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. Using AI to speed up admin tasks will give care workers more time to spend with people they support, which is key to good quality social care, she added.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Social work educator teaching green social work, including research on climate change and coproduction through community engagement in Croatia. Nepal School of Social Work Students learn about green social work and sustainable interventions in all types of disasters including climate change. Back to Jane Addams.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The research was published in Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services and supported by the National Institute of Mental Health/National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program ($58,000).

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Social Service Workforce

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In many contexts, volunteers have been critical for continuing social service delivery throughout the pandemic. Volunteers have increasingly been engaged to match the greater number of individuals

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Park and his co-author’s research shows that when local social service organizations take the lead in making policy decisions, the rates of homelessness decrease.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 9, 2024

Dear Alumni Colleagues, It’s hard to believe that I completed my first semester as Dean at the UConn School of Social Work. I’ve met many of you when visiting local social service organizations as well as at our alumni gatherings and coffee hours. Learning about the work and influence of the UConn SSW is truly inspiring.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Councils in England will share £4m to help them prepare for assessments of their adult social services by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The regulator is currently testing its approach to assessing adults’ services with five authorities: Birmingham, Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Nottingham and Suffolk.

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Shelter, Inc

APRIL 22, 2024

COA Accreditation, a service of Social Current, is an independent, not-for-profit accreditor of the full continuum of community-based behavioral health care and social service organizations in the United States and Canada. Learn more at w ww.socialcurrent.org. Founded in 1975, Shelter, Inc.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It can be customised and expanded upon to suit the specific needs and objectives of the social work organisation or agency. What do social services look for in a home check or visit? To maximise this opportunity, social services workers should employ a comprehensive checklist to gather vital information during visits.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2024

Barriers to asset-based approaches Despite the benefits for people like Joanna, many local areas find it difficult to implement asset-based approaches within their social care systems. Older people are central to the overall running of the host organisation (MEAPP) and how it plans future initiatives.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 7, 2023

Engage with a Critical Lens “For social work, what’s happening with ChatGPT is both frightening and exciting,” says Lauri Goldkind, PhD, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University and editor in chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services Data Justice Collective.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 7, 2023

Engage with a Critical Lens “For social work, what’s happening with ChatGPT is both frightening and exciting,” says Lauri Goldkind, PhD, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University and editor in chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services Data Justice Collective.

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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

JULY 5, 2023

No agency social workers are left practising in Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts , says the region’s Department of Health (DoH). NIPSA told Community Care that trusts had agreed protocols whereby they could hire agency social workers in the event of a crisis, with senior management approval.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Qualified social workers who have been out of practice for at least two years will face minimum learning requirements if they want to rejoin the register in Scotland. Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has launched a consultation on introducing return to practice requirements similar to those in England and Wales.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2024

The LGA recently tendered for a professional lead, with operational AMHP experience, to engage with stakeholders and develop a proof of concept for the dataset. 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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The review would not necessarily lead to an increase, and Social Work England said it would involve engagement with the profession, followed by a full public consultation, and that the regulator would take into account public spending pressures, inflation and recruitment and retention issues in its decision making.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This stated that the lawful basis for councils sharing the data was “substantial public interest”, based on it being in the best interests of people with care and support needs using social care for them to do so.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

While the review acknowledged voluntary regional commissioning arrangements were a reality, it said these were having “limited impact” This was because providers did not have to engage in them, in the knowledge that individual councils would purchase a place independently if need was sufficiently urgent.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The proportion of agency staff in the children’s services workforce rose sharply between 2021 and 2023, from 15.5% Councils should not engage social workers as locums within three months of them leaving a permanent post in the same region. of full-time equivalent (FTE) positions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The central office was described as predominantly white, where staff rarely had direct service experience and often were hired from graduate school or adjacent social service systems.

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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

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. Network co-chair Christina Cheney said the number of such section 13 requests for consideration was growing. .

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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

AUGUST 22, 2022

. “Our ambition is to redesign how we look after children and young people, and eliminating private profit from the care of children is a key component of this,” said Julie Morgan, the Welsh Government’s deputy minister for social services. ” Reliance on private sector. .”

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2025

However, for incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president Jess McGregor, despair about the prospects for reform is the route to yet more failure. “For those of us who have been around and had hopes raised by previous reviews, there is a temptation to be sceptical,” she says.

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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 9, 2023

.” Councils ‘may be set up to fail’ The DHSC is yet to specify the metrics councils will need to report on.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Practitioners, in turn, felt able to be creative in care and support planning, supporting people from ethnic minority communities to access culturally appropriate services. However, the CQC said the authority needed to do more to engage with groups defined as harder to reach.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

. “We are concerned about the manner in which social care is being portrayed and the level of engagement with local government in national discussions about delayed discharge,” said the letter from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Local Government Association (LGA) and council chief executive and senior manager (..)

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

At the same time, 65,000 people had been waiting at least six months for an assessment as of February this year, with many thousand others waiting for care packages and reviews, said an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services study published last month.

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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

MAY 3, 2023

Social workers also engage in enquiries and assessments to ascertain the views of a child as part of putting together high quality assessments. This could include involving other agencies, such as social services, or taking legal action where necessary.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

In relation to the proposal to develop a social work assistant qualification, she warned: “We wouldn’t want any proposals around new qualifications to be at the expense of the [social work] profession”.

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Relias

MAY 21, 2024

Trauma-informed care is an approach to health and social services that recognizes the impact of trauma on people’s lives. Engage and collaborate with community members, leaders, and organizations, and respect their wisdom, knowledge, and values.

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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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