Community Care

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Social worker shortages are making an already challenging job ‘unsustainable’ for some practitioners, Ofsted has warned in its annual report, published today. It pointed to Department for Education figures showing 8.6% the previous year. While the same figures showed that a further 2.6% ” More follows.

Social Worker 308

Social Worker 308

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

365m in a separate market sustainability and improvement fund – workforce fund, which has the same grant conditions as the wider MSIF but is particularly designed to bolster the workforce. . The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter.

Hospital Discharges 218

Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Disability 218

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Responding to last week’s announcement, Homecare Association chief executive Dr Jane Towson said: “Ultimately it is the unfavourable pay and terms and conditions of employment experienced by the workforce that has led to a shortage of homecare workers, resulting in inadequate homecare capacity. 52% rise in vacancies.

Hospital Discharges 225

Hospital Discharges Government Recovery Hospitals 225

Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The authority hopes to save £10m on staffing over the next two years, with £2.1m coming from proposed changes to unsocial hours, overtime, standby and callout allowances as well as a temporary freeze on pay increments. The council has proposed to introduce an increase of up to 33% in workers’ hourly pay rate between 10pm and 6am.

Social Worker 245

Social Worker Consultation 245

Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In her time there, she has been instrumental in minimising long-term detentions of people with learning disabilities under the Mental Health Act 1983. This is also evident in her accomplishments as the head of service for learning disabilities and preparation for adulthood at Bradford council. As a child, you have a bedtime.

Disability 312

Disability Social Worker Mental Health Hospitals 312

Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

This should be backed by a “comprehensive workforce sufficiency plan”, potentially including national pay and conditions, to ensure authorities have enough practitioners to implement safe workloads.

Social Worker 243

Social Worker Government 243

My Brains Not Broken

MARCH 14, 2023

I thought it was another version of not liking yourself, another catchy mental health term that just means we think we’re awful. ” If we’re exercising a stigma about our own mental health condition, in some way, we disapprove of it. How it moves, what it looks like for me and how to spot it when it happens.

Mental Health 246

Mental Health Psychology Depression 246

MQ Mental Health

MARCH 14, 2024

There is a need globally, therefore, for greater emphasis on sleep health in education, clinical practice, inpatient and long-term care, public health promotion, and the workplace. This World Sleep Day (15 March 2024), we consider the powerful effects sleep and sleep quality can have on mental health.

Mental Health 111

Mental Health Depression Disorder Anxiety 111

Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The Department for Education said it would set up a national workload action group to identify solutions to “unnecessary” pressures on practitioners, while also promising steps to reduce the burden of case recording and free social workers from some case work with children in need.

Social Worker 247

Social Worker Case Management Government Communication 247

Social Work Futures

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I’m less interested in these and more interested in terms that reflect some deeper shifts in the emerging world. The opposite of this concept is known as institutional courage defined as an institution’s commitment to seek the truth and engage in moral action, despite unpleasantness, risk, and short-term cost.

Psychology 277

Psychology Engagement Social Worker 277

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 21, 2022

The issue is coming to terms with a likely mental illness that is severe and disabling or alternatively, so much enabling with little accountability since early childhood that this person truly hasn’t learned to cope and manage independently. Creating the conditions to take care for themselves may mean having them leave the home.

Self-harm 147

Self-harm Disability Private Practice Hospitals 147

Community Care

JULY 7, 2023

Ongoing pay and conditions dispute UCU instigated the marking boycott , which, which constitutes action short of a strike, in April, as part of a dispute with employers’ body the University and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) over pay and working conditions.

University 204

University Social Worker Hospitals Communication 204

My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I was writing a post a few weeks ago when I ended up using a term I rarely think about: self-stigma. It’s not that it’s a foreign concept to me, but I don’t think I’m very comfortable using the term or understanding it well when it is used. American Psychiatric Association. How Does It Show Up In Our Lives?

Mental Health 246

Mental Health Psychiatric 246

Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The number of frontline children’s social workers employed by English councils or children’s trusts has tumbled by 8% since 2020, official data shows. DfE workforce census 2022: key numbers 31,600 full-time equivalent (FTE) children’s social workers were in post in English councils as of September 2022. since September 2021 and 7.6%

Social Worker 282

Social Worker Consultation Government 282

Community Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

One is that many are exploited in their home country in terms of middlemen asking for very large fees to so-called help them get a place in Britain and that can be £10,000. Such a policy is in place in Scotland and Wales , where care staff in state-funded roles receive a minimum rate of £10.90 But] there are two main problems.

Government 171

Government Interviewing 171

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 14, 2022

It can create conditions where the person feels to blame for their situation or health matters because of not trying to be positive enough. Therein we may come to terms with the issues of our pain. It can set up unrealistic expectations thus dooming one to feeling a bigger failure when things don’t work out.

Private Practice 263

Private Practice Mental Health Counseling Social Worker 263

Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

Labour is still committed to implementing the cap on care costs and related reforms to adult social care charging, the shadow care minister said yesterday. And less than 18 months out from the target date, the DHSC has not published any plan for implementation or set out how it would find the money to finance the changes.

Government 138

Government Interviewing Social Services Social Services 138

Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“Things have never been so bad,” for people needing care, carers and staff, the president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has warned. ‘Staggering’ level of unmet need. million hours of home care [that] couldn’t be delivered in the first quarter of this year. .

Hospital Discharges 237

Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Home Care 237

Social Work Futures

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I’m less interested in these and more interested in terms that reflect some deeper shifts in the emerging world. The “condition” that brings folks to the door is called “abyss gaze.” Here’s another futurists take on how to manage the condition! I haven’t posted one of these in a while.

Engagement 178

Engagement Social Worker 178

Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The long-awaited children’s social care implementation strategy, which will be published today by the Department for Education (DfE), also includes plans to support councils recruit up to 500 social work apprentices and consultative proposals on reducing authorities’ reliance on agency staff.

Social Worker 325

Social Worker Consultation Government Foster Care 325

Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Certain conditions imposed by some agencies, such as capped caseloads and fully remote working, continue to increase pressures on social workers who are permanently employed within local authorities. They would be brought into force in spring 2024. A ban on agency project teams.

Social Worker 305

Social Worker Engagement Consultation Government 305

Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

However, they also warned that it was too little to tackle short-term pressures on services and no substitute for longer-term investment. However, they also warned that it was too little to tackle short-term pressures on services and no substitute for longer-term investment.

Government 130

Government Administration Disability Hospitals 130

MQ Mental Health

APRIL 15, 2024

Many people are aware of common therapies used to treat mental health conditions like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, psychotherapy and group therapy. Creativity can be seen by some, perhaps in past decades, as frivolous. But there’s evidence to show that creativity helps our mental health and our stress management.

Mental Health 105

Mental Health Schizophrenia Engagement Psychotherapy 105

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

“The best way to ensure the needs of people are met is to invest in the social worker workforce and renew efforts to recruit and retain, including a national review of working conditions that are having an adverse impact on wellbeing and driving so many out of the profession.”

Social Worker 360

Social Worker Rehabilitation Advocacy Recovery 360

Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

For example, freedom to leave should be considered in terms of what would happen if the person tried to leave temporarily and the test of capacity will normally be less onerous than the test that would apply in hospitals and care homes (12.20, 12.44-12.45 There is as yet no implementation date for LPS. Court of Protection role.

Government 307

Government Therapist Mental Health Hospitals 307

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This asks professionals how far they agree with a series of statements on career satisfaction, stress at work, general wellbeing, home-work interface, control at work and working conditions. Social workers’ wellbeing at work is lower than that of other health and social care staff groups, in the wake of Covid, research has found.

Social Worker 268

Social Worker Mental Health Engagement 268

Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

“We must recognise that long-term, sustainable investment is needed in primary and community based care and support and for family carers.” “We must recognise that long-term, sustainable investment is needed in primary and community based care and support and for family carers.” as of October 2022.

Rehabilitation 278

Rehabilitation Hospitals Government Home Care 278

Gateway Foundation

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Most people probably don’t think about the body’s immune system when they think about drinking alcohol, but alcoholic drinks can weaken the body’s ability to fight off viruses and infections, making the body more prone to colds, bacterial infections, and serious health conditions such as cancer and liver failure.

Addiction 98

Addiction Recovery Substance Abuse Administration 98

Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2024

Children’s services leaders must foster the conditions for professional curiosity and challenge to improve the quality of child protection practice, the national safeguarding body has said. For example, in one case, a child’s death was linked to a neglect of his serious medical condition.

Self-harm 184

Self-harm Mental Health Engagement Social Worker 184

Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

“Millions of older and disabled people have had to put up with inadequate services over that period, and committed care staff have soldiered on despite miserly terms and condition. . This was then delayed and, eventually, scrapped altogether by the Theresa May government, only to be resurrected last year under Boris Johnson.

Government 273

Government Disability Social Services Social Services 273

The New Social Worker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Opportunities have increased in terms of number of jobs available, salaries, sign-on bonuses, and working conditions. Across the U.S., we have seen a surge in jobs for social workers in 2022.

Social Worker 83

Social Worker 83

Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The government must fund better pay and training for adult social care staff to tackle a deepening workforce crisis that is undermining the quality of services. This was evidenced in the fact that, according to the NHS Confederation, two in five people are not able to leave hospital when ready, in large part because of a lack of social care.

Government 243

Government Hospital Discharges Hospitals Mental Health 243

Community Care

OCTOBER 19, 2023

UNISON has announced a fresh round of strikes after its members overwhelmingly rejected an improved pay offer for local government staff in Scotland. The “rolling programme” of walkouts will take place in schools and early years providers linked to schools across the country with dates to be announced shortly, the union said this week.

Government 192

Government Schools Social Worker 192

Gateway Foundation

AUGUST 31, 2022

Alcohol has significant short-term and long-term effects on the body’s organs, including the liver. Excessive and long-term alcohol consumption can overwhelm the liver and hinder its ability to filter alcohol, damaging liver cells beyond repair. What the Liver Does in the Body. How Alcohol Affects Your Liver.

Addiction 98

Addiction Disorder Engagement Counseling 98

Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Increased funding for adult social care The research was a test of the impact on providers of a 10% real-terms budgeted increase in adult social care spending by councils in 2023-24, on the back of significant extra government funding. increase in the national living wage (NLW), amid widespread concerns that the same will be true of the 9.8%

Government 219

Government Disability Hospitals 219

Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

” She said low fee rates were led directly to staff receiving “poor pay and terms and conditions of employment” and shortages of workers, as evidenced by the 13% vacancy rate in the sector as of March 2022 , above the social care average of 11.7%. The association said next year’s rise was driven by a 9.7%

Home Care 204

Home Care Hospital Discharges Disability Hospitals 204

Psychological Health Care

APRIL 6, 2024

In fact, mental health conditions related to employment stressors are now the fastest growing type of workplace injury. Notably, more than 57% of all workplace mental health conditions were reported by women. Your work can have a significant impact on your mental health.

Mental Health 53

Mental Health Human Resources Psychology Communication 53