Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Police have opened an investigation into abuse of patients at a mental health hospital uncovered by the BBC. Panorama filmed staff assaulting , inappropriately restraining and secluding and verbally abusing and humiliating patients at the Edenfield Centre run by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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Social Work Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) issued on July 16 includes a variety of provisions that are relevant to clinical social workers (CSWs) who are participating providers in Medicare. Include Behavioral Health Services in Audio-Only. Telehealth.

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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? Ecological systems, strengths-based, etc.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Social workers dedicate their lives to helping others, including some of the most vulnerable people in our society. However, research shows members of the social work profession are more likely to experience work-related stress, burnout, and a lower quality of life compared to other professions and the general population.

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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.

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Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

Social Work England is seeking views on proposed standards it will use to approve and monitor best interests assessor (BIA) training courses. Most employed BIAs undertake the role alongside a substantive position, found the Social Work England-commissioned study.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

Editor’s note: In this blog post, four social worker educators share a sample from their new and free resource about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in social work education. Alexander Rubin , LCSW, is a clinical assistant professor based in field education at the University at Buffalo School of School of Social Work.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Champions of asylum-seeking children and anti-racist practice, respectively, were among social workers recognised in the New Year Honours. 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.

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Community Care

MAY 15, 2024

Social workers are doing more with less, seeing increased need and weighed down by administrative work, a survey of just over 7,000 practitioners has found. There was also a decline – from 75 to 72 – in the average score for whether social workers did not intend to leave their employer over the next 12 months.

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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).

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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. A third of social workers said their caseloads had increased “a lot” over the past year, while a further 36% said they had risen “slightly”.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Since Lyn Romeo announced her retirement in October last year , the tributes to the now former chief social worker for adults from across the profession have been warm and fulsome. Lyn Romeo is without a doubt a social worker for social workers! Will be hugely missed by many and certainly me.

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Community Care

MAY 8, 2024

Hundreds of social workers in England are being “left in limbo”, often unable to work, because of long and increasing delays in fitness to practise (FTP) cases. Information that could clear the social worker was “not considered or overlooked” even when drawn to the attention of investigators, the bodies added.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Did anyone else in my family experience mental health issues? Who wanted a social media and marketing consultant who’d spent time in a mental hospital? My name is Kathy and I’m a licensed mental health counselor. Others merely stated their first name and mental health condition.

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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.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This included initiatives such as the use of social work academies to develop staff, with training days backfilled and caseloads capped.

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Community Care

JULY 12, 2023

Transferring child in need cases to non-social workers may undermine the quality of practice and increase risks to children, Ofsted and the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) have warned. ” “It would be dangerous if specialist skills and awareness are lost across family help.”

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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.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

High levels of social worker turnover undermined engagement with six young people with histories of social care involvement who were later convicted of violent offences, a review has found. Find out more from the contextual safeguarding team based at Durham University, headed by Firmin.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services.

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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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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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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are also advocating on behalf of clinical social workers with key federal regulatory agencies and other stakeholders. the amount the provider would expect to charge if the provider intended to bill a health care plan directly for such item or service. Background on Federal Rule. Compliance Steps.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

This was exacerbated by Covid and, potentially, high turnover of social workers, team managers and commissioning staff, though the panel highlighted good practice from some practitioners who travelled up to 200 miles so they could visit children regularly.

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2023

Frontline will face tougher targets on qualifying and retaining social workers after winning the right to continue delivering fast-track training for aspiring children’s practitioners in England. This is above the 85% target it is currently measured against, but in line with its performance in recent years.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Department for Education has also reappointed Adi Cooper and Sue Ross – both registered social workers – to the regulator’s board, also for a three-year term. “I have a deep commitment to social work and social care, and to the people who access social care support.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Social Work England has finalised training standards for approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) and the new role of approved mental capacity professional (AMCP) following consultation. AMHP and approved mental capacity professional training standards launched for consultation. Related articles.

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Social Work With Adults

MAY 11, 2022

It is with a sense of relief, but also pride in our collective resilience as a profession, that we are able to publish the Chief Social Worker for Adults Annual Report 2021-22 in a world which has, at long last, regained some of the familiar trappings of normality. Social work’s contribution to this area is needed now more than ever.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

To become a Best Interests Assessor, social workers have to be registered with Social Work England for at least 2 years and enrol on a postgraduate BIA-DOLS qualification. P’s mental health condition affects on her ability to understand and process information. 4 (6) MCA) and consulted with family and carers (s.4

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Gary Direnfeld

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It’s always of value to have a complete physical including blood tests when assessing for mental conditions. 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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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I am also a school social worker for Hartford Public Schools and I run a small business, ‘Ends2meet LLC’, which creates awareness on poverty and provides people with basic needs including counseling.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I was a social worker at a large children’s mental health centre. Apart from informing of the separation, I also expressed my concern that I don’t feel legitimate in my role as a social worker with this development. Social workers can have social problems.”

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Relias

AUGUST 30, 2023

This has been especially true for psychology, where mental health has traditionally been seen as something wholly separate from physical health. Recently, however, research has uncovered just how connected every aspect of health truly is. Western medicine has traditionally segmented the body into different parts.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

JANUARY 17, 2024

Welcome to the REAL Social Workers Online Magazine this is the place where we support and encourage social workers, like me, through strategic stress management and solution focused self-care. I encourage you to work with a licensed clinical professional to gain more insight and support for your mental health concerns.

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

Social Work England has issued guidance for higher education institutions (HEIs) on implementing new standards for approved mental health professional (AMHP) qualifying courses. 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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

‘Unprecedented financial challenges’ Derbyshire held a consultation in May this year on introducing a policy of charging parents between £89.60 Where a person does not pay the required contribution, the council may make an application for this to be enforced by an order from a magistrate’s court.

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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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