Community Care

MAY 27, 2022

The number of council child and family social workers in England quitting children’s services altogether rose by 22% last year, suggest government figures. of employed children’s social workers appear to have quit the sector in 2020-21, up from 7.2% By Charlotte Goddard and Mithran Samuel. The DfE found that 8.6%

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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. a year earlier, according to an Association of Directors of Children’s Services survey.

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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. Half of social worker time spent on admin. Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Pre-court meetings between children’s social workers and Cafcass guardians have the potential to improve the care proceedings process, a pilot study has concluded. However, a longer, forthcoming pilot will be needed to assess whether the meetings can curb current case backlogs. Book your place now.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2022

The poll was carried out after significant changes to child protection were recommended by the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s inquiry into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson. Related reading. Sir Alan Wood.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Social workers and children’s guardians in 25 areas will hold pre-court meetings in order to test whether this will curb delays to care proceedings. “In all cases, the meeting should ensure that guardians come to the CMH with enhanced and up to date understanding of the child and family’s situation.”

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2022

With the policy expected to result in hundreds of thousands more assessments and reviews a year , the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has already said that councils will need to recruit more social workers, which it plans to support by increasing the number of qualifying routes into the profession.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Almost one in five (19%) of council children’s social worker posts in England lay vacant as of June 2022, up from 14.6% 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.

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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. Care review: key social work recommendations.

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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

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. ” Related articles.

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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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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Knowledge of social work intervention strategies is central to the social work role. The role of the social worker becomes increasingly important as communities become more diverse. Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies. How do social workers intervene with clients?

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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. But it’s the wrong thing for children because their social workers can leave at any moment.”

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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.

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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 are run by diverse professionals, including social workers, educators, counselors, and community organizers. How Are Family Resource Centers Funded?

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 9, 2022

What are the five 5 major skill areas of macro social work practice? What skills do macro social workers need? Why is micro social work important? Which of the 3 major social theories is a macro theory? What are macro social work theories? What are some theories used in social work?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

Service improvements since Sandwell’s last ‘inadequate’ grade, back in 2017 , mean many children’s needs “are well met by social workers who collaborate effectively with partners in other services”, inspectors found on their latest visit.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

With that, there is somewhat of a case management role, shared and implemented by the parents. Funding for such services has eroded greatly over the years and most so during the term of the current conservative government. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker.

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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. In FAR cases, a social worker assesses the family and refers it to voluntary services.

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