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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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2024

Mounting social care costs will leave English councils facing a £6.2bn financial black hole over the next two years, the Local Government Association has warned political parties ahead of the general election. It expects the national living wage, which is a significant driver of adult social care cost pressures, to rise by 6.5%

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Government Therapist Interventional Schools 63

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

Child Welfare Social Worker vs. Social Services Specialist III) Organization Type: (Government, Non-profit, For-profit, Outside social services) Setting: (School, Clinic, Hospital, etc.) How does your social work education specifically contribute to this position?

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Psychosocial Hospitals Diversity 130

Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

The government has handed social care an extra £500m for 2024-25 following last-ditch pleas for ministers to ease funding pressures on councils. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove announced the top-up to the planned local government settlement for the coming financial year, in a statement to Parliament today. in real terms.

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2023

‘Failing’ local authority adults’ services will not be turned over to independent trusts, the government has confirmed. This is similar to the improvement notice process used by the Department for Education (DfE) with struggling children’s services.

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Interventional Government Social Services Social Services 48

Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

The PSW network’s intervention comes on the back of the number of medically fit people awaiting discharge reaching 14,000 in early January – the highest level on record – due to a lack of social care, community health and other services to support them on their return home.

Hospitals 60

Hospitals Social Worker Recovery Rehabilitation 60

Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ninety four per cent of directors disagreed that they had sufficient money to fund care over the coming months, while the same proportion disagreed that there were enough social care staff locally to meet needs this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey.

Hospital Discharges 58

Hospital Discharges Government Disability Hospitals 58

Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Social workers to have registration fees paid. In addition, staff who need to be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) to perform their role will have their annual fees paid for by the Scottish Government. These are currently £80 a year for social workers.

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Social Worker Government Interventional Social Services 52

Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Government plans to more closely integrate health and social care will not succeed in their aims to improve care quality, personalisation and value for money without adequate funding and staffing, sector bodies have warned. “More integration is also little good if there aren’t enough staff to deliver services.

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Government Clinic Interventional Social Services 52

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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Nursing Home Social Worker Therapist Government 61

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).

Social Worker 66

Social Worker Diversity Adoption Government 66

Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The government has pledged action to tackle “excessive” workload pressures on council children’s social workers as part of its response to the care review. ” UNISON, which represents an estimated 40,000 social workers across the UK, was also critical of the proposals.

Social Worker 58

Social Worker Case Management Government Communication 58

Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts will have to stop using agency social workers from next June, its Department of Health (DoH) has said. The UK government has set the political parties in Northern Ireland a deadline of 8 December to restore the executive, which has not been functioning since February.

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Social Worker Anxiety University Interviewing 54

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. So, in 2012, ministers decided to appoint two chiefs – one for each service.

Social Worker 62

Social Worker Government Mental Health University 62

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).

Mental Health 59

Mental Health Engagement Government Social Worker 59

All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

Family Resource Centers (FRCs) are community-based hubs that provide a range of prevention and early intervention services to families. Additional services may include parent education, after-school activities, domestic violence counseling, and kids counseling. Where Can I Find a Family Resource Center in Southern California?

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Domestic Violence Substance Abuse Counseling Case Management 52

Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

However, its 14,000-strong membership is exceeded by UNISON, which puts its social work cohort at over 40,000 – give or take, where Ross would like to see BASW’s numbers grow to. “A lot of other social care organisations I work with really struggle with equalities but BASW has made a real step-change there.”

Social Worker 49

Social Worker Diversity Government Communication 49

Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

Non-statutory placements make up over half of practice learning provision for social work students in Scotland, leaving some graduates underprepared for practice, research has revealed. At least 160 days of this must be spent in supervised practice in service delivery settings and this element must be assessed.

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Administration Mental Health University Social Worker 67

Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

The Connect to End COVID-19 project was a multi-level, multi-pronged intervention, and I believe it demonstrated that preventing and ameliorating any such crisis in the future will require that type of intervention in order to successfully have the desired impact.

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Interventional Communication Social Worker Telehealth 40

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. Social workers offer a wide range of services, including counseling and therapy, individual and group sessions, to help people deal with emotional, psychological, and behavioural issues.

Case Management 52

Case Management Social Worker Healthcare Mental Health 52

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.

Social Worker 52

Social Worker Mental Health University Welfare 52

Social Work Haven

APRIL 3, 2023

MENTAL CAPACITY ASSESSMENTS MADE SIMPLE A BIA-DOLS qualification course qualifies a social worker or other professionals such as nurses to assess people in situations, such as residential care or hospital, where their liberty may be in question, and their mental capacity to make decisions for themselves.

Self-harm 52

Self-harm Mental Health Social Worker Consultation 52

Social Care

JANUARY 25, 2023

Deborah Sturdy: Anyone who knows me well will be aware of my mission to expand the already impressive skills sets of social care nurses. We know delegation to social care isn’t new and where it works well with the right governance, protocols, education, training and support, it can bring wider benefits to people drawing on care and support.

Healthcare 10

Healthcare Interventional Engagement Clinic 10

University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

This scholarship was established in memory of Mary Deane-Scalora, MSW, by her family to provide financial assistance to a master’s level student with demonstrated interest in working with or for the advancement of the poor in a social services agency or educational institution.

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Criminal Justice Schools Mental Health Social Worker 98

Community Care

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“We are keen to establish a dialogue with the new government about this.” Many were making use of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) screening tool to prioritise applications. “At present, it is unclear when or if the LPS reforms will be implemented,” said the CQC.

Hospitals 60

Hospitals Mental Health Disability Communication 60

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. Emphasis added.]

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Child Welfare Welfare Human Services University 142