Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2023

While there had been a general improvement in discourse around racial diversity and inclusion, there was often a disconnect between the intent of senior managers and the experiences of newly qualified social workers, found Skills for Care’s 2021-22 report on the children’s ASYE.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Directors have urged the government to fund a £1,000 winter bonus for adult social care staff in England to stem a mounting workforce crisis. across adult social care in October 2021, from 6.2% Sickness absence rates for care staff having doubled from 2019-20 to 2020-21, in the light of Covid. Filled posts down by 3.1%

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Those were among the findings of research with just over 1,000 social workers and managers working for local authorities in London and the South East , carried out by the two regions’ local authority children’s services improvement agencies. For this campaign to be a success, we need your support.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Figures from the annual children in need census , covering the year to 31 March 2021, also showed that referrals to children’s social care and child protection plans fell sharply during the first year of coronavirus restrictions in the country. End ‘staggering misuse’ of children’s social workers to allow more direct work, says care review.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Councils will be able to deliver an extra 200,000 care packages over the next two years through what chancell0r Jeremy Hunt described as the “biggest increase in funding” adult social care sector had received in its history. That’s a big increase. The former, for those aged 23 and over, will rise from £9.50

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 5, 2023

The aim was to put an end to the five 'giant evils' in society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. For years, social workers have worked alongside health professionals. For years, social workers have worked alongside health professionals in hospital settings.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Three in ten of the social workers whom Tarka and her colleagues lead are black, Asian or from an ethnic minority, but this diversity is not reflected in adults’ services’ leadership cadre. Being a role model “I think it’s very important,” she tells Community Care.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The ‘failed’ Care Act 2014 must be properly implemented as part of a radical shift in adult social care from a ‘transactional’ to an ‘enabling’ service, peers have said. Failure to implement Care Act. The report found that the Care Act 2014 articulated these principles.

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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. Read more in our story. You can learn more about the scheme by reading our article on it ending.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

“All of this means we’re on course to have 100,000 children in care within a decade. The experience of growing up in care is one of the greatest disadvantages someone can face.” Too many of these children are forced to grow up far from their community in homes that can’t give them the stability and love they need.

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Community Care

JULY 16, 2023

Action must be taken to reduce the increasing demands on council social workers from age assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers, a leading director has said. Practitioners are aware of the customs and practices and any particular difficulties faced by the claimant in their home society.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

This Saturday, March 23 rd marks the 14th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). When it was enacted in 2010, the ACA’s aim was to increase access to affordable healthcare for millions of Americans, improve the quality of care, and address gaps in health results. Today, 40 states and D.C.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Adult social care has a new cabinet minister as the government mulls delaying its proposed funding reforms, including the cap on care costs. Steve Barclay has returned to the post of health and social care secretary, which he held for just two months over the summer, following Thérèse Coffey’s even shorter stint in the role.

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Social Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mental Health Nurses Day takes place this week (Wednesday 21 February), an opportunity to celebrate the unique contribution nurses and support workers make to our profession. I started as a health care assistant at the Royal Gwent Hospital, in Newport, South Wales, in 1991 and loved it. I joined Cygnet Health Care in 2018.

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Community Care

JANUARY 17, 2024

By Tim Spencer-Lane In Rachel Meade v Westminster City Council and Social Work England (2200179/2022 and 2211483/2022) , a social worker won multiple claims for harassment, on account of beliefs protected in law, against her employer and the regulator. The analogy was given of the Brexit debates.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

How health and social care services operate in a diverse society including concepts such as social need, informed choice, personalised services, institutional and structural discrimination. The concept of self-care and how to maintain, or seek support to maintain, your wellbeing through periods of uncertainty, change and stress. .

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In its long-awaited response to the care review, the Department for Education (DfE) highlighted the urgency of addressing social work’s increasing workforce challenges. Almost one in five (19%) of council children’s social worker posts in England lay vacant as of June 2022, up from 14.6%

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The chief social workers and the education secretary have condemned abuse levelled at practitioners in the wake of the Arthur Labinjo-Hughes case. ” Chief social worker for children and families Trowler and Romeo, her adults’ equivalent, told social workers: “We want to reiterate this message. .

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The role of a social worker in facilitating change involves the gathering of individual groups for the purpose of achieving a common goal which may include community development and advocacy. We can mirror the role of the Social Worker in facilitating social change with this viewpoint from Durkheim.

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The Guardian

MARCH 27, 2023

We can’t look away any longer Leandra Ashton is co-founder of the People’s Care Watchdog When I was 13, I learned about workhouses. It’s true, there are excellent care homes and there are care workers who genuinely care. Surely, they say, it’s not that bad. Continue reading.

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Relias

MARCH 3, 2024

Theme for this year’s Social Worth Month is “empowering social workers.” ” Though it’s easy to understand why this is important, I’d like to take the time to innumerate a few of the many ways social workers help our society. Who are social workers? Long hours, tough cases, low pay.

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Social Work With Adults

MARCH 8, 2023

"Supporting the empowerment of women who are social care workers and those with care and support needs, goes hand in hand." The majority of older people drawing on care and support are women, so making a positive difference in recognising and celebrating women’s contributions and achievements and increasing visibility is key.

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The Guardian

JUNE 7, 2023

A report by the Fabian Society thinktank, commissioned by the shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, and the trade union Unison, sets out a roadmap for a national care service (NCS) that they hope would address the existing patchy, impersonal and inadequate state provision. Continue reading.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

However, it concluded that the council lacked the capacity and capability to improve services at pace on its own and recommended an alternative delivery model to support improvement in services and outcomes for vulnerable children in Bradford’s care. Trust will bring certainty to social workers’. Council needs support to improve’.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) said the inquiry’s publication needed to occasion a shift from expecting children to disclose abuse to investing in the knowledge, skills and confidence of social workers and fellow professionals. Praise for survivors’ bravery.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

April Ferguson LCSW-C Senior Practice Associate Children and Adolescents April 2024 The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) acknowledges April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Below is an advocacy opportunity, educational resources, and related organizations to help social workers and others engage in Child Abuse Prevention Month.

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Social Work With Adults

MAY 11, 2022

It is with a sense of relief, but also pride in our collective resilience as a profession, that we are able to publish the Chief Social Worker for Adults Annual Report 2021-22 in a world which has, at long last, regained some of the familiar trappings of normality. Of course, sector pressure is still high. Our voice in the reform agenda.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Social theory in social work refers to hypotheses, ideas, arguments, how and why elements or structures in the society are formed, changed or developed, and how social workers use this understanding to address inequality, promote social justice and inclusion. Service users face problems in the society which may not be their own making.

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inSocialWork

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Jazmin Graham Just as the COVID-19 pandemic exposed cracks and disparities in many facets of society — including health care, governments, education and more — long COVID continues to disproportionately disrupt the lives of certain people. Jazmin Graham, LCSW , is a Licensed Clinical Social Work supervisor.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Advanced fostering practitioner Vivian Okeze-Tirado was working at home when she was crowned overall winner at this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards. Social Worker of the Year Awards winners unveiled. Better relationships with children’s social workers ‘key to tackling foster carer crisis’. A special boy.

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Community Care

MARCH 10, 2023

Social work and children’s organisations have united against government proposals that would increase the detention and deportation of children and seemingly leave many unaccompanied young people outside the scope of the children’s social care system.

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Social Care

JUNE 22, 2022

Like all of us, people with learning disabilities need support to reconnect with a reopened society. There would be no marginalisation, misrepresentation or ignorance, just open societies, fully supportive of the diversity of the human condition. Image copyright Mencap ]. Celebrating and supporting diversity.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Social care leaders from across local and central government and provider bodies have been recognised in the New Year Honours as the sector battles one of the toughest winters in many years. All four were honoured for services to social care. Severe winter pressures. Vic Rayner (@vicrayner) December 31, 2022.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

The NASW Code of Ethics is a set of standards that guide the professional conduct of social workers. The 2021 update includes language that addresses the importance of professional self-care. Moreover, revisions to the Cultural Competence standard provide more explicit guidance to social workers. You Might Also Be Interested In.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Experts say that most professional health organizations support gender-affirming care. After years of ongoing therapy, I earned my MSW and became a licensed social worker. Since 2021, 30 states have banned gender-affirming healthcare despite research demonstrating improved mental health and well-being for youth who receive treatment.

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Save the Social Worker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We’ve classified these books according to 3 different genres: Understanding clients Better practice Self-care Understanding clients Take Heart (John Lim) In 2014, John received his A Level results and promptly found his dreams of becoming a doctor, crushed and destroyed. You can get it here.

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

I have witnessed unprecedented changes in LGBT+ rights over my years as a social worker, and whilst there is still much to do, as we celebrate diversity throught the ages during LGBT+ History Month , it is helpful to reflect on how far we have come. diversity and inclusion." Image created by freepik.com ]. From invisible to visible.

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