Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The new Labour government has pledged to legislate to strengthen the child protection in its first King’s Speech, unveiled today. The long-awaited reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 and action to deliver “fair pay” for staff in adult social care are also included in its first legislative programme since taking office this month.

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Nnatasha Tracy

JULY 17, 2024

Seeing a loved one obsessed with suicide is heart-wrenching and frightening, especially when you don't know how to help. Discover vital steps to ensure their safety, understand their condition, and seek the professional help they need. Learn about effective treatments and how to find support for both you and your loved one in this critical time. Your loved one can get through this, and you can play a crucial role in their journey to recovery.

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International Federation of Social Workers

JULY 18, 2024

Social Work will be present and active at the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2024, to be held in Samoa this October.

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Nicole Clark Consulting

JULY 18, 2024

Try this activity and let me know how it goes for you. Inviting organizations to join a partnership requires strategizing on who to invite, articulating the partnership’s value add, each partner knowing their role, and being open to shifts in how partners participate over time. While a partnership works in service of addressing an emerging [.] The post Try This: Narrow Your Partnership Focus appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

In the world of small business management, the challenge of managing payroll & HR efficiently while scaling operations can be overwhelming. Yet, with the right strategies in place, these challenges can become opportunities for growth and innovation. In this session, Joe Sharpe, Senior Director of Managed Payroll Services at IRIS, will reveal practical methods and expert insights for outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes, resulting in substantial time and resource savings.

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.

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MQ Mental Health

JULY 18, 2024

A recent Finnish study reveals that people are often given misleading information about depression, making it harder for them to understand the causes of their distress. The researchers point out that most psychiatric diagnoses, including depression, are purely descriptive and do not explain the causes of symptoms. Despite this, depression is frequently discussed as a disorder that causes low mood and other symptoms, which the researchers describe as circular reasoning.

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Nicole Clark Consulting

JULY 18, 2024

Try this activity and let me know how it goes for you. Inviting organizations to join a partnership requires strategizing on who to invite, articulating the partnership’s value add, each partner knowing their role, and being open to shifts in how partners participate over time. While a partnership works in service of addressing an emerging [.] The post Try This: Narrow Your Partnership’s Focus appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.

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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’

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Shelter, Inc

JULY 18, 2024

Housing for girls and young women who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking is expected to open next year in Palatine. Read the Daily Herald article here. The post Daily Herald, July 17, 2024 first appeared on Shelter, Inc.

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CAPC

JULY 19, 2024

Results of an intervention to improve clinician communication in family meetings with parents of loved ones in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (CICU).

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Social Care

JULY 17, 2024

Photo by Edmond Dantès The votes have been cast and the country has spoken. The new Government is now busy setting out its priorities and future direction as set out in its election manifesto. As a sector, adult social care will be adjusting to new ways of thinking, as together we get to know how the new ministerial team likes to work. This means huge change and an inevitably busy summer as we seek to build new relationships and agree a way forward.

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Community Care

JULY 18, 2024

The government needs to boost funding for social work bursaries, placements and apprenticeships to attract more people into the profession and tackle persistently high vacancy and turnover rates. It should also invest in the development of social workers at different levels, while also taking action to tackle racial inequalities in the social care workforce.

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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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CAPC

JULY 19, 2024

An essay explains how surgeons can improve informed consent by clearly explaining goals, risks, and more to help with patient decision-making.

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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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Community Care

JULY 16, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Adult social care faces its “worst financial outlook” for at least seven years on the back of rising levels and complexity of need and costs being shifted from the NHS, a survey of directors has revealed. Despite receiving what the previous government described as the “biggest funding increase in history” for 2023-25, councils overspent their adult care budgets by £5

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The Guardian

JULY 17, 2024

Warning on ‘cycle of low wages’ comes as government pledges in king’s speech to introduce fair pay agreement A specific minimum wage for social care is needed if England is to avert a staffing crisis, according to leading thinktanks. Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation have also called for the introduction of of national pay banding to tackle pernicious low pay in adult social care and encourage key workers to stay in the industry.

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CAPC

JULY 17, 2024

8 new dementia care courses offer clinicians training on effective communication with patients and loved ones, interpreting and addressing behavioral symptoms, and more.

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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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Health & Social Care Workforce

JULY 19, 2024

Stephen Martineau (KCL) reports from the latest webinar in the Homelessness series, part of the Homelessness Research Programme at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, King’s College London.

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Social Work England has issued guidance for higher education institutions (HEIs) on implementing new standards for approved mental health professional (AMHP) qualifying courses. The standards will replace the current regime, which Social Work England inherited from the Health and Care Professions Council , in summer 2025, from when the regulator will use them to approve new courses and reap

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The Guardian

JULY 17, 2024

Palliative care charities are facing a funding crisis – they should be included in Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS Close to 600,000 people die in the UK annually – a figure that was higher during the pandemic, but has since fallen back. More than half are at home or in a care home; most of the rest are in hospital. But for about 28,000 people who need specialist end-of-life care (nearly 5% of all deaths), a hospice is where they receive it.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JULY 14, 2024

Announcement / Call for abstracts for the European Conference of Social Work Education – ECSWE 2025 Social Connectedness – Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities The European Association of Schools of Social Work and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (Department of Social Sciences) are proud to announce the European Conference of Social Work Education 2025.

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 17, 2024

I was surprised by Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate. Vance was a late convert to the MAGA cult. He offered several deprecating appraisals of Donald Trump during the runup to the 2016 election, referring to him as “cultural heroin” and fearing Trump could be “America’s Hitler.” Back then, Vance characterized himself as a Never Trumper.

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The Guardian

JULY 15, 2024

Sector says ‘too many people dying in avoidable pain’, with soaring numbers being pushed back into the NHS One in five hospices in the UK are cutting services amid the worst funding crisis in two decades, a report has warned, with soaring numbers of patients being pushed back into the NHS. Research by Hospice UK found “small and wildly varying” state funding had failed to keep pace with growing demand and rising running costs.

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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

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The Guardian

JULY 16, 2024

Study finds providers making profits off government funding despite falling short on mandatory care targets Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Aged care homes should not be “short-changing” older people by making profits off government funding while falling short of mandatory care targets, advocates say, as pressure grows on the federal government to introduce the new Aged Care Act to parliament after repeated delays.

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The Guardian

JULY 18, 2024

Funding and staffing shortages mean plan to introduce cap in October 2025 impossible to deliver, councils say Long-awaited changes designed to protect individuals from having to sell their homes to meet large social care bills must be further delayed because of funding and staffing shortages, the leaders of England’s largest councils have said. Plans to introduce a cap on social care costs – which would limit people’s lifetime care cost contributions to a maximum of £86,000 – in October 2025 wil

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The Guardian

JULY 18, 2024

As their families await justice, Jayro Bustamante’s movie, Rita, highlights the bravery of victims of 2017 blaze, and the authorities’ failure to protect them Ada Kelly Alfaro says the cries from friends asking for help still haunt her daughter, Cynthia Phaola Morales, seven years after she survived a fire at a children’s shelter in Guatemala that killed 41 girls.

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The Guardian

JULY 17, 2024

A crackdown on the use of overseas workers and an AI bill were also missing from the speech King’s speech – live updates The king’s speech may have contained 40 proposed bills, but some previously mooted ideas were missing. Here are the proposals it could have contained but did not. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

JULY 17, 2024

Readers respond to an article that lays bare how relatives can find themselves evicted after a death in the family Kwajo Tweneboa’s piece about how bereaved relatives are immediately evicted from social housing struck home ( The secret social housing scandal: when your parent dies – and you are evicted in days, 16 July ). When my mother died in 2000, we had a week to clear the flat on the estate she lived on with us for 40 years.

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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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