Community Care
JULY 15, 2024
The number of mainstream children’s homes in England has grown by 44% over the past four years, amid a contraction in the fostering sector. Children’s home numbers grew by 12% in the year to 31 March 2024, continuing significant increases seen in preceding years, showed Ofsted’s annual statistics on the social care sector, released last week.
Social Work Blog
JULY 15, 2024
NASW Press offers continuing education credits on a wide array of books via the NASW Social Work Online CE Institute. Titles range from burnout, self-care, and meditation to ethical standards in social work, digital practice, economic well-being, social entrepreneurship, and mentoring women for leadership, to name a few. See examples of CEU titles below and visit the NASW Press website to learn more. _ Prior to 2020, the field of social work was limited in its adoption of digital practice.
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Community Care
JULY 15, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Agency social workers numbers are coming down in children’s services in England following significant increases in their use by councils in recent years, a sector leader has said. Association of Directors of Children’s Services president Andy Smith told Community Care he believed the trend was the result of the planned introduction of rules later this year to curb councils’
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 15, 2024
The only acceptable goal for child abuse fatalities is zero. But how do we come closest to achieving that goal? Some have suggested that because child abuse deaths may have increased by 30% in 2023, Tennessee is doing too much to keep families together so we should tear apart even more families. That would only make everything worse. For starters, there is no evidence for the claim that Tennessee is bending over backwards to keep families together.
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The Guardian
JULY 15, 2024
Authorities say attempts to clear NHS backlogs sucking up scant funds at expense of preventive care Vulnerable people face being denied basic preventive social care at home due to a wave of rapid discharges from hospitals that is sucking up resources, council bosses have warned. Despite cross-party support for more early care at home, town hall officials are having to allocate resources to people with more complex needs, many discharged from hospital early as part of attempts to clear NHS backlo
CCRC
JULY 15, 2024
To help children prepare for the new school year, CCRC hosts an annual Back to School drive. Funds raised from our Laughs4Literacy comedy show allow us to purchase those materials. This year we are grateful to have received the support of a community business as a major event sponsor. We were excited when Julio Zenon reached out saying that community is a keystone of his business and sat down with him to hear why they chose CCRC.
The Guardian
JULY 15, 2024
CQC ‘got things wrong’ implementing inspection regime and new computer system, interim chief admits England’s healthcare regulator has issued a public apology over reforms to its monitoring of tens of thousands of hospitals, care homes, dentists and GPs. The apology from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) came in the wake of care organisations complaining of a “hostile” inspection regime and a major new computer system failing to work properly.
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