Social Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

"Protecting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of our residents [and staff] is absolutely crucial to making sure they live happy and healthy lives." [Image created by freepik.com ]. Protecting health and wellbeing. Vida Healthcare was established in 2010 with the aim of transforming the care available to people living with dementia. It was clear at the time that the majority of traditional residential care homes simply didn’t have the resources or expertise to fully support residents a

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My Brains Not Broken

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A lot of my focus for the past few weeks has been on habits. I’ve written about habits before on My Brain’s Not Broken, but every time I revisit the topic I learn something new. Building healthy habits is an essential aspect of my mental health toolkit, but it doesn’t stop there. Maintaining healthy habits is just as important as building them; however, that’s easier said than done.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our culture’s implicit and explicit curricula socialize and reward learning how to “not quit.” With this cultural saturation, we internalize that quitting is bad. We aren’t taught the knowledge, skills, nor value of how to quit.

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The School of Social Work’s marketing and web teams have won a Best of CASE District V Award for the School’s Centennial Timeline Project. The timeline depicts the School’s history from its origins to its current position as one of the world’s most prominent schools of social work. Initially designed as a physical installation, the timeline was reenvisioned during the pandemic as a three-prong initiative: .

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 19, 2022

by Tomoo Okubo, Social Protection Specialist, UNICEF and Aniruddha Kulkarni, Global Technical Lead, Child Protection Systems, UNICEF (originally developed as a discussion paper by UNICEF and Global Social Service Workforce Alliance)

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My Brains Not Broken

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Living with mental illness can make people feel like they’re failing all the time. Moments of progress can feel impossible to recapture after a misstep. We can be very harsh on our failures, and our reactions can exacerbate those failures. Mental health setbacks happen to everyone, but they can be hard to deal with. Despite our failures, we should still strive to build healthy habits and goals to work toward.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The God Committee follows deliberations of a hospital transplant committee making a difficult decision. With all of its flaws, it brings attention to issues that are important in social workers and could be used as a starting point for discussion.

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 17, 2022

By Rory Truell, IFSW Secretary-General

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today the National Association of Social Workers Ukraine (NASWU) was officially launched in the country’s central district of Kamenets Podisk. Representatives from the office of the Prime Minister joined the […].

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A Splintered Mind

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Let’s celebrate my one year anniversary since getting COVID–19! ?? I know people who felt that COVID was a pernicious plot by politicians to put down the populace. I know others who believed that nobody would ever get the virus if they were vaccinated, and anybody not getting vaccinated was trying to kill them. Because of this polarization, I have a hard time talking to people about my experience with Long COVID, or Post-COVID Syndrome as I prefer to call it.

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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 17, 2022

Jeremy Hunt has scrapped plans to abolish the IR35 rules for agency social workers and other public sector staff working off payroll. His predecessor as chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, had announced the abolition of the 2017 rules in his “mini-budget” on 23 September. However, Hunt reversed this – and most of the other taxation measures Kwarteng unveiled last month – in a statement to the media this morning.

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Nnatasha Tracy

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The following is indicative of a mixed mood. These are not necessarily my exact thoughts when I'm thinking more clearly. It's days like today when I'd like to punch anyone in the face who says I'm not crazy. I'm crazy. I'm CRAY-ZEE. I know you can't see it, but if you were in my brain right now, it would be crystal clear to you. I'm feeling so crazy, in fact, that I suspect another person would think they were psychotic if they had to deal with the brain I currently have.

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National Casa Gal

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The objective of this campaign is to build a strong, impactful paid media plan to increase volunteer recruitment nationally. Read More. The post National CASA/GAL launches 2022 Change a Child’s Story™ volunteer recruitment campaign appeared first on National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 19, 2022

by Rebecca Smith , Head of Child Protection Programmes, Save the Children International .

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Professionals must be under a legal duty to report child sexual abuse, and face criminal sanctions for not doing so, to tackle the systemic under-acknowledgement of CSA. That was one of the key recommendations by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in its final report, issued today , seven years after it was set up in the wake of institutional failings revealed by the Jimmy Savile and other abuse scandals.

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Relias

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Cheri DiStefano had been working in the corporate world for over a decade when she felt a calling to go to nursing school. Many people consider career changes, but few follow through. She took that brave leap, and it turned out to be the first of many challenging and rewarding events to come. After considering a career change for a couple of years, her mind kept going back to the idea of entering the healthcare profession.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 17, 2022

CSWE APM 2022 We are proud to announce the presentations that UConn School of Social Work faculty will lead at the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) 2022 Annual Program Meeting (APM), from November 10 through 13. The following list of presentations and sessions represents the wide range of scholarship that School of Social Work researchers are engaged in, including human rights, child welfare, COVID-19, political social work, refugee and immigrant rights, and more.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Best Practices in Mental Health is a premier, peer-reviewed journal that represents the highest quality scholarship in the field of mental health. With a comfortable format and a broad scope, BMPH is an excellent resource that provides an interdisciplinary and evidence-based focus for its audience of mental health educators and practitioners. Editor Daphne Cain is at the helm of curating new research from recognized experts on established best practices and from leaders in emerging best practice

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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 18, 2022

Seeking further savings from social care after a decade of austerity is “fanciful and deeply worrying”, sector leaders have warned after chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced government departments would need to deliver more efficiencies. In his statement to Parliament yesterday – which reversed most of the tax cuts in Kwasi Kwarteng’s September mini-budget – Hunt said savings on government spending would be necessary to put the public finances on a sustainable footing,

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Final report of independent inquiry into child sexual abuse also urges creation of scheme to compensate victims What is the inquiry and why did it take so long? A new criminal offence should be created for people working in positions of trust who fail to report allegations of child sexual abuse, according to a landmark report that also calls for the creation of a national scheme to compensate victims for the “incalculable” harm inflicted on them.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Ahead of the We Are Social Care Nursing conference on 3 November, Lucy Gillespie, Project Manager for Regulated Professional Workforce at Skills for Care, gives us an overview of what to expect from its theme: 'Shaping the future of nursing in social care'. "Our data also tells us [global majority groups face] challenges when it comes to career progression.

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The Frontline

OCTOBER 17, 2022

England’s largest social work charity, Frontline , warns that negative news stories are having a detrimental effect on the public perception of social workers, after new independent research reveals that over half (58%) of people say social workers have a ‘bad reputation’, and of those, nearly a third (31%) would be reluctant for their help despite needing support.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Council leaders have welcomed reports that the government will delay implementing its cap on care costs for a year, but warned that the funding allocated to the reform should be retained by authorities. The Times reported today (behind paywall) that the government would postpone the adult social care charging reforms until October 2024, as part of measures to reduce government spending initiated by incoming chancellor Jeremy Hunt.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 15, 2022

When Manni Coe received a disconcerting text from his brother Reuben, who has Down’s syndrome, he decided to remove him from the care system. Now the two tell their story in a new book They were just five words, separated by four tiny full stops and four spaces: “brother. do. you. love. me.” But when, in November 2020, that text from Reuben Coe, who was alone in his room in a care home in Dorset, arrived on the phone of his brother Manni in Andalusia there was little else he could do.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We are delighted to host this blog from Self Care Forum board member and senior pharmacist, Ade Williams MBE. As our Autumn COVID-19 and flu vaccination campaign continues, his wise words of reassurance, advice and thanks to frontline care and health colleagues are very welcome. In particular, he addresses the issue of waning immunity, an aspect of vaccination easy to forget, but one we must keep in mind as we seek to maintain protection for ourselves and those around us.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Parental alienation: The intentional undermining of a child’s relationship with one parent by the other parent in a context where those parents have separated and have an acrimonious relationship. Some situations are intractable. Beyond repair. The issue remains… what to do? The lectures don’t work. There is no breaking through with the child poisoned and brainwashed.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

No minister has been appointed for adult social care, six weeks into Liz Truss’s premiership. Despite a full ministerial team being appointed to the Department of Health and Social Care on 7 September, the DHSC said their responsibilities had not yet been decided upon. Junior minister Neil O’Brien is understood to be covering the adult social care brief and has carried out visits to social care services, according to sector sources, but has made no public statements specifically in t

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Rebellious backbenchers, underfunding and previous pledges mean there are no easy options for the new chancellor Jeremy Hunt has warned that decisions of “eye-watering difficulty”, including cuts to public spending, will be required to repair the damage to the government’s finances after the failed mini-budget. After his screeching U-turn to scrap the unfunded tax promises made by his predecessor, Kwasi Kwarteng, expectations are rising that the chancellor will kickstart a renewed austerity driv

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Social Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

"We wanted to offer a complete apprenticeship route to help colleagues progress from support worker, nursing associate, student nurse, all the way to registered mental health nurse." [Image copyright Cygnet Health Care]. Never underestimate the value of social care apprenticeships. As Apprenticeship Manager for care provider, Cygnet Health Care , I have seen the truth of this statement first hand.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Are you disabling your kids? It’s a serious question, however, it’s not meant to mean you are doing so intentionally. Unfortunately though, many patent do inadvertently disable their kids. They do so by coddling, carrying, and compensating. Coddling refers to smoothing the way for them. Removing any bumps. Being over protective. In so doing, the child is robbed the opportunity to grow and develop the result of mastering adversity.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The government must fund better pay and training for adult social care staff to tackle a deepening workforce crisis that is undermining the quality of services. That was the warning today from the Care Quality Commission in its annual state of care report for 2021-22, in which it described the health and social care systems as “gridlocked”, amid shrinking capacity and increasing unmet need for adults’ services.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 20, 2022

‘Centrepiece’ finding is failure by person in position of trust to report abuse allegations should be criminal offence What is the inquiry and why did it take so long? Continue reading.

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