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Children’s social workers to be measured against new post-qualifying standards

Community Care

Published for consultation last week, the suggested PQS are designed to work in tandem with the proposed social work induction programme (SWIP). Intervention: social workers should – Deliver and facilitate interventions in collaboration with the family to create positive change.

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Sensitivity to ‘bruised’ staff needed for effective DfE intervention in ‘inadequate’ services, finds study

Community Care

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. ” Senior management departures. ‘Repair work’ needed to help staff.

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Making the Invisibility of Social Work Interventions in Climate Issues Visible: Varied activities of a profession with a deep history of activities aimed at environmental justice

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

Nepal School of Social Work Students learn about green social work and sustainable interventions in all types of disasters including climate change. IASSW, ICSW and IFSW arranged to consult, discuss and agree with their constituents worldwide, a Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development in 2010. Cambridge: Polity Press.

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Try This: Move Away from Funder-Driven Evaluation

Nicole Clark Consulting

I was a panelist on a recent webinar, discussing community and structural interventions to support maternal health equity. The post Try This: Move Away from Funder-Driven Evaluation appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.

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Social work assistants in Scotland to be regulated under SSSC proposal

Community Care

Social work assistants would be regulated in Scotland under plans issued for consultation. Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is also consulting on adding adult day centre supervisors, practitioners and support workers, and offender accommodation managers, supervisors and practitioners to its register.

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Autism Social Skills Training: Strategies for Developing Empathy

Relias

Client Consultant the Center for Spectrum Services. By using a variety of instruction and interventions, you can begin to help your clients on their journey to acquiring these crucial social skills. Depending on whether you work with adults or children, the interventions you offer as part of the client’s SST may vary.

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Lesson from an appalling case in Michigan: If you don’t conform in EVERY way, the family police are gunning for you.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It took the intervention of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to undo some of the damage done to the children at the center of this case. His mother consulted experts and followed their advice to allow him to express himself and not do anything to shame or stigmatize him. The child is now 11 and currently identifies as male.)