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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Community Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

English councils need £2.7bn more in funding for children social care by 2024-25, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned, ahead of the government’s spending review this week. The LGA also urged the government to implement a cross-Whitehall strategy to support children, young people and their families.

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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. The movement to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour for all workers is gaining momentum across the nation.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. All the figures will be uprated each year in line with the government’s consumer prices index measure of inflation.

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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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2023

He must also wrestle with the severe pressures in the care system for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children , in the wake of a High Court judgment that ruled the government’s policy of routinely placing young people in hotels was unlawful.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2024

In addition, the researchers, from Kingston University, Sheffield University, the National Children’s Bureau and Ofsted, identified poor outcomes for children who had suffered neglect, particularly older children on child protection plans. These were often older children and adolescents.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Liberty Protection Safeguards shelved At the same time, the government has shelved its plan to replace DoLS with the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) until after the next election, following repeated delays to its planned implementation date. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Gary Anderson, MSW ‘76 Professor, School of Social Work, Michigan State University. He has been the editor for the journal Child Welfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. Learn more about the Distinguished Alumni Award ».

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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. Promoting social work’s role in society and raising public awareness of, and confidence in, the profession.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Domestic abuse, mental health problems and substance misuse predominated and a third of the children had special educational needs and disabilities. Judith Harwin is professor in socio-legal studies, School of Law, Lancaster University. ” Access to skilled and timely advice on housing and benefits must be prioritised.

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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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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Councils’ ‘spending power’ – the maximum amount they have at their disposal – will rise by 3% a year in real terms, faster than from 2019-21, However, this includes £3.6bn for councils to fund the government’s reforms to adult social care, announced last month. average for government departments.

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Community Care

JUNE 27, 2024

Then, in 2012, she became chair of the mental health faculty at The College of Social Work, the body set up to provide leadership for the profession, which closed in 2015 after the government withdrew funding and it was unable to sustain itself. How integrated is mental health social work across settings?

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

"Moving Social Work focuses on increasing physical activity [opportunities for disabled people] and the benefits this generates for mind and body." In this spirit, the Moving Social Work (MSW) programme aims to harness the skills and values of social workers to support the health, wellbeing and human rights of people with disabilities.

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Relias

APRIL 24, 2023

If private and not-for-profit organizations can fill the gap left by government agencies, this could really help teens and young adults with autism to navigate the transition to adulthood, learn how to get and maintain a job, and improve their communication and soft skills.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 23, 2023

Archbishops of Canterbury and York say ‘national care covenant’ needed with stronger role for state England’s most senior church leaders want tax rises to fund a new NHS-style universal social care system that could cost an extra £15bn a year.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2025

People with FASDs can live with lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities. Government. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) can occur when a developing baby is exposed to alcohol before birth. The safest pathway is to avoid any type of substance use during pregnancy.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Yet, providing unpaid care to someone who has a health condition, who is older or who has a disability, can have a profound impact on their health, wellbeing, paid work and relationships. People don’t see themselves as unpaid carers but as partners, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, and close friends first.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It’s rare for any piece of legislation to be so universally endorsed and supported. Myself and other representatives from disability support groups, recently met with this team to discuss the intricacies of the reforms. Download and read ' Build Back Better ', the Government's plans for health and social care. Find out more.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

At Cygnet, we specialise in mental health needs, learning disabilities and autism." Being inspired by the fantastic nurses and the team at St Augustine’s, I decided to be a nurse and started a Mental Health Nursing course at Staffordshire University”. Image created by freepik.com ]. Boosting our specialisms.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 23, 2024

Keir Starmer’s government has promised to improve conditions for those most in need, with a commitment to “reduce and alleviate” child poverty and end the “moral scar” of food banks.

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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. I was struck by how many of the values were universal, in that you can see them applying across the broad, wherever you work, in whatever role.

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Community Care

JANUARY 2, 2025

They include a director of children’s services (DCS) who led his authority to two consecutive outstanding ratings and a head of service who has championed the voting rights of people with learning disabilities. There was also recognition for the former head of a university social work centre and a regional adoption agency lead.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Those who are pregnant or can become pregnant also risk alcohol-exposed pregnancy and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), a range of lifelong behavioral, intellectual, and physical disabilities that may affect up to 1 in 20 school children nationwide. Government. Every day matters.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As Dean of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Alan Detlaff devoted his career to fighting the racism that permeates family policing. Department of Justice has found the state regularly violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by needlessly institutionalizing children with mental health problems. Added Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A Some even are celebrated.

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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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Deficient” assessment practice, where children were deemed ‘at risk’ of CSE when they had already been harmed, and definitions that were “not fully understood or universally applied” also contributed to CSE being “downplayed”, the inquiry said. Children in residential care.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As with her social care ministerial predecessors, Tolhurst’s brief will also encompass other issues concerning disadvantaged and vulnerable children, including special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and early help. Welcome from children’s social care bodies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And it’s important to draw a distinction between that one element of government – the family police – and government as a whole. I think government can play a huge, constructive role in promoting the well-being of children. This provision of law has never been enforced and is almost universally ignored.

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Community Care

AUGUST 7, 2024

People face a “massive postcode lottery” in access to adult social care according to official data, charities for older and disabled people and carers have warned. 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

MARCH 14, 2022

These included “the nature of Ben’s possible overactive behaviour, a new and unknown male partner in the household, and that Ben was not being seen by universal and pre-school services”. The case was closed on the grounds that there was no risk to Shirley’s younger brother, who was disabled. Government funding eases asylum pressures.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Since July of 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation have partnered in this initiative with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work to provide national and state chapter-level training, tools, and information that promote COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Since July of 2021, NASW and the NASW Foundation have partnered in this initiative with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities. Government. 2020), rural communities, and older adults.

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