The New Social Worker

MAY 18, 2022

There are five things social workers can do today to be better intersectional practitioners in support of disabled people in the Asian American community. They center around the need for social workers to be reflective and reflexive practitioners.

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Community Care

MARCH 26, 2025

Children’s social workers are to be measured against a new set of post-qualifying standards (PQS), under Department for Education (DfE) proposals. Published for consultation last week, the suggested PQS are designed to work in tandem with the proposed social work induction programme (SWIP).

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

President Biden has announced his intent to appoint social worker Mia Ives-Rublee, MSW, to his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Ives-Rublee is currently director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. Mia Ives-Rublee.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Social workers dedicate their lives to helping others, including some of the most vulnerable people in our society. However, research shows members of the social work profession are more likely to experience work-related stress, burnout, and a lower quality of life compared to other professions and the general population.

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Social Work Haven

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This personal statement will suit social work students who will soon qualify as social workers, and may want to look into applying for a Newly Qualified Social Worker role within children services. I recognise that there may be a power imbalance between social workers and service users.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You asked, what are the 10 roles of social workers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of social workers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 10, 2022

However, RJ can also be understood as a trauma-informed mental health intervention allowing perpetrators, who have frequently been victims of past trauma, to regain a sense of voice and control, and to maintain social connection within their community. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

A clutch of social workers have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list, announced this week. The recipients included a past and present principal social worker (PSW), the co-founder of the secure base model of therapeutic caregiving and a retired practitioner who used to support Holocaust survivors.

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Community Care

JUNE 13, 2024

A third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties, research has found. However, in most cases, parents’ conditions were only identified at the court stage, in part because social workers lacked the time and training to do so.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 6, 2023

Education Resource- International Perspectives of Disability video Here is a video from social work day prepared by various student/intern at the UN NY and participated in the Global Student Conference held on April 2, 2023. The video is about the different perspectives of disability around the world.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The self-reported rate of disability among care leavers is double that recorded by councils, research has found. Meanwhile, recorded disability rates among children in care and care leavers differ widely between local authorities, according to the report, published this week by Coram Voice.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Since then, this sweeping, groundbreaking law has improved the health of all Americans, including children, women and families, men, older adults, communities of color, those with disabilities, and those who are LGBTQI+. But how has this increase in coverage had a positive impact on addressing the social determinants of health?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

A former Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has been appointed chief social worker for adults. Sarah McClinton will succeed Lyn Romeo in January 2025 , a year after the longstanding chief left the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) position.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Champions of asylum-seeking children and anti-racist practice, respectively, were among social workers recognised in the New Year Honours. Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 25, 2022

One of the best pieces of advice I got as a new adjunct instructor was to stick to the role – that is, the job of an adjunct instructor is to focus on helping students to learn the course content, not being their social worker. College students have needs like everyone else – mental health concerns, food insecurity, etc.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2024

. — The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, American Psychiatric Association, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Association for Rural Mental Health, and National Association of Social Workers on June 28 released the following statement responding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Attention to oral health care has implications for preventing chronic disease and disability, improving mental health, and reducing health care costs. Including a focus on oral health by social workers is consistent with social work's mission.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Increasing numbers of children’s agency social workers are newly qualified, amid worsening staff shortages and rising demand, directors have warned. increase in referrals to children’s social care – in part, the result of the removal of lockdown restrictions – and a 9.6%

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 11, 2021

Hannah is interning with iHeartTech , where she is working on several projects that involve technology use in social work. The opportunity to support the work of SWVirtualPal, a global community of social workers, was appealing, especially as someone new to the field.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

These vague, punitive, and intensely subjective laws have been vehicles for channeling students—disproportionately Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) students and students with disabilities – into the criminal system. They encourage social workers to share these on their social media networks.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Councils are losing ground to the NHS in the competition for social workers because of their different pay setting arrangements, the Local Government Association has warned. NHS social workers in England have received a 5.5% For a social worker in outer London on the minimum of point 30 (£40,833), it is worth 3.6%.

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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 Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Social workers have a long tradition of social justice and political advocacy – to include working to expand and protect voting rights and promote voter registration. If passed, such bills will have sweeping impacts on communities of color, students, veterans, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and older adults.

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Community Care

APRIL 20, 2023

Councils should have a bigger role monitoring local residential settings in their areas to better protect disabled children, an inquiry into the abuse of children in three services has concluded. “These recommendations set out a roadmap to more humane treatment of these children.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is encouraging its members to comment on an important proposed rule to strengthen nondiscrimination protections in health programs through Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. NASW will be submitting comments and encourages social workers to do so as well. Disability.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The government will review the local authority designated officer (LADO) role after an inquiry into the abuse of disabled children identified “major failings” in relation to the function. ” Urgent actions .

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Community Care

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Social workers have been freed up to spend more time with children after council investment led to a “significant reduction” in caseloads, Ofsted has found. Department for Education (DfE) figures show that Walsall’s agency social worker rate halved from 30.5% in September 2017 to 14.8% in 2018 to 13.4 Related articles.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

Learning disability and autism exclusion A topic that dominated debates in the Lords was the position of people with learning disability and autistic people. The bill would prohibit people being detained for treatment under the MHA solely on the basis of learning disability or autism.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Better relationships with children’s social workers is a key factor in tackling a foster carer recruitment and retention “crisis”, says The Fostering Network. While 45% of foster carers rated the support they received from children’s social workers as excellent or good, 23% said it was poor or very poor. Related articles.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 30, 2022

How Social Workers Can Make a Difference. and are the leading preventable cause of developmental disabilities. Social workers can make a difference by sharing this key message with clients—and by screening all adults for risky alcohol use. September 2022. FASDs may affect up to 1 in 20 schoolchildren in the U.S.

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Community Care

JUNE 25, 2024

Mental health social workers pose the greatest recruitment and retention challenge for adults’ services, a survey of councils has found. The LGA reported that: 87% of councils had found it very or fairly difficult to recruit mental health social workers over the previous three years: 60% very difficult and 27% fairly difficult.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

April is Alcohol Awareness Month, an invitation to social workers to make conversations about alcohol use part of routine practice—and to make sure they’re armed with the facts. How can social workers help clients feel comfortable discussing their drinking? How much drinking is too much?

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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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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 28, 2022

The themes and sub-themes are as follows: Groups in vulnerable situations: the quest for social protection. Persons with disabilities. Social Work Education and Empowerment. Human rights and social justice. Building core competencies, newer skills and global standards for social work education. Older persons.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2024

Social workers are significantly less likely to have high morale or to recommend the profession to friends or family than in 2020, research released this week has found. This rose to 72% among current and former children’s social workers, compared with 55% of current or former adult practitioners.

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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

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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