Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Naomi Russell and Lorraine Mighty Waiting for a social care assessment is becoming increasingly common across the UK, causing frustration and distress to people with care and support needs and having a demoralising impact on frontline staff and managers.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

The review said councils had weak oversight of providers, and planning for placements was insufficiently co-ordinated between councils and poor – citing a What Works for Children’s Social Care study showing many authorities lacked up-to-date strategies to secure sufficient placements.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2024

The AMHP Leads Network made the comment after the Local Government Association launched a project to scope out the feasibility of developing a national minimum dataset for AMHP work, completed on a voluntary basis by councils and NHS bodies. drop in the number of people detained under the MHA, which followed a 5.7% fall the previous year.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Councils will face targets on improving adult social care in return for funding in the forthcoming financial year, the government has confirmed. ADASS added that, should that happen, the government would need to “re-evaluate its expectations” of councils.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 14, 2023

When faced with complex national, regional, and global challenges, social service professionals serve as beacons of hope. With their vast research expertise, social work practice knowledge and skills, they inspire transformation, resilience, empowerment, and hope.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Increased demand for AMHP services However, though detention numbers were falling, the network said AMHP services were reporting increased demand year on year. “The network is working to support proposals to develop and implement a national AMHP data set and we need support from government to ensure this is achieved.”

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

Four in ten people whose discharge from hospital is delayed are awaiting a social care package, according to NHS data. The figure, revealed today in a government plan to reduce hospital pressures, came as council leaders criticised ministers for a narrative of “blaming” social care for delayed discharges.

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

Estimated number of additional Care Act needs assessments required each year as a result of the government’s funding reforms (source: County Councils Network and Newton, May 2022 ). Get full coverage on the government’s adult social care reforms. This week, it announced details of a £15.5m

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. . ” For the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, president Beverley Tarka said: “Families up and down the country are facing constant struggles to get the support they need to care for loved ones.

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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

MAY 31, 2022

Councils would require an “unfeasible” increase in adult social work numbers to implement the government’s care reforms unless they change systems, according to a report last week. Cap on care costs: government change reducing benefit for less wealthy becomes law. By Patrick Grafton-Green and Mithran Samuel.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The DfE said the rules – part of the previous government’s Stable Homes, Built on Love children’s social care reforms – were designed “to reduce the overreliance on and costs of agency child and family social workers” to authorities, saving them money and improving continuity of support for children.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

The regulator had also been “inundated” by applications from practitioners and others to take part in the group’s work, said Blackmore, the regulator’s executive director of professional practice and external engagement. in September 2021. Turnover at Cafcass was 15% in the year to March 2023, up from 12.2%

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency. Researcher : Some social workers engage in research to better understand social issues, evaluate programs, and inform policy development. What skills does a social worker need?

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The ideas were shared last week by David Pearson, co-chair of the steering group developing the strategy, in a session at the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services spring seminar. ” .

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

AUGUST 14, 2023

When faced with complex national, regional, and global challenges, social service professionals serve as beacons of hope. With their vast research expertise, social work practice knowledge and skills, they inspire transformation, resilience, empowerment, and hope.

Human Resources 40

Human Resources Psychology Social Services Social Services 40

Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

.” A passion for social work His positive experience is one he shares with the social workers he oversees in Derby council as its strategic director of people, a role that encompasses the statutory positions of director of children’s services (DCS) and director of adult social services (DASS).

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social work leaders have come together to forge solutions to mounting workforce challenges in England. Social Work England has convened a group including representatives from government, employers and professional bodies, to tackle the severe recruitment and retention pressures being faced across the country.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

P enjoys going out for a meal, attending and engaging in church activities, colouring, painting and talking about her childhood memories. In NRA & Ors, Re [2015] EWCOP 59 judgement made it clear that it is well established that the approach to the existence of a deprivation of liberty is governed by the Guzzardi principle.

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Social Care

JANUARY 25, 2023

[Image created by freepik.com ] Building on current practice These voluntary principles will complement rather than replace existing person-centred practice to support safe and effective delegated healthcare activity to social care workers by regulated healthcare professionals in a range of social care settings.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

Ideal Contributors: We are looking for social workers who: Hold a social work degree (BSW or MSW) and have several years of real-world experience. Represent various specializations within social work, coming from diverse demographics, geographical areas, and work settings. 200 words) Writing Tips: Avoid social work jargon.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Wales remains the only UK nation not to have commissioned a review of its children’s social care services, after the Welsh Government resisted calls to do so following the inquiry into Logan Mwangi’s murder. Instead, they would be provided with care and support.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As noted in yesterday’s post, about Putnam-Hornstein’s work in California, the California Department of Social Services declared that The Department believes that “universal-level risk stratification” is unethical and has no intention to use it now or in the future.

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Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

By Lorraine Currie The timeline provided by Community Care , from the 2014 Cheshire West judgment to the government’s postponement of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) , is incredibly helpful in reminding us of events we would otherwise forget. I do believe there are still ways we can make improvements to the DoLS scheme.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Since he qualified in 1972, he has seen the sector through many changes while wearing different hats: social worker, academic, director of social services, independent reviewer and, notably, the unofficial social work spokesperson on the Peter Connelly (Baby P) case. It would bring the focus back to the community.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. “It

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

UConn has been providing me with the tools necessary to engage people and to meet them where they are. This generous award allows me to continue my education in the Master of Social Work program. For me, meaning-making is done through my religious and faith experiences. Thank you so much for your generosity in awarding me the Frank V.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

Mike Oliver , an English disability rights campaigner and author, is widely recognised as the founder of the social model of disability. His work has had a significant influence on government policy in relation to disability rights and access to services. He was made a CBE in 2009 for his services to disabled people.

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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. Clinical Social Work Journal, 49, 495-504. Government.

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Community Care

MAY 13, 2025

The findings also sparked concerns among AMHP leads, who warned that the lack of growth in the number of practitioners came despite services facing increasing demand. We would urge directors of social services across England to support their AMHP leads to develop and implement these workforce plans.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

To many, designating this important and politically sensitive role to law enforcement is problematic, especially because SB 4 allows untrained police officers to engage in immigration enforcement. It has consequences that touch health care, social services, education, and the lives of everyday citizens.

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