Community Care

JUNE 28, 2023

By Clare Jerrom Employers have been set standards to tackle the “poor support” received by the UK’s growing band of overseas social workers. To help social workers and their families settle in the UK, the guidance says employers should provide access to psychological, medical, educational and cultural support, and offer practitioners a buddy.

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Community Care

JUNE 22, 2023

Plan to restrict agency use The findings come with the Department for Education set to introduce rules next year restricting councils’ use of agency staff in children’s services in England, in order to control costs and enhance workforce stability. In addition, respondents were quizzed on their experiences of the workplace.

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Social Work Futures

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Council on Social Work Education regularly goes through a lengthy process to revise its educational and practice standards. Currently there is an “open commentary” opportunity to weigh in on the latest round of the proposed standards for 2022. It is a limited “point in time” snapshot.

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Community Care

JULY 25, 2023

The government must phase in its standards regime for currently unregulated care placements to avoid a “catastrophic” loss of provision, after a study found 20% of existing beds were set to close. The quick guide is available to all Inform Children subscribers. Find out more about how you can subscribe to the service.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Department for Education has scrapped its national assessment and accreditation scheme (NAAS) for children’s social workers. DfE said it would write to candidates to encourage them to download their certificates and results before the February deadline and that the NAAS site’s knowledge hub would continue to be available until 31 March.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Education secretary Gillian Keegan announced the review in a statement to Parliament after the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel published the report of phase 1 of its inquiry into serious abuse and neglect of disabled children in three residential special schools in Doncaster.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2023

It said that, in particular, it would focus on: improving and strengthening the transition from education to employment; supporting and guiding early career development; making continuing professional development (CPD) routine, impactful and core to improving professional practice; the development and accountability required of specialist roles. .”

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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. As of September 2022, 17.6%

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Another 826 have applied and paid their fee, but have not submitted the required piece of continuing professional development (CPD), down from 1,349 last year. As communities face new challenges every day, it is vital that social workers continue to maintain their registration to ensure they can support those with whom they work.”.

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Social Worker 235

Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Mandatory CPD or enhancements to the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) are needed to address skills and knowledge gaps left by the disruption to social work education caused by the pandemic. Alternatively, ASYE programmes should be boosted to fill in gaps in learning, it said.

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Diversity Social Worker Communication Consultation 212

Community Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed a second commissioner to direct children’s services improvements at Sefton council after the first, Paul Moffat, found it had “made a good start to its improvement work” under a new leadership team. Services still at risk of removal.

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Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

Social Work England is seeking views on proposed standards it will use to approve and monitor best interests assessor (BIA) training courses. Existing BIA courses were allowed to continue, with the regulator ready to approve any new programmes under previous standards set in 2009.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

These experiences prompted BASW’s Diaspora special interest group to produce a set of standards for employers on improving the recruitment and induction of overseas staff, which were launched last year. BASW made the call after launching its own professional development scheme for new international recruits to UK social work.

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Community Care

AUGUST 25, 2022

Ofsted has praised “highly effective” information sharing as it noted continuing progress at Hull council’s children’s services, which were graded ‘inadequate’ in 2019. ”

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Interventional Social Worker 240

Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The government has pledged to invest in new training routes into social work as part of its white paper on adult social care reform, published today. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said these would be funded from £500m allocated for developing the adult social care workforce from 2022-25. New training routes.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

Article 39 brought the challenge against the Department for Education last year after arguing that a ban on unregulated accommodation for under-16s , introduced last September, wrongly excluded 16- and 17-year-olds and left them exposed to harm. Article 39 said it would appeal the judgment. No irrationality in age distinction.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In a report , which recommended the council lose control of its children’s services after failing to improve swiftly enough, commissioner Steve Walker said some experienced practitioners felt performance standards introduced by senior managers undermined their professional autonomy. Meanwhile, new staff reported their inductions were poor.

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Social Worker Government Administration 237

Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Department for Education’s (DfE) annual looked-after children statistics, issued last week , showed a 15th consecutive annual rise in the care population, from 82,080 to 83,840, a 2% increase. The number placed in independent or semi-independent settings more than doubled, from 2,120 to 4,450.

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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”. to 12.1%, according to Department for Education figures. to 12.1%, according to Department for Education figures. Passionate and knowledgeable’.

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Social Worker Schools 245

Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love. It is “people detached from the field”, he says, who continue to make important funding decisions. A serious case review found Peter’s “horrifying death could and should have been prevented”.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Royal College of Nursing Foundation ’s funding of the UK’s first Professor of Social Care Nursing Salford University next year sets the tone for both education and research in our profession. We will see more universities using these standards to inform their programmes and develop comprehensive and attractive curriculums.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Department for Education“presumes” it will remove North East Lincolnshire’s children’s social care services from the council unless a commissioner reports “compelling reasons” not to. According to Department for Education figures, Bedford’s vacancy rate fell from 38.6% We will not shy away from this challenge,”. in 2017 to 11.1%

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) has intervened in a council’s children’s services on the back of an ‘inadequate’ verdict from Ofsted.

Disability 242

Disability Social Worker 242

Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For the second year in succession , the increase has been driven almost entirely by increasing numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children arriving in the UK, revealed the Department for Education’s (DfE) annual looked-after children’s statistics, issued last week.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Increase security and efficiency By investing in a modern, integrated learning management platform, IHS and its partner organizations can enhance the quality and efficiency of their training and education programs, ensure up-to-date security across systems, and ultimately, improve health care delivery while reducing cost and complexity.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2023

Instead, the DHSC restated its existing funding for social work education, through the fast-track Think Ahead programme to train mental health practitioners, the education support grant, which funds practice placements, and the social work bursary.

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Government Social Worker Mental Health Counseling 259

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 19, 2023

I enjoyed all of it, but one of my personal goals has been to shift into a teaching role, and contributing as an adjunct professor for the local university’s social work educational program seemed like a great fit. After seeking this position for several years, I finally found an opportunity in 2022 and was signed up for my first class!

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Private Practice Domestic Violence Social Worker University 182

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Meanwhile, ‘good’ authorities Bromley and Gateshead continued to impress the inspectorate. At Bradford council, which carries the same rating, it found ’a slow pace of change’ though with signs of improvement in some areas. Support for care leavers improving. Care planning gets better. Inadequate-rated council finds £1.1m

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Disability Social Worker Interviewing Adoption 245

Relias

DECEMBER 29, 2023

That number included nearly 3% of all AI/AN youth between the ages of 12-17, indicating that Native Americans and opioid addiction will continue to be an issue in the coming years. In 2020, deaths related to drug overdose were higher for non-Hispanic AI/AN than for any other U.S. racial or ethnic group at 42.5 per 100,000.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 17, 2023

we have implemented rigorous standards and guidelines for care professionals providing support in domestic settings." To achieve this, we have implemented rigorous standards and guidelines for care professionals providing support in domestic settings. ".our motivation for.

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Healthcare Clinic Government Hospitals 84

Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

Meanwhile, UNISON is seeking a meeting with the Department for Education to address a “crisis in child safety” linked to “soaring” children’s social worker caseloads. Social workers were also having to work with public health, commissioning, and quality teams to tackle business continuity issues related to provider shortages, they said.

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Social Worker Hospital Discharges Hospitals Welfare 246

Relias

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the realm of applied behavior analysis (ABA), the Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) code of ethics serves as a guiding compass for professionals in their practice, ensuring the highest standards of conduct and care. Specific standards related to safety are found in the second section of the ethics code.

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

Under the standards for employers of social workers in England , NQSWs are supposed to have supervision at least weekly for their first six weeks, then fortnightly up to six months and then monthly for the rest of their first year. The survey found full-time ASYE practitioners had average caseloads of 20.6 Everyone is stretched’.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed a commissioner, Paul Moffat, to oversee and direct improvements at Sefton council, and also to determine whether it has the capacity and capability to improve itself over the long term. ‘Presumption’ services will be removed. Financial and workforce pressures.

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Social Care

JANUARY 15, 2024

I found this to be a hugely rewarding experience and wanted to continue in the field. I am responsible for managing the facility and the learning, development and performance team, as well as overseeing the creation and implementation of continuous training programs. My duties vary day-to-day.

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Healthcare Interventional Mental Health Clinic 52

Community Care

MAY 11, 2022

Management oversight supported robust practice in most teams working with children in need of help or protection, while quality assurance activity had “driven up standards across the service”. In a report this week, inspectors praised the quality of direct work with both children in need of help and protection and those in and leaving care.

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Social Worker Diversity Mental Health Government 254

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 30, 2023

International Parent-Centred Network NTU continues to be an active member and extended its membership until 2027.This SSWIM’s work involves supporting a clear vision for Malawian social work with practicing social workers and practice educators, Malawian university lecturers, politicians, and other charitable organisations.

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