Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Funding shortfall However, this does not cover the extra costs facing authorities from the impact of the employer NICs rise on the providers that they commission, notably in adults’ services. The MHCLG has launched a consultation on this reform. increase in the national living wage (NLW) and inflation more broadly. .”

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Community Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

However, this falls far short of the estimated £1.8bn in extra costs facing councils , chiefly driven by rises in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) and the national living wage(NLW), the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has warned.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

Her testimony came nearly a year after a Vermont social worker—the second in eight years—was killed while on the job. We’ll be setting the table, bringing all of these people together,” says Stanley, to try to determine what can be done.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Qualified social workers who have been out of practice for at least two years will face minimum learning requirements if they want to rejoin the register in Scotland. Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has launched a consultation on introducing return to practice requirements similar to those in England and Wales.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Self-care is important to social workers and in fact the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics included the importance of self-care when it was updated this year. That experience prompted her to write a book to help other social workers. Do you see any agencies doing this?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The regulator said it was, consequently, reasonable to review levels, in a consultation paper on the new strategy, published last week. Social Work England: £90. Scottish Social Services Council: £80. Social Care Wales: £80. Northern Ireland Social Care Council: £65. Annual registration fees .

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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

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. . over that period.

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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

JUNE 6, 2023

Story updated* A plan to ban agency social work in Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts could be in place, as planned, by the end of this month. ” “Ending recruitment agency use in social work will help to build and maintain a stable and consistent social work workforce.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2024

It also analysed workloads across children’s services and older people’s teams in Northern Ireland’s HSC trusts, which identified both caseload sizes and vacancy levels. The chief social worker added that both reports would inform DoH guidance on safe staffing levels in social work. The consultation closes on 14 October 2024.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There is a legal duty in Wales – under section 130 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales Act) 2014 – on specified public bodies to report suspected abuse, neglect or harm of a child to the relevant local authority. What the inquiry found. ” More follows.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

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. 2012) Green Social Work: From Environmental Degradation to Environmental Justice. One of its four pillars was environmental disasters which included climate change.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

About council ‘bankruptcy’ notices Five authorities with social services responsibilities – Birmingham, Croydon, Nottingham, Slough and Thurrock – have issued a section 114 notice in the past three years, meaning they were unable to meet their legal requirement to set a balanced budget.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The implementation of the Care Quality Commission’s new performance assessment scheme for local authority adult social services next April, which council leaders want to see delayed.

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2023

However, the region’s Department of Health (DoH) said that “good progress” was being made towards ensuring that all social workers at the five trusts – which are responsible for social services in their areas – were permanently employed.

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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

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

APRIL 13, 2023

The Welsh Government dubbed the decision to delay implementation of the scheme, which would apply in England and Wales, “deeply disappointing”, with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) also expressing concerns. The right to liberty is one of our most fundamental human rights.”

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Community Care

MAY 30, 2023

NB The figures refer to staff working in councils covered by the National Joint Council for Local Government Services agreement in England and Wales. This group includes a large majority of councils with social services responsibilities. The Bank of England expects CPI inflation to fall to 3.4% by April 2024.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

.” Councils ‘may be set up to fail’ The DHSC is yet to specify the metrics councils will need to report on.

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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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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In late 2020, KVC Missouri received a new grant to provide services on behalf of the Missouri Department of Social Services. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program. KVC is accredited by the Joint Commission, the gold standard in healthcare.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

‘Professional expect you to get on with it’ In our 2014 survey , a grandmother and kinship carer said: “When dealing with housing, social services and benefit departments, they treat you as if you’re making a big deal and that you should just get on with it. But many are now at breaking point.

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Relias

AUGUST 30, 2023

Additionally, these facilities should employ therapists or other mental health professionals or have a robust network of mental health providers to consult with or refer patients to. Social workers and case managers : Social workers and case managers are more likely to see clients living in their everyday environment.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

. “We will enhance partnership working across employers, workers, trade unions and government and establish a fair pay agreement in adult social care. Labour will consult widely on the design of this agreement, before beginning the process and learn from countries where they operate successfully.

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Community Care

JULY 31, 2024

Analysis by the consultancy Newton for the CCN found that authorities would have needed an additional 4,443 social work staff to implement the reforms – all things being equal – because of the many thousand additional assessments, care plans and reviews required for existing self-funders entering the system.

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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. Taking the helm at ADASS at its annual spring seminar this week, the importance of her appointment – and her position as a role model for others – was not lost on Tarka.

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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

MAY 31, 2022

English authorities would need to carry out an estimated 105,000 extra Care Act assessments a year because of an influx of self-funders into the system on the back of the reforms, which are due to be fully implemented in October 2023, found the study by the County Councils Network and consultancy firm Newton.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

.” Honours for directors past and present Norfolk council’s director of children’s services, Sara Tough, who guided the authority from a requires improvement rating from Ofsted in 2017 to good in 2022, was awarded an OBE for services to education and children’s social care.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The Department for Education said it would set up a national workload action group to identify solutions to “unnecessary” pressures on practitioners, while also promising steps to reduce the burden of case recording and free social workers from some case work with children in need.

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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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