Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Mom has a certificate from the government from a few years ago already, honoring her for 70 years of continuous volunteer service. Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice.

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Community Care

APRIL 30, 2024

The government has proposed overhauling a key disability benefit in the face of its “spiralling” caseload and costs, in a move labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” by charities. to 2.8m (29%). But after years of dire cuts and reforms, it has been torn apart.”

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Funding for such services has eroded greatly over the years and most so during the term of the current conservative government. Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice.

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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… .

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 5, 2024

Pragati (the erstwhile Integrated Rural Health and Development Project) is a field action project of the Centre for Health and Mental Health, School of Social Work. The consultation was led by Dr. Smitha Nair (Faculty advisor) and Mr. Pravin Yadav (Project Co-ordinator). Know more about Pragati’s work: Nair, S.

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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

MARCH 26, 2025

Published for consultation last week, the suggested PQS are designed to work in tandem with the proposed social work induction programme (SWIP). Respond to the consultation You can respond to the consultation on the PQS, which also covers the proposed social work induction programme, by answering this online survey.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

The draft updated Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, was published for public consultation on 17 March. The government has decided to produce one overarching code to ensure the principles of the MCA are embedded in the LPS from its introduction. Consultation ends on 4 July. The meaning of deprivation of liberty.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. Proposed Mental Health Act overhaul included in Queen’s Speech. Placements increasingly far from home.

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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. “They are responsible for safeguarding and undertaking vital roles like approved mental health professionals and best interest assessors.”

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

The new Labour government has pledged to legislate to strengthen the child protection in its first King’s Speech, unveiled today. The Labour manifesto said this would set fair pay, terms and conditions, along with training standards, for care staff, and would be based on consultation with trade unions and providers.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

The local authority is required to nominate someone with experience in education in relation to children and a social worker with experience in relation to children, and may appoint other appropriate individuals after consultation with safeguarding partners.

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Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

By Tim Spencer-Lane The Supreme Court has handed down its long-awaited judgment in R (Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2023] UKSC 31. Tim Spencer-Lane is a lawyer specialising in adult social care, mental health and mental capacity, and is legal editor of Community Care Inform.

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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. And then what? It takes a special kind of chutzpah to make the case for more taxpayer money based on your own failure.

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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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Relias

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

September is National Suicide Prevention Month, when mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies, and community members unite to promote suicide prevention awareness. Relias is one such ally. Write letters, tweet at your local politicians, and encourage others in your community to do the same.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

the amount the provider would expect to charge if the provider intended to bill a health care plan directly for such item or service. Items and services”: All encounters, procedures, medical tests provided or assessed in connection with the provision of health care. Future Action.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The lack of an appointed care minister comes with significant decisions needing to be made about the sector including: Whether there will be a delay to the government’s adult social care charging reforms, in the light of the economic situation.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Specialist social workers will be appointed to lead child protection cases while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers, the government has said in its response to the care review. The DfE consultation on the social work workforce, published later today, will set out its proposals.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

People with lived experience cited stress and frustration, a deterioration in mental health and decreased independence as some of the impacts of waiting for an assessment. EMADASS invested additional funding beyond the IMPACT project to commission a consultancy to develop an implementation readiness tool.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Children’s social workers’ caseloads are bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. It has become increasingly hard to access mental health services, until at crisis point. “My Quality undermined. Related articles.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The government has appointed Social Work England’s interim chair to the role on a substantive basis. McCulloch, a former civil servant in the then Department of Health and ex-chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, will receive £450 a day for the role, as was the case when he was interim chair.

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Community Care

APRIL 5, 2023

The government has announced that the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is being delayed beyond this Parliament. This short article explains the implications of this decision for the health and social care sector, and the likely way forward. The government had hoped to fully implement the LPS by April 2022.

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Relias

JANUARY 24, 2023

According to Congress: “This act directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to develop scenario-based training curricula (or identify existing curricula) that includes topics such as alternatives to the use of force, de-escalation tactics, and safely responding to an individual experiencing a mental, behavioral health, or suicidal crisis.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Sector bodies have heavily criticised the government’s provision of one-fifth of the resources called for by the care review to reform social care in its response today. “We are extremely disappointed that the Government is choosing to invest so little in our country’s most vulnerable children.

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2024

The government has also pledged to bring forward measures later this year to tackle “profiteering” in the children’s residential sector. The funding is in addition to the £259m the government had previously allocated from 2022-25 to resource additional placements in open and secure homes.

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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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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

the amount the provider would expect to charge if the provider intended to bill a health care plan directly for such item or service. Items and services”: All encounters, procedures, medical tests provided or assessed in connection with the provision of health care. Future Action.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2023

The government’s decision to shelve the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is “an unacceptable blow” to the thousands of people currently unlawfully deprived of their liberty. And in announcing the news, the DHSC gave no indication of an intent from the current government to implement the LPS should it return to power.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

At the same time, the Local Government Association released research showing authorities as a whole were on course to exceed their approximately £4.7bn care placement budgets by £680m (14%), following a similar overspend last year. A fall in the number of mainstream fostering households.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“[Evidence] points to a need to act now to attract higher numbers of people to join, rejoin and stay in the profession,” it wrote in Stable Homes, Built on Love , its proposed children’s social care strategy, issued for consultation earlier this month. This is borne out by the data. And while unions are seeking a 12.7%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Following a consultation , the regulator will now move ahead with plans to assess social work course providers against a set of statements of their students’ readiness for professional practice, from 2024. However, others described the statements as too vague or lacking in detail, compared with existing standards frameworks.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

Providers reported a “sharp increase”, particularly since spring 2022, in referrals for children – some very young – with deteriorating mental health, with rising numbers self-harming as well. 3m of this will go towards a regional recruitment project in the North East. .

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The consultations close on 11 May, 2023. Social worker pay : The DfE has rejected the care review recommendation for national pay scales for social workers on the grounds that this risked destabilising the local government pay system for insufficient benefit. A report proposing reforms to agency social work.

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