Community Care

MARCH 7, 2025

. “Substantial work” is needed to improve the recording and reporting of data on family group conferences (FGCs,) ahead of an expected increase in their use on the back of government legislation. The latter situation tended to result in data being saved outside the case management system.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) called on NHS and local authority leaders to establish the teams in guidance on their use of the Better Care Fund (BCF), under which they are required to pool resources to tackle government priorities.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2022

The government’s adult social care funding reforms will increase demand for assessments, reviews and the case management of people needing care and support by bringing more existing self-funders into the system. We call on the government to address this as a matter of urgency.” Worsening workforce situation.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Wales remains the only UK nation not to have commissioned a review of its children’s social care services, after the Welsh Government resisted calls to do so following the inquiry into Logan Mwangi’s murder. ” Call for minimum period for social work court assessments.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. But perhaps states are using their own funds to pay for these services?

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Social work skills and training gaps However, echoing previous research, (SCIE/BASW, 2019), interviewees said their workforces were not sufficiently digitally skilled, and that current case management systems were not able to adapt to the ways in which children communicate.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The government has pledged action to tackle “excessive” workload pressures on council children’s social workers as part of its response to the care review. The department said improvements in case management systems (CMS) were needed to enable more direct work and reduce workload pressures on practitioners.

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Community Care

JULY 8, 2024

Stephen Kinnock has been appointed as the minister with responsibility for adult social care in the new government. In November 2022, the then Conservative government postponed planned charging reforms , including introducing an £86,000 cap on people’s personal care costs, until October 2025.

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Community Care

MAY 22, 2022

The government must introduce national pay scales for social workers, tied to a “vastly improved” learning and development offer, to boosts skills, reward expertise and retain staff in practice, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care said today. By Mithran Samuel and Rob Preston.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

An expert found that she could just as well have stayed home with her family and gotten treatment like intensive case management. Much of this loss and pain has been directly fueled by government policy. Instead, she’d been almost continuously institutionalized at North Star for four years.

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Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

Social workers could more than double the time they spend with children and families through more efficient case management systems and fewer meetings. Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show. Related articles. Social work at its best is face-to-face’.

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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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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

Councils would require an “unfeasible” increase in adult social work numbers to implement the government’s care reforms unless they change systems, according to a report last week. “This increase in productivity could enable authorities to manage a proportion of the additional demand being forecast.”

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All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

FRC services vary by location but may include parent education, counseling, case management, referral services, and more. FRCs typically get funding from government grants, private donations, and partnerships with local businesses. How Are Family Resource Centers Funded?

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2022

Though the council had implemented a “robust contract management cycle” since taking ownership of the trust in 2019, the report said current governance arrangements limited the authority’s ability to challenge poor performance. Unmet need.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The warning came among a series of findings in the latest report from the Covid-19 Adult Safeguarding Insight Project, through which the Local Government Association has been tracking the impact of the pandemic on adult safeguarding work. ” Concerns continue long-term upward trend. “The

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Community Care

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Under the pilot , council or children’s trust and Cafcass practitioners will have an information sharing meeting once proceedings have been issued but before the case management hearing (CMH). The CMH identifies the main issues in the case and sets the timetable.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2022

. ‘Need for specialist expertise’ On the eve of the panel’s report, former government safeguarding adviser Sir Alan Wood proposed creating specialist units as the best way of reducing child deaths. ”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There are “significant risks” around the government’s capacity to deliver its already delayed plan to introduce a cap on care costs by October 2025, the public spending watchdog has warned. Government has set out its ambition to meet this challenge and now needs to demonstrate how it is delivering on these plans. “If

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support. You may also provide direct services, such as counselling or case management, to clients or their families.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Examples of intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, community organisation, case management, advocacy, and active listening. Some examples of social work intervention strategies include counselling, crisis intervention, case management, community organisation, advocacy, and active listening.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

According to Cafcass, the average length of time it worked with families in these cases from July to September 2023 was 44 weeks , well above the 26-week target for the duration of proceedings. This is also the judiciary’s ambition through its relaunch of the public law outline (PLO) last year.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

The government’s forthcoming response to the care review will begin to address mounting pressures on the social work workforce, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

There are a wide range of job positions available in various settings, including healthcare, education, mental health, government agencies, private practice, counseling centers, research organisations and more. Case Manager–This role involves assessing, planning and implementing interventions to help meet the needs of clients.

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

She has nearly three decades of experience at the center and in government. After graduating from Michigan State University, Jason worked as a direct care provider at a transitional home for adjudicated girls, then as a case manager within Wayne County’s juvenile justice system.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And 83% of authorities reported difficulties recruiting children’s social workers, and 72% problems retaining them, in response to a Local Government Association survey last spring. The DfE also said that improving case management systems would enable social workers to do more direct work and reduce workload pressures.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Examples of macro social work include: policy analysis and advocacy, community organising, program evaluation, developing and managing community-based programs, working with government agencies, and conducting research. What are some theories used in social work? What is a example of macro social work?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

Case management system and heavy workloads hindering ‘skilled’ social workers, Ofsted finds. NQSWs ‘vulnerable’ due to overly complex cases, despite council’s effective performance, says Ofsted. . ” ‘Fragile’ workforce. At a strategic level, Ofsted assessed the situation in Sandwell to be gradually improving.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

But treating the decline in foster care (the direct result of government actions) as a desirable outcome in itself can contribute to a disregard of actual child welfare outcomes like safety and permanency. Any government can slash the foster care rolls reducing or ending child removals, as many child welfare abolitionists recommend.

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CCRC

JANUARY 23, 2025

Who can apply FEMA and the state, territory or tribal government may provide direct and financial disaster assistance to U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals and qualified non-citizens.

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