Community Care

APRIL 24, 2025

Opposition amendments to the bill Several amendments were made to the bill despite being opposed by the government. The government minister, Baroness Merron (Labour), argued that due to drafting deficiencies, the effect of the amendment would be to give the police additional detention powers, contrary to its intentions.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This included initiatives such as the use of social work academies to develop staff, with training days backfilled and caseloads capped. of the workforce.

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Community Care

JULY 16, 2023

Action must be taken to reduce the increasing demands on council social workers from age assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers, a leading director has said. “There’s a huge social work capacity required around those age assessments,” he said.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Our findings (consistent over the last five years) indicate that agile working models in Scotland are failing to meet the needs of social workers.”

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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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Researchers also carried out in-depth interviews with 11 of the social care professionals, six of whom were social workers with one to six years’ experience. And just for my own wellbeing, I feel that Im on top of my caseload, which you dont hear social workers say that a lot.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A council criticised by inspectors for high caseloads has improved to a good Ofsted rating after hiring more social workers to reduce workloads. The council’s full-time equivalent of social workers rose from 345 to 368 between 2017 and 2020, during which time average caseloads fell from 19.5 Direct work praised.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This had led to “unparalleled dependency”, whose numbers had grown by 13% over the same period, accounting for 17.6% of the workforce.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Similarly, when Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia reported City Councilmember David Oh as a potential child abuser after one of his children was injured as he taught the child martial arts, Oh says the hospital social worker explained that she “typically reports injuries children suffer in all sports.” Emphasis added.]

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Under a new federal rule to protect consumers from surprise health care bills, clinical social workers and other health care provider types must, effective January 1, 2022, provide a good faith estimate of expected charges. December 2021. not enrolled in any health plan or coverage) or who are self-pay (e.g., Future Action.

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Community Care

MAY 23, 2025

Almost half of applications for therapy approved by the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) last year exceeded the new 3,000 annual limit per child on funding, government figures have revealed.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Under a new federal rule to protect consumers from surprise health care bills, clinical social workers and other health care provider types must, effective January 1, 2022, provide a good faith estimate of expected charges. not enrolled in any health plan or coverage) or who are self-pay (e.g., Federal Rule Background and Definitions.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2022

Among a number of recommendations designed to tackle these issues, the review called for the creation of dedicated multi-agency child protection teams in every area, based within local authorities, but made up of secondees from the police and health as well as social workers.

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Community Care

JUNE 13, 2024

However, in most cases, parents’ conditions were only identified at the court stage, in part because social workers lacked the time and training to do so. They also interviewed 42 social care professionals, 17 lawyers and four mothers with learning disabilities or learning difficulties who had experience of proceedings.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

On the contrary, said the court: We expressly hold that there is no ‘social worker exception’ to compliance with constitutional limitations on an entry into a home without consent or exigent circumstances. A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

Researchers said this picture was endorsed by council principal social workers and safeguarding leads across easement and non-easement areas. It was based on: 48 in-depth interviews with people over 70 who had been supporting their spouse or partner living with dementia to live at home.

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Community Care

JUNE 27, 2024

Our interview with Ruth Allen is part of a series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary. But before that, her focus was squarely on mental health social work. There was still a sense of, ‘What is it that social workers do?’.

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Community Care

MARCH 16, 2022

Subsequent improvements led government-appointed commissioner Helen Lincoln to recommend that the North West authority keep control of its services , in a report in the same year. It praised the council’s investment in training for less-experienced managers and Gent’s “close oversight of exit interviews” to inform future retention strategies.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social work leaders have come together to forge solutions to mounting workforce challenges in England. Social Work England has convened a group including representatives from government, employers and professional bodies, to tackle the severe recruitment and retention pressures being faced across the country. a year earlier.

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Twenty three per cent of online adverts studied by the Social Workers Union (SWU) on two dates earlier this year offered part-time or flexible hours, up from 18.7% The last point was highlighted by social worker from the North West, who was interviewed for role which was advertised as being open to part-time hours.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Junior minister Neil O’Brien is understood to be covering the adult social care brief and has carried out visits to social care services, according to sector sources, but has made no public statements specifically in this capacity of which Community Care is aware. Care minister role may be downgraded.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Spencer said he has managed to stabilise the council’s workforce somewhat by opening a social work academy, which recruits social workers through fast-track courses Step Up to Social Work and Frontline, as well as through Open University and apprenticeship qualifications. More on Arthur Labinjo-Hughes case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

“It was a mistake,” said Fort, who added that not only does she believe that ASFA is bad for Native American children, but “I don’t think it’s good for any children.” ● See also The Imprint’s interview with Shannon Smith , executive director of the ICWA Law Center. ● And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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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. Rates of agency social work use across Northern Ireland are lower than in England, where 15.5% ‘Anxiety’ over agency ban. Related articles.

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Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) issued the message after the government disclosed that 200 unaccompanied children remained missing after being placed in hotels after arriving in the UK. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick admitted in Parliament this week that their legal status was a grey area. .

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Community Care

JULY 12, 2023

The DfE consulted on the proposals, which include capping the pay of agency staff to the equivalent of permanently-employed social workers , between February and May this year, and is due to report back on the consultation this September. A requirement for a minimum six-week notice period for agency social workers.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

The government’s forthcoming response to the care review will begin to address mounting pressures on the social work workforce, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said. But it’s the wrong thing for children because their social workers can leave at any moment.”

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. By Professor Judith Harwin and Lily Golding. Related articles.

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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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

By Leeanne Olivant, NOPT In the dynamic landscape of social work, practice educators (PEs) stand as vital pillars. The role’s critical importance in nurturing the next generation of social workers and retaining experienced practitioners was highlighted in a Social Work England-commissioned review, which reported last month.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. You can listen to her full interview here. The system at the moment is in firefighting mode, it’s trying to keep people safe with the bare minimum,” she said.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The figures showed that, as of September 2022, the numbers of vacancies and posts held by agency staff had reached record levels, average caseloads had risen and the number of social workers in post had fallen for the first time since 2017. You can read more about the impact of debts on people who need social care here.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Coffey, the work and pensions secretary since 2019, will take responsibility for one of the three priorities Truss articulated for her premiership in her opening speech yesterday : putting the NHS on a “firm footing” Social care one of four priorities for Coffey. Prospects for children’s social care.

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Social Work Haven

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Seventy-one percent (71%) of social work graduates in the UK are employed within 15 months post graduation. That is why it is vital to do your social work registration as soon as possible! In this article here, you can find the A to Z social work job interview tips. Read the pros and cons of social work here.

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Community Care

MAY 5, 2022

The authority lost its good rating – earned in 2016 – after inspectors found deficits in the quality of assessments, direct work, evidence to court and supervision, amid rising turnover of social workers, in a full inspection in March. Government figures show York’s turnover rate for children’s social workers leapt from 13.2%

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2022

North East Lincolnshire council has for now avoided having its children’s services transferred to an independent trust, after a government commissioner’s review found such a move posed a “significant risk” of causing services to deteriorate further. Persistent underperformance.

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