Community Care

APRIL 4, 2025

At triage, Social Work England staff determine whether the concerns about the social worker merit investigation. Final hearings: Social Work England held just five final hearings in October to December 2024, down from 13 in the previous two quarters, and from 64 in April to June 2023.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Social workers subscribe to the principle of self-determination of the people, and stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people taking a stand against the aggressor on the basis of our shared values. IASSW Statement on the Ukraine.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Department for Education has scrapped its national assessment and accreditation scheme (NAAS) for children’s social workers. The DfE’s original plan was for all children’s social workers to be assessed by 2020, which it later revised to rolling out the scheme from that year following a series of trial phases.

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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. The 2017 reforms were designed to tackle what the government described as “widespread non-compliance” with IR35. However, Hunt’s announcement means it will no longer go ahead.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 10, 2025

We are focusing on the need for social workers in political arenas. Weve always been in legislative settings, participated in campaigns, mobilized voters, testified at hearings, and engaged in other activities. Social workers are elected to all levels of government, including Congress. We have […]

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

The ADCS said family hubs were “viewed very positively” by directors, with three-quarters of survey respondents saying they had set up such services, including some who had not received government funding. on the year before. . Regionally agreed caps on maximum hourly pay rates for agency staff.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Department for Education (DfE) has ditched plans to cap agency social worker pay to the equivalent of permanent staff in local authority children’s services. The changes came after the DfE received over 1,200 responses to the consultation on the rules , 70% of which were from individual social workers.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Agency social worker pay in would be capped to the equivalent earned by permanent staff under government plans to reduce the use and cost of locums in statutory children’s services. ” “However, overreliance on agency social work resource has led to workforce instability, churn and high costs,” it said.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Four English regions are looking to develop a joint agreement on how their local authorities employ social workers in children’s services. Agency rules in full Working within regions to agree and implement agency social worker price caps.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MAY 31, 2024

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), are proud to announce the upcoming Global Social Work Conference; #SWSD2026.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Social workers have a long tradition of social justice and political advocacy – to include working to expand and protect voting rights and promote voter registration. Voter disengagement is a combined result of the cumulative effects of concerted voter suppression and the erosion of trust in government. Getty Images.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2024

The shortage in children’s social workers in English local authorities is likely to increase over the coming decade, the Department for Education has said. It also came despite the number of permanently employed social workers reaching a record high.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Rules curbing councils’ use of agency social workers in children’s services will start coming into force next month, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. of full-time equivalent (FTE) positions.

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The lack of adult social workers is the sector’s biggest concern as it prepares to deliver the cap on care costs, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has found. Get full coverage on the government’s adult social care reforms. More social workers needed amid shortages.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2025

However, the approach poses resource challenges for Cafcass and Cafcass Cymru because for the need for social workers to invest significantly more time working with families at the start of cases compared with the existing child arrangements programme (CAP) system, the report added.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Adult social care professionals have reported that using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool saved them time and improved direct work, despite some concerns over accuracy. Researchers also carried out in-depth interviews with 11 of the social care professionals, six of whom were social workers with one to six years’ experience.

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Community Care

JULY 15, 2024

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. of the children’s social work workforce in English councils , up from 15.5% As of September 2023, locums represented 17.8%

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

April is Alcohol Awareness Month, an invitation to social workers to make conversations about alcohol use part of routine practice—and to make sure they’re armed with the facts. How can social workers help clients feel comfortable discussing their drinking? Government.

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. Related reading. Dysfunctional’ care market needs overhaul to tackle high prices and scarce placements, says watchdog. Some firms ‘profiteering’ from children’s homes, says minister.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The government has vowed to continue with work initiated by its predecessor to tackle workloads among local authority children’s social workers. of full-time equivalent council children’s social workers in England being locums as of September 2023.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This included initiatives such as the use of social work academies to develop staff, with training days backfilled and caseloads capped. of the workforce.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

The National Association of Social Workers Alabama Chapter (NASW-Alabama Chapter) is affirmed in its position regarding the necessity of equity in representation for Alabamians by our elected congressional officials.

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Community Care

APRIL 19, 2023

The government should set an expectation that frontline children’s social workers carry out face-to-face practice, in the light of concerns about the rise of remote working. “If a social worker is able to work remotely then the mandatory ‘cool off’ period will have little impact.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

A student contacted me recently wanting tips on how to write on the topic; ‘why I want to be a social worker’ I explained the great benefits of being a social worker. I also embedded myself in this task and wrote with my own experiences and views on why I became a social worker in an essay format.

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 29, 2023

Scores of macro practice social workers and students will gather at the Brown School at Washington University in St. The Special Commission to Advance Macro Social Work, co-chaired by Drs. Board members of CRISP’s Social Work Democracy Project will lead a 10:00 a.m.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

You Asked, Can Social Workers Prescribe Medication? This is a very common question a lot of people ask in relation to the role of the social worker in health and social care. Social workers play an important role in promoting the health and wellbeing of people in the community.

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Community Care

JUNE 1, 2023

Children will not get the protection they deserve from the government’s response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), its chair has warned. The government said it would introduce a redress scheme following “extensive engagement” on the nature of the scheme, though without setting a timeframe for this.

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Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2022

Social work caseloads will be explicitly addressed in a government-commissioned independent review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland, launched last week. The UK government has said MacAlister cannot assume additional government funding to implement his recommendations.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As providers of mental and behavioral health services, social workers play a critical role in preventing FASDs by sharing these key messages with clients who are pregnant or may become pregnant: There is no known safe amount of alcohol use or safe time to drink during pregnancy. Government.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Just over 1,000 social workers have been removed from the register despite paying the £90 fee and meeting continuing professional development (CPD) requirements in this year’s renewal round. These practitioners, roughly 1% of those who were expected to renew, are now unable to practise as social workers.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A council criticised by inspectors for high caseloads has improved to a good Ofsted rating after hiring more social workers to reduce workloads. The council’s full-time equivalent of social workers rose from 345 to 368 between 2017 and 2020, during which time average caseloads fell from 19.5 Direct work praised.

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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. It confirmed its support for authorities appointing designated social care officers (DSCOs), in its improvement plan for SEND and alternative education provision (AP).

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 5, 2024

On 18 December the project had a one-day Expert consultation workshop on ‘Co-creating spaces and empowering tribal communities’ aimed to promote cooperation and knowledge exchange among organizations who engaged in the sphere of education, health, and livelihood. The chief guest for the programme was Mr. Vithal Nadkarni.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

They face chronic and persistent stereotyping and are at heightened risk for every form of social ill including incarceration, health and mental health disparities, poverty, violence, reduced life expectancy, and ineffective participation in the workforce and larger society. Earn CEUs with this book. Women are no strangers to leadership.

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Community Care

MAY 1, 2024

The government’s axing of a social work leadership training scheme risks undermining support for practitioners as well as the retention of managers, principal social workers have warned. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This had led to “unparalleled dependency”, whose numbers had grown by 13% over the same period, accounting for 17.6% of the workforce.

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