Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

I am very proud to be part of a great team of practitioners, colleagues and partners here in Wakefield, and in my previous roles, which enables us to achieve the best outcomes for the children we support.”.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Recent Department for Education data also shows that referrals have continued to lag behind the average for previous years in 2021 as society has opened up. The next most common factor was concerns about the mental health of the child’s carer (157,600), followed by emotional abuse (107,140). lower in March 2021 than in 2010.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

‘Perfect storm’ “We are facing a perfect storm with staff quitting, family carers under immense strain, the NHS struggling, care providers going out of business and people being left without care and support,” said ADASS president Stephen Chandler. We have to ensure that no one goes without vital care and support.

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Social Care

JUNE 8, 2022

"Carers too often drop off the radar, missing out on services and resources which could help them sustain their own health and wellbeing, just as they seek to sustain others." This week is no different as we celebrate the incredible contribution unpaid carers make to the health and wellbeing of society. Happy Carers Week !

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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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Social Care

MARCH 15, 2023

"Understanding the ways in which employers, educators and government can best support young carers is hugely important." Young Carers Action Day aims to shine a light on the pressures and challenges young carers up to the age of 25 face on a daily basis. Who are young carers?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Children’s services also accounted for almost half of councils’ projected overspends for 2023-24, according to a survey of 31 authorities by the CCN and the Society of County Treasurers (SCT). The CCN said this was driven by rising demand in the wake of the pandemic and rising placement costs for children in care.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It’s an approach where an adult or young person, who needs long term support, is matched with a carefully approved Shared Lives carer. Together, the person needing support and the Shared Lives carer share the carer’s family and community life. Hopefully, I can move on and live independently and contribute to society.

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Social Work With Adults

JUNE 9, 2022

As social workers we must be alert to the needs of unpaid carers as we would with anyone else we seek to support. Staying alert to unpaid carers needs. Sometimes, this means many unpaid carers do not seek out the help and support they need to stay healthy in mind and body. Protecting carers' autonomy.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Thousands of people become unpaid carers every day – but the question is what more can we do to effectively support them? Identifying unpaid carers early is key. To mark Carers Rights Day , Carers UK has released a new report: Cycles of Caring: transitions in and out of unpaid caring. Image created by freepik.com].

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Social Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Alzheimer’s Society has been calling for social care reform for a long time and welcomed the opportunity to participate in two South West roundtable events, arranged by the Department of Health and Social Care. Image created by freepik.com ]. Reforming care around personal need. Social care is vital for people with dementia.

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Engagement 115

Social Care

JUNE 9, 2023

New research released for this year’s Carers Week reveals we need to think and plan differently for people with unpaid caring responsibilities. Of these people, a staggering 73 percent had not identified as unpaid carers, translating to a staggering 19 million people. And 14 percent had identified themselves as carers online.

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Social Work With Adults

MARCH 8, 2023

A society which values and recognises each and every one of us is the vision for a better world." Meanwhile, unpaid carers, many of them women, are often taken for granted. A society which values and recognises each and every one of us is the vision for a better world.

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Diversity 80

The Guardian

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

But they have remained indoors and afraid, acutely aware of how the same society that renders them vulnerable – with the familiar indignity of rushed visits from carers or, now, demands to return to the office – doesn’t seem to care whether they survive.

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Disability 98

Social Care

JUNE 7, 2022

Effective unpaid carer support must reflect the needs of our increasingly diverse society. Image copyright Carers Week]. Being an unpaid carer during a global pandemic takes its toll, as does its aftermath. From speaking with my networks of unpaid carers, I know am not the only person experiencing this.

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Diversity Interventional Mental Health Schools 57

The Guardian

AUGUST 22, 2022

If society offers poverty wages for demanding and skilled work, a staffing shortage should not be a surprise The impact of the dire staffing shortages in care homes, as revealed in a Guardian analysis published at the weekend, makes for distressing reading. Continue reading.

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Hospitals 61

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The latter two categories include social workers, Cafcass family court advisers, foster carers, children’s home staff, teachers and healthcare staff working with children, among many other groups.

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Irish Socail Worker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This couple are foster carers, perhaps newly approved and inexperienced, and this frightened looking young person is being placed with them. Is he still trying to figure out his role and what he can bring to his role as a male foster carer? These foster carers have been told that skateboarding is important to Ellie.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

” “This contributes to a climate of fear in which social workers’ tasks are made more difficult as parents and carers are reluctant to accept offers of help, or trust social workers assigned to work with them,” said the report.

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Social Care

JULY 28, 2022

Homeshare UK is part of Shared Lives Plus – the UK membership charity for more than 6,000 Shared Lives carers, 150 Shared Lives programmes, and a growing network of Homeshare providers. Our vision is for a kinder, stronger society built around people sharing their lives, skills, and homes.

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The Critical Blog

MAY 18, 2023

The book follows Living a Good Life with dementia – a Practitioner’s Guide which was published in 2021 for professionals and carers to gain knowledge and insight to be able to develop creative ideas for the care and support they want to see. The meeting was arranged in a local café that Phillip used to frequent.

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Communication Social Worker Interviewing Engagement 75

MQ Mental Health

MAY 11, 2023

We also discovered that many of these factors operate across the social-ecological spectrum, from individuals through families, communities, and society. RESHAPE stigma reduction for carers in Nepal 5. Improve screening, early identification and treatment of comorbidities Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Prevention Programme.

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Mental Health Psychosocial Interventional University 96

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It is the only Europe-wide journal to focus uniquely on social work research and its intended audience is scholars, students, practitioners, policymakers and other researchers who have an interest in social problems, social work and the contribution that social work makes to just and equitable societies.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This should be underpinned by a fully-funded long-term plan for the sector based on the ambition of promoting ‘gloriously ordinary lives’ for disabled and older people and a better deal for carers, said the House of Lords adult social care committee, in a report published today. adults, older people and carers.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

Section 10 of the Act also highlights the need to assess a carer who appears to have needs for Care and Support. I consider planning for emergencies when a carer may not be able to provide support (i.e., It is always helpful for family members or a carer to be present during an assessment. contingency plan). Always ask.

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The Vintage Social Worker

AUGUST 10, 2020

A huge success in terms of its outcomes at every level for the young people, for the staff , the purses of the political masters and society. In my early career many of us trained in group work and this would be a necessary part of the training of residential carers. And yet we closed and cut and closed again.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 25, 2022

The symposiums highlighted some of the best work in the field, focused on a pressing issue of today’s society: Suicidality. For mental health research to reach its full potential for impact, carers and people with lived experience of mental health conditions should be involved across the research lifecycle. .

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I now have a good understanding around the role of the social worker, and how they can affect the lives of individuals positively in the society. To be a good carer, you must always have the wellbeing of clients at the heart of decision-making process. This experience has given me a great insight into the role of social work.

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The Vintage Social Worker

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Care leavers may be a small group of people in our society but they are our children, society has created the system for protection and rescue but it has yet to create a real response to their need for parenting as children and on into their adult lives. Other wise it would be too long and you would never read it!

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Social Work Haven

MAY 3, 2023

Safeguarding Children & Child Protection As a society, we have a duty to protect and promote the welfare of children and young people. This can give parents and carers peace of mind that their child’s safety and well-being is being monitored and managed appropriately. What is the role of a Designated Safeguarding Lead?

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The Vintage Social Worker

JULY 3, 2019

If anyone reading thinks this is too dramatic or over egging the case for effect I beg you to believe the unbelievable in today’s society. I recall visiting a small boy living with carers prior to an adoptive placement who at the age of 4 got out of bed every morning and put on his shoes before doing anything else.

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Adoption Mental Health Social Worker Schools 52

Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Research published last month by the network, the Society of County Treasurers and consultancy LG Futures found that county authorities faced a funding gap of £591m this year and £821m in 2023-24, due to inflation and demand pressures. Things have never been so bad’ for people needing care, carers and staff, warns ADASS president.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

They may also work with the individuals family members, carers or other professionals to ensure that appropriate safety protocols are in place. This includes teaching individuals, families, carers and other professionals about the rights of people in vulnerable situations, as well as providing information on available resources.

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Learning Social Worker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

For example, they could be used with patient/service-user participation representatives and/or carers to explore their experiences and what values-based behaviours they would like to see from professionals. They spent decades, or even lifetimes, locked away from society. Or indeed wider societal scripts?

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Mental Health Justice and Corrections Interventional Psychiatric 64

The Guardian

APRIL 23, 2024

Johnny Timpson says he wants to ‘take a stand’ after revelations thousands of unpaid carers are being forced to pay huge fines One of Rishi Sunak’s dementia advisers has resigned over the government’s approach towards unpaid carers, describing the prosecutions of vulnerable people as “beyond the pale”. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

APRIL 26, 2024

Concern grows over legality of approach as figures show more than 150,000 carers facing huge penalties A hero – then sacked: the carer’s allowance whistleblower More than 150,000 unpaid carers are facing huge fines for minor rule breaches, figures show, as MPs, charities and campaigners demand an immediate amnesty.

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Disability Welfare 99

Social Care

JUNE 8, 2023

Identifying unpaid carers - I Care campaign This week is Carers Week (5-11 June) when Carers UK and others are seeking to raise awareness of the UK’s estimated 5.7 million unpaid carers looking after older, disabled or ill relatives or friends. Unpaid carers.

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