Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Promoting improvements to social work, including the adoption of evidence-informed practice. Not only has it been adopted in several areas but it is also referenced in the Care Quality Commission’s new framework for assessing the quality of local authorities’ delivery of their Care Act functions , she says.

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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

Parents of disabled children who need constant care may be exhausted. It also involves greater investment in voluntary and community services, such as Sure Start, Home Start and family centres with an expanded age range, and in respite care for families with a disabled child.

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Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 1, 2021

At least £150 million to support adoption of technology and digitalisation. Increasing the upper limit of the Disabled Facilities Grant. Funding the vision. People at the heart of care ' sets out priorities for the £1.7 billion investment and includes: At least £300 million to integrate housing into local health and care strategies.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Yet, providing unpaid care to someone who has a health condition, who is older or who has a disability, can have a profound impact on their health, wellbeing, paid work and relationships. People don’t see themselves as unpaid carers but as partners, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, and close friends first. Image created by freepik.com ].

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Adoption Consultation Hospitals Disability 18

Social Work With Adults

MARCH 19, 2024

This year's theme focuses on social workers' capacity to adopt innovative and community-led approaches. To mark the day, I’m delighted to present this blog from Jak Savage MBE , social care consultant and individual employer of personal assistants (PAs).

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Hospital Discharges Social Worker Adoption Hospitals 13

Community Care

MARCH 16, 2023

In its draft children’s social care strategy, published for consultation last month, the DfE said that feedback from the profession had found that “ years 2 to 4 of social workers’ career are often the toughest as they lose the support provided by the ASYE”, which the ECF would seek to address. The regulator said 9.5%

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

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. It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love.

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Irish Social Worker

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Do we strive to adopt that cornerstone of trauma-informed care, of meeting the person where they are at, in the midst of their reality, with their lived-expertise guiding the way. She was writing in relation to the recent public outcry in respect of the abuses in residential services for people with intellectual disabilities.

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Criminal Justice Adoption Advocacy Counseling 22

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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