Community Care

MARCH 3, 2025

However, the CQC found Camden had no waiting lists for care assessments, hospital discharge, care home placements, home care services, reablement, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments and safeguarding cases.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

You Asked, Case manager vs Social Worker – What is the Difference? – Social workers and case managers are both integral parts of the healthcare industry. Who is a social worker? Knowing the distinctions between these roles can aid in determining the ideal career path in human services.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2024

From better resourcing of social work and funding of social care, to measures that alleviate poverty, reform mental health provision, protect human rights, and much more. “Only by prioritising the provision of high-quality support for disabled people of all ages, will we have a fairer society where everyone is able to thrive.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Adult social worker numbers in local authorities hit a record high last year, official figures show. English councils increased their headcount of adult social workers, including agency staff, from 17,300 to 18,500 in the year to September 2023, a 7% boost, according to annual statistics released this week by Skills for Care.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Room: 2208 Presentation : A Comparison of Religious and Spiritual Beliefs Among Latinx Parents of Children with Disabilities Author(s) : Mogro-Wilson, C. & Room: 2210 Presentation : Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of the "Obesity Epidemic": Implications for Social Workers Author : Holle, L. & Valenzuela, F.

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 27, 2021

Here at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW England), we are taking action to make sure human rights abuses suffered by people with learning disabilities and autistic people are never forgotten and history does not repeat itself. Named social workers – time to expand their role?

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2024

The sector has not been as prominent as it should have been during the campaign and when it has been discussed, it has been characterised as “broken” and in crisis, or with a “narrow” focus on how it should be paid for and how it can help cut hospital waiting lists, they said. “Important questions, of course.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Regulations require them to consult the relevant local authority before making a decision about a person’s eligibility and to co-operate with the council about arranging for its staff, such as a social worker, to participate in the MDT.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Three in ten of the social workers whom Tarka and her colleagues lead are black, Asian or from an ethnic minority, but this diversity is not reflected in adults’ services’ leadership cadre. “I was fortunate to qualify as a social worker and then did a masters in strategic leadership.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The ombudsman also criticised the level of communication provided by Miss X’s then social worker, who went a month without contacting her, including a week in which she went without overnight care between two of a succession of hospital admissions.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How the sector will manage the coming winter, including how £500m allocated to bolster the workforce and help clear hospital beds should be used. Lack of appointment ‘extremely concerning’ The apparent vacuum drew a concerned response from the British Association of Social Workers England.

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Community Care

JUNE 27, 2024

Ruth Allen has spent the past eight years as chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), providing leadership and representation to members from all parts of the profession. But before that, her focus was squarely on mental health social work. How integrated is mental health social work across settings?

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Social Work Quotes. In social work, various articles cover topics such as social work articles on mental health, social work articles on domestic violence, social work articles on learning disabilities, medical social work articles, school social work articles and clinical social work articles.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2024

Instead, she said that the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) was “continuing to discuss revisions to the Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, consulted on in 2022, with the Ministry of Justice [MoJ]” “Further details on next steps will be shared with the sector in due course,” she added.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Care homes or hospitals (‘managing authorities)’ must apply to councils or Welsh health boards (‘supervisory bodies’) to authorise a prospective or existing deprivation. A cultural shift is required within social care to ensure that older and disabled people’s rights are recognised and protected.

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 5, 2023

a social safety net for all citizens [was created, providing support] for the homeless, disabled people and older people, obliging local authorities to provide suitable accommodation." For years, social workers have worked alongside health professionals. "[Alongside the birth of the NHS].

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

Data showed that 86% of people who received a short-term service in the borough did not require ongoing support, while 84% of older people were still at home 91 days after discharge from hospital to a reablement service, exceeding the England average in both cases.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Who is a Practice Educator in Social Work? A Practice Educator is a social worker who mentors, supervises, assesses and supports students on placement in a practice setting (example, local authority, school setting, hospital or children’s centre). The Self-awareness Workbook for Social Workers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

.” She added: “We must have immediate investment so that the dedicated, skilled people providing care and support are paid a proper social care wage that can compete the retail and hospitality sectors. Social workers are on the frontline, and see first-hand the impact that poverty has on people.

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Social Work With Adults

MARCH 19, 2024

Jason Brandon, Office of the Chief Social Worker for Adults: It’s National Social Work Week , one of the most important events in the social work calendar. This year's theme focuses on social workers' capacity to adopt innovative and community-led approaches.

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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. If you reviewed our December 21 post, you may also find it helpful to review this one. We are continuing to closely monitor this dynamic policy area so we can continue to provide updates to our members.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Police have opened an investigation into abuse of patients at a mental health hospital uncovered by the BBC. Olivia, a patient who agreed to be featured on the programme, saying that her treatment at the hospital had made her serious mental health condition worse. Related articles.

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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 21, 2022

There may have been hospitalizations. The issue is coming to terms with a likely mental illness that is severe and disabling or alternatively, so much enabling with little accountability since early childhood that this person truly hasn’t learned to cope and manage independently. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

It’s bad enough that hospitals routinely test pregnant women for drugs without their consent, and then routinely report a positive result to the family police. That’s why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A social worker who doesn’t want to report kids in dirty clothes to CPS. The story quotes Reagan Stanford of Disability Rights Arkansas who told lawmakers: “Across Arkansas, facilities are rife with countless examples of abuse, violence and neglect. The child is often seen as the failure, not the treatment facility.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

On July 20, 2023, the National Association of Socials Workers, including our Missouri Chapter, requested Missouri Governor Parson grant clemency to Johnny Johnson, who is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri on Tuesday August 1, 2023.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

“It is the worst case of child abuse and neglect that I have ever seen,” said a hospital consultant who treated Victoria in her final days. And so it is on councils and senior management to be “absolutely realistic, honest and open” with both social workers and the government about what can and can’t be achieved, he stresses. “I

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Yet questions linger about the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on individuals, families, society, and social workers. Social workers, like most helping professionals, were called upon during the pandemic to help individuals and families to make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Update on Johnny Johnson Clemency Request The National Association of Social Workers (“NASW”), including our Missouri Chapter, on July 20, 2023 requested Missouri Governor Parson grant clemency to Johnny Johnson, who was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday August 1, 2023.

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Relias

MARCH 3, 2024

Theme for this year’s Social Worth Month is “empowering social workers.” ” Though it’s easy to understand why this is important, I’d like to take the time to innumerate a few of the many ways social workers help our society. This is why I love celebrating social work month.

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Community Care

MARCH 14, 2022

A “crisis-led” approach saw a council close a hospital referral over a boy’s unexplained injuries, months before he was murdered by his mother’s partner, a review has found. Children’s social care had also shared its previous involvement with Shirley with the hospital. This would have identified potential risk to [Kyrell].”.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Department of Justice for bias against the disabled. R ather than face clandestine drug testing and suspicion from medical professionals who are mandatory reporters, pregnant people stay away from prenatal care and giving birth in hospitals. It doesn’t have to be this way. It was part of the response to COVID-19.

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

Social care leaders have voiced concerns over the ending of Covid-19 funding for the sector. Though the resources were always designed to be time-limited, social care bodies warned their removal carried significant risks for a fragile sector at the height of the latest Covid-19 wave. Social care honours colleagues lost to Covid.

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Social Work With Adults

MAY 23, 2024

"Brain injury is the leading cause of disability and death for people aged 0-40 in the UK, with an estimated hospital admission rate of one person with a brain injury every 90 seconds, and a cost to the country of £15 billion." Social work is one area people in this situation sometimes feel let down by.

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Social Work With Adults

MARCH 7, 2023

In the worst cases, people get “trapped” in hospital or enter totally unsuitable accommodation. Best known for the support it provides to adults with learning disabilities, it’s a model of care which involves a Shared Lives carer sharing their home with a person who needs support. This is where Shared Lives can play a role.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Vicki’s life embodied social justice and the importance of investing in better futures for everyone. For the duration of her working life, Vicki was a volunteer counsellor for the bereavement charity Cruse, co-running the Menai Bridge group until it was closed down during the initial Covid-19 lockdown.

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