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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Community Care

APRIL 3, 2023

Social workers and other children’s services staff and volunteers will be mandated to report child sexual abuse (CSA), Suella Braverman pledged yesterday. This was one of IICSA’s central recommendations, which it said would combat systemic under-identification of CSA.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Naomi Russell and Lorraine Mighty Waiting for a social care assessment is becoming increasingly common across the UK, causing frustration and distress to people with care and support needs and having a demoralising impact on frontline staff and managers.

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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. “It

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2024

Scrapping the cap on care costs is “another example of social care being tossed aside”, according to the architect of the reforms. While successive governments have agreed to implement a version of the reforms, they have then either ditched or delayed them.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The inquiry also urged the creation of Child Protection Authorities for England and Wales responsible for improving practice by statutory agencies and other instutitions, advising government on policy and, where they consider necessary, inspecting organisations. Mandatory reporting requirement.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A document from the California Department of Social Services indicates the agency was appropriately appalled by the “ethics review.” An excellent story in The Imprint reveals that, after extensive consultation with an impressive and diverse group of people, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has pulled the plug.

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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. Care minister role may be downgraded.

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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

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

MAY 30, 2023

A yes vote could lead to walkouts by the union – which represents an estimated 40,000 social workers across the UK – this summer. Fellow union Unite will start balloting members on industrial action shortly, while the third local government union, GMB, is also planning to do so. by April 2024.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Councils lack the money to move towards paying providers a fair price for care, directors have warned, in the light of government-mandated analyses of the costs of services, directors have said.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

.” A passion for social work His positive experience is one he shares with the social workers he oversees in Derby council as its strategic director of people, a role that encompasses the statutory positions of director of children’s services (DCS) and director of adult social services (DASS).

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Beverley Tarka this week became the first black president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) since its establishment in 2007. This will be the basis of the case it will be making to government for how it invests in, and reforms, the system over the coming years. ”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Adult social care staff are carrying out tasks previously undertaken by the NHS in most areas, without compensatory funding, council heads have reported. Seventy per cent of directors said this was the case, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey carried out in September and October of this year.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. . ” For the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, president Beverley Tarka said: “Families up and down the country are facing constant struggles to get the support they need to care for loved ones.

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Community Care

MAY 24, 2024

The reform would make Wales the first UK country to ban profit-making from both fostering and residential services. These organisations would also have to have as their primary purpose the welfare of children or another public good determined by the Welsh Government.

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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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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2023

However, significant investment and political will are required to realise this ambition from a context of significant unmet need, workforce shortages and lack of choice for people needing care and carers, said the study, commissioned by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

‘Perfect storm’ of high caseloads and perceived low status Speaking at the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) annual spring seminar, Blackmore said the worsening picture for recruitment and retention in social work reflected a “perfect storm” for the profession that had built up over many years.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Approaches in which people are not allocated a fixed desk and work at different times and locations depending on need have become increasingly common, but practitioners are consistently negative about them, found a five-year study into newly qualified social workers published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). .

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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 3, 2022

With the right strategy and proper investment, kinship care offers the potential for better outcomes for children and considerable savings for local authorities and national government. But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services. But many are now at breaking point.

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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

MAY 31, 2024

The government has stopped funding social work teaching partnerships, sparking sector concern that progress brought about by the arrangements will stall. Increased support for social workers on their assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE). Refreshed and updated skills for social workers from workforce training.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. So, in 2012, ministers decided to appoint two chiefs – one for each service.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler. ‘Believe in yourself’ An MBE was also awarded to social care consultant, and expert by experience, Jak Savage.

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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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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker? What skills does a social worker need?

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Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

The issue in this case was which of two local authorities was responsible for providing and paying for “aftercare services” under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (“MHA”) for a particular individual. What does section 117 say? However, the DHSC changed its mind and challenged its own guidance.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

In NRA & Ors, Re [2015] EWCOP 59 judgement made it clear that it is well established that the approach to the existence of a deprivation of liberty is governed by the Guzzardi principle. 4 (6) MCA) and consulted with family and carers (s.4 Necessary to prevent harm and proportionate to risk of harm. 4 (7) MCA). 21A of the MCA.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Social Work England has proposed increasing its fees by a third this year, in a consultation launched today. The proposal is designed to rebalance the regulator’s costs away from taxpayers, who have borne a rising share of its funding since its inception in 2019, while fees for social workers have remained fixed.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 7, 2024

States reported a total of approximately 1,990 fatalities to the federal government for Federal Fiscal Year 2022. Yet it is widely recognized that states’ reports to the federal government greatly underestimate the number of child fatalities due to maltreatment by most common definitions. US Government Accounting Office (2011).

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

This scholarship was established in memory of Mary Deane-Scalora, MSW, by her family to provide financial assistance to a master’s level student with demonstrated interest in working with or for the advancement of the poor in a social services agency or educational institution.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

The Labour Party has made no funded commitments on social care in its general election manifesto, published yesterday. The lack of funded commitments on social care is similar to the position put forward by the Conservatives in their manifesto, published earlier this week.

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2025

Social worker registration fees will rise from 80 to 120 per year in Scotland by 2029, the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has decided. Payments will rise by 8 per year from 2025-26 until the end of the decade, after the SSSC’s governing council decided to implement proposals put out for consultation last year.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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