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. They are also at risk for trouble with the law, substance use disorders, and mental health disorders.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Knowledge of social work intervention strategies is central to the social work role. Social workers use different intervention strategies to support individuals, families, and communities in times of crisis, using multiple interventions and strategies. Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

People with FASDs may be at high risk for school challenges, criminal justice issues, substance use disorders, and mental health disorders. The sooner you stop drinking, the less health risks your newborn baby may encounter. Government. September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Social Work and the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Social works contribution toward global sustainability and equity goals. Font: Use Arial, size 12.

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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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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Counsellor : They provide counselling and emotional support to individuals and families facing a wide range of challenges, including mental health issues, addiction, and crisis situations. Therapist : Clinical social workers provide therapy to individuals, couples, and families, addressing mental health and emotional challenges.

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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

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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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

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. Proposed Mental Health Act overhaul included in Queen’s Speech. Placements increasingly far from home.

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CCRC

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

CCRCs 2025 Policy Conference brought together experts to discuss health equity, economic stability, policy and advocacy, and partnerships. The 2-day conference hosted in North Hollywood was attended by 250 professionals, including advocates, government employees and child care workers.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

As the nation’s largest group of mental health services providers, social workers are uniquely positioned to help clients make significant positive changes in their health and well-being by taking time to talk with them about their drinking. What is alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT)?

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

The new Labour government has pledged to legislate to strengthen the child protection in its first King’s Speech, unveiled today. Long-awaited Mental Health Act reform The King’s Speech also included long-awaited legislation to reform the Mental Health Act 1983.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2024

Children’s social workers’ caseloads have grown increasingly complex over the past decade, alongside a sharp rise in concerns relating to child mental health, an analysis of official data has found. There were complexities related to parental mental health, which often involved domestic abuse and substance misuse.

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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. Care review lead urges ministers to prioritise early help, placements and mental health for extra cash. Early help duty needed.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Children’s social workers’ caseloads are bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. It has become increasingly hard to access mental health services, until at crisis point. “My Quality undermined. Related articles.

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Shelter, Inc

JUNE 27, 2024

Shelter’s clinical team will help address the dire need for youth mental health services that is much greater than current school staff can address. This initiative, led by the Office of Behavioral Health at Cook County Health (CCH) is supported by funds from the U.S.

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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. Case Manager–This role involves assessing, planning and implementing interventions to help meet the needs of clients.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals. “There is little or no accountability when services fail people.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Safeguarding teams took no action in response “serious” concerns about the care of disabled people segregated in mental health hospitals, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. In hospital for between 10 and 30 years.

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University of Connecticut

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The primary goal of the project is to determine whether the “Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations (BPC)”— a trauma-informed parenting intervention — is effective at promoting child, parent, and family wellbeing among underserved families at-risk for involvement with the child welfare system. Government.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The number of children in need in England has fallen for the third successive year, to its lowest level since 2013, according to official government figures. Closures due to lockdown measures during this period led to a 31% decline in referrals from schools and a 7% decrease overall, which contributed to the falls in interventions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The statutes governing termination proceedings require only “reasonable” efforts—not perfect efforts—from DHHS to reunify the family. In the respondent-mother’s case, the trial court terminated her parental rights for two reasons: her ongoing efforts to manage her mental health and a decision to drive to court with a suspended license.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

This helps them develop an action plan that meets the person’s goals and objectives in relation to health and social care. This can include providing advice, support and guidance to people in the community who are struggling with mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

The unprecedented global crisis created the political will to implement long-called-for expansions of government benefits. That figure was reason to celebrate, since childhood poverty, particularly in the first six years of life, is linked to poor adult outcomes, including lower education and higher rates of mental health issues.

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Community Care

APRIL 7, 2022

“We’ve also seen a very significant increase in anxieties around children’s mental health, which the NHS does not seem to have the capacity to respond to sufficiently, which then leads ultimately to those children becoming in need of those children’s social care services,” Crocker added. More foster carers needed.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 6, 2022

People with learning disabilities and autistic people were “not always protected from abuse or poor care” by insufficiently skilled staff, amid a blame culture in a mental health trust’s inpatient services. Panorama abuse: NHS chief urges mental health leaders to tackle ‘toxic and closed cultures’.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Children’s services would also potentially benefit from the government allowing local authorities to raise council tax by 3% over the next two years without putting the rise to a local referendum, up from a previous 2% limit. This social care grant is worth £1.3bn in 2022-23 and £1.9bn in 2023-24.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Across multiple disciplines, women have built and maintained organizations, created social justice movements, governed with compassion, and brought order where there was once chaos. Poverty and financial insecurity can have devastating consequences to one’s physical and mental health, even threatening basic survival.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

At the same time, the Local Government Association released research showing authorities as a whole were on course to exceed their approximately £4.7bn care placement budgets by £680m (14%), following a similar overspend last year. A fall in the number of mainstream fostering households.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

Children making significant progress in residential care due to effective therapeutic interventions, making them ready and willing to move to a family-like setting. Within parent and child placements, IFAs had also witnessed an increase in parental mental health problems in parent and child placements, since the pandemic began.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Meanwhile, a Scottish Association of Social Work survey on students’ PLO experience has found that the lack of statutory practice learning opportunities (PLOs) is undermining students’ mental health and confidence.

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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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Social Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Since then, the pandemic has seen social care brought to the forefront of public attention like never before and whilst reform of the sector has been long-awaited, the vital role of mental health provision still needs to be stated. Our members not only promote and support recovery, they enable people to lead fulfilling lives.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

The blueprint for the chief social worker role The recommendation to appoint a chief social worker came from Professor Eileen Munro, in the final report of her landmark review of child protection from the government in 2011. Promoting social work’s role in society and raising public awareness of, and confidence in, the profession.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Social workers can work in different settings, such as schools, hospitals, non-profit organisations, government agencies, and private practice. Case managers focus on physical health needs by ensuring their client receives the necessary medical care, while social workers address psychological and emotional issues through therapy.

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2023

That was among the messages from Foundations , the new evidence body created from the merger of What Works for Children Social Care (WWCSC) and the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF), which formally started work yesterday. Practitioners are also trained in the restorative practice approach underpinning the model.

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