Community Care

JULY 5, 2024

This is the strong case we’ll be making to the new government over the days, weeks and months ahead.” Priorities for adult social care In its first message to the new government, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services set out three priorities for adult social care.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

SASW – the Scottish branch of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) – also called for guaranteed reflective supervision and training, reduced administrative burdens and paid overtime for practitioners. A reduction in administrative burdens to enable more time for direct work. provided by a line manager.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Non-statutory placements make up over half of practice learning provision for social work students in Scotland, leaving some graduates underprepared for practice, research has revealed. However, participants in the research said funding was inadequate to cover the costs of PLOs.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Because Curts didn't have a stable housing alternative, on June 15, 2022, investigators from the Jackson County Children’s Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services and two policemen came to take her children into protective custody. Anybody see the problem here yet? If not, consider how the reporter circles back to Ms.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Liberty Protection Safeguards shelved At the same time, the government has shelved its plan to replace DoLS with the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) until after the next election, following repeated delays to its planned implementation date. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

Kamerman was my professor during my doctoral studies at Columbia University School of Social Work. She taught me much of what I know about the welfare state and providing social services in the United States. I was proud to be in the company of someone with influence and respect at the highest level of New York state government.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 27, 2022

Nancy earned an MSW from the University of Southern California, while working for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, where she rose from a direct services worker to assistant program deputy and staff development administrator. In 2003, she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from NASW.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2023

The government has moved £600m originally destined for social care reform into helping councils meet existing pressures on adults’ services over the next two years. Council heads welcome funding Council leadership bodies said the funding shift would help them tackle pressures on services, particularly this coming winter.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts will have to stop using agency social workers from next June, its Department of Health (DoH) has said. The UK government has set the political parties in Northern Ireland a deadline of 8 December to restore the executive, which has not been functioning since February.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social work leaders have come together to forge solutions to mounting workforce challenges in England. Social Work England has convened a group including representatives from government, employers and professional bodies, to tackle the severe recruitment and retention pressures being faced across the country.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. “It

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Community Care

JULY 10, 2024

Labour’s return to power last week was greeted with a chorus of welcomes from adult social care organisations in England – along with a chorus of demands of the new government. In its 2021 white paper, People at the Heart of Care, the government concluded that the full spirit of the Care Act had not been realised.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

About the skills and frameworks we bring to the table: According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the principles of ‘trauma-informed care’ include safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment, voice and choice, and cultural, historical, and gender issues.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

He is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on social justice and the welfare state, Titmuss helped establish social policy as an academic discipline. From 1950 until his death in 1973 he was the professor of social administration at the London School of Economics. He was made a CBE in 2009 for his services to disabled people.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 7, 2024

Administration for Children and Families, are based on data that states submit to the National Child Abuse and Neglect (NCANDS) data system. States reported a total of approximately 1,990 fatalities to the federal government for Federal Fiscal Year 2022. A PDF version appears on the project website.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The absence of comprehensive planning for families and children raises fears of a return to cruel family separation policies seen during the Trump Administration. It has consequences that touch health care, social services, education, and the lives of everyday citizens.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

For those students who have held on, the required social work internships have evolved dramatically. Social work students deliver services online, learn remotely, and show up to social services agencies in deep transition. If you’re a social worker reading this, hold on.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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