Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The good news is that universal alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) offers a non-stigmatizing, evidence-based tool to address risky drinking, including any alcohol use during pregnancy. Government. The sooner you stop drinking, the less health risks your newborn baby may encounter.

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Community Care

MARCH 26, 2025

However, the SWIP, which would replace the children’s assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE), at least in local authorities, is not certain to go ahead as it is dependent on the Treasury providing sufficient funding in the forthcoming government spending review.

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Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

The government will “strongly encourage” councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision, it said today. In the improvement plan, the government said the role would “provide the capacity and expertise” to improve social care input into SEND provision.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

In a 2021 study, 83 percent of healthcare providers reported positive behavior change in patients after conducting alcohol screening and brief intervention with them. What is alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT)? Government. These conversations can have a major impact.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Researcher : Some social workers engage in research to better understand social issues, evaluate programs, and inform policy development. This evaluation serves the dual purpose of determining how best to continue supporting the client and assessing the effectiveness of the current intervention methods.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Councils’ response to child neglect is “slow and inadequate” due to high thresholds for intervention and a lack of services, the NSPCC has found. However, practitioners who took part in online focus groups for the NSPCC’s study, told the charity that neglect often did not meet the threshold for intervention.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

There are a wide range of job positions available in various settings, including healthcare, education, mental health, government agencies, private practice, counseling centers, research organisations and more. This aspect of the profession allows social workers to engage in meaningful social change on both micro and macro levels.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 9, 2022

What are some macro interventions? These theories provide a comprehensive framework for social work practice, as they complement each other in understanding the causes of social issues and developing interventions to address them. What are some macro interventions? What are the models of macro practice? What are macro theories?

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2024

This is a reference to the families first for children pathfinders who are testing the establishment of family help services, merging children in need and targeted early help provision and designed to prevent families needing more intensive interventions. Funding the development of open and secure children’s homes.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. This is the process of functional governing.” This is another example of why it is so important for social workers to be engaged in legislative settings at all levels of government,” Dr. Day concluded.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2022

Though the council had implemented a “robust contract management cycle” since taking ownership of the trust in 2019, the report said current governance arrangements limited the authority’s ability to challenge poor performance. The DfE’s intervention in Doncaster ended in 2021, enabling the council to choose to bring services back in-house.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

First adults’ services ratings since 2010 The reports mark the regulator’s first published assessments of local authority adults’ services performance since 2010, when the previous ratings system was scrapped by the coalition government. ” Nottingham (indicative rating: requires improvement).

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“The government has committed to offer more support for carers through its reform funding and there are new rights for unpaid leave in the new Carer’s Leave Act , but that won’t be enough. These scores will inform the single-word rating. However, overall, the CQC said authorities’ plans were short-term.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As a social worker, I will be able to actively engage in combating discrimination, oppression, and inequality. This interdisciplinary approach allows for a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the challenges people face, leading to more effective interventions and support systems. Becoming a social worker VI.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This would provide clarity on safeguarding processes for people in long-term segregation and strengthen mechanisms for intervention in these cases, the panel said. Ordinary residence: section 117 approach remains unsettled despite government court win.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Stable Homes, Built on Love includes a number of measures designed to tackle the issue, including recruiting more foster carers – which the government is backing with £27m from 2023-25 – while the government has recently announced further funding to build children’s homes.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

Monitor interventions Social workers monitor interventions that have been put in place to ensure they are helping the person and their family. They use evidence-based practice to make sure these interventions are effective and review them regularly if necessary. Who can prescribe medicine?

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2022

It said this was having a significant impact on social workers’ ability to robustly assess children’s needs in a timeframe that meets their needs, and leading to some not receiving interventions to reduce risks to them. Government needs ‘compelling reasons’ not to remove children’s services from council. Related articles.

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Clinical Philosophy

APRIL 13, 2022

And yet when we turn to the advice, instructions, rhetoric and rules of the bodies and bureaucracies which govern psychologists' practices, something rather different sometimes shows its face. You're probably instead in something like an 'intervention'-providing business.) and so I make them.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

The best interests assessment training gives you the chance to update your skills in practice interventions and deepen your knowledge base about current research and policy in contemporary social work practice. Recommended Books Best Social Work Books Every Student Must Read is a great article full of highly recommended and engaging books.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the NASW Founda tion are collaborating with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work in a national effort to engage social workers in the prevention of substance-exposed pregnancy. Government.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

They offer a range of essential services, from prevention and crisis intervention, to community support, all for people who experience poor mental health and/or severe mental illness. It has become a key vehicle for informing our government policy colleagues on the priorities for social care in mental health.

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Social Care

JANUARY 25, 2023

The further embedding of delegated healthcare interventions in the care workforce in England represents our ongoing initiative to marry social care experience with clinical excellence to deliver enhanced, high quality and consistent care. Feedback from our engagement has been positive, recognising the value of delegation for all involved.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

In those instances, we need the care to be delivered in trauma-responsive environments that embrace parent and caregiver engagement throughout the treatment intervention and continually focus on best practice. They are informed by the emerging literature highlighting promising practices in residential interventions.”

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

This initiative, Engaging Social Workers in Preventing Alcohol- and Other Substance-Exposed Pregnancies, is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Government. Surgeon Generals Advisory FASD Fact Sheets (FASD United) Glimpses of FASD – Meet Brenna!

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Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Government. The FASD National Partner Network is the only one of its kind that includes social workers at the center of prevention practice—along with colleagues in family medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, nursing, and medical assisting.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

Are engaging storytellers who can vividly articulate their experiences and connect with readers. Child Welfare Social Worker vs. Social Services Specialist III) Organization Type: (Government, Non-profit, For-profit, Outside social services) Setting: (School, Clinic, Hospital, etc.) Job Information: Descriptive Job Title: (e.g.,

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Community Care

JANUARY 6, 2022

They found that rates of child in need interventions linked less robustly to increases in poverty than higher-level actions. It also cited previous studies warning that social workers sometimes struggled to engage with poverty – characterised as the “wallpaper of practice” experienced by families they work with.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

EXCERPT FROM NCCPRS REPORT ON COLORADO CHILD WELFARE" TAPEWORM IN THE SYSTEM Most of the time when industries want more money from government, they cite their success. It appears some RTCs are engaging in a common industry practice known as creaming as in skimming the cream. But the deck is stacked.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This would be an overreach in the roles and responsibilities of a government agency. At the highest alleged level of risk, the program calls it “relentless engagement.” Anyone Hello Baby labels high-risk will be offered a series of services not offered to anyone else. Emphasis added.]

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Community Care

MAY 22, 2022

The government must introduce national pay scales for social workers, tied to a “vastly improved” learning and development offer, to boosts skills, reward expertise and retain staff in practice, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care said today. By Mithran Samuel and Rob Preston.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

Working Together to Safeguard Children , whose 2010 version stretched to almost 400 pages, is now less than half that length with much less prescriptiveness from central government. If you say good practice is about engaging well and making well-reasoned judgments, then, when something goes bad, others can say, ‘But the child died’.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Most assessments had a clear purpose and rationale for intervention, with direct work providing valuable insights into children’s experiences, and their needs being well-considered by plans that also included their wishes and feelings.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Approximately 40 Ambassadors , recruited from NASW Specialty Practice Section (SPS) member ranks, amplified the initiative’s messaging to their audiences; and, three Sister Social Work Organizations engaged in communications campaigns that augmented messaging. To read Part One, follow this link.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

His work has had a significant influence on government policy in relation to disability rights and access to services. Austin is an American social worker and professor at Kansas State University, where he teaches courses in youth development and community engagement. He was made a CBE in 2009 for his services to disabled people.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The report recommended that the government take steps to ensure CSE data is collected separately from criminal exploitation and other forms of child sexual abuse and in a consistent way. It recommended that updated DfE guidance make clear that signs of sexual exploitation should be treated as such, not as “at risk” indicators. “It

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Unfortunately, Maine’s equivalent of the federal Government Accountability Office, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability (OPEGA) did indeed fall for it in a report released last week. But that has failed repeatedly. And, of course, if you don’t know about a right, you don’t have that right. Emphasis added.]

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