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

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A council criticised by inspectors for high caseloads has improved to a good Ofsted rating after hiring more social workers to reduce workloads. The council’s full-time equivalent of social workers rose from 345 to 368 between 2017 and 2020, during which time average caseloads fell from 19.5 Direct work praised.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

The department has accepted her recommendations for the council to retain the support of a commissioner and a separate DfE-appointed improvement adviser and attempt to make progress on areas including reducing its high use of agency staff and the number of changes of social worker children face.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Researchers also carried out in-depth interviews with 11 of the social care professionals, six of whom were social workers with one to six years’ experience. And just for my own wellbeing, I feel that Im on top of my caseload, which you dont hear social workers say that a lot.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Practice educators are passionate about supporting students, but a lack of recognition and support risks pushing some out of the role, Social Work England-commissioned research has found. Four focus groups attended by 127 practice educators, and individual interviews with 28.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2022

Disability, Intimacy, and Sexual Health: A Social Work Perspective by Kristen Faye Linton, Heidi Adams Rueda, and Lela Rankin Williams. In this book the authors compile comprehensive research and candid interviews with social workers to explore the complicated intersection of disability and sexuality.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission. Social workers who visit family or friends in nursing homes can encourage these residents to get vaccinated.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

“It was a mistake,” said Fort, who added that not only does she believe that ASFA is bad for Native American children, but “I don’t think it’s good for any children.” ● See also The Imprint’s interview with Shannon Smith , executive director of the ICWA Law Center. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come. Photo: Community Care The early years Social work had always been close to Mark’s heart.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission. Social workers who visit family or friends in nursing homes can encourage these residents to get vaccinated.

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Community Care

MARCH 13, 2024

At the same time, early help and family support practitioners – and other non-social workers – will be able to take responsibility for child in need cases, with social work supervision, under revisions to the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance. Interviews with four domestic abuse training providers.

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Community Care

APRIL 22, 2022

Inspectors did, however, say that the consistency of return-home interviews with children who go missing needed to improve. ‘Ongoing commitment to do even better’ Services for children in care and care leavers also drew broadly positive comments, with social workers’ relationships with children again being praised.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Among the inadequate-rated councils, the inspectorate particularly highlighted improvements at Surrey and Newham, found disabled children’s services had recovered since a visit last year West Sussex, and said progress was “modest but fragile” at Medway. from reserves to tackle children’s social worker shortage. Related articles.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Leeanne Olivant, NOPT In the dynamic landscape of social work, practice educators (PEs) stand as vital pillars. The role’s critical importance in nurturing the next generation of social workers and retaining experienced practitioners was highlighted in a Social Work England-commissioned review, which reported last month.

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Community Care

JUNE 27, 2024

Our interview with Ruth Allen is part of a series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary. But before that, her focus was squarely on mental health social work. There was still a sense of, ‘What is it that social workers do?’.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Junior minister Neil O’Brien is understood to be covering the adult social care brief and has carried out visits to social care services, according to sector sources, but has made no public statements specifically in this capacity of which Community Care is aware.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. By Professor Judith Harwin and Lily Golding. Related articles.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The figures showed that, as of September 2022, the numbers of vacancies and posts held by agency staff had reached record levels, average caseloads had risen and the number of social workers in post had fallen for the first time since 2017.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Stoke-on-Trent council is confident of improving on its inadequate rating after Ofsted hailed its “tenacious” recruitment of social workers and “discernible progress” since its damning 2019 inspection. Social workers analyse risks and needs for children effectively and, in most cases, apply the right level of threshold,” it said.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Boost to social worker numbers despite funding constraints helps council improve Ofsted grade. Social workers were also commended for providing “comprehensive and detailed” evidence in court, and applications for proceedings were “timely for most children”. Latest Ofsted reports. Ofsted: the latest news and insight.

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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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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

To tell these stories, the authors utilized different qualitative research methods, such as interviews, historical records, and press accounts. A global pandemic such as this shows the need for much more global cooperation, and why there is a need for social workers to understand global interdependence and exchange,” says Thomas.

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Social Work With Adults

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Real improvements in the lives of older people, including outcomes that matter to them, arise out of good social work practice. Hopefully, as we build a stronger evidence base, more social workers will be deployed to work with and alongside older people and their carers, using their unique combination of knowledge, skills and values.

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The Frontline

JULY 13, 2023

The research interviewed LGBTQ+ young people and surveyed social care professionals working with care leavers. The research showed the high levels of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic abuse the young people faced by their social workers and foster carers; being made to feel ignored, invalidated and unwanted.

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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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Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 24, 2022

I wonder about a “nonverbal learning disability.” Prior to having met the child, I had an extensive interview with both parents. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. The child was almost five. Acting out was an issue. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Meanwhile, the trust said it had suspended a number of staff pending investigation and commissioned an independent clinical review of the service, which experts interviewed for Panorama said had a “toxic culture” What did Panorama find? Related articles.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. I think that social workers have gotten a much better understanding of their role, responsibilities and their powers.”

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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 24, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, social workers, like most helping professionals, ramped up quickly under intense circumstances to help individuals and families to make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. More than 1,000 social workers have been trained and an app was created and launched. More than 1.2

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A social worker who doesnt want to report kids in dirty clothes to CPS. More than 600 social workers, nonprofit executives and staff, legal experts and advocates for parents rights have joined the hours-long convenings that began in March. Heres the surprise: The agencies response boiled down to well yes, youre right.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Social workers interviewed for the study also reported that families were staying too long on CIN plans because of the lack of early help provision to refer them on to. Case records also often did not record whether actions had been completed when CIN plans were closed. between councils with published figures. .

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. Oh honey, that’s not how it works,” the social worker told Janell. But then … Three weeks later, her social worker surprised Lacie when she announced DCFS would be taking her children, after all. But she did not see her mother.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Doctors, social workers, teachers often have crippling debt and cannot afford to lose their license, said Matthew Holm, a pediatrician working in the Bronx. One doctor interviewed by THE CITY described an incident in which a patients mother was reported by a teacher, who had mistaken a rash for a bruise.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The Senator who chaired the committee, Ron Wyden, called on the Justice Department to investigate these chains for allegedly defrauding Medicaid and violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Imprint and The Hill have stories. The child is often seen as the failure, not the treatment facility.

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