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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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

New Jersey is one of many states that is increasingly using a practice called “kinship diversion.” ” Kinship diversion occurs when social workers determine that a child cannot remain safely with the parents or guardians.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

Curious to know the differences between a Psychologist vs Social Worker? Well, it is vital to note the difference between psychology and social work because they both seek to help individuals in different ways. Do social workers use psychology? Is psychology degree equivalent to social work?

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Community Care

MAY 30, 2024

The adoption system is “institutionally racist”, sector leaders have warned, in a strategy designed to tackle ethnic inequalities facing children and prospective adopters and a lack of diversity in the workforce. of the child population. of prospective adopters approved in England from 2018-19 to 2020-21, compared with the 6.4%

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Social Work Blog

MAY 25, 2022

1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background. Social workers are the largest group of mental health providers in the United States and treatment of PTSD is one of their specialty areas.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Social Work England has found broad support from the profession for its proposed expectations of students’ knowledge and skills on graduation. The impact of trauma and loss on human development across the lifespan, and factors contributing to vulnerability including societal factors and social justice.

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Community Care

JULY 18, 2024

The government needs to boost funding for social work bursaries, placements and apprenticeships to attract more people into the profession and tackle persistently high vacancy and turnover rates. That was the message from sector leaders in a 15-year strategy for the adult social care workforce in England, released today.

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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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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Three in ten of the social workers whom Tarka and her colleagues lead are black, Asian or from an ethnic minority, but this diversity is not reflected in adults’ services’ leadership cadre. “I want to have a focus on inclusion and diversity. ”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Social Work England is commissioning research into the profession’s mounting recruitment and retention challenges, particularly in councils. of social work posts in council adults’ services were vacant as of September 2022, up from 9.5% a year earlier, said a Skills for Care report published this month. in the year to 2022.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The study also called for more content on social work programmes on equality, diversity and inclusion, after focus groups identified there was little on offer currently, and action to tackle indirect discrimination within the profession, which several participants reported experiencing.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Leeanne Olivant, NOPT In the dynamic landscape of social work, practice educators (PEs) stand as vital pillars. The role’s critical importance in nurturing the next generation of social workers and retaining experienced practitioners was highlighted in a Social Work England-commissioned review, which reported last month.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2023

Social Work England will seek to tackle the systemic causes of fitness to practise issues over the next three years to reduce risks to the public and prevent social workers from enduring lengthy investigative processes.

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Social Work With Adults

MAY 10, 2023

Lyn Romeo: Those of you who are regular readers of my reports and blogs will know that one of my priorities continues to be the importance and value of social care research in social work. In 2018, the Partnership published ten priorities for Adult Social Work. It’s so inspiring to have their contribution.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

This training is required for all mandated reporters, who include both professionals (doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, etc.) I had taken the training several times in the past–first for my work as a social worker with CFSA and later as a mentor to a foster youth. and volunteers who work with children.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 11, 2022

Parents of trans and gender-diverse (TGD) youth can experience challenges navigating gender-affirming (GA) care such as stigma, transphobia, and lack of support. An article in a recent issue of the journal Health & Social Work presents baseline survey data on experiences and stressors of 160 parents/caregivers in the Trans Youth CAN!

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Gary Direnfeld

MAY 13, 2024

No two kids are the same and even if you have one doing well with a singular approach, given diversity, not all will. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The quality of relationships depends upon how we manage ourselves, act reasonably and the degree to which we accept diversity and practice inclusion and compassion within our own family. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. The ups and downs. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2023

Recent Social Work England (SWE) figures showed that the number of international social workers applying to work in England had risen from 611 in the 2019-20 registration year to 1,684 in 2021-22 – a 175.3% The values of social workers I work with are second to none,” adds Armstrong.

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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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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The regulator said it was joining charity the LGBT Foundation’s training academy , on the grounds that it was a better fit for delivering its equality, diversity and inclusion action plan, published in February, than Stonewall’s diversity champions scheme. Stonewall scheme aims. LGBT Foundation offer.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2024

Following the first of only two virtual child in need meetings held during this time, the allocated social worker gave the family court an inconclusive assessment of Boden and Marsden’s capacity to care for their children, with no proposals for final care plans.

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Social Work With Adults

MAY 11, 2022

The annual report captures a wide range of updates from our diverse and dedicated profession. Social workers and social care and health colleagues continue to help individuals and families process the disruption, loss and trauma of the last two and half years. Coming out the other side.

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Gary Direnfeld

DECEMBER 18, 2023

I say crossroads because on the one hand more is known about the diversity of human sexuality than ever before. 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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. Oh honey, that’s not how it works,” the social worker told Janell. But then … Three weeks later, her social worker surprised Lacie when she announced DCFS would be taking her children, after all. But she did not see her mother.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

However, my mind is fixed on policies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker.

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