The New Social Worker
APRIL 7, 2024
As in previous years, The New Social Worker is pleased to present the winning poems of the National Social Work Poetry Contest. The contest is sponsored by the University of Iowa School of Social Work. Congratulations to the Spring 2024 winners!
International Federation of Social Workers
APRIL 7, 2024
Social Work Social Development (SWSD2024) Conference Celebrates!
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Social Work Blog
APRIL 12, 2024
Heather Rose Artushin, LISW-CP By Heather Rose Artushin, LISW-CP As social workers, we often embark upon this professional journey with a heart for helping people to live well. But what if dying well was a conversation that was never meant to be saved for the end of life? Ronald L. Riffel, retired social worker and board member of the Center for Conscious Living and Dying (CCLD) in North Carolina, initially responded to a call for volunteers to sit with people who were dying, in what he describe
Nnatasha Tracy
APRIL 11, 2024
There are so many myths about what it's like to live with bipolar disorder. People constantly make assumptions about it based on media portrayals, but life is not a movie or a news report. Living with bipolar disorder is complex and varied, and what happens for some is not necessarily common for all. So, let's dispel some of the myths about what it's like to live with bipolar disorder and encourage people to stop making uneducated assumptions.
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Community Care
APRIL 11, 2024
Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. More than 20 years after delivering his report into the death of Victoria Climbié , there is still a quiet sadness about Herbert Laming at the mention of her name.
International Federation of Social Workers
APRIL 11, 2024
The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) held its General Meeting on April 1st and 2nd, 2024.
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The International Association Of Schools Of Social
APRIL 6, 2024
Dear Colleagues, Please Congratulate to IASSW’s newly elected Board of Directors for 4 years of term (2024-2028) President – Antoinette Lombard from South Africa Secretary – Janestic Mwende-Twikirize from Uganda Member –at-large: -Auschala Chalayonnavin from Thailand and Sabine Bahrer-Kohler from Germany The IASSW Board of directors and all members are looking forward to the contribution of newly elected board members for the evolution and expansion of the International A
Community Care
APRIL 10, 2024
Seven more councils have been chosen to test the government’s family support and child protection reforms. They will join the existing three families first for children pathfinders in testing the changes, which are designed to ensure families receive better and earlier support to help resolve their needs and strengthen the quality of child protection practice.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 11, 2024
I have followed the harm done to children by America’s child welfare systems for nearly half a century, first as a journalist, now as an advocate. In all that time I have never encountered a state so mind-bogglingly fanatical about tearing apart families that even foster care agencies think it’s too much – until now. Yes, even agencies typically paid for each day they hold a child in care say West Virginia is taking away too many children.
The Guardian
APRIL 12, 2024
Karina Moon, who is sole carer for her daughter most of the week, was told she needed to repay £11,292.75 or be prosecuted for fraud Ex-ministers press Sunak on ‘persecution’ of carers who broke earnings rules Carers in the UK: have you been threatened with prosecution for benefit fraud? Karina Moon vividly recalls the telephone call that brought her to tears.
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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.
Social Care
APRIL 10, 2024
[Image created by freepik.com ] Caring at home and work is tough I know from my own experience how challenging it can be juggling a busy work life and looking after a family member, in my case my mum at the end of her life. Those six months were tough, emotionally and physically. I experienced every emotion you can imagine. I know many of my colleagues, past and present, have lived through similar times or are doing so right now.
Community Care
APRIL 9, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The body representing children’s home providers has decided to exclude providers receiving finance from tax havens from membership. The Children’s Homes Association’s (CHA) new membership rules also stipulate that members must be ultimately owned in the UK and have at least majority shareholders who are UK-registered taxpayers.
Health & Social Care Workforce
APRIL 8, 2024
Dr Antonina Semkina is Research Associate at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, King’s College London.
The Guardian
APRIL 12, 2024
A council’s benefits expert and a tribunal judge, plus other readers, respond to reports on how the DWP is persecuting carers for unwittingly breaching complicated benefits rules I have worked in benefits for more years than I care to admit, although for local authorities rather than the Department for Work and Pensions. The news about the persecution of carer’s allowance claimants is not surprising ( Calls to end ‘persecution’ of carers over UK benefits rule breaches, 9 April ).
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Gary Direnfeld
APRIL 9, 2024
Admittedly, I am a workaholic. My dad was a workaholic. My brothers are workaholics. I love what I do. I love meeting and working with people. I love writing. I love presenting. I love what I do. Years ago, working from home, our son came to my office to grab some time with me. I blew him off. It wasn’t long after I felt the heat of Arlene’s gaze at my back.
Community Care
APRIL 11, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Practice educators are passionate about supporting students, but a lack of recognition and support risks pushing some out of the role, Social Work England-commissioned research has found. The study found that practitioners were sustained in the role by the motivation to develop the next generation of social workers, further their own skills and knowledge and, in some cases, redress their ow
Community Care
APRIL 10, 2024
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The government has set out some of the details of its new fund for subsidising training for adult social care staff. Adult social care providers who directly employ care staff, including councils, will be able to claim up to £4.5m each towards training courses for care staff and continuing professional development (CPD) for regulated practitioners in 2024-25.
Community Care
APRIL 11, 2024
A national support programme for the growing number of overseas social workers in the UK should be “seriously considered”, the British Association of Social Workers has said. BASW made the call after launching its own professional development scheme for new international recruits to UK social work. Employers, particularly in England, have turned to international recruits in recent years to tackle persistently high social work vacancy rates in children’s services and adult socia
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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.
The Guardian
APRIL 8, 2024
The DWP’s system punishes claimants for payment errors. But it is the rules, not the carers, that are most at fault The problems caused by attempts to reclaim benefit payments to carers, on the basis that they are ineligible due to increased earnings, are not new. Between 19,000 and 39,000 overpayments have been logged in each of the last five years.
The Guardian
APRIL 7, 2024
Rules around earning limits for people in receipt of carer’s allowance risk them unknowingly racking up debt to DWP Carers threatened with prosecution over minor rules breaches Analysis: Why are so many carers being taken to court? Unpaid carers provide support for loved ones – normally parents or children, who are disabled, frail or ill. There are an estimated 5.7 million carers in the UK.
The Guardian
APRIL 12, 2024
Commonwealth requests Fair Work Commission phase in full 23% increase over two years to prevent workforce shortages elsewhere Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Aged care workers should wait until January 2026 for the full 23% pay rise ordered by the Fair Work Commission , according to the Albanese government.
The Guardian
APRIL 7, 2024
The government provides nowhere near enough support for people who care for their loved ones, writes Kirsty McHugh of the Carers Trust. Plus a letter from someone who cares for a partner with a mental health condition, and another from Jane Nation on the invisibility of disabled people You’re right to praise Kate Garraway for shining a light on the financial, physical and emotional toll of being an unpaid carer ( Editorial, 27 March ).
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The Guardian
APRIL 9, 2024
We would like to hear from people who benefited from New Labour’s early years programme Gordon Brown and other veterans of the last Labour government have called upon Keir Starmer to include a new Sure Start-style programme in his election manifesto after a study showed its benefits to children from low-income backgrounds. Sure Start was first announced in 1998 and saw the development of hundreds children’s centres across the UK.
Gary Direnfeld
APRIL 9, 2024
They loved gentle parenting. What they didn’t realize is that their implementation was in reaction to the harsh parenting experienced as a child. What they labeled gentle parenting was actually permissive parenting, the opposite of the authoritarian style they were subject to. As such their kids weren’t really held accountable or well directed.
Gary Direnfeld
APRIL 9, 2024
In the 70s I was interested in photography. My parents let me make a darkroom out of the basement washroom. I wanted to try taking pictures in various places. On one occasion I approached a surgeon, friend of our neighbor, to see if I could photograph a surgery. It happened! I observed and photographed a lumpectomy; removal of a bullet; and hernia repair.
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