Community Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The government has appointed Social Work England’s interim chair to the role on a substantive basis. Andrew McCulloch, who has overseen the regulator since Lord Patel’s resignation in February 2023 , has been made chair for the next three years. The Department for Education has also reappointed Adi Cooper and Sue Ross – both registered social workers – to the regulator’s board, also for a three-year term.

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International Federation of Social Workers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Kicking off on 1 October with the United Nation’s International Day of Older Persons (UNIDOP2023) and concluding on 10 October in conjunction with the World Health Organization’s World Mental Health Day, this 3rd […]

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Mental Health 77

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The number of fitness to practise (FtP) cases lasting at least three years has doubled since 2023, Social Work England figures have shown. While 150 cases had been open for more than three years as of 30 June 2023, this had grown to 294 a year later, showed data published in a report to the regulator’s July 2024 board meeting.

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The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Magic Notes tool records and analyses face-to-face meetings and suggests follow-up actions Hundreds of social workers in England have begun using an artificial intelligence system that records conversations, drafts letters to doctors and proposes actions that human workers might not have considered. Councils in Swindon, Barnet and Kingston are among seven now using the AI tool that sits on social workers’ phones to record and analyse face-to-face meetings.

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