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Giving Non-Advice: Fostering Independence and Resilience in Social Work Clients

The New Social Worker

Excessive advice-giving doesn’t belong in the therapy room. As a new social worker, you will need to resist the temptation a dozen times a day to pack clients full of your fresh therapy knowledge.

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NCCPR news and commentary roundup, week ending October 22, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Dr. Sharon McDaniel, a pioneer in doing kinship foster care the right way, speaks out about the enormous harm of doing it the wrong way – through the subterfuge known as “hidden foster care.” In a commentary for The Imprint , she writes: I want to be clear that while I believe hidden foster care should be eradicated, the path to doing so is not to simply place all of those children in the formal foster care system instead.

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Local government pay deal agreed following strike ballots

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. This year’s local government pay deal has been agreed after the biggest union failed to gain a sufficient mandate to take effective strike action. UNISON said it had agreed to employers’ pay offer to staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for 2024-25 because of a relatively low turnout in its ballot for industrial action.

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What Effect Does the Environment Have on Your Health & How We Can Improve Community Health

KVC

When you think of factors that influence your health, you probably think of eating well, staying active and seeing a doctor when sick. But there are many more factors that impact our wellbeing beyond the actions we take for ourselves and our families. In fact, our health is greatly determined by the conditions in which we live. Health starts in homes, schools, workplaces and communities.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Social care likely to be hit by cuts across most councils next year, finds survey

Community Care

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social care services are likely to be badly affected by cuts across most English councils next year, a Local Government Association (LGA) has found. Almost four in five authorities (79%) said services for disabled or older adults were very or fairly likely to be negatively affected by savings in 2025-26, while 63% said the same about provision for children, young people and families.

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The secret life of a careworker – ‘I was blown away by how meaningful and interesting it is’

The Guardian

When anxiety forced Kathryn Faulke to give up her NHS job and became a care worker, she never thought she would enjoy it. Now, she has written a ‘love story’ of a book about the profession Care work, Kathryn Faulke thought as she scoured job adverts, “is a rubbish job. They’re not going to turn me down.” She had, after all, been a senior dietitian and worked for several years in the NHS – a career that had left her with anxiety and burnout.

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Are You a Social Worker with a Problem?

Gary Direnfeld

I was about thirty years old when my first marriage ended. I was a social worker at a large children’s mental health centre. Much of my work involved providing family and marital therapy. I was even co-training psychiatry residents (students) in family therapy along with the staff psychiatrist. The failure of that marriage hit me professionally.

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Maybe Just a Late Bloomer….

Gary Direnfeld

Some of us are late bloomers. I was. I dropped out of high school to sell shoes. It was a girlfriend at the time who convinced me to go to college and after one semester, I transfered to university as a mature student (over 21). Not having learned much in high school, I didn’t know how to write an essay. The first one was returned with a big bright red “D” and the comment that I have a serious writing problem.

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People Pleaser? You?

Gary Direnfeld

If you are a people pleaser, there is a good chance you came from a family with a member, likely a parent, who was scary and erratic, if not outright abusive. That people pleasing then would have been a learned strategy to cope and manage living with that person. Now, as an adult, when faced with so much as a different point of view, you may find yourself giving in with the belief that it is up to you to keep the peace lest something bad happen.