Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

They will hold all child protection cases, working in tandem with family help practitioners already involved with the family and supported by practitioners from other agencies – notably health and police – who are also particularly skilled in safeguarding. We see it as a key part of their development,” she said. “We

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Kirsty Hammonds, Coram In my role as child placement consultant in Coram’s activity days team, I come across many siblings who will not be able to live together permanently. The logistics of co-ordinating visits between siblings who may live in different locations with potentially conflicting schedules is complicated.

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Community Care

MAY 7, 2024

It is designed to ensure that many more children are supported to stay with their families or, with kinship carers; that those at risk are much better protected than is currently the case, and that those who do need to go into care receive a much better experience and, as a result, better life chances than now.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

What are we doing in terms of their therapeutic, their family needs, their identity needs such that, when they reach 15, they are hitting the need for these high-risk orders? “We know there are children who issues with their neurodivergence – we need to start thinking about planning for those differences when they emerge.”

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Social Worker Recovery Mental Health Psychology 341

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. It is the worst case of child abuse and neglect that I have ever seen,” said a hospital consultant who treated Victoria in her final days.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Social Services 339

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 15, 2024

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

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Community Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

No child should live in unsafe, unsuitable accommodation and we should be working collectively to maintain a sharp focus on improving standards for all children in care,” said the chair of the ADCS’s resources & strategy committee, Chris Munday.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Colum Conway, chief executive, Social Work England “We have seen an increase in cases where people are practising as social workers without joining our register,” said chief executive Colum Conway. “In our business plan we explained that we are investigating the reasons for this increase so we can find the best way to reduce this.

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Social Worker 346

Community Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“In particular, the fact that 390,000 people left their jobs in 2022-23 and around a third of them left the sector altogether shows that we have a leaky bucket that we urgently need to repair,” she said. “We can’t simply recruit our way out of our retention challenges.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Sitting alongside her, Matt Clayton, strategic lead for children in care and care leavers at Coventry council, said the programme had led to practice improvements of colleagues who had been through the training and losing it was “a bit of a kick in the teeth” for the profession.

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Social Worker Government 246

Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It used population-level data from Cafcass relating to 105,334 children from different ethnic groups who appeared in care proceedings for the first time between 2016-17 and 2021-22, and included an analysis of their demographic characteristics and legal outcomes. Are children being supported at the right time?

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Adoption Interventional Social Worker Government 255

Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

“To build sustained political backing to transform care and support in England, we not only need the trust of decision-makers in Government and their confidence that the solutions we’re proposing will work. We need to the change the way the public thinks about social care.” So, it was a very accidental start to the career.

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Mental Health Government Hospitals Disability 296

Social Work Futures

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

” It is connected to the things we are doing, the places we are looking, the places we aren’t looking…right now. The “point” of foresight is to help us use the future…to help us guide and more creatively understand how we want to face and/or co-create what comes next. Happy downloading.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

There, the council has established a residents’ panel for unpaid carers who are looking after someone with dementia, to meet with social care team managers and other senior staff, face to face once a month. . By speaking up, together we make someone else’s life a little easier in the future.”

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Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

Anecdotally, we are hearing that the only people applying for social work roles are NQSWs,” said Anne Tavendale, learning and development manager at the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), at a session during Social Work England’s Social Work Week.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This risked leaving people in deprived areas, who are more dependent on state services, going without care, it warned. “And it’s left care staff overworked, stressed, and poorly paid, meaning many leave their jobs and we have difficulty recruiting people to replace them.” “The sector alone cannot solve those problems.”

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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. We are in a culture where taking care of ourselves is seen as selfish, but you can’t pour from an empty cup. The world of social work is so vast and there are so many opportunities to make a difference.

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Social Worker 276

Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Of those who complete the second year of the programme, 84% remain in social work practice after 12 months, said Think Ahead, based on figures drawn from its 2016-20 cohorts. It is essential we invest in and develop social work capacity and capability to provide the right support at the right time for those we are here to serve.”

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Social Worker Mental Health Diversity University 333

Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Read about why we’re launching this campaign , and the five steps you can take to support it. Put information about children into the general information that councils give to residents, eg we have x number of children, x % attend early years, x% primary schools, x% secondary schools and x% go to university/college.

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Social Worker Foster Care Schools Interviewing 256

Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

By Lorraine Currie The timeline provided by Community Care , from the 2014 Cheshire West judgment to the government’s postponement of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) , is incredibly helpful in reminding us of events we would otherwise forget. I do believe there are still ways we can make improvements to the DoLS scheme.

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Engagement Government University Social Services 292

Community Care

MAY 20, 2022

Ninety-three per cent of those who left university social work courses in 2018-19 achieved a qualification (91% for undergraduate and 96% for postgraduate), according to Skills for Care ’s most recent report on social work education. Starters and graduates at fast-track courses. Frontline: 2020-21 – 463 starters, 419 graduates (90%).

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University Mental Health Social Worker Consultation 335

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

“This disparity also reinforces further concerns about how racism and inequity is experienced by the children, families, adults, and communities who access our support services. The Skills for Care report is vital to helping us understand the issues, so we can start to address them.”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Undercover reporter Alan Haslam, who spent three months at the centre, also found staff falsely recording that they had carried out required observations of patients. Olivia, a patient who agreed to be featured on the programme, saying that her treatment at the hospital had made her serious mental health condition worse. .

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Hospitals Mental Health Patient Safety Clinic 344

Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

We also strongly support increased opportunities for continuous professional development (CPD) for PEs, through specialised training that should serve as evidence for registration renewal. We would welcome a cohesive approach with other agencies, with representation from diverse PEs to address the unique challenges faced by different groups.

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Social Worker Interviewing Diversity Disability 232

Community Care

MAY 10, 2024

This was part of wider reforms, announced in December 2023, to reduce levels of migration that included barring care workers who take up jobs using the health and care visa from bringing dependants with them. However, the growth in the number of overseas staff has been accompanied by concerns that many are being exploited.

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Community Care

MAY 9, 2023

If you focus all your training on practitioners, everybody else is going to stay the same,” said Khan, who also leads on the workforce race equality standard for Leeds children’s services. It is all right to say we are anti-racist but, unless we can visualise that, how can we get there? “We Kerr asked participants.

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Diversity Social Worker Psychology University 271

Community Care

APRIL 9, 2024

The Children’s Homes Association’s (CHA) new membership rules also stipulate that members must be ultimately owned in the UK and have at least majority shareholders who are UK-registered taxpayers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

“The disproportionate impact on black people, who are four times more likely to be sectioned than white people, is appalling. Labour pledge welcomed The news was welcomed by psychiatrist Simon Wessely , who chaired the 2017-18 Independent Review of the Mental Health Act for Theresa May’s government. ” .”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Under Working Together to Safeguard Children , councils should appoint an officer or team to manage and oversee allegations against people who work with children. Forty three of the 55 councils who placed children at the settings reported previous concerns to the review about what had happened to children or about the schools in general.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

We are a growing and ageing population, inequalities are increasing and more people are living with disabilities. This can’t be achieved overnight – we need a long-term, fully funded plan for adult social care to meet our needs today and in the future.” And while the number of these packages grew by 2.8%

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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. ” “However, overreliance on agency social work resource has led to workforce instability, churn and high costs,” it said.

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Social Worker Engagement Consultation Government 308

Community Care

APRIL 25, 2023

Children who had experienced multiple placements were more likely to be moved while more children from England are being placed in Scotland and Wales, according to data Become obtained from the Department for Education (DfE) through freedom of information requests.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

MHA reform ditched by Tories, but pledged by Labour This would have likely reduced the number of detained autistic people and people with learning disabilities – who currently number about 2,000 – by preventing people from being sectioned for treatment on the basis of those conditions alone.

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Disability Hospitals Mental Health Rehabilitation 312

Community Care

JULY 12, 2023

Where families needed a child protection response, a specialist child protection practitioner – who would be a social worker – would co-work the case with the family help team, though the two functions would be kept separate under the plans. “However, concerns remain as to how roles will be defined within such teams.

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Social Worker Consultation Mental Health Government 230

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

One in five NQSWs who responded to the SASW survey said they felt “completely unprepared” to start their career in social work, while it also revealed that the lack of statutory PLOs was undermining students’ mental health. We plan to have the revised requirements in place for the start of the new academic year.2

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Administration Mental Health University Social Worker 312

Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

This is despite councils – who are responsible for assessing all DoLS cases and deciding whether to authorise deprivations – completing record numbers of cases (289,150) in 2022-23, up 14% on the year before. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has given authorities £27m to explore different ways of streamlining the assessment process for adults who may need care and support and carers with possible support needs. We are concerned that the use of non-qualified staff will undermine a system that puts the needs of people first.

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