Social Care

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Celebrating the best of the care sector As the much-anticipated Professional Care Workers’ Week in 2023 gets underway, I am thrilled to share why The Care Workers Charity promotes this vital week of awareness and appreciation. We warmly invite those working within the care sector and anyone wanting to get involved.

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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. Delay to cap on care costs being considered. By Mithran Samuel and Anastasia Koutsounia. of their budgets) in 2023-24.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2024

Social workers are significantly less likely to have high morale or to recommend the profession to friends or family than in 2020, research released this week has found. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. This was strongly linked to retention risk.

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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

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.

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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

APRIL 28, 2023

Beverley Tarka this week became the first black president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) since its establishment in 2007. Being a role model “I think it’s very important,” she tells Community Care. “I want to have a focus on inclusion and diversity. So why has Tarka stayed put?

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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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Social Work With Adults

JULY 5, 2023

a social safety net for all citizens [was created, providing support] for the homeless, disabled people and older people, obliging local authorities to provide suitable accommodation." The aim was to put an end to the five 'giant evils' in society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. "[Alongside the birth of the NHS].

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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. Caseloads have got less manageable for children’s social workers under Covid, survey finds.

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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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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. Reforming care around personal need. Social care is vital for people with dementia.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. It said the “deeply disappointing” findings showed the care market was in an “untenable operating position” and urged Whately to “acknowledge the findings and invest in social care”.

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Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

Racism is a significant presence in the social work sector. According to survey findings published in March 2022 , one in four social workers had experienced racism from colleagues or managers at least once in the preceding 12 months. They reported that racism was “a very significant factor” for BGM workers choosing agency social work.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Deborah Sturdy: Christabel Chinonso U worked as a social care nurse when she came to the UK from Nigeria in 2022. Keen to boost her confidence and be a positive influence, she participated in a DHSC supported Florence Nightingale Foundation leadership programme for social care nurses from global majority backgrounds in 2022-23.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The church leaders’ commission will recommend more resources to make society ‘welcoming and safe’ for those affected Society must stop treating people with dementia as a burden and provide better care for them in the community, an inquiry into social care commissioned by the archbishops of Canterbury and York will say in the new year.

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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

MARCH 21, 2022

The government risks widespread care home closures if it doesn’t provide councils with significantly more funding to pay providers a “fair cost of care”, a report has warned. However, it found this “seriously underestimated” the costs of implementing a fair cost of care.

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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. “There’s a huge social work capacity required around those age assessments,” he said.

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. One local authority-employed social worker said: The view of the public is that social workers are incompetent. We need to highlight good stories.”

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 4, 2024

At the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) annual conference, the UConn SSW’s Associate Dean for Research Jennifer Manuel was welcomed to the 2024 class of Fellows. SSWR Fellows maintain their status as long as they are current members of the Society. from Columbia University School of Social Work.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Social Work England has found broad support from the profession for its proposed expectations of students’ knowledge and skills on graduation. The impact of trauma and loss on human development across the lifespan, and factors contributing to vulnerability including societal factors and social justice.

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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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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

The care review’s plans to tackle the shortage of suitable care placements risk increasing costs and bureaucracy and making decision-making more remote from children and young people. “Taking back control” of care markets. By Mithran Samuel and Charlotte Goddard.

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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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Social Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Inclusion, acceptance and respect are all essential qualities in the world of social care, as much for those who provide services as they are for those who receive them. One of the many amazing things about social care is the way it embraces diversity and strives to help people live the lives they choose.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 15, 2024

Alongside these, particularly in inpatient care, can comfortably sit more creative pursuits as therapy. Art therapy, music therapy, and many creative therapies have been found to have a benefit to inpatient care. Self-care - Engaging in creative activities can be a form of self-care, promoting feelings of self-worth and self-esteem.

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Community Care

MARCH 23, 2022

While previous research – including a 2020 paper in the British Journal of Social Work (BJSW) – had identified a link between deprivation and Ofsted ratings, no link between spending and performance had been detected, including by the inspectorate itself and public spending watchdog the National Audit Office. Shift towards statutory spending.

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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. This is why I love celebrating social work month.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Peers have overturned a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit for less well-off people, and also voted to bring forward its implementation date from October to April 2023. As a result, they would take much longer to reach the cap, and become eligible for free personal care, than wealthier self-funders.

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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. Social work’s contribution to this area is needed now more than ever.

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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% This is borne out by the data.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

AMHPs must make an application following assessment if they are satisfied that it ought to be made, though only if detention in hospital is the most appropriate way of providing the care and medical treatment the person needs. This has also meant that medically fit patients are staying longer due to challenges in discharges.”

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The New Social Worker

MARCH 14, 2022

World Social Work Day “promotes the best practices of social work.” As part of this celebration and commitment to best practices, we want to articulate how care for society and the planet is crucially connected with practitioner self-care.

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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 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. Examples of social work support at all three levels of prevention are below.

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