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. This responds to research that disabled people felt the two assessments overlapped and being repeatedly assessed.

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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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Community Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Anntoinette Bramble, chair of the LGA’s children and young people board, said councils had diverted funds from other areas to children’s services but that they were still overspending due to “soaring demand for support which is likely to increase further as the long-term impacts of the pandemic become clearer”. Related articles.

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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. Carers were more stressed, less able to take breaks and less supported by paid services, found a 2021-22 survey of over 40,000 by NHS Digital (now part of NHS England).

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University of Connecticut

AUGUST 11, 2022

This workshop helps supervisors to support social service staff in using evidence-informed approaches to common illness-related challenges that confront clients across the life course. Assist supervisees in planning to meet the health needs of their clients.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

Her work has been instrumental in changing perceptions of gender relations and improving women’s access to health services. Mike Oliver , an English disability rights campaigner and author, is widely recognised as the founder of the social model of disability. Famous social workers 1.

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Community Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

It is not possible to provide service stability and strong positive cultures if there is heavy reliance on agency social workers; Northern Ireland has already taken action to curtail their use in its statutory social services. Parents of disabled children who need constant care may be exhausted.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Also, before LPS was shelved, some councils stopped putting social workers on BIA training courses because the role would have been scrapped under the new system As previously reported in Community Care, DoLS leaders have warned that many universities stopped providing BIA training for the same reason.

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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 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.

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Community Care

JUNE 27, 2024

Our campaigns have been really important, especially the collaborative work on working conditions and social work experiences, with the Social Workers Union and Professor Jermaine Ravalier (now of Buckinghamshire New University). There are many campaign activities to be proud of.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

I met Mike in London in the early 1980s, when we both worked for Camden social services department. Later, we joined forces as shop stewards for the local branch of the public sector union Nalgo (now incorporated into Unison).

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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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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded initiative to help social workers and their clients to make informed decisions about life-saving vaccines. Individuals with disabilities were also disproportionately affected by the hardships of COVID-19 (ACL, 2022) as were immigrant communities (Clark et al., Clark, E.,

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

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There are over 50 university-based social work programmes across Ukraine that offer bachelor and master’s in social work degrees and some have doctoral studies. Most of social work educators are in constant contact with students, service recipients, families and parents of people with disabilities.

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 18, 2024

With the financial support, I have been able to pick up less overtime shifts at work and attend more university events, immerse myself in readings, and connect with peers and colleagues. Pahl Fellowship for Social Work Excellence Esther Pahl is a 1952 graduate of the School of Social Work.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Motto of the conference: Advancing human rights in global social work profession The conference is dedicated to 18 years work of Georgian Association of Social Workers. 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.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Editor’s note: This post was written by Melanie Sage from the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a follow-up to her post – A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19. As a university professor , I do not work with clients directly.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

WITNESSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, former director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? One of her recommendations: repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It

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