, which had shifted the balance of children’s provision towards statutory support. Related articles.

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Child Welfare Welfare University Government 271

Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Article by Diana Ling, MA, Program Manager; and Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH, Senior Health Strategist; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin. About one in 20 pregnant people report binge drinking in the past 30 days, and up to five percent of school children in the U.S.

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Disorder Criminal Justice Human Services Interventional 104

Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

They were one of several to report a lack of support from overworked colleagues, reflecting the wider findings of Community Care’s survey, which found caseloads were growing in size, complexity and unmanageability across the board. Related articles. Practitioners also reported handling work that they did not feel equipped to manage.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 6, 2023

Here are some of the articles in this issue: Beyond Ramps, Curb Cuts, and Captions: A Call for Disability Justice in Social Work. This article investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Israeli social workers’ well-being, using a mixed-methods design with a sample of 2,542 licensed social workers. Quiet Quitting.

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Disability Code of Ethics Social Worker Advocacy 113

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Related articles. Our aim is to deliver a first-class service to our young people and this report shows we are on the right track to achieve that. However, most children in Medway who require support are not yet receiving a good enough service,” the report said. Support for disabled children improving.

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Disability Social Worker Interviewing Adoption 245

Relias

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In this article, we’ll make the case for adding a best-in-class healthcare learning management platform as part of this IT overhaul. A robust healthcare learning management platform can help IHS document and report its learning activities and outcomes to demonstrate accountability and quality improvement.

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Healthcare Patient Safety Telehealth Engagement 52

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They said that they had targeted resources to reduce social worker caseloads, improving practice and enabling some social workers to complete “highly effective” direct work that was speeding up permanence for children. Related articles. Council facing removal of services improving care leaver provision, finds Ofsted.

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Social Worker 196

Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Frontline graduates ‘more stressed’ However, the reverse was true in relation to practitioner wellbeing, with Frontline graduates significantly more likely to report stress at work (73%) workloads that were too high (55%) and being asked to fulfil too many roles in their job (54%) than those who qualified through other routes.

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University Social Worker 216

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

From these experiences, we wrote two articles that summarize the reasons why poverty simulations offer a transformational learning experience: Hitchcock, L.I., McKenzie, C.T., You can read more about how we implement the poverty simulations on our campus in this article: Peterson, D. Educator Resource Guide for Poverty Simulations.

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Criminal Justice Empathy Child Welfare Clinic 130

Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

Related articles. The report also made tentative claims – based on findings from the first five pilot authorities – that implementing NAAS had saved between £2.03-£2.28 What’s really missing is proper funding and resources. Social work accreditation moves to new phase despite pandemic halting assessments.

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Government Social Worker Consultation Interventional 356

Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

Social workers’ quality of working life continued to decline following the end of Covid lockdown measures despite other frontline professionals reporting improvements, according to a new study. All other professions’ quality of working life recovered from phase three to phase four, apart from midwives, who reported a decline from 64.35

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Social Worker Human Resources University Administration 250

Social Work Futures

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication’s new report “ Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs and Attitudes” which reveals trends in how people are thinking about this vital issue. How do we protect our thoughts and keep them from becoming data on the open market?

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Welfare Engagement Interviewing Healthcare 185

Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Related articles. The regulator said in its latest performance report that its efforts to reduce cases in the triage service stalled in July-September due to unplanned staff absences and volatile numbers of referrals. Dillon said there was a “fragility” in the triage service team, which he said was “slightly under resourced”.

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Social Worker 226

Social Work Haven

JUNE 14, 2023

As a Newly Qualified Social Worker (NQSW), the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) period can be a daunting and challenging time, especially when you do not have access to the right resources. Trying to find the right resources can be overwhelming and you may end of wasting a lot of time (time that you do not have).

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Social Worker Mental Health Interventional Diversity 52

Social Work Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

According to a journal article written in Toxicology Reports a recent study showed that Americans drank an increase of 14% more alcohol in 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic compared to 2019. Education and screening may be beneficial in informing individuals of treatment options and resources available to them. Toxicology Reports.

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Social Worker Self-harm Harm Reduction Disorder 104

Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The last few years have seen a plethora of reports about the lack of appropriate placements for children in care and the dire outcomes that have followed. However, several reports have found issues with these approaches. Those with the most complex needs have often being the worst affected.

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Adoption Government University Foster Care 201

Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

However, research has found that the occupancy rate was a poor guide to capacity because children’s needs have grown more complex, meaning some require staffing resources equivalent to multiple beds. November 2022: The case returned to the High Court and X was placed on a secure accommodation order.

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Self-harm Government Criminal Justice Welfare 274