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Starmer fails to confirm future of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund as end looms

Community Care

Prime minister links ASGSF and welfare reform However, Starmer appeared to characterise it as part of the welfare system and link its future to the government’s reforms to disability and incapacity benefits. Some are children who are suicidal, who are self-harming, who somehow dont meet the criteria for Camhs.

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In West Virginia, the bad bills keep on coming

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

A representative of an agency that says it will gladly run such a place did the rest: The space would be home-like, he explained, with medical staff and therapists on site. The West Virginia family police agency, which already runs emergency shelters warehousing 156 children, opposes adding another.

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Social workers could join neighbourhood teams for people with complex needs

Community Care

NHS England said teams could include social workers, home care staff and care home staff, as well as district nurses, GPs, occupational therapists, hospital staff and social prescribing link workers whose role is to connect people with community-based activities. in 2025-26.

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Shanna Kattari’s Book Receives AAECT 2024 Book Award

Michigan Social Work

Associate Professor Shanna Kattari’s book “Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human Service Professionals,” has received the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists 2024 Book Award (Sexuality Professional Focus).

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Mental health social workers pose greatest recruitment and retention challenge for adults’ services

Community Care

They reported an average vacancy rate of 22% for adult and sensory social workers, 23% for mental health practitioners and 24% for learning disability social workers, with these rates all being comfortably higher than for adult social care staff as a whole in the councils concerned (16%).

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Play It Again, Seratonin

A Splintered Mind

I might get myself in a bit of trouble with my daughters with this post, but I recently sat in on the Brownie’s session with her therapist (she’s learning disabled). What I, and the therapist, pointed out to the Brownie was that letting myself feel sad helped me deal with those emotions.

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DHSC sets out plans for funding adult social care training

Community Care

The DHSC has implied that it will be just for nurses, occupational therapists, nursing associates and allied health professionals, such as physiotherapists and speech and language therapists, working in adult social care.