Social Work Blog

JULY 27, 2022

Department of Defense (DOD), as part of an initiative to promote licensure portability for military spouses, in 2021 awarded a $500,000 grant for the development of an interstate licensure compact for social workers. CSG is also accepting public comment on the legislation.

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

The ADCS said family hubs were “viewed very positively” by directors, with three-quarters of survey respondents saying they had set up such services, including some who had not received government funding. on the year before. .

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board (ASGLB) will close this month, the Department for Education has confirmed. It was renamed the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board in 2018, as its remit was widened to special guardianship arrangements for children formerly in care. Care review plans .

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

How social workers support resilience, adaptation, and recovery in affected communities. How social workers influence policies to address climate justice and environmental sustainability. The impact of climate-related disasters (e.g., floods, wildfires, droughts) on marginalized and vulnerable populations.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Cafcass has issued a new domestic abuse policy to tackle practice deficits that remain four years after it was severely criticised in a government-commissioned report. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay.

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Community Care

MARCH 16, 2023

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has urged its members, and other social workers, not to work for a new Home Office agency established to assess the ages of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

A national support programme for the growing number of overseas social workers in the UK should be “seriously considered”, the British Association of Social Workers has said. BASW made the call after launching its own professional development scheme for new international recruits to UK social work.

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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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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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Community Care

APRIL 7, 2022

As he prepared to take over as Association of Directors of Children’s Services president, Steve Crocker said he was “awed” by the proficiency of social workers entering the profession. I know when I go and talk to newly qualified social workers in Hampshire, I am awed by their professionalism and experience and skills and ability.

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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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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Children who met thresholds were left waiting up to six weeks to see a social worker due to “significant, widespread and systemic” weaknesses in a council’s front door service, Ofsted has found. An inspirational social work leader’: tributes paid to children’s director who died after contracting Covid.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The government is pressing ahead with the use of scientific age assessments of asylum-seeking young people in the face of severe criticisms. However, the department has struggled to recruit social workers to the board, with just 40% of the required complement in post as of April, a year after recruitment started.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And it’s important to draw a distinction between that one element of government – the family police – and government as a whole. I think government can play a huge, constructive role in promoting the well-being of children. I am a lifelong tax-and-spend liberal and proud of it. So, how did that work out?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 15, 2024

There was also some evidence, from two studies, of navigator programmes helping children to move into permanency, whether through reunification with their parents, adoption or guardianship. The Labour government is yet to confirm whether it will take this forward.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

A student contacted me recently wanting tips on how to write on the topic; ‘why I want to be a social worker’ I explained the great benefits of being a social worker. I also embedded myself in this task and wrote with my own experiences and views on why I became a social worker in an essay format.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Less than 1% of social workers reported to Social Work England last year were referred to a hearing or found to have impaired fitness to practise (FtP), show figures released by the regulator. Of 2,328 referrals received from December 2020 to November 2021, 0.5% In a further 0.3% In a further 0.3% High referrals.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The latest government-commissioned practice guide to what works in children’s social care said interventions for parents of children aged 0-10 could improve parenting practices and child behaviour, lessen levels of stress and support adults mental health.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

“There is a presumption in cases of persistent or systemic failure that children’s social care services will be removed from local authority control, for a period of time, in order to bring about sustainable improvement, unless there are compelling reasons not to do so,” it said in its statutory notice. Council improves to ‘good’.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Black and Asian children were less likely to be on an adoption/placement order – the most intrusive form of state intervention in family life – than children from white and mixed or multiple ethnic groups. It is also important to note that mixed heritage children were significantly over-represented in adoption.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Social workers have been urged to help tackle the impact on Gypsy and Traveller families of increased police powers to evict them from unauthorised camps, brought in this year. “So social workers need to separate those two things. . “So social workers need to separate those two things.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Social Work England has called for a consistent approach to supporting early career social workers, amid government plans to replace the assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) in council children’s services, but not in other sectors.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

The practice of stripping convicted felons of the right to vote goes back to the beginnings of our nation when the federal government and many states adopted felon disenfranchisement laws based on the idea that voting was a privilege for those who demonstrated “good moral character.”

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The government is urging more councils and children’s trusts to test its planned five-year programme of support for newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) in children’s services. The policy is designed to boost social workers’ skills and knowledge, but also improve retention.

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Community Care

MAY 22, 2024

However, with the reforms slated for implementation in October 2023, the government announced a two-year delay in 2022 in order to funnel the earmarked resource into day-to-day social care services. The Department for Education adopted many of the proposals in its Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy , published last year.

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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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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

The NASW Code of Ethics is a set of standards that guide the professional conduct of social workers. Moreover, revisions to the Cultural Competence standard provide more explicit guidance to social workers. All social workers should review the new text and affirm their commitment to abide by the Code of Ethics.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

courts adopted a rule requiring balance of harms, entries into foster care decreased sharply. The statutes governing termination proceedings require only “reasonable” efforts—not perfect efforts—from DHHS to reunify the family. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C. In 1977, then [U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Families facing investigation by the state family policing agency, the Department of Children and Families, get a lawyer, a social worker who can come up with alternatives to the cookie-cutter “service plans” issued by DCF, and a parent advocate, usually someone who’s been through the system himself or herself. In Springfield, Mass.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

With the right strategy and proper investment, kinship care offers the potential for better outcomes for children and considerable savings for local authorities and national government. 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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And in its report on social care last year, the CMA found that councils “can struggle to collaborate successfully due to risk aversion, budgetary constraints, differences in governance, and difficulties aligning priorities and sharing costs”. It concluded this was unlikely to change without action by central government.

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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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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Tolhurst, previously the deputy chief whip, used her first tweet since her portfolio was confirmed to highlight social workers’ “vital role in keeping our children safe”, in encouraging applications to Frontline. Sign up with them to train as a social worker here: [link].

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

While increasing numbers of children are in family and friends foster care in England, there has not been a similar increase in numbers leaving care to find permanence with their kinship carers, according to analysis of government data by the charity Kinship.

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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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