The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MAY 31, 2024

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), are proud to announce the upcoming Global Social Work Conference; #SWSD2026.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. Lack of diversity in adoption workforce and panels . The adoption workforce, and adoption panels, are insufficiently diverse.”

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

How social workers support resilience, adaptation, and recovery in affected communities. How social workers influence policies to address climate justice and environmental sustainability. The impact of climate-related disasters (e.g., floods, wildfires, droughts) on marginalized and vulnerable populations.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

It helps raise awareness about issues such as gender equality, women’s rights, and the need for diversity and inclusion. In 1998, Congresswoman and social worker Barbara Lee, representing California’s 9th Congressional District began advocating powerfully for women’s issues in Congress.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

March is National Social Work Month and KVC is joining the National Association of Social Workers to recognize the powerful, positive impact social workers have on their clients and their communities! Social workers and other helping professionals provide crucial support to children, adults and families in need.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Councils have been urged to join a project to help curb the workloads of social workers in local authority children’s services departments. Fifteen authorities will scrutinise and test ideas and resources to tackle unnecessary burdens on practitioners in order to enable them to spend more time with children and families.

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Community Care

JULY 18, 2024

The government needs to boost funding for social work bursaries, placements and apprenticeships to attract more people into the profession and tackle persistently high vacancy and turnover rates. That was the message from sector leaders in a 15-year strategy for the adult social care workforce in England, released today.

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Community Care

JUNE 29, 2023

By Clare Jerrom Social worker vacancies have fallen in Wales as staff shortages in England have risen, show official figures. The social worker vacancy rate fell from 10.8% in the year to summer 2022 across Welsh council and local authority-commissioned services, according to Social Care Wales statistics.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Temporarily registered social workers are being urged to restore their full registration to stay in practice with the government expected to end provisions enabling them to work in the near future. The Department for Education calculates average caseloads for children’s social workers in England as 16.3.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Our findings (consistent over the last five years) indicate that agile working models in Scotland are failing to meet the needs of social workers.”

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

A student contacted me recently wanting tips on how to write on the topic; ‘why I want to be a social worker’ I explained the great benefits of being a social worker. I also embedded myself in this task and wrote with my own experiences and views on why I became a social worker in an essay format.

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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

JULY 12, 2023

Councils would continue to employ social workers and other social work staff under the Scottish Government’s plan to establish a National Care Service across the country. It now won’t have its first debate until after the Scottish Parliament’s summer recess.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The chief social workers and the education secretary have condemned abuse levelled at practitioners in the wake of the Arthur Labinjo-Hughes case. ” Chief social worker for children and families Trowler and Romeo, her adults’ equivalent, told social workers: “We want to reiterate this message. .

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Community Care

JULY 6, 2023

The government is no longer funding a scheme to promote racial equality in local authorities’ social care workforces. in 2021-22 – comes from government contracts to deliver several national social care workforce programmes, it is a charity. The SC-WRES has nine metrics that help us examine inequality.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

That much is clear to anyone who bothers to look at the data that New Jersey shares with the federal government through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) and which the federal Children’s Bureau shares through its annual Child Maltreatment reports.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Three in ten of the social workers whom Tarka and her colleagues lead are black, Asian or from an ethnic minority, but this diversity is not reflected in adults’ services’ leadership cadre. “I want to have a focus on inclusion and diversity.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social work leaders have come together to forge solutions to mounting workforce challenges in England. Social Work England has convened a group including representatives from government, employers and professional bodies, to tackle the severe recruitment and retention pressures being faced across the country. a year earlier.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2023

Racial diversity among directors of children’s services remains low, compared with the populations they serve and the workforces they lead, a survey has revealed. “This is something all local authorities are focussed on, as is the association.

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Community Care

APRIL 21, 2022

But it is still lower than the proportion of women in the wider children’s social work workforce (87%, according to Department for Education figures ). Ongoing lack of ethnic diversity among DCSs. Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show. Related articles.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Introducing specialist child protection social workers is posing workforce challenges for the councils testing the system. Issues included retaining staff, maintaining safeguarding skills among other social workers and avoiding disruption to families as a result of the reform.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Across multiple disciplines, women have built and maintained organizations, created social justice movements, governed with compassion, and brought order where there was once chaos. During these challenging economic times, social workers have an opportunity to empower those at risk. Women are no strangers to leadership.

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

It will be difficult, especially with the cost-of-living crisis, but with a larger representation we will be in an even stronger position to influence policy makers and represent social workers with employers.”. Looking long term, a more diverse membership will fundamentally change the way we think and campaign.”.”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Social Work England is commissioning research into the profession’s mounting recruitment and retention challenges, particularly in councils. of social work posts in council adults’ services were vacant as of September 2022, up from 9.5% a year earlier, said a Skills for Care report published this month. in the year to 2022.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

“Excellent” and “culturally sensitive” direct work by social workers has helped their council improve to ‘good’ in its latest Ofsted inspection. With children in care, social workers completed creative and age-appropriate work that ensured children’s views were central to decision-making.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 10, 2023

Advancing Social Work Practice, Policy and Research – Series Editor: Professor PK Shajahan Professor P.K. Advancing Social Work Practice, Policy and Research – Series Editor: Professor PK Shajahan Professor P.K. tannt@suss.edu.sg tannt@suss.edu.sg

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Community Care

MAY 11, 2022

The improvement came despite government figures showing the council’s full-time equivalent social worker vacancy rate more than doubled, from 15.7% to 37%, from September 2020 to September 2021, with its agency worker rate rising from 18.2% Highly skilled, well-trained social workers’. over the same period.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Children’s minister David Johnston New children’s minister Addressing this week’s meeting, organised by Foundations, recently-appointed children’s minister David Johnston said FGCs were a key plank of the government’s ambition to reduce the number of children going into care. “I

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Community Care

MAY 1, 2024

This identified four key “frustrations” in the role: council-based bureaucratic, political, financial and workload pressures; disappointment with government children’s services policy; concerns about the status of children’s services among local partnerships, and the impact of inspection and regulation.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The impact of trauma and loss on human development across the lifespan, and factors contributing to vulnerability including societal factors and social justice. In line with feedback from the majority of respondents, it said it would seek to streamline the requirements concerning social work training in line with its professional standards.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 2, 2022

As a School that values diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism, we oppose this bigotry and stand in solidarity with AAPI communities. We know they make UConn and the School of Social Work stronger. All month long, let’s make a commitment to honoring the rich heritage and cultural experiences of AAPI communities. Throughout U.S.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2023

Social Work England will seek to tackle the systemic causes of fitness to practise issues over the next three years to reduce risks to the public and prevent social workers from enduring lengthy investigative processes.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 9, 2022

What are the five 5 major skill areas of macro social work practice? What skills do macro social workers need? Why is micro social work important? Which of the 3 major social theories is a macro theory? What are macro social work theories? What are some theories used in social work?

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. Over the longer-term, it should form a partnership with a high-performing council to support its ongoing improvement, Brazil recommended. You can listen to her full interview here.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Knowledge of social work intervention strategies is central to the social work role. The role of the social worker becomes increasingly important as communities become more diverse. Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies. How do social workers intervene with clients?

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