Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

However, this work was not being captured by the official figures, published by NHS England, she warned. “While AMHPs work hard to prevent detention being the outcome of an assessment, they report that frequently when it is the only safe option, it often is not possible because no bed is available,” said Cheney.

Mental Health 293

Mental Health Hospitals Government Engagement 293

Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It's been an eventful year for adult social work. We have done this in collaboration with our colleagues in the social care workforce who, together with us, work alongside people and communities to enable them to lead the best possible lives.

Hospital Discharges 126

Hospital Discharges Mental Health Therapist Social Worker 126

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

The findings follow those of a 2021 survey of almost 2,000 social workers that found that over a quarter (28%) had experienced racism from people they worked with over a 12-month period, while almost one in five (18%) disagreed that their organisation was doing enough to tackle the problem.

Diversity 302

Diversity Social Worker Social Services Social Services 302

Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Community Care’s Choose Social Work campaign aims to counteract the negative media coverage of the profession, and show the brilliant work social workers do every day. Read about why we’re launching this campaign , and the five steps you can take to support it.

Social Worker 245

Social Worker Foster Care Schools Interviewing 245

Community Care

MARCH 10, 2024

Fitness to practise (FTP) delays are set to rise further due to pressures on Social Work England’s budget, the regulator has confirmed. Social Work England has reduced hearing numbers in recent months to tackle a projected overspend on its 2023-24 budget. Social Work England managed to clear the legacy cases in June 2023.

Social Worker 277

Social Worker Mental Health Government 277

Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As part of our Choose Social Work campaign, we asked each of them for the best piece of advice they would give to new social workers. The world of social work is so vast and there are so many opportunities to make a difference. As social workers, how many of us are putting on our mask first? Not many of us.

Social Worker 264

Social Worker 264

Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

CQC’s judgments were based on, among other sources, feedback and surveys of people receiving care and support, carers and staff, the views or providers and relevant community groups, analysis of performance data and studies of a sample of cases.

Government 228

Government Mental Health Engagement Social Worker 228

Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Specialist social workers will be appointed to lead child protection cases while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers, the government has said in its response to the care review. The care review called for £2.6bn over five years, with £1bn spent over the first two years.

Social Worker 325

Social Worker Consultation Government Foster Care 325

Community Care

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This will place a premium on early help staff developing effective relationships with children, families and their wider network and having the skills to work with families in complex situations. Find more information on how to nominate them on our nominations form.

Crisis Intervention 227

Crisis Intervention Psychotherapy Interventional Administration 227

Community Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It will work with other organisations, including think-tank the King’s Fund, in developing the strategy. “We can’t simply recruit our way out of our retention challenges. We’ll be using the expertise, data, insights and relationships we have developed over the last 20 years to develop that strategy. More follows

Diversity 245

Diversity Government 245

Community Care

JULY 7, 2023

By Clare Jerrom Some social work students face delays in joining the workforce due to the marking and assessment boycott academics are carrying out at 145 UK universities. However, Social Work England said it could not ease requirements for students to have formally graduated from their courses before registering with the regulator.

University 204

University Social Worker Hospitals Communication 204

Community Care

JULY 28, 2023

Racism is driving black and minority ethnic social workers out of permanent local authority posts into agency work, research with over 1,000 practitioners has found. In response to the Big Listen report, social work leaders in London stressed the need for urgent action on race equality in the workplace.

Social Worker 209

Social Worker 209

Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

To mark World Social Work Day, Community Care is hosting a free webinar with two expert speakers about wellbeing and secondary trauma. As part of our celebrations, we are making this webinar free to attend for all social workers and social care professionals.

Psychology 262

Psychology Social Worker 262

Social Work With Adults

MARCH 25, 2024

"[Our] values and ethics place people’s rights to autonomy and self-determination at the heart of social work practice." In the BASW Annual Survey of Social Workers and Social Work , 68% of social workers felt they had a role to play in promoting voting, but only 19% had supported someone to do so.

Disability 128

Disability Social Worker Diversity Schools 128

Community Care

MARCH 21, 2023

In the past few years, councils in England have been investing increasingly in recruiting from overseas to address the mounting vacancies in their social work teams. The values of social workers I work with are second to none,” adds Armstrong. Their natural empathy and solid, strong and passionate direct work are unbelievable.

Social Worker 272

Social Worker Empathy Communication Interviewing 272

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 15, 2024

It seemed that where ever we shopped, everyone looked and sounded like our family. I also believe that we need to marshal our strengths. Continue to support those who need support. That precariousness is heightened by those who would seek to deny science, instead relying on leaders who spew their own brand of information.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 147

Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. With the increase in child protection and care cases, expenditure on family support was squeezed.

Social Worker 331

Social Worker Government Interviewing Social Services 331

Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We found an openness and some creativity, but a lack of policy or strategy supporting digital safeguarding.

Case Management 194

Case Management Communication Self-harm Adoption 194

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 9, 2024

I love meeting and working with people. Years ago, working from home, our son came to my office to grab some time with me. She let me know I blew off our son. I went back to work. I see it and I am instantly reminded of when I blew off our son and thus, to take a break, to spend time with our son back then.

Private Practice 147

Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker Counseling 147

Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These same education workers are teaching and supporting students, both neurotypical and neuro-atypical as well as those whose physical, health, mobility and developmental differences require additional attention. They are doing all this with far less support themselves, with fewer colleagues to share the responsibilities.

Private Practice 203

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 203

Community Care

JUNE 22, 2022

Ofsted said Camden also provided “exceptional” support to children in its care – helping it improve from ‘good’ to ‘outstanding’ in this area – and also hailed the social work culture that its systemic practice model had embedded. Praise for social work culture.

Social Worker 254

Social Worker 254

Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Social work caseloads ‘too high’ “Overwhelmingly, we heard that children’s services social workers’ caseloads are too high,” said the report. “Our ambition is to deliver a wide range of changes, including eliminating profit from care and reducing the numbers entering the care system and keep families together.

Social Worker 243

Social Worker Government 243

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In May this year, the council recruited an extra social work team to manage the pressures but inspectors found that this had not been effective in ensuring a timely and safe response to children who met thresholds – including some at risk of significant harm. ” Practice better beyond the MASH. Related articles. ‘An

Social Worker 286

Social Worker Adoption Interventional Foster Care 286

Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Following a five-week grounding in social work law and theory, mostly delivered online, the participants will be placed in units of four to six in NHS or local authority mental health services and expected to qualify as a social worker in one year.

Social Worker 322

Social Worker Mental Health Diversity University 322

Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Inspectors also commended Walsall for its implementation, during the pandemic, of the family safeguarding model – under which multi-disciplinary teams work with families to address the parental needs that increase risks to children. We were letting our children down’. Staff take pride in their work. Good rating for new council.

Social Worker 305

Social Worker Interventional Engagement Disability 305

Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

SASW’s campaign is focused on the majority of social workers who work in Scotland’s 32 councils, of whom there were 6,271 in 2022 compared with a current registered population of 10,997 (source: Scottish Social Services Council). A reduction in administrative burdens to enable more time for direct work. Flexible working.

Administration 260

Administration Social Worker Government Social Services 260

Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The Institute for Government (IFG) said that a long-term decline in the number of people receiving adult social care, amid increases in requests for support, was most likely down to rationing, not the use of strengths-based practice to make people more independent and less in need of care.

Government 335

Government Disability Mental Health Social Services 335

Community Care

MAY 5, 2023

However, during Ramadan, I was struck by the realisation that the opportunity to start work early, grab a coffee and mould a routine around my busy work schedule was actually a luxury. So the breakfast on the go and the dashing out to work didn’t happen for me. For me, social work is at its best when it reflects humility.

Social Worker 217

Social Worker Disability 217

Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ofsted’s praise for trust In their 2023 report , inspectors praised WCF for making “significant progress” in improvement areas identified in the two previous inspections and said most staff were positive about working for the trust, due to its supportive culture and accessible leadership team.

Government 223

Government Disability Interventional 223

Community Care

APRIL 4, 2024

“Consistently high standards” of social work practice have earned Cafcass an across-the-board outstanding rating in its latest national inspection by Ofsted. Biggest social work employer As of March 2023, Cafcass employed 1,721 social workers (source: Cafcass annual report, 2022-23).

Welfare 281

Welfare Social Worker Empathy Interviewing 281

Community Care

JANUARY 28, 2022

In an appearance at Community Care Live last October, chief social worker for children Isabelle Trowler questioned whether the fall was due to children’s services not recognising harm or of them supporting families differently. Authorities quoted also cited the impact of relationship-based social work.

Adoption 262

Adoption Government Social Worker 262

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

One said: Our bills now cost more than my wife’s and my monthly income each month, meaning we are just getting into more debt each month with no chance to change that.” Working in a county LA, travel is now unaffordable. It feels like there is very little balance with work and personal life. Mental health impact.

Social Worker 261

Social Worker Confidentiality Mental Health Anxiety 261

Social Care

APRIL 10, 2024

[Image created by freepik.com ] Caring at home and work is tough I know from my own experience how challenging it can be juggling a busy work life and looking after a family member, in my case my mum at the end of her life. Supporting each other helps. Having known the pressures across our profession, this act is welcome news.

Mental Health 110

Mental Health 110

Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

This means that support for kinship care families often falls short of what is needed to help them cope, or is missing altogether. Currently kinship care is wedged uncomfortably into systems designed primarily for fostering and adoption and is often the poor relation in a hierarchy of rights and support.”

Adoption 305

Adoption Social Worker Foster Care Healthcare 305

Community Care

MAY 20, 2022

Frontline has a lower social work qualification rate than other fast-track programmes, according to data from the providers. About 90% of Frontline candidates completed the first year of the programme – thereby earning a social work qualification – in the three most recent intakes: 2018-19 (91%), 2019-20 (88%) and 2020-21 (90%).

University 324

University Mental Health Social Worker Consultation 324

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. For this campaign to be a success, we need your support. Here are five ways you can do so.

Social Worker 220

Social Worker Interviewing Adoption Government 220

Community Care

MAY 25, 2022

The units would be responsible for convening and leading strategy discussions, carrying out section 47 child protection enquiries, chairing child protection conferences, overseeing, reviewing and supporting child protection plans, recommending court applications and advising other teams and agencies on child protection.

Government 337

Government Social Worker Interviewing Engagement 337