Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. 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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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

October 4, 1935 – January 19, 2024 Diana Lee Guida Brown Throughout a career in social work at New York area hospitals, Diana Guida Brown gave passionate voice to the needs and dignity of hospital patients when she perceived them as being overlooked, sometimes going to the state house in Albany to fight for new legislation, or advocating for policy changes locally such as for the first AIDS patients in the early 1980s.

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The Guardian

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Whitegates Care Centre defends distributing the funeral directors’ cards, described by one relative as ‘appalling’ A firm of funeral directors sent Valentine’s Day cards to residents of a care home, in what has been described as an “appalling stunt” that the undertakers have admitted was “misjudged”. The cards sent to Whitegates Care Centre in Surrey were decorated with a red heart and a pink bow, the Sun reported , and bore the words: “Sent with love from TH Sanders & Sons.

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