Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Department for Education (DfE) has backed a care review proposal for a five-year early career framework (ECF) for the development of children’s social workers, but rejected its call to introduce national pay scales to recognise progress. “We do not intend to create new DfE-led pay scales.

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Social Worker Consultation Adoption Government 58

Community Care

MAY 8, 2024

Hundreds of social workers in England are being “left in limbo”, often unable to work, because of long and increasing delays in fitness to practise (FTP) cases. Information that could clear the social worker was “not considered or overlooked” even when drawn to the attention of investigators, the bodies added.

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Social Worker Engagement Adoption Mental Health 62

Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Amazingly she had already adopted a number of strategies and capacities from those previous helpers. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters.

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Therapist Private Practice Mental Health Adoption 113

Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 17, 2024

Christina has been a licensed foster parent in the state of Washington for six years and has adopted one child from the foster care system. by Christina Faucett I am honored to publish this essay from Christina Faucett. Prior to becoming a foster parent, she was a CASA for three years.

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Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

A scheme placing social workers in schools does not reduce children’s need for statutory social care services, one of the largest ever randomised controlled trials carried out in the sector has found. No impact on social care outcomes It found that the rate of section 47s was 5.5%

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Schools Social Worker School Social Work Interventional 56

Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

By Ann Horne, kinship consultant, CoramBAAF. They have not made a proactive choice to become a foster carer or adopter, but find themselves in a situation, not of their own choosing, but wishing to safeguard a child they love. Kinship carers are motivated by love, commitment and, sometimes, a sense of family or cultural duty.

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Social Worker Adoption Anxiety Consultation 52

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Our findings (consistent over the last five years) indicate that agile working models in Scotland are failing to meet the needs of social workers.”

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Social Worker Criminal Justice Government Adoption 56

Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Since Lyn Romeo announced her retirement in October last year , the tributes to the now former chief social worker for adults from across the profession have been warm and fulsome. Lyn Romeo is without a doubt a social worker for social workers! Will be hugely missed by many and certainly me.

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Social Worker Government Mental Health University 62

Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

High levels of social worker turnover undermined engagement with six young people with histories of social care involvement who were later convicted of violent offences, a review has found. Find out more from the contextual safeguarding team based at Durham University, headed by Firmin.

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Engagement Social Worker Interventional Schools 56

Community Care

JULY 25, 2023

Three councils have been selected to test giving responsibility for child protection cases to specialist social workers. Meanwhile, councils would be encouraged to refer families to FGCs from early help onwards, under proposed changes to Working Together, which are currently out to consultation.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 3, 2022

The independent researchers, who received data from the county, also found that social workers disagreed with the risk scores the algorithm produced about one-third of the time. So, of course, leave it to the governor and his human services leadership team to propose doubling down on their failed approach.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

The Department for Education’s (DfE) revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children has removed the previous requirement for child in need assessments and casework to be reserved for qualified social workers. Child protection enquiries and casework will remain ring-fenced for social workers.

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Disability Consultation Social Worker Youth Worker 70

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. This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care.

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Adoption Interviewing Foster Care Social Worker 54

Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

Currently kinship care is wedged uncomfortably into systems designed primarily for fostering and adoption and is often the poor relation in a hierarchy of rights and support.” In Professor Joan Hunt’s 2021 study of social workers working with kinship carers, practitioners highlighted the unique complexities of carers’ roles.

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Adoption Social Worker Foster Care Healthcare 65

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 1, 2023

Welcome to REAL Social Workers Online Magazine This is the place for social workers to Relax, Empower, Advocate and Learn. I am Marcyline Bailey, a licensed clinical social worker with close to 30 years of experience. So, why share this on a blog for social workers. According to Zippia 83.9%

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Adoption Social Worker Consultation Clinic 52

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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Social Worker Diversity Adoption Anxiety 65

Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A report proposing reforms to agency social work. The consultations close on 11 May, 2023. Agency social work: The department has proposed bringing in national rules to reduce the cost and use of agency social workers in children’s services. You can respond online by following the links above.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For example, some workers who were interested in gaming and digital activities used these as a tool for engagement, which resulted in positive connections. Barriers to implementation Participants reported challenges and barriers to adoption and implementation of digital safeguarding at both national and local level.

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Case Management Communication Self-harm Adoption 54

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Before deciding on the methods, home secretary Suella Braverman was obliged to consult the government’s age estimation science advisory committee (AESAC) , which includes experts from relevant medical disciplines, and conclude they were appropriate. This was on the grounds that no single method of assessment was infallible.

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Government Adoption Social Worker Consultation 53

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. The need for children’s services to shift from crisis response to prevention was also a key conclusion from Josh MacAlister’s Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, which reported in 2022.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Hospitals 69

Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A one-month consultation on its proposals closes tomorrow (30 November), with the group then intending to draw up revised best practice guidance for immediate implementation, potentially ahead of longer-term reforms to the order. Social workers back standalone supervision orders, despite questioning their effectiveness.

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Government Social Worker Consultation Adoption 59

Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

In its commentary in Child Maltreatment 2017 (CM2017), New Jersey attributed the one-year drop in children with substantiated dispositions from FFY 2016 to FFY2017 to a revised disposition model it adopted in April 2013. There is one possible explanation for this decline, which I raised in a 2021 blog.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. By Professor Judith Harwin and Lily Golding. There is an urgent need for this review.

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Social Work With Adults

MAY 11, 2022

It is with a sense of relief, but also pride in our collective resilience as a profession, that we are able to publish the Chief Social Worker for Adults Annual Report 2021-22 in a world which has, at long last, regained some of the familiar trappings of normality. Social work’s contribution to this area is needed now more than ever.

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Social Worker Mental Health Diversity Adoption 20

Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

It hasappointed consultant Peter Dwyer, a former director, as a commissioner to oversee improvements. Following an inspection in October, Ofsted found that children were at risk at harm and social workers “significantly under-resourced” as a result of leaders’ failure to prioritise the service. Council improves to ‘good’.

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Government Social Worker Adoption Interventional 52

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

AUGUST 1, 2023

Club I am Marcyline Bailey, a licensed clinical social worker with close to 30 years of experience. By adopting the habit of eating slowly, we allow our bodies the time it needs to complete each stage of the digestion process. Let’s prioritize our health and happiness by adopting this simple yet impactful habit.

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Adoption Consultation Clinic Social Worker 40

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For my latest article, we consulted four sets of parents who had been investigated because of bruises in pre-mobile children and found not to have harmed their child. Parents were concerned at the effect of a record of an investigation remaining on file, including one couple who were considering adopting a child in the future.

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Self-harm Hospitals Adoption Disorder 72

Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

It is not possible to provide service stability and strong positive cultures if there is heavy reliance on agency social workers; Northern Ireland has already taken action to curtail their use in its statutory social services.

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Disability Domestic Violence Social Worker University 41

Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 1, 2021

At least £150 million to support adoption of technology and digitalisation. This is the next big step in the reform journey, one in which social care practitioners will have such a key and important role to play. Funding the vision. People at the heart of care ' sets out priorities for the £1.7 Please do take the time to read it!

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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." Recruitment and retention of adult social workers, indeed of social care professionals as a whole, remains a critical issue to resolve.

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Social Worker Mental Health Adoption Government 19

Social Work With Adults

MARCH 19, 2024

Jason Brandon, Office of the Chief Social Worker for Adults: It’s National Social Work Week , one of the most important events in the social work calendar. This year's theme focuses on social workers' capacity to adopt innovative and community-led approaches.

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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. In Ireland, we have taken a narrow approach to adoption of the Directive. We can see trauma and need, and address this from a perspective of care.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2022

percent), birth or adoptive parents (96.1 Social workers could address these stressors by developing systems-focused interventions and by further considering intersectional health disparities. Most parent participants were White (85.1 percent), female (85.1 percent), and reported strong support for youth’s gender.

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Community Care

MARCH 16, 2023

A quarter of those who quit the social work register in England last year had been on it for less than a year, Social Work England has revealed. Its Social Work in England: state of the nation 2023 study, published last week, showed that 24.1% This is only just short of the 28.7%

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Social Worker Diversity Adoption Disability 54

Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

These aimed at extending the powers given to police officers to remove a person suffering from a mental health crisis to a place of safety, to health and social care professionals (including social workers and paramedics). Consequently, she argued, children may not benefit from the reforms in the bill that depend on competency.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But even the most fanatical devotees of thinking less argue for more medical tests and consultation with specialists such as child abuse pediatricians, of course. Much of the impetus for making thinking more difficult seems to come from Mark Moran, a social worker who chairs Maines Child Death and Serious Injury Review Panel.

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