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. Legislation.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Another key element was interventions for specific problems , like drug treatment, mental health services and age-specific parenting skills training–interventions which were mostly provided through referrals to other agencies. Child welfare social workers are above all case managers.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Social worker Eddie Bocanegra, MSW, a longtime violence prevention advocate in Chicago, has been named senior adviser for community violence intervention in the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Eddie Bocanegra, MSW. Photo from LinkedIn. Department of Justice.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2024

. — The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, American Psychiatric Association, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Association for Rural Mental Health, and National Association of Social Workers on June 28 released the following statement responding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v.

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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. What is alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT)? These conversations can have a major impact.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The latest government-commissioned practice guide to what works in children’s social care said interventions for parents of children aged 0-10 could improve parenting practices and child behaviour, lessen levels of stress and support adults mental health.

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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, 2022

The federal government is soliciting proposals to fund various programs that prevent and address elder abuse. As noted in a recent NASW Practice Perspective , social workers are currently involved in similar grant-funded programs and play critical roles in elder justice. Posted April 1, 2022. Applications due: May 3.

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Social Work Haven

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Knowledge of social work intervention strategies is central to the social work role. The role of the social worker becomes increasingly important as communities become more diverse. Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies. Ultimate Social Work Intervention Strategies.

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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. A third of social workers said their caseloads had increased “a lot” over the past year, while a further 36% said they had risen “slightly”.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Social workers have said more resources and lower caseloads are the top priority for improving child protection following the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Chief social workers and Zahawi condemn abuse of practitioners in wake of Arthur murder. Zahawi: take children into care when ‘any inkling of harm’.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

How social workers support resilience, adaptation, and recovery in affected communities. How social workers influence policies to address climate justice and environmental sustainability. The impact of climate-related disasters (e.g., floods, wildfires, droughts) on marginalized and vulnerable populations.

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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. Inadequate’ councils bore brunt of sharp rise in social workers quitting posts last year, analysis shows. Related articles.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 8, 2024

Social workers can help women prioritize their health by making conversations about alcohol use part of routine practice. As providers of mental and behavioral health services in a broad range of settings, social workers play a pivotal role in preventing risky drinking among women, including any alcohol use during pregnancy.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Social worker pay at Cafcass will be “uncompetitive” in many places unless the government gives the family courts body more freedom to set salaries, its chief executive has warned. Social workers need at least three years’ post-qualifying experience to join Cafcass as an FCA. Pay freeze.

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Child Welfare Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2024

One can counter every one of these horrific anecdotes with a story of a Black child who would have been saved if social workers had not believed and deferred to the parents. We should be asking why the government addresses their needs in such a violent way, (referring to the child removal).

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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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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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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

APRIL 7, 2022

As he prepared to take over as Association of Directors of Children’s Services president, Steve Crocker said he was “awed” by the proficiency of social workers entering the profession. I know when I go and talk to newly qualified social workers in Hampshire, I am awed by their professionalism and experience and skills and ability.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is also consulting on adding adult day centre supervisors, practitioners and support workers, and offender accommodation managers, supervisors and practitioners to its register. The proposed new groups would add about 7,400 to this total, including 2,800 social work assistants.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Council social workers and care staff in Scotland will no longer have to pay registration fees after unions agreed a pay deal with employers. Council workers will also gain an extra day’s leave. Social workers to have registration fees paid. These are currently £80 a year for social workers.

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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. a year earlier, according to an Association of Directors of Children’s Services survey.

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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. What is alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT)? These conversations can have a major impact.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Since Lyn Romeo announced her retirement in October last year , the tributes to the now former chief social worker for adults from across the profession have been warm and fulsome. Lyn Romeo is without a doubt a social worker for social workers! Will be hugely missed by many and certainly me.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The chief social workers and the education secretary have condemned abuse levelled at practitioners in the wake of the Arthur Labinjo-Hughes case. ” Chief social worker for children and families Trowler and Romeo, her adults’ equivalent, told social workers: “We want to reiterate this message. .

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Children who met thresholds were left waiting up to six weeks to see a social worker due to “significant, widespread and systemic” weaknesses in a council’s front door service, Ofsted has found. An inspirational social work leader’: tributes paid to children’s director who died after contracting Covid.

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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.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

This book aims to showcase social workers’ diverse and impactful roles across various settings. We seek contributions in English from social workers actively practicing or utilizing their social work degrees in traditional or unique settings at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

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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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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

You Asked, Case manager vs Social Worker – What is the Difference? – Social workers and case managers are both integral parts of the healthcare industry. Who is a social worker? Knowing the distinctions between these roles can aid in determining the ideal career path in human services.

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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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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2022

Social workers are “pivotal” to the success of direct payments but need improved training to build their skills and confidence. The government has also made promoting choice and control a key plank of its social care reforms, set out in a white paper published last year. There is a general lack of training.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 13, 2023

Why do you need to know about famous social workers? Famous social workers play an important role in our society, providing much-needed support to individuals and families who are facing difficult life situations. This list in this article comprises the 41+ most influential social workers currently alive.

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