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Chief social worker to step down after decade in post

Community Care

Lyn Romeo will step down as England’s chief social worker for adults in January after just over a decade in the post. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said Romeo was taking retirement.

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Overcoming the barriers to contact between siblings separated by the care system

Community Care

The social care sector is facing resource constraints around staffing, funding and transport, which can affect its ability to prioritise and facilitate sibling contact. The three-hour session was facilitated by nine professionals, including staff from Coram’s activity days team, social workers and play specialists.

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12 Things I Learned from Teaching a New Class: Disaster Social Work – An Anti-Racist Lens

Social Work Futures

[link] Is all social work – “disaster social work” now? Slow disasters – like our variety of forms of structural violence in underfunded social care resources – and – fast disasters like pandemics, large scale climate events, and other cataclysmic events like oil spills and the like…all real.

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The 14 best books to read as a social worker

Save the Social Worker

Chances are, if you have a book on social work from university, you might have shelved it, never to read it again. And here I am telling you to read more social work books? If you want to get better at social work, serving the clients who come into our lives better, you need to read. What about in social work?

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5% of social workers have met CPD requirement as registration opens

Community Care

Just over 5% of social workers have met continuing professional development registration requirements as the three-month renewal period opens. Social Work England said 5,478 practitioners had submitted two pieces of CPD, detailing learning from reflecting on one of the pieces with a peer, equivalent to 5.5% CPD guidance.

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Using Artificial Intelligence in Social Work Field Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Editor’s Note: Jacqueline Jones is the MSW Field Coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and one of my colleagues in the UAB Department of Social Work. She has over six years of experience supervising students during field placements and eight years of social work practice experience. What is AI?

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9 Social work topics for supervision

Save the Social Worker

Or it leaves you with a strange taste in your mouth, thinking: hmm… are these topics that I should even be discussing with my supervisor? Secondly, I write from the perspective of someone who had his university social work training in the U.K., Look through the agenda sent through, and suggest other topics you want to bring up.