Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Introducing specialist child protection social workers is posing workforce challenges for the councils testing the system. Issues included retaining staff, maintaining safeguarding skills among other social workers and avoiding disruption to families as a result of the reform.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

A BASW spokesperson said staff shortages in the wider workforce had been exacerbated by Omicron, resulting in a lack of provision “to facilitate hospital discharge or to support a preventative approach”. Overall, she said, children’s social work teams were experiencing “fairly usual workforce pressures for this time of year”.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. Lack of diversity in adoption workforce and panels . The adoption workforce, and adoption panels, are insufficiently diverse.”

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Social Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

"This was a positive visit for DHSC and CareTech, both sides learning from each other and gaining a better understanding of how we can work together to improve workforce capabilities." The Care Workforce Pathway, the new Care Certificate and the development of a skills passport all form part of the DHSC team’s portfolio.

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Social Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

[Image created by freepik.com ] Shaping support for adult social care workforce of the future In collaboration with Skills for Care , Ipsos , and The University of Kent , a national survey was recently launched to learn more about how we can improve support for the adult social care workforce.

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Health & Social Care Workforce

APRIL 8, 2024

Dr Antonina Semkina is Research Associate at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, King’s College London. 613 words) Unit researchers Antonina Semkina and Caroline Norrie attended the annual Health and Wellbeing at Work Conference that … Continue reading →

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Directors have urged the government to fund a £1,000 winter bonus for adult social care staff in England to stem a mounting workforce crisis. We appreciate the dedication and tireless work of social care staff throughout the pandemic.” ” She pointed to the £162.5m ” She pointed to the £162.5m

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The annual Social Service Workforce Week, spearheaded by our esteemed partner, the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, carries profound importance for social workers across the globe. This week-long event, spanning […]

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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”. Passionate and knowledgeable’. Ofsted found the council had made progress on all the recommendations from its previous inspection in 2017.

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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.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

A council’s children’s services have improved to ‘outstanding’ despite being inspected against the backdrop of “extreme” workforce challenges. ‘Extreme’ workforce pressures. as of September 2021, according to Department for Education figures.

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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. This was why I was pleased to be involved in the development of the Care Workforce Pathway.

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

The report said the council’s investment in its workforce had enabled social workers to develop stronger relationships with children in need of early help and protection as well as those in care. Social workers building good relationships.

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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. billion announced will be used to transform the way we support, sustain and develop the workforce. [Photo by Lauren.hurley@dhsc.gov.uk, DHSC].

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Social Care

JUNE 27, 2023

helping to embed best practice, safety and expanded skill sets right across the care workforce." The publication of guiding principles for delegated healthcare activities is a major step in the right direction, helping to embed best practice, safety and expanded skill sets right across the care workforce.

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Social Care

JANUARY 11, 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. Values translate into behaviour, and that’s what people experience in their care and support, day to day.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Those were among the damning findings from a Skills for Care study assessing the performance of 23 local authorities in England against a set of race quality measures regarding their social care workforces.

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 19, 2022

by Tomoo Okubo, Social Protection Specialist, UNICEF and Aniruddha Kulkarni, Global Technical Lead, Child Protection Systems, UNICEF (originally developed as a discussion paper by UNICEF and Global Social Service Workforce Alliance)

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The Guardian

MARCH 17, 2023

Ministers set to halve the £500m promised to invest in staffing of sector with more than 165,000 vacancies, report says Politics live - latest updates Ministers are poised to cut £250m from investment in the social care workforce in England, it has been reported, in a move that providers say could set back care “for years to come”.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The pandemic has stretched both health and social care workforces to the limit. With all this in mind, I believe we can build a care workforce that truly reflects the best of our communities. These roles, I have no doubt, will be exciting, varied and rewarding. Funding is important but attracting the right people even more so.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Experts say loss of 50,000 workers exposes ‘absolute crisis’ facing system still reeling from impact of Covid and Brexit The social care workforce has shrunk for the first time in almost a decade despite rising demand and bed congestion in hospitals fuelled by a lack of care places.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In light of severe mental health workforce shortages in the state as well as issues of diversity within the profession, this achievement is a first step to addressing an alarming shortage of mental health professionals in Illinois.

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Relias

AUGUST 21, 2023

The IDD workforce crisis is adversely affecting organizations and their clients. For organizations, the workforce crisis means that administrators spend precious time filling vacancies rather than concentrating on how to improve operational procedures, care quality, and more. So, what can your organization do to improve its retention?

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In light of severe mental health workforce shortages in the state as well as issues of diversity within the profession, this achievement is a first step to addressing an alarming shortage of mental health professionals in Illinois.

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Relias

JANUARY 5, 2023

The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) 2023 Health Care Workforce Scan examined the current state of the healthcare workforce with a deep dive into employment challenges across U.S. The AHA examined three core challenges in this year’s Health Care Workforce Scan, sponsored by Relias: Reconnecting to purpose. With the U.S.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

We will continue to support the social work workforce, including through our fast-track initial education routes, and introducing new national rules on the use of agency social workers.” This point was echoed by the Association of Directors of Children’s Services. ” More follows

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Community Care

APRIL 10, 2024

Though the full value of the adult social care training and development fund will not be revealed until the summer, it will be significantly more resourced than its predecessor, the workforce development fund (WDF), said the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

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The Guardian

APRIL 3, 2023

Charities criticise new plans, described as a ‘shadow of the reform needed’ with the care system ‘on the precipice’ Charities have criticised an announcement that funding promised for the social care workforce in England is to be halved, with one calling the move “an insult”. Continue reading.

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Famcare

OCTOBER 21, 2022

NGOs that provide workforce development solutions have many different ways of showcasing their accomplishments. Keep reading to learn how you can successfully measure success in your workforce development services. They collaborate with outside employers and providers to suit their clients' employment demands.

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Health & Social Care Workforce

MARCH 26, 2024

Prof Ian Kessler of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce introduces the Unit’s programme of work commencing this year under the 2024-28 award from the NIHR Policy Research Programme. In the context of ongoing challenges … Continue reading →

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Agency ‘will tackle workforce challenges’ “The National Social Work Agency is a key part of our proposed National Care Service and will help to champion social work and make sure the voices of social workers are heard.

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CAPC

MARCH 22, 2023

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee requested input on strategies to address the current health care workforce shortage.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Reduced service capacity Workforce shortages had resulted in reduced service capacity. While the CQC welcomed Skills for Care’s decision to develop a sector-led social care workforce strategy , the regulator said it was vital that the government produced its own staffing plan. “The sector alone cannot solve those problems.”

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The Guardian

JUNE 29, 2023

There needs to be a long-term workforce plan for adult social care as well as the NHS to enhance the quality of care and support provided by both. Yet the government has cut £250m from promised funding to support its workforce. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

JUNE 30, 2023

Currently there are more than 112,000 vacancies in a workforce of 1.26 Against this alarming backdrop – particularly for anyone in need of treatment – the workforce plan launched by the prime minister on Friday is welcome as well as overdue. Staff morale is shattered, with retention a growing problem. million full-time equivalents.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Those were among the key messages from the DfE’s statistics on the workforce of children’s social workers in English local authorities as of September 2023 , released today. of the workforce, up from 17.6% on the year above, with locums making up 17.8% the year before.

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Community Care

JANUARY 11, 2024

Both the apprenticeships and pathway funding pots come from £250m the DHSC has set aside to develop the adult social care workforce from 2023-25, a cut from £500m it had originally earmarked for the purpose from 2022-25. This comes with vacancy rates for council adult social workers having risen in recent years, to 11.6%

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