Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. Councils that had made progress highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I have been thinking a lot about self-care in my work with patients experiencing high-stress circumstances. In my practice, with peers and patients, I tend to ask, “what are you doing to take better care of yourself?” The frequent response is so common it could be considered universal …blank stare, awkward silence, and a sheepish, “I don’t know,” usually accompanied with a shrug.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Yesterday I posed a question to Educational Assistants on my Facebook page. I asked how the year is going so far. There were 452 comments at the time of this post. This is reflective of the comments: “394 violent incident reports filed in 27 days of school, that is how our year is going in our board. In one class alone over 11 evacuations in 27 school days.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 17, 2023

".our motivation for. delegated healthcare activities is rooted in a deep-seated belief in our clients’ right to additional healthcare needs supported in their own homes." [Image created by freepik.com ] Domiciliary delegation In recent years, the concept of supporting healthcare activities at home has gained significant traction,and for good reason.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Why isn’t it okay for me to take a few minutes out of my day and focus solely on myself? Or, be completely disinclined to exert myself for one hour? Why am I expected to be excessively or exclusively concerned with others and constantly in motion?

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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Community Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A review into the “complex and fragmented” social care legal framework for disabled children has opened. The Law Commission will examine how the legal framework – some of which dates back over five decades – can be reformed to improve consistency, clarity and fairness for children and parents. The Department for Education commissioned the review as part of its draft strategy, Stable Homes, Built on Love , in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Forensic social work, also known as criminal-legal social work (or juvenile-legal social work for those focusing on work with system-involved youth), is a growing area of practice.

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 16, 2023

by Aishworya Shrestha, Deputy Chairperson at Antardhoni Nepal Aishworya Shrestha

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Africa ranks high on the acute multidimensional poverty index, contributing the greatest share of the global population living below the extreme poverty threshold of 1.90 U.S. dollars a day.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Inequalities in access to adult social care are deepening due to the cost of living crisis, staff shortages and squeezed council budgets. That was the message today from the Care Quality Commission in its annual State of health care and adult social care report. The regulator said council funding for care was not keeping up with need, with requests for care per 100,000 population up 4.9% from 2017-18 to 2021-22, while the numbers receiving care as a result fell by 2.2%.

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The School of Social Work celebrated the third annual Social Justice Changemaker Lecture with an art show, spoken word performances, and a rich conversation about community, art, incarceration, and second chances. The program, “Incarceration and its Aftermath: How Art Can Create Pathways to Reintegration and Healing,” looked at the personal and societal implications of the carceral state, the connection between creativity and freedom, and the importance of imagination and inclusion.

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 16, 2023

by Maury Mendenhall, Senior Advisor on Orphans and Vulnerable Children, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of HIV/AIDS. I am a social worker by training. But for most of my career, I never thought I could consider myself one.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Social workers in Europe are encouraged to participate in the IFSW POVERTY WATCH 2023 Report by completing the questionnaire available at the following link. In 2022, 95.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Councils must be under a statutory duty to support birth parents of children taken into care to tackle, and eventually end, repeat removals, a charity has said. Pause also called for much better recognition of birth parents and improved data on, and monitoring of, recurrent removals, so agencies could understand the scale of the problem, in a report issued today.

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Children’s Home Society of Washington

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As she stepped into the therapist’s office, 4-year-old Ruth* nervously glanced around the room, fluctuating between curiosity and fear. She and her parents had arrived at one of Children’s Home Society of Washington’s (CHSW) Family Resource Centers (FRC) to get Ruth support with her recent bouts of inexplicable anxiety, particularly around taking baths.

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Abuse Survivor

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Sarah Garlits talks about how she deals with online trolls and stigma In the vast expanse of the internet, we’re all just tiny specks in a vast digital universe. Unfortunately, it’s a universe filled with trolls, those enigmatic creatures whose sole purpose seems to be spreading negativity and vitriol wherever they go. Over the years, I’ve learned that no matter what I do, someone somewhere is going to be upset about it.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The post EASSW statement on the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East first appeared on International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW).

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Speaker: Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW.

You may have the clinical skills to manage a private practice, but your success could actually hinge on marketing skills. For a thriving practice, you need to differentiate yourself from others and present yourself in a way that attracts referrals. These days, much of that happens online, including on social media. In this webinar, Gary Direnfeld will discuss how social media marketing can help you build your private practice and grow your client base.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The government should find £500,000 to help 200 former practitioners return to social work in its forthcoming autumn statement, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. The proposals was one of three put forward by the LGA to “rapidly increase the children’s social worker workforce and retain those currently in post” in the context of vacancy rates that reached a record high of 20% last September.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Bob Fisher has been chosen as the recipient of the Association for Community Organization and Social Action (ACOSA) 2023 Career Achievement Award. This award honors the contributions of a person in macro social work who has made a significant impact on the conceptual definition and framing of community practice, the empirical knowledge base of the discipline, the promotion of community practice pedagogy and curricula, and the development of practice methods, especially in partnership with margin

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

OCTOBER 18, 2023

I have been thinking a lot about self-care in my work with patients experiencing high-stress circumstances. In my practice, with peers and patients, I tend to ask, “what are you doing to take better care of yourself?” The frequent response is so common it could be considered universal …blank stare, awkward silence, and a sheepish, “I don’t know,” usually accompanied with a shrug.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The International Conference on Social Work and Social Research: Financial Capability and Asset Building for All November 24–25, 2023 | Baku, Azerbaijan and virtual Join researchers and practitioners at a historic gateway between East and West for this global convening on current issues in social work, research, and social policy. Gain insights for elevating the well-being of vulnerable populations through exchanges across borders and cultures.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. Councils that had progressed highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Residential care can cost tens of thousands of pounds a year. Here’s how to find a home you can afford Jim Kirby was a cautious saver all his life, but now aged 84 he is nearly broke because of £86,400-a-year care home fees and an exhausting battle to get the state to make a contribution. The fees pay for his wife, Maureen, who since September 2021 has been in a £7,200-a-month nursing home.

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Health & Social Care Workforce

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This month sees the start of a new study at the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Women Interest group and Human Rights Committee Appeal for Peace IASSW is expresing a deep concern and condolences to all people who are suffering current armed conflicts in different parts of the world and who suffer displacement, deaths and disability. IASSW condemns violence, whether perpetrated by states waging war on neighbours with total disregard for the civilians that become trapped in the crossfire of warring groups, by the so-called lone wolf or individual that goes on a murderous ramp

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Community Care

OCTOBER 19, 2023

UNISON has announced a fresh round of strikes after its members overwhelmingly rejected an improved pay offer for local government staff in Scotland. The “rolling programme” of walkouts will take place in schools and early years providers linked to schools across the country with dates to be announced shortly, the union said this week. Nine in ten members who voted rejected the offer from employers’ body COSLA, on a 57% turnout, after UNISON members had taken strike action in s

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Budgets ‘under pressure like never before’ due to inflation and rising demand for social care, with deep cuts to services likely Many more councils in England are at risk of bankruptcy, town hall leaders have warned, as unprecedented financial pressures force local authorities to prepare drastic cuts to services to cope with a collective £4bn deficit.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There’s a concept of narcissistic supply. It refers to those persons who provide adoration to the narcissistic, feeding their ego however it seeks to be fed. It can also be other things the narcissist needs and wants to feed their entitlement too. Things such as attention, financial support, sex or any other demands. The narcissist sees others as per the degree they provide that support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

● Suppose you are very rich. In September you send your son off to boarding school. But when Christmas vacation came around, he does not return. Instead, you got a letter from a lawyer for your son’s gym coach. The lawyer explains that your son and the coach have “bonded.” An expert on “attachment theory” they’ve hired concludes it wouldn’t be in your son's "best interests" to return home.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

An effective pay freeze for social workers and other health and social care staff in Northern Ireland is “unsustainable and unfair”, sector leaders have warned. Health and social care (HSC) trust chief executives made the claim in a letter to Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris urging him to intervene to give trust staff a pay rise.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Dismay as key proposals are downsized in order to make election offer to voters ‘bombproof’ Labour is preparing to omit plans for large-scale reform of social care from its next election manifesto, scale back its plans for House of Lords reform during a first term in office, and recalibrate the way it presents its £28bn-a-year green prosperity plan as it prepares to put a “bombproof” offer to voters before polling day.

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