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. . “However, the problems our profession and society face run deep, and requires bold and immediate actions to address.

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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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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Here are 10 roles of social workers, but this list is by no means exhaustive: Advocate : Social workers often act as advocates for their clients, working to ensure their rights and needs are met within various systems and institutions. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The lack of an appointed care minister comes with significant decisions needing to be made about the sector including: Whether there will be a delay to the government’s adult social care charging reforms, in the light of the economic situation.

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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. “It

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Its report came with increased government funding having led to a 10% real-terms increase in planned adult social care spending in 2023-24, compared with 2022-23. “This means co-production with communities, long term investment in technology, accessible housing with care and preventative services. .

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

The findings come from a snaphot survey from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) released today, in the context of what the association described as a “national emergency” Relaxing Care Act duties mooted.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

‘Shortage of trained professionals and funding’ The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services echoed several of the report’s findings. “We 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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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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Relias

MAY 21, 2024

Trauma-informed care is an approach to health and social services that recognizes the impact of trauma on people’s lives. Trauma-informed care can help resolve the lasting and pervasive effects of trauma on people’s health and well-being, remove barriers to care, and improve the efficacy of other care practices.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Social workers can work in different settings, such as schools, hospitals, non-profit organisations, government agencies, and private practice. Social workers offer a wide range of services, including counseling and therapy, individual and group sessions, to help people deal with emotional, psychological, and behavioural issues.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

She said the end of Covid-related support and the temporary £20 Universal Credit uplift, as well as rising fuel and food costs, could add pressures to low-income families and therefore potentially increase demand on children’s social services, which was “already unsustainable”.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

Other famous social workers include Gloria Steinem, Richard Titmuss, Eric Berne, Ann Oakley, Carol Gilligan, Mike Oliver, Marian Wright Edelman, Jane Addams, and Bayard Rustin. Another famous social worker is probably Dorothea Lynde Dix. Famous influential thinkers in social work 1. Famous social workers 1.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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. Over the same period, the social worker vacancy rate fell from 11.6%

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

No one was waiting to be seen by mental health or learning disability teams, with waiting lists of less than 100 for the other teams, who managed them in a risk-based way. People receiving care and support were generally positive about their care and praised the quality of their relationships with frontline staff.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As a Newly Qualified Social Worker a few years ago, I understood that to become effective at what I do as a social worker , there was a need for me to write good Care Act 2014 needs assessments. A needs assessment is carried out by social services to decide your care and support needs. Do they have a staircase?

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Relias

MARCH 3, 2024

“No,” I responded, “I actually want to work with adults with severe mental illness.” The look on her face was one of shock — I’m guessing she did not know social workers could be mental health clinicians, much less want to work with individuals with mental illness. We are communicators. We are connectors.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Social workers ‘expected to be box-tickers’, peers told Following an inquiry into adult social care in 2022, a House of Lords committee said it was told by many witnesses about the perceived disparities between the act’s ambitions and practice on the ground. How do we make social work an attractive option for them?”

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

About the skills and frameworks we bring to the table: According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the principles of ‘trauma-informed care’ include safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment, voice and choice, and cultural, historical, and gender issues.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

Concerns over abuse not covered by domestic abuse law It was triggered by concerns raised by disability groups about the abuse of people by carers who were not “personally connected” to them – ie relatives, partners and ex-partners – under the definition of domestic abuse set out in law.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

” ‘Deeply disappointing’ In its response, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) , focused on the absence of funding Sunak provided to help social care services through the winter, beyond the £162.5m Social workers see how poverty can make everyday life difficult and challenging.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

The report was also positive about aspects of commissioning practice, particularly how the authority had minimised the use of long-stay or secure settings for people with mental health and substance misuse needs who would not typically accept help.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Thus, it is critical to raise importance of social work as a global profession, so called “super national” and scientific field concerned with global issues (e.g. How can social work researchers, program developers lead in engaging community and influencing social policy? Aging Services and Gerontology. Disability.

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 18, 2024

She credits her UConn social work education for her long and meaningful career caring for others. She established this scholarship to provide meaningful support to a student in need with an interest in working in a mental health setting. I am most appreciative of the internship opportunities that have been offered to me.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

“Alongside these changes, we will build consensus for the longer-term reform needed to create a sustainable national care service. ” Fair pay agreement not costed Labour said its proposed fair pay agreement would set “fair pay, terms and conditions, along with training standards” for adult social care staff. .”

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Community Care

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It also said that a lack of knowledge of the DoLS, and the wider Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA), among provider staff was leading to unnecessary DoLS applications and overly restrictive practices in relation to people needing care and support.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

For those students who have held on, the required social work internships have evolved dramatically. Social work students deliver services online, learn remotely, and show up to social services agencies in deep transition. Carol, a school social worker, serves youth with serious physical disabilities.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the meantime, her daughters suffered abuse at a foster home and her younger son descended into a mental health crisis. That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same. What evidence is available shows most of the allegations were false.

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