Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

It has launched the consultation in the wake of the government’s decision in April to delay introducing the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) – its planned replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) – beyond the next election, due in 2024.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

The way ordinary residence is determined for mental health aftercare remains unsettled, despite the government winning a court ruling relating to its radical new approach to the issue. Learn about the government’s new approach. High Court rules against government… . The second ground was not raised in the appeal.

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Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

The government will “strongly encourage” councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision, it said today. In the improvement plan, the government said the role would “provide the capacity and expertise” to improve social care input into SEND provision.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is certain to be delayed again, with the government yet to consult on how to put the scheme into practice. However, the government is yet to confirm that it will need to delay LPS again. However, the government is yet to confirm that it will need to delay LPS again.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

However, while it still going ahead with national rules, the DfE has made significant changes to its original plans, following a consultation that exposed a wide gulf in views on the issue, in particular between permanent and agency social workers.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The flexibility comes despite Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) concerns that breaches would risk undermining national rules on councils engaging child and family social workers, of which the price caps are a part.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers. ” .” ”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Agency social worker pay in would be capped to the equivalent earned by permanent staff under government plans to reduce the use and cost of locums in statutory children’s services. They treat skilled social workers as a commodity, rather than engaging with them as professionals.” A ban on agency project teams.

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The challenge for councils of recruiting significantly more practitioners to implement the cap and associated reforms next year at a time of mounting staffing pressures was cited by many respondents to a DHSC consultation on guidance to implement the changes. . Get full coverage on the government’s adult social care reforms.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

The task force says a consultant should draw up the tool and determine how the information obtained from the tools may be used to adjust a treatment plan for the child or youth while they are in out-of-home care. It appears some RTCs are engaging in a common industry practice known as creaming as in skimming the cream. And then what?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The government has selected two groups of councils to test the commissioning and delivery of looked-after children’s placements at a regional level. Both pathfinders will be supported by public services consultancy Mutual Ventures, which won a £1.7m

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

” (Raj Gill-Harrison, carer and expert by experience) One of the things I’ll be taking away from my engagement in this project is the amount of work we’ve done; how we’ve got to where we got to. This identified the need to develop guidance for staff, and an information and advice pack for citizens, on waiting well.

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Community Care

JULY 15, 2024

Rules on locum social work The rules are part of the previous government’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy to reform children’s social care and are designed to cut the costs of agency work while improving continuity of support for children and families. “They could do that tomorrow. . Social work is not a project.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Just a week later, two of our sons were engaged in some rough horseplay. This is a judgment call to quickly consult an attorney about. And with extremely rare exceptions, the government isn’t going to provide one, either. She bounced off, and I wound up taking her to the emergency room. She got two small stitches under her eye.

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Community Care

APRIL 19, 2023

The government should set an expectation that frontline children’s social workers carry out face-to-face practice, in the light of concerns about the rise of remote working. Consultation on the proposals is open until 11 May 2023, and you can respond by completing this online survey. A ban on agency project teams.

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Community Care

APRIL 18, 2023

Crocker’s year at the helm was dominated by proposals to overhaul children’s social care – from 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 – and the government’s response to them.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To properly address the social determinants of suicide, organizations can engage in activities that both directly and indirectly improve the mental health of their clients. Hopelessness may lead to worsened depression, which could then lead to thoughts of suicide and possibly dying by suicide.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Councils will face targets on improving adult social care in return for funding in the forthcoming financial year, the government has confirmed. ADASS added that, should that happen, the government would need to “re-evaluate its expectations” of councils.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Councils that had made progress highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They described how this had worked in the past with children with more complex needs, who did not want to engage face to face. For example, some workers who were interested in gaming and digital activities used these as a tool for engagement, which resulted in positive connections.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Meanwhile, council spending on independent children’s homes more than doubled from 2015-16 to 2021-22, according to research by market analysts Revolution Consulting. “If the government were minded there are things they could do to manage and sort that.”

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. ‘Chaotic and stressful’ working environments. Related articles. ‘Repair work’ needed to help staff.

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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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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. Cap on care costs: government change reducing benefit for less wealthy becomes law. By Patrick Grafton-Green and Mithran Samuel.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Unfortunately, Maine’s equivalent of the federal Government Accountability Office, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability (OPEGA) did indeed fall for it in a report released last week. And, of course, if you don’t know about a right, you don’t have that right. Emphasis added.]

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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. No redundancies. First children’s trust.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2024

Concerns about private equity and profit Annual council spending on private children’s home providers – who run the vast majority of children’s homes – grew by 105% from 2016-22, during which time the number of registered places increased by just 11% ( source: Revolution Consulting ).

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The DfE said the rules – part of the previous government’s Stable Homes, Built on Love children’s social care reforms – were designed “to reduce the overreliance on and costs of agency child and family social workers” to authorities, saving them money and improving continuity of support for children.

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Community Care

JULY 12, 2023

The DfE consulted on the proposals, which include capping the pay of agency staff to the equivalent of permanently-employed social workers , between February and May this year, and is due to report back on the consultation this September. “My sense is that we have been listened to by the DfE.”

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Councils that had progressed highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

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Community Care

MAY 1, 2024

The government’s axing of a social work leadership training scheme risks undermining support for practitioners as well as the retention of managers, principal social workers have warned. 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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“The government has committed to offer more support for carers through its reform funding and there are new rights for unpaid leave in the new Carer’s Leave Act , but that won’t be enough. These scores will inform the single-word rating.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

The regulator had also been “inundated” by applications from practitioners and others to take part in the group’s work, said Blackmore, the regulator’s executive director of professional practice and external engagement. in September 2021.

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 29, 2023

Louis-based community and organization development consulting firm that helps individuals, groups, and organizations, find their paths to empowerment. Saturday morning discussion titled Whither Political Social Work , on the future engagement of social workers in legislative and political settings.

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Clinical Philosophy

APRIL 13, 2022

These notes are locked in a drawer in my consulting room (which, naturally, is also locked). And yet when we turn to the advice, instructions, rhetoric and rules of the bodies and bureaucracies which govern psychologists' practices, something rather different sometimes shows its face. Nobody gets to see them except me.

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Community Care

MARCH 9, 2022

‘Lack of transparent information on future need’ “It is thus unclear how LAs can meaningfully engage with providers given that – based on the material presented in the sufficiency strategies – LAs do not have transparent and/or reliable information around future need,” the report said. Related articles.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The government will review the local authority designated officer (LADO) role after an inquiry into the abuse of disabled children identified “major failings” in relation to the function. It is due to report in spring 2023. Toughened standards pledge.

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