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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

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. Pandemic experience The use of digital communications was inevitable through the pandemic. It simply is not on the radar!

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Axing leadership training scheme risks undermining support for social workers, warn PSWs

Community Care

The government’s axing of a social work leadership training scheme risks undermining support for practitioners as well as the retention of managers, principal social workers have warned. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Autism Social Skills Training: Strategies for Developing Empathy

Relias

Many individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have some level of difficulty with social communication and interaction skills. Using autism social skills training can help your clients, children, and adults alike improve their skills in these areas. The objectives of autism social skills training.

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Social Work England finds broad support for proposed expectations of new graduates

Community Care

Social Work England has found broad support from the profession for its proposed expectations of students’ knowledge and skills on graduation. Managing your time and prioritising your workload, demonstrating specific skills in relation to caseload management and use of limited resources to ensure that people’s needs are met.

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Better relationships with children’s social workers ‘key to tackling foster carer crisis’

Community Care

This chimes with Ofsted’s annual fostering statistics , which found “too few carers with the right skills” to support the number of children needing placements. When family and friends carers were discounted, the number of approved fostering households had fallen by 3% over the past five years amid a growing care population.

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Speech Pathology Week 2023 – Communciation for Life

Prosper Health Collective

million Australians with communication disabilities. Communication is a fundamental human right that empowers us to express ourselves, connect with others, and fully participate in society. However, for many individuals, communication can present challenges due to various disabilities and disorders.

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How does a speech pathologist work with autism?

Prosper Health Collective

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) commonly results in difficulties with language and social skills which speech pathologists are experienced in treating. They can frequently face misunderstanding and judgement because of their difficulties in social skills. When social situations become uncomfortable or awkward it can become isolating.