Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The government will legislate to tackle “profiteering” from children’s care placements in England, a minister has vowed. 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

JANUARY 14, 2022

It said this potentially overestimated the impact because the analysis did not control for the impact of other interventions that might have generated the same results. It is also clear how other government policy commitments tied to NAAS will be fulfilled. We look forward to working with the department in the coming months.”.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2024

Governments can – and many successfully have – put in place community-based services that meet the needs of everyone in the community, without resorting to criminal enforcement. By employing these community-based interventions, governments can address homelessness without resorting to criminal enforcement.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

The federal government is soliciting proposals to fund various programs that prevent and address elder abuse. Eligible entities: state, local, and tribal governments; community-based and faith-based organizations; hospitals; and institutions of higher education. Posted April 1, 2022. Applications due: May 3. Funding source: ACL.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. Clarity of roles in the context of there being multiple people involved with authorities in intervention. Child protection improvements.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In its kinship care strategy, published in December 2023 , the previous Conservative government announced it would pilot providing special guardians of former looked-after children with allowances equivalent to those received by foster carers, in eight areas from 2024-28, backed by £16m in 2024-25. Carers value recipient-centred programmes.

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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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Community Care

MARCH 10, 2025

ASGSF support ‘a lifeline’ They called on the government to confirm funding arrangements for the ASGSF urgently for April 2025 onwards. Their intervention followed an open letter, issued last week, by Adoption UK to education secretary Bridget Phillipson, which delivered a similar message.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

A key tool in FASD prevention is universal alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), an evidence-based, highly effective modality for evoking a client’s motivation to address risky substance use. Government. To get started, here are five facts about FASDs social workers need to know.

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Community Care

APRIL 6, 2025

Annual real-terms spending grew by 21% from 2020-21 to 2023-24, compared with 2% from 2014-15 to 2020-21, found research on early intervention funding carried out for the Children’s Charities Coalition (Action for Children, Barnardo’s, the Children’s Society, National Children’s Bureau and NSPCC).

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Community Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

English councils need £2.7bn more in funding for children social care by 2024-25, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned, ahead of the government’s spending review this week. The LGA also urged the government to implement a cross-Whitehall strategy to support children, young people and their families.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Experts are predicting that more councils will declare ‘bankruptcy’ after the government rejected calls for extra social care funding for authorities in 2024-25. Authorities must continue to meet their statutory duties, meaning social care spending is largely protected. This is up by almost £4bn on 2023-24, a rise of 6.5%

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Care review lead Josh MacAlister has been appointed to co-lead a new merged evidence body for children’s social care and early intervention with children and families. It is mostly government funded. Very many important decisions about the new centre, its strategic priorities and its work lie ahead.

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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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Community Care

AUGUST 2, 2024

Sector leaders have urged the government to “change course on social care” after a week in which it cancelled the cap on care costs and a planned increase to workforce training funding. However, they stressed that social care was critical to delivering some of the new government’s key ambitions.

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Community Care

AUGUST 6, 2024

Social care practice leaders have offered their “expertise and support” to the new Labour government in a bid to shape policy on the sector. They said they were particularly well-placed to support the government through their direct connections to frontline social work, AMHP and OT practice, alongside their role as sector leaders.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2025

Potential cost savings resulting from the removal of governance structures and operational duplication of approximately 200,000 – 300,000 a year. Assurance that childrens services are supporting the wider corporate plans and are more responsive to the councils changing needs.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2022

A council is at risk of losing control of its children’s services after the government intervened in the light of a damning Ofsted report. Mixed picture on outsourcing as review urges tougher intervention. Over the longer-term, intervention should be extended to authorities repeatedly rated requires improvement.

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CCRC

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The 2-day conference hosted in North Hollywood was attended by 250 professionals, including advocates, government employees and child care workers. She argued that the federal government is not the be-all-end-all when it comes to policies and decisions impacting vulnerable communities, and she called for attendees to start thinking ahead.

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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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Relias

MAY 2, 2022

This has the potential to positively impact the state of crisis prevention and intervention in the U.S. Through these services, crisis intervention and prevention efforts across the country could see a serious boost. This is a crucial step in crisis intervention and prevention efforts. The Reasons for 988.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

Currently, children’s social care services are run outside of council control in 11 of the 152 English council areas, either because of voluntary decisions by councils or through government imposition. Inspectors found “serious failures which leave too many children at risk of harm in Bury” in an inspection in October.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

Relatedly, this much anticipated event is of major important to state, local, and the federal government, which have had to function under a fragmented and inefficient 911 emergency response system. This is a welcomed policy change for which the social work profession has espoused for several years.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2025

Councils have been handed government-commissioned guidance on the evidence base for mentoring and befriending schemes for care-experienced children and those at risk of entering the care system. That study found that offending and arrest rates were significantly lower among the intervention group than the control group at follow-up.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2022

As a result, councils lack funds to invest in early intervention, to help children stay with their families, he said. Sitting alongside the minister, Department for Education (DfE) director of children’s social care Fran Oram said the government would bring forward reforms to ensure the market functions much more in the interests of children.

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Community Care

MARCH 1, 2022

Despite the evidence that early help services reduce harm to our children and save money on more costly crisis intervention, the last decade has seen significant budget cuts to these services. The charity said the government should also require all councils to report on how much early help they provided, and what services families received.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The assessment process enables you to appreciate your client’s perspective on their situation, identify their priority areas for intervention, and recognize the strengths they bring to the therapeutic process. Informed Consent: Social workers get informed consent from clients before initiating any interventions or services.

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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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The proposed extension of the register was initiated by the Scottish Government in 2023, which then asked the SSSC to scope out the case for regulating roles including social work assistants, adult day centre workers and offender management staff. The Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) welcomed the consultation.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The government will on Monday outline a wide-ranging package of changes, which it promises will end years of “drift and neglect” in the children’s social care system, and introduce a new emphasis on early intervention. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Rising costs and demand are a huge strain on council budgets and services face ‘intolerable pressures’, says Adass England’s overstretched and creaking adult social care services need urgent government intervention to stabilise them financially as rising costs and demand play havoc with council budgets, care bosses have warned.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Collaboration Between Federal and State Government and Community Stakeholders. Not only will the changes —if they meet expectations — improve upon the “crazy quilt” system of crisis response that we currently have, but it will also result in a greater demand to expand the behavioral-health crisis intervention workforce.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The “full spirit of the Care Act” is not being met, the government has said as it plans to reintroduce performance assessments of council adult services. Government intervention. Councils would have the right to make representations before any statutory intervention was carried out.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

They break down interventions by race but not by income. But in 2021, after COVID forced the family police to step back, community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up, and the federal government stepped in with cash – cases labeled child abuse or neglect by family police agencies reached a record low.

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