Community Care

MARCH 28, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The girl went to live with family members (‘Mr and Mrs Anderson’), however, Boden and Marsden continued to evade professionals, while also testing positive for cannabis.

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Rehabilitation Social Worker Self-harm Engagement 279

Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

Funding to help care providers fund infection control and Covid testing, and for the NHS to fund free care for up to four weeks for people discharged from hospital with support needs, ended on 31 March, as did winter resources to help providers recruit and retain staff in the face of mounting pressures.

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Government Hospital Discharges Hospitals Disability 232

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

The proposals echo those the DHSC set out last year to help manage the impact of its proposed adult social care charging reforms – including an £86,000 cap on care costs and an extension of means-tested support to many more people – that were then due for implementation in October this year.

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Social Worker Rehabilitation Advocacy Recovery 361

Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

The vast majority of BIAs are social workers, though the role can also be carried out by nurses, occupational therapists or psychologists, with all trainees requiring two years’ post-qualifying experience in their chosen profession. “I think we need providers to respond to the consultation [on this point],” she said.

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Consultation Self-harm Government Mental Health 180

Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

in May, while the number of posts filled in services fell to 3.7% She said this meant that while practitioners were testing positive, it was not then spreading across whole social work teams. Difficulty accessing tests. BASW said social workers in some areas had reported having difficulty accessing lateral flow tests (LFTs).

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Social Worker Hospital Discharges Hospitals Welfare 246

Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Delaying the £86,000 cap and the associated reform of making the means-test for care more generous, from October 2023 until 2025, would save about £2bn. Social care secretary back in post as government mulls delay to cap on care costs. Related articles. Cap on care costs: government reportedly planning delay of a year.

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Government Disability Social Services Social Services 277

Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The National Audit Office (NAO) said work needed to start soon, backed by more resource, to deliver the cap and a more generous means-test for care by the revised target date, two years later than originally planned. The same review found that the DHSC had worked well with the six trailblazer councils selected to test the reforms.

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Government Social Worker Case Management Administration 181

Community Care

MARCH 13, 2023

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of overseas social workers applying to work in England annually has risen almost threefold in the past three years, Social Work England has reported.

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Social Worker 226

Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

“[Because] of the cost of SWIS and the lack of evidence, our conclusion is that the SWIS model tested in the trial should not be continued or further rolled out by the DfE or schools.” No impact on social care outcomes It found that the rate of section 47s was 5.5%

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Social Worker Schools School Social Work Interventional 268

My Brains Not Broken

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In fact, this is my 500th post on My Brain’s Not Broken – a number so high I can’t even process it at the moment (and no, I didn’t intend for this post to be number 500, but here we are!). At some point a few years ago, I got into the rhythm of writing two blog posts per week.

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Mental Health Anxiety 130

My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 24, 2024

Rest has several benefits for our quality of life, for certain (sounds like a good idea for a future post!). But at the end of the day, humans need rest to be our best possible selves. So, given that we all know how important rest is, why don’t we get enough of it?

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Mental Health Anxiety University 246

Community Care

JULY 16, 2023

Home Office struggling to recruit social workers However, it has struggled to recruit social workers to the board, with just 40% of the required complement in post as of April this year , a year after recruitment started. As a result, the NAAB is only operating in two regions, London and the West Midlands.

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Social Worker Interviewing Government 183

Gary Direnfeld

MARCH 23, 2022

Because we both sought to be handlers of Kugle in the program, both Arlene and I had to be tested with Kugle to see how we managed him and how he handled various situations we could encounter. Their rules today require a dog to be two years old before testing for certification. If not, you are missing many more posts!

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Private Practice Counseling Mental Health Social Worker 208

Community Care

MARCH 13, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Four in ten family support and early help workers have personal experience of domestic abuse, a survey has found.

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Counseling Interviewing Diversity Disability 244

My Brains Not Broken

JANUARY 10, 2024

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a comfort zone is defined as: “A situation in which you feel comfortable and in which your ability and determination are not being tested.” As we start the new year, it would be easy for me to write a post urging you to get out of your comfort zone.

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Mental Health 130

MQ Mental Health

AUGUST 31, 2023

Lea Milligan, CEO MQ Mental Health Research Max looked at blood tests from 1,837 people who had been hospitalised with COVID-19. Dr Taquet said: “Both fibrinogen and D-dimer are involved in blood clotting, and so the results support the hypothesis that blood clots are a cause of post-COVID cognitive problems.

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Mental Health University Clinic Interventional 98

Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 28, 2023

You may be tested to see if you can hold yourself as a safe space before they feel comfortable entering. If not, you are missing many more posts! Instead of coming from a place or anger, fear or disappointment, come from a place of concern for their well-being and curiosity for what’s going on for them. For that, patience.

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Communication Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker 147

Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The DfE has proposed testing the deployment of lead child protection practitioners to manage cases in up to 12 ‘family first for children’ pathfinder areas. “They would provide an experienced and specialist resource to investigate and make decisions about significant harm to children,” said the review.

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Social Worker Consultation Government Adoption 252

Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Isabelle Trowler, the chief social worker for children and families During her decade in the post, Trowler has helped develop a string of Department for Education children’s social care policies, focused on raising the quality of social work and reforming practice systems.

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Social Worker Disability Foster Care Government 256

Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

The draft code sets out the how the acid test set out in the 2014 Cheshire West judgment – that a person must be under continuous supervision and control and not free to leave to be objectively deprived of their liberty – should be interpreted. If a person is living at home, the acid test should be nuanced.

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Government Therapist Mental Health Hospitals 316

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Yesterday’s vote on the Health and Care Bill would amend the Care Act to only count the client contributions of people receiving means-tested support towards the £86,000 cap, due to come into force in October 2023. “This is not levelling up: it’s unfair and a backwards step,” he added.

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Hospital Discharges Government Hospitals Consultation 219

Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

Surge in referrals post-Cheshire West However, on the back of the acid test for a deprivation of liberty set out by the Supreme Court in Cheshire West, there was a tenfold increase in referrals from 2013-14 to 2014-15 , since when they have doubled again. This is still the basis of funding provided to councils.

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Engagement Government University Social Services 288

Gary Direnfeld

JUNE 27, 2022

What followed were tests on an urgent basis: echocardiogram; stress test; angiogram. Here I am just two weeks post surgery. If not, you are missing many more posts! Cardiac distress. Don’t exert myself. Don’t drive. If any further chest pain call 911. Those instructions were overwhelming, scary. Get support.

Recovery 147

Recovery Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker 147

Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The increase in the upper capital limit for the social care means-test, making more people eligible for council-funded care. 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.

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Social Worker Government Mental Health Clinic 272

Gary Direnfeld

AUGUST 30, 2023

I will place a link to the original post and comments in a comment to this post for those who would like to read them. 4) Please do not use the school as a testing ground for changes in medication, routines, food choices, etc, without first informing the EA. Please feel free to share this post. There were 175 comments.

Schools 124

Schools Private Practice Mental Health Social Worker 124

Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

‘Broken care provider market’ “The number of vulnerable children requiring care has risen dramatically post-pandemic, while inflation and a broken provider market in statutory care placements mean councils face no choice but to pay spiralling fees,” said Barry Lewis, the CCN’s vice chair and finance spokesperson.

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Government 228

The Social Care Elf

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Mark-Steven Howe looks at this is diagnostic test accuracy review comparing conventional and cone-beam computed tomography for detecting persistent apical disease after root canal treatment. The post Endodontic diagnosis – conventional radiography versus cone beam computed tomography appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

One is the use of post-assessment hubs, in which a manager oversees cases for which the work ordered by the court has been completed but a trial is at least six weeks away or not listed, removing them from the FCA’s caseload. There are further internal reforms that Tiotto says will help bring down caseloads over time.

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Social Worker Interviewing Consultation Government 276

Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Steve Barclay has returned to the post of health and social care secretary, which he held for just two months over the summer, following Thérèse Coffey’s even shorter stint in the role. Adult social care has a new cabinet minister as the government mulls delaying its proposed funding reforms, including the cap on care costs.

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Government Hospitals Social Worker 233

Therapist Development Center

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

One of the challenges of the ASWB LMSW and LCSW exams are the breadth of content that can be tested. Today we delve into a less commonly tested theory, … Continued. The post ASWB Exam Prep: Gestalt Therapy appeared first on Therapist Development Center Blog.

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LMSW LCSW Therapist 52

Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The department added that social workers would be freed up to spend more time with children and families by the creation of multidisciplinary family help teams, which will be tested in up to 12 pathfinder areas. a year earlier, according to an Association of Directors of Children’s Services survey.

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Social Worker Case Management Government Communication 256

Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

However, councils also had 1,600 vacant posts , as of last September, meaning they would have to find about 6,000 additional social workers, amid a mounting backlog of assessments, care packages and reviews. To address, the government would need to increase the proportion of the new health and social care levy – involving a 1.25

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Government Social Worker Case Management Consultation 282

Prosper Health Collective

MAY 7, 2023

Your GP can run some tests for conditions such as strep infection and if appropriate treatment with antibiotics may be recommended. The post What is PANDAS and PANS appeared first on Prosper Health Collective. antibiotics) AND psychological intervention for the obsessive and compulsive behaviours.

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OCD Psychology Interventional Anxiety 98

Prosper Health Collective

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Cognitive assessments or intelligence tests are used to determine a child’s learning capability by identifying their cognitive strengths and weaknesses. The post Types of Assessments appeared first on Therapy Services | Prosper Health Collective.

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Interviewing Psychology Interventional Communication 52

Bipolar Bandit

JUNE 7, 2022

I have not been blogging very much lately because frankly I just can’t seem to get too many people to read my blogs eventhough I post them on all social media sites.The algorithms are awful. Please leave a comment that you found the video from my blog post as I am testing to see if this works as I might do others this way.

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Depression 82

Prosper Health Collective

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

There are a range of tests to assess receptive (understanding) and expressive language skills. Tests are chosen based on the age of the child and their ability to attend to different tasks. The post Speech Pathology Assessments appeared first on Therapy Services | Prosper Health Collective.

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Communication Disorder Therapist Interventional 97

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I have a blog post about a remarkable outbreak of white fragility on the part of some garden partiers. ? A drug test is not a parenting test – even when it’s accurate. KSL-TV has a follow-up to its investigative report on false positive drug tests. ? But, as The Imprint reports, that’s sure not the case in Indiana. ?

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Child Welfare Domestic Violence Welfare Psychiatric 76