Social Work Blog

MAY 27, 2022

If passed, such bills will have sweeping impacts on communities of color, students, veterans, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and older adults. Voter disengagement is a combined result of the cumulative effects of concerted voter suppression and the erosion of trust in government.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

may have fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that can occur in a baby exposed to alcohol before birth. Government. About one in 20 pregnant people report binge drinking in the past 30 days, and up to five percent of school children in the U.S.

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Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2022

Social work caseloads will be explicitly addressed in a government-commissioned independent review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland, launched last week. Jones, claimed his review would have greater independence from government and stronger engagement with children and families than the English inquiry chaired by Josh MacAlister.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Helping clients discuss their alcohol use can also reduce the risk of prenatal alcohol exposure, a leading preventable cause of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Government. How much drinking is too much?

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Relias

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In response, many local and state governments are raising their lowest wages above the federal minimum wage set in 2009. People with disabilities and their families suffer the most serious effects of staff turnover. Secondly, engage in the system. Write to and get to know your representatives at the state and federal levels.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The latest government-commissioned practice guide to what works in children’s social care said interventions for parents of children aged 0-10 could improve parenting practices and child behaviour, lessen levels of stress and support adults mental health. This drew upon 33 studies.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Using firsthand accounts from 200 Black adolescents, Black Male Youth Raised in Public Systems: Engagement, Healing, Hope, edited by Sheryl Brissett Chapman, Ralph Belk, Jasilyn Morgan, and Krystal Holland, with Bruce Tyson and Omore Okhomina, validates the fears, anxieties, and complexities of these youth.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Research commissioned by Beam, the company behind the Magic Notes tool, found practitioners reported reduced time spent on case recording and assessments, enhanced engagement with people they supported, and improved quality of supervision meetings. The tool was also commended by a non-native English speaker and a neurodivergent practitioner.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Helping clients discuss their alcohol use can also reduce the risk of prenatal alcohol exposure, a leading preventable cause of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Government. How much drinking is too much?

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The government has launched a review into whether people receiving care at home have adequate protections from abuse by those providing it.

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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

MARCH 26, 2025

However, the SWIP, which would replace the children’s assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE), at least in local authorities, is not certain to go ahead as it is dependent on the Treasury providing sufficient funding in the forthcoming government spending review.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Safeguarding teams took no action in response “serious” concerns about the care of disabled people segregated in mental health hospitals, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. Overhaul needed to end ‘inhumane’ hospital care of people with learning disabilities or autism, says CQC.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The warning came among a series of findings in the latest report from the Covid-19 Adult Safeguarding Insight Project, through which the Local Government Association has been tracking the impact of the pandemic on adult safeguarding work. ” New engagement opportunities. . ” New engagement opportunities.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

But Kempe is one of the few organizations that’s actually changed, instead of just engaging in reputation laundering. But sometimes, being “nice” is just passive aggression – as when presenters at a garden party “conversation circle” took almost the entire time for themselves and disabled the chat.

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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.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

This thought-provoking and reader-friendly text prepares students for class engagement, lobbying activities, meeting with legislators, and serving their local communities. The ensuing chapters examine poverty and its impact on children and adolescents, older adults, adults with disabilities, veterans, immigrants, and other vulnerable groups.

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Relias

MARCH 5, 2024

You’re going to see from organizations a mix of best practices when you’re engaging via technology and also best practices for face-to-face.” And if their needs are being met, they are more likely to choose to stay employed and engaged with your organization. But what does showing appreciation look like?

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

First adults’ services ratings since 2010 The reports mark the regulator’s first published assessments of local authority adults’ services performance since 2010, when the previous ratings system was scrapped by the coalition government. ” Nottingham (indicative rating: requires improvement).

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Researcher : Some social workers engage in research to better understand social issues, evaluate programs, and inform policy development. Establishing Rapport and Building Trust : Initial Engagement : Social workers begin by establishing a positive and trusting relationship with the individual.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“The government has committed to offer more support for carers through its reform funding and there are new rights for unpaid leave in the new Carer’s Leave Act , but that won’t be enough. These scores will inform the single-word rating.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Last month, I reported on cash-strapped Bristol city council’s proposal to move disabled people into residential care if it was deemed “best value” compared with providing support in their own homes. Next, campaigners in Bristol engaged pro bono lawyers to challenge the legality of the proposal.

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Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I am so pleased to be writing this blog, celebrating the publication of ‘ People at the heart of care ’, the Government's adult social care reform White Paper. Increasing the upper limit of the Disabled Facilities Grant. Reform has social work values built in. Social work and social care values are at its core. Funding the vision.

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Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

The inquiry found the decision was made in a “bigger systems context” of numerous unsuccessful referrals being made to social care because parents “were not fully engaged, had not given consent and there was not a clear threshold for child protection”. Government funding eases asylum pressures.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It also said the council needed to improve “variable” levels of practice with disabled children to achieve a consistently high quality. Ofsted also found cases of children being in placements with connected carers who had not been approved, for whom Warwickshire needed to improve oversight and decision-making.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Approximately 40 Ambassadors , recruited from NASW Specialty Practice Section (SPS) member ranks, amplified the initiative’s messaging to their audiences; and three Sister Social Work Organizations engaged in communications campaigns that augmented messaging. Government. Pandemic fatigue is continuously experienced as well.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

Mike Oliver , an English disability rights campaigner and author, is widely recognised as the founder of the social model of disability. His work has had a significant influence on government policy in relation to disability rights and access to services. He was made a CBE in 2009 for his services to disabled people.

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Social Care

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Care Workforce Pathway and Care Certificate will help new and existing care colleagues chart a bright and rewarding future [Image created by freepik.com ] A positive direction for social care I’m pleased we've begun 2024 with the Government's announcement of this workforce reform package.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Approximately 40 Ambassadors , recruited from NASW Specialty Practice Section (SPS) member ranks, amplified the initiative’s messaging to their audiences; and, three Sister Social Work Organizations engaged in communications campaigns that augmented messaging. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities. Government.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Engagement stands the test of time. Care sector engagement has got off to a really positive start. The engagement is genuine and it does feel like we have a common purpose. Myself and other representatives from disability support groups, recently met with this team to discuss the intricacies of the reforms. Find out more.

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Social Care

MARCH 3, 2022

At Outwood, a specialist residential service in West Yorkshire, we support individuals with learning disabilities and autism who rely heavily on familiar routines and structures, which their families and external carer givers are very much a part of. Person-centred partnership.

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SECTIONED

JANUARY 30, 2019

The activities they proposed were completely inaccessible to me as a disabled person. I was not able to take this up because my disability means it is completely inaccessible. In addition, many of the activities required payment (the specialist centre was free at the point of use). What do I mean by “inaccessible”?

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Social Care

JANUARY 12, 2024

Social care colleagues will have better training, clearer career paths and improved job prospects following the announcement of government plans to develop the domestic care workforce. When, for instance, my daughter rang from holiday to say she had got engaged, I cried. More than that, they respect me and see me as a whole person.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The report recommended that the government take steps to ensure CSE data is collected separately from criminal exploitation and other forms of child sexual abuse and in a consistent way. But the investigation said there was “no or limited evidence” their disability was taken into account in assessments. Children in residential care.

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Relias

JUNE 21, 2023

Since then, DEI efforts in healthcare , government, education, and business have progressed further. Survey results showed strong connections between employees’ sense of belonging and higher levels of engagement, mental health, resiliency, and productivity — and lower levels of fatigue and emotional exhaustion.

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Relias

JUNE 21, 2023

Since then, DEI efforts in healthcare , government, education, and business have progressed further. Survey results showed strong connections between employees’ sense of belonging and higher levels of engagement, mental health, resiliency, and productivity — and lower levels of fatigue and emotional exhaustion.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story especially when a good reporter adds a little context. Citing multiple examples of needless removal of children from the homes of disabled parents, the U.S. So Im incredibly grateful for all of the folks behind me who helped us get here today.

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