Community Care

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Department for Education has renewed calls for children’s social workers who are not currently practising to return to the profession temporarily to ease staffing pressures caused by Covid-19. Many local workforces are facing pressure due to Covid-19,” he posted on social media just before Christmas. “We Related articles.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Social workers have been freed up to spend more time with children after council investment led to a “significant reduction” in caseloads, Ofsted has found. Department for Education (DfE) figures show that Walsall’s agency social worker rate halved from 30.5% Workforce investment. in September 2017 to 14.8%

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Community Care

APRIL 20, 2023

Councils should have a bigger role monitoring local residential settings in their areas to better protect disabled children, an inquiry into the abuse of children in three services has concluded. “These recommendations set out a roadmap to more humane treatment of these children.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Beverley Tarka this week became the first black president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) since its establishment in 2007. That visible leadership role acts as a role model for people in the field and even people outside the field of social care. So why has Tarka stayed put?

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Community Care

JUNE 22, 2023

By Nicole Weinstein Independent and agency social workers are more satisfied at work on average than permanently employed staff, a survey of almost 8,000 practitioners working in statutory services has found. In addition, respondents were quizzed on their experiences of the workplace.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Waits for assessments and care, commissioned home care left undelivered and provider failure are all increasing, despite more care being provided found an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services survey of members , covering August to October this year. across adult social care in October 2021, from 6.2%

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Community Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. For this campaign to be a success, we need your support. Here are five ways you can do so. The media’s negative coverage of the job does not help.

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Community Care

JUNE 5, 2022

A local authority criticised in a BBC Panorama investigation has said a “culture of bullying” in its children’s services department is no longer being tolerated. One unnamed practitioner said in the documentary: “It’s a culture of bullying, it’s a culture of control […] it’s not safe for families and it’s not safe for social workers.”.

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Community Care

MAY 17, 2022

Social workers who are “passionate and knowledgeable about children’s needs” have helped a council improve from ‘good’ to ‘outstanding’, despite “continuous workforce challenges”. Ofsted said social workers were “passionate and knowledgeable about children’s needs”. Leaders ‘accessible and supportive’.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Children’s social workers’ caseloads are bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. A third of social workers said their caseloads had increased “a lot” over the past year, while a further 36% said they had risen “slightly”. compared with 23.9

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

Authorities across England cut provision to people needing care and support and carers, for example, by closing day centres or reducing respite services, without making use of the so-called Care Act easements, found the research by the University of Manchester. “She went to a day centre, you know, for five hours.

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Community Care

MAY 9, 2023

Social work leaders must integrate anti-racism into all aspects of practice to achieve change, experts told a conference recently. 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.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

However, as of mid-September, 70 children who had arrived in Kent were being housed in hotels, rather than the care of a local authority, and charities warned they were being inadequately supported. Plan to end use of hotels. More follows .

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Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals to care homes risk inappropriate placements and neglect the root causes of the acute pressures on the health service. However, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) raised concerns about the focus on discharging people to care homes in the latest fund.

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 5, 2023

a social safety net for all citizens [was created, providing support] for the homeless, disabled people and older people, obliging local authorities to provide suitable accommodation." For years, social workers have worked alongside health professionals. "[Alongside the birth of the NHS].

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

It added that with mental health services under massive additional strain since the pandemic, the use of inappropriate out-of-area placements would persist unless “concrete and additional action” was taken. Debt support scheme for people in mental health crisis reaching just 3% of forecast number. ” Related articles.

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Community Care

AUGUST 21, 2023

Council heads have refused to raise their pay offer for social workers and other staff after members of two of the three unions backed strike action in some local authority areas. to social workers and 9.4% Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. for 2023-24.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2023

Racial diversity among directors of children’s services remains low, compared with the populations they serve and the workforces they lead, a survey has revealed. However, the current percentage of female directors (64%) is below the proportion of women in the children’s social work workforce in England (87%).

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Better relationships with children’s social workers is a key factor in tackling a foster carer recruitment and retention “crisis”, says The Fostering Network. That was among the findings from its latest State of the Nation’s Foster Care report, this year based on a survey of 3,352 carers and 99 fostering services.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The government has delayed its response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care until next year. Resource concerns following autumn statement.

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Community Care

JULY 7, 2023

By Clare Jerrom Some social work students face delays in joining the workforce due to the marking and assessment boycott academics are carrying out at 145 UK universities. The British Association of Social Workers’ Student and NQSW Group called for “understanding” from employers for those affected by UCU’s industrial action.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Social worker shortages in Solihull have meant children referred to local safeguarding services face long delays, with some waiting a month to be assessed, a multi-agency inspection launched following the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes has found. Arthur court case compounds ‘systemic’ recruitment challenges.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. It said the “deeply disappointing” findings showed the care market was in an “untenable operating position” and urged Whately to “acknowledge the findings and invest in social care”.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

The last of those checks is carried out by a best interests assessor, who is typically a social worker and generally co-ordinates the assessment process. I struggle to see why you have to jump through all of these hoops for someone in a nursing home, when they’re happy there and don’t want to leave,” said another.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With or without reform, the quality, reliability and effectiveness of our adult social care system depends on a workforce that feels valued, supported and encouraged to be the best. It is about people delivering services and also those receiving them. That’s why I’m delighted at least £500 million of the £1.7

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Social Care

JANUARY 12, 2024

Social care colleagues will have better training, clearer career paths and improved job prospects following the announcement of government plans to develop the domestic care workforce. Individuals drawing on care services were just as vital contributors to the Pathway as care staff, providers and other sector partners.

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Social Work With Adults

APRIL 4, 2023

"Although progress towards real and sustained care sector reform remains challenging, the voice of adult social work has a powerful and constructive role to play." The People at the Heart of Care white paper, published in December 2021, set out the Government’s 10-year vision for adult social care.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 26, 2021

"[Black History Month's existence] explains why the WRES is essential in our efforts to recognise, support and elevate the diversity of the social care workforce." This endeavour is drawing people together from across social care, who may not have ordinarily been working on the same things. Pioneers of parity.

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Social Care

JUNE 8, 2022

"Carers too often drop off the radar, missing out on services and resources which could help them sustain their own health and wellbeing, just as they seek to sustain others." Visible, valued and supported. This might include respite and carers’ breaks, enhanced peer group networks and boosted community support.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The desire to reform, rebuild and strengthen social care has been a longstanding ambition of successive governments and, while these objectives may be simply put, achieving them has often been anything but. Workforce investment. That’s why at least £500 million of the £1.7 That’s why at least £500 million of the £1.7

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Community Care

MAY 5, 2022

A “significant variation” in the quality of social work has led inspectors to downgrade York council to ‘requires improvement’. Inspectors said the authority had tried to reverse a decline in practice identified in a 2019 focused visit covering children in need and child protection services. Children left in neglectful situations.

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Social Care

APRIL 4, 2023

As an important new call for evidence launches, Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care and Oonagh Smyth, Chief Executive of Skills for Care , set out their united view of an amazing workforce and its future potential in their latest blog. Adding your voice to this call for evidence will help us enhance all these things.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2023

The Welsh Government dubbed the decision to delay implementation of the scheme, which would apply in England and Wales, “deeply disappointing”, with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) also expressing concerns. ” Senker added: “Urgent change is needed to protect people’s rights.

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Social Care

JUNE 27, 2023

[Image created by freepik.com ] Making delegation business as usual The delegation of healthcare activities is not new – parents are trained to undertake highly technical interventions to support children living with complex conditions. Is this the only way to support people?

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JANUARY 10, 2022

Geriatric mental health workforce training. Among the American Psychological Association Center for Workforce Studies survey’s 4,109 doctoral-level respondents, only 1.2% CoPGTP offers recommendations for competent delivery of psychological services to older adults (Hinrichsen et al., Adult development and aging. Assessment.

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Social Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It’s an approach where an adult or young person, who needs long term support, is matched with a carefully approved Shared Lives carer. Together, the person needing support and the Shared Lives carer share the carer’s family and community life. Our workforce remains stable, with a 12% turnover amongst scheme workers.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) replacement was originally due come into force in October 2020, but this was then put back to a target of April 2022, due to the impact of Covid on health and social care. Social work leaders told Community Care this was causing significant challenges for practitioners and managers.

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