Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Black, Asian and minority ethnic social care staff face disproportionately high levels of workplace bullying, disciplinary action and fitness to practise referrals, while also being less likely than white counterparts to be shortlisted for jobs.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Lyn Romeo will step down as England’s chief social worker for adults in January after just over a decade in the post. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said Romeo was taking retirement.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the vast majority of such cases, an AMHP – who is typically a social worker – must make an application, with the recommendation of two doctors, for the person to be detained following an assessment. However, this work was not being captured by the official figures, published by NHS England, she warned.

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Community Care

MARCH 20, 2024

Most social workers have seen an increase in the number of experienced colleagues quitting their jobs in the past year, according to the British Association of Social Workers’ (BASW) annual survey. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This included initiatives such as the use of social work academies to develop staff, with training days backfilled and caseloads capped. of the workforce.

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Social Worker Anxiety Government Interviewing 247

Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

The government has handed social care an extra £500m for 2024-25 following last-ditch pleas for ministers to ease funding pressures on councils. The funding will top-up the existing social care grant, which authorities can spend on either children’s or adults’ services. cash rise worth 4.7% in real terms. in real terms.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Introducing specialist child protection social workers is posing workforce challenges for the councils testing the system. Issues included retaining staff, maintaining safeguarding skills among other social workers and avoiding disruption to families as a result of the reform.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And last year, she was named the social justice advocate of the year at the Social Worker of the Year Awards for her work championing the rights of people with learning disabilities to vote. Can you tell me about your work with Promote the Vote? Their view is questioned because of a label that was put on them.

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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. All the figures will be uprated each year in line with the government’s consumer prices index measure of inflation.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Adult social care staff are carrying out tasks previously undertaken by the NHS in most areas, without compensatory funding, council heads have reported. Seventy per cent of directors said this was the case, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey carried out in September and October of this year.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Experts are predicting that more councils will declare ‘bankruptcy’ after the government rejected calls for extra social care funding for authorities in 2024-25. Authorities must continue to meet their statutory duties, meaning social care spending is largely protected. hike in the national living wage this April.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This included initiatives such as the use of social work academies to develop staff, with training days backfilled and caseloads capped. of the workforce.

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Social Worker Government Anxiety Interviewing 206

Community Care

MAY 11, 2022

“Exceptional” direct work and strong leadership have helped a London council improve to ‘outstanding’, despite a spike in vacancies last year. The improvement came despite government figures showing the council’s full-time equivalent social worker vacancy rate more than doubled, from 15.7% Exceptional’ direct work.

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Social Worker Diversity Mental Health Government 254

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.

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Administration Mental Health University Social Worker 299

Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

Improvements in child protection practice at an ‘inadequate’ local authority have “accelerated” in the hands of “enthusiastic and motivated” social workers, Ofsted has found. East Riding’s social work vacancy rate increased from 9.3% Recent Ofsted reports.

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Social Worker Communication Engagement 237

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.

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Hospitals Social Worker Recovery Rehabilitation 282

Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

There is “momentum for change” among sector leaders and practitioners to tackle the social work’s mounting workforce “crisis”, according to a Social Work England lead. of social work posts in council adults’ services were vacant as of September 2022 , up from 9.5%

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

An effective pay freeze for social workers and other health and social care staff in Northern Ireland is “unsustainable and unfair”, sector leaders have warned. “This sends out entirely the wrong signal on how health and social care staff are valued by society. A 5% pay rise.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Councils are being urged to look beyond social work for potential directors of children’s services (DCSs), after a survey found two-thirds had a background in social care.

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Diversity Government Interviewing Empathy 201

Community Care

MAY 17, 2022

Social workers who are “passionate and knowledgeable about children’s needs” have helped a council improve from ‘good’ to ‘outstanding’, despite “continuous workforce challenges”. Ofsted said social workers were “passionate and knowledgeable about children’s needs”. Leaders ‘accessible and supportive’. Related articles.

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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. A significant number of children experienced repeated contacts and referrals before receiving the help they needed, said Ofsted.

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Community Care

JUNE 22, 2022

Ofsted said Camden also provided “exceptional” support to children in its care – helping it improve from ‘good’ to ‘outstanding’ in this area – and also hailed the social work culture that its systemic practice model had embedded. Praise for social work culture.

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Social Worker 254

Community Care

JULY 12, 2023

Councils would continue to employ social workers and other social work staff under the Scottish Government’s plan to establish a National Care Service across the country. We know too that successful change is driven by the valuable staff who deliver services.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Fast-track programme Think Ahead will train 320 more mental health social workers after the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) extended its contract up to 2027. It is essential we invest in and develop social work capacity and capability to provide the right support at the right time for those we are here to serve.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At Community Care Live, a panel of experts discussed the role of learning and development in attracting and retaining early-career social workers. As part of our Choose Social Work campaign, we asked each of them for the best piece of advice they would give to new social workers. What do they say? Put your mask on first.

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Social Worker 264

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m. “It will improve social care capacity, boost discharge rates and avoid unnecessary admissions, freeing up hospital beds and reducing waits for care,” said care minister Helen Whately.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Disability 218

Community Care

JUNE 28, 2023

The NHS increased the size of its mental health social work workforce by 20% from 2019-22, official figures show. The figures include participants on the fast-track Think Ahead programme, which is geared towards training people to work in mental health social work.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2023

Social Work England will seek to tackle the systemic causes of fitness to practise issues over the next three years to reduce risks to the public and prevent social workers from enduring lengthy investigative processes.

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Social Worker Diversity Consultation Mental Health 242

Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Councils would be able to exceed regionally agreed agency social work price caps under proposed statutory guidance issued by the Department for Education. Leaders would be able to sign off on breaches of the caps, but all such cases must then be reported to regional partnerships and the DfE, said the draft guidance.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Yesterday, in a post about “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work, I noted that Alan Detlaff of the University of Houston, who has dedicated his career to fighting racism in family policing (a more accurate term than “child welfare”) had been ousted as the Dean of the university’s Graduate College of Social Work.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

Children’s services leaders must foster the conditions for professional curiosity and challenge to improve the quality of child protection practice, the national safeguarding body has said. In over three-quarters of cases the family of the child was known to children’s social care either as an open case (35%) or previously (42%).

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Self-harm Mental Health Engagement Social Worker 184

Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. This presented challenges for children’s social care, but services were quick to adapt. It simply is not on the radar!

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Case Management Communication Self-harm Adoption 194

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

The biggest social work union, UNISON, is preparing to ballot its members to take industrial action over this year’s pay offer from council bosses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. for social workers. According to government rules, at least 50% of members must turn out for action to follow.

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Community Care

APRIL 22, 2022

‘Ongoing commitment to do even better’ Services for children in care and care leavers also drew broadly positive comments, with social workers’ relationships with children again being praised. Leaders aware of areas for improvement.

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Social Worker Interviewing Disability Interventional 281

Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A council criticised by inspectors for high caseloads has improved to a good Ofsted rating after hiring more social workers to reduce workloads. The council’s full-time equivalent of social workers rose from 345 to 368 between 2017 and 2020, during which time average caseloads fell from 19.5 Direct work praised.

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Social Worker Foster Care Interviewing Diversity 282

Community Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

“Excellent” and “culturally sensitive” direct work by social workers has helped their council improve to ‘good’ in its latest Ofsted inspection. Excellent direct work’. Inspectors praised the quality of direct work with both children in need of help and protection and those in care. Support for your direct work.

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Social Worker Foster Care Diversity Disability 267

Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting told the House of Commons today that the party would introduce a bill to overhaul the act as part of its first legislative programme after polling day, which is due to take place by January 2025. ”

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