Community Care

JULY 11, 2023

The Department for Education has proposed far-reaching changes to social workers’ roles under Working Together to Safeguard Children, its guidance on services for children in need of help and protection in England. By contrast, the proposed update to the guidance mentions ‘social worker’ just 23 times.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

The Department for Education’s (DfE) revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children has removed the previous requirement for child in need assessments and casework to be reserved for qualified social workers. Child protection enquiries and casework will remain ring-fenced for social workers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Speak to youth workers in our towns, and cities and they will tell you their own horror stories,” she said. “Of This should include action to recruit more black, Asian and ethnic minority social workers, foster carers, youth workers and teachers. Horror stories’.

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Ultimate Youth Worker

JANUARY 18, 2022

I was recently looking at the Certificate IV in Youth Work training package and wondering the age old question of what makes how youth workers engage with young people different. The sad fact of the matter is that most youth workers cannot agree on the core tenets of youth work as a profession.

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Ultimate Youth Worker

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast “Supervision” Aaron speaks to us about the need for youth workers to have good professional supervision. In, the AYAC National Youth Work Snapshot 2013 , a survey of youth workers showed that 8.4% Why should a youth worker have supervision?

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Ultimate Youth Worker

AUGUST 16, 2020

In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast ‘Raise the age’ Aaron speaks with Jessica Sanders from Jesuit Social Services ‘ Worth a Second Chance ‘ project about how we can understand the legal issue of the age of criminal responsibility and how we might support the campaign to raise it from 10 years of age.

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The Frontline

MARCH 7, 2022

The children and families that social workers support are often being supported by multiple different people across different settings. Ian McGeoghegan – Mental health practitioner and Frontline fellow. Nelly Ali – Police Now alumni.

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