Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The government will legislate to create a new type of accommodation for children with complex needs in England who are at risk of being deprived of their liberty. This included frequent changes of placement and social workers, with the lack of consistent relationships being to the detriment of their mental health.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Progress on Advancing the Improving Access to Mental Health Act (H.R The Senate Finance Committee (SFC) released its mental health workforce discussion draft component of its mental health legislative package (a summary may be found here ).

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Community Care

MARCH 11, 2025

Government departments and public bodies are to be placed under a duty to promote life chances for children in care and care leavers in England, the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed. 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 26, 2025

The Scottish Government has ditched plans to restructure adult social care in the country into a ‘national care service’ (NCS). Notably, in 2023, the government said it would share accountability for the NCS with the NHS and councils. But this is within the part of the bill that is now being removed from the legislation.

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Michigan Social Work

MAY 23, 2025

She helped co-create the SSW Student Government Advocacy Committee, amplifying the voices of diverse students. Cureton explores the educational and mental health needs and outcomes of refugee and migrant children and youth and their families.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said. Labour has said it will take forward the reform, if elected.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There will be no reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 before the next election, the government has confirmed. Extended the right to an independent mental health advocate to informal (ie non-detained) patients.

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Community Care

JUNE 2, 2025

Despite having significantly higher needs than their peers, children in care are often shut out of mental health services, including on the grounds of “pseudoscientific” views about trauma, according to a report by specialist clinicians and academics.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

Proposals to overhaul the Mental Health Act 1983 will be considered by Parliament over the next year, the government announced today in the Queen’s Speech. They would have to have a co-occurring mental health condition. Mental health services are under severe strain from huge demand and limited resources.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Labour Party has pledged to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 if elected to power at the next general election. Prisons and police cells are no place for people with mental ill-health.” Very welcome announcement from @wesstreeting on mental health act reform. ” .” ”

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Community Care

JUNE 27, 2024

But before that, her focus was squarely on mental health social work. Having practised in mental health settings after qualifying in the 1980s, she went on to become director of social work in two NHS Trusts. How has mental health social work evolved over recent years?

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Shortages of mental health beds, doctors and transport are leading to severe delays in Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) assessments that are increasing risks to people and their families. In some areas, ambulance crews categorised mental health calls as low or medium priority, increasing waiting times.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

By Tim Spencer-Lane The joint committee on the draft Mental Health Bill was appointed in July 2022 to consider the government’s draft bill to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) , which is summarised here. Its final report, which includes over 50 recommendations, was published today (19 January 2023).

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

2 These services were defined to include mental health services, substance abuse treatment, and “in-home parenting skills training.” Maybe a parent needs mental health care or substance use disorder treatment, or parenting training and support, or maybe the family needs to do family therapy.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2024

A proposed dataset on the work of approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) has the potential to showcase the value of the role and secure much-needed investment for it, service heads have said. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. fall the previous year.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The “door could be open to the abuse and neglect” of disabled children due to the government’s cost-driven decision to shelve a planned expansion of advocacy for the group. “Due to the extent of their disabilities and health needs, their cries for help can be easily dismissed when they are subjected to abuse.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2024

The number of detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983 in England has fallen for a second consecutive year, but significant racial disparities persist, official figures have shown. Though the government has pledged to overhaul the act, it has, effectively, ruled out doing so before the next election. ”

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Community Care

MAY 7, 2025

The Local Government Association’s (LGA) 2025 health check , answered by almost 7,000 social workers, mostly from English councils, showed no improvement in practitioners’ experiences of, and wellbeing in, the workplace compared with last year.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

The way ordinary residence is determined for mental health aftercare remains unsettled, despite the government winning a court ruling relating to its radical new approach to the issue. Learn about the government’s new approach. High Court rules against government… .

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Social Work With Adults

OCTOBER 23, 2024

"As the fastest growing profession in the NHS mental health workforce, [We] need to embrace this opportunity to help bring about the changes we all want to see." Image created by freepik.com ] Our voice is needed This week, the Department of Health and Social Care, in partnership with NHS England, launched the Change NHS campaign.

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Community Care

JUNE 2, 2023

Approved mental health professional (AMHP) leads have sounded the alarm over the Metropolitan Police’s decision to withdraw from attending mental health-related incidents in London by the end of August. He also said that officers spent, on average, 14.2 hours in A&E and 8.5

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Older people are being unlawfully detained in mental health hospitals “in very many cases” because of poor practice around the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), the Care Quality Commission has warned. AMHPs making greater use of Mental Health Act powers to tackle crises or suspected abuse or neglect.

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Community Care

APRIL 30, 2024

The government has proposed overhauling a key disability benefit in the face of its “spiralling” caseload and costs, in a move labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” by charities. to 2.8m (29%).

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The “dire state of social care” is among the reasons that the NHS is in a “critical condition”, a government adviser has warned, in a report designed to provide a blueprint for a 10-year plan for the health service. “Financial flows must lock-in this change irreversibly or it will not happen.”

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Over half of carers say they require more recognition of their needs from councils, amid worsening mental health and high levels of overwhelm, driven by a lack of breaks. Far too many carers are not receiving adequate support, resulting in poor mental health and burnout. ”

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2025

Furthermore, its clear that the welcome steps taken by the government to boost awareness of the ASGSF and increase applications from eligible kinship families are not being supported by commensurate funding to provide the level of therapeutic support needed,” she added.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2023

Some Court of Protection orders for professional reports on people subject to proceedings are “disproportionate, overly burdensome, and wrongly authorised”, mental health leaders have warned. Mental health trust concerns. How the government plans to implement the Liberty Protection Safeguards.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Council social worker numbers have increased in Scotland but there are concerns over rising shortages of mental health officers. Growing mental health officer shortage. However, despite the increase in social worker numbers, the shortage of mental health officers has grown, revealed a separate SSSC report last week.

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Swhelper

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Team USA sent athletes from all military branches of our government, and they have […] View Full Article - Netflix’s Heart of Invictus: Raising Wounded Soldiers Awareness

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Community Care

JULY 26, 2023

Police forces across England will, in future, stop attending mental health-related incidents unless there is a significant risk to safety or a crime being committed, and refer cases to health or social care services instead. The Metropolitan Police has estimated that its officers spend, on average, 14.2 hours in A&E and 8.5

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Community Care

MARCH 26, 2025

Over three million families will lose an average of 1,720 per year in real terms by 2029-30, as a result of proposed changes to disability and incapacity benefits, the government has estimated. In today’s spring statement , the government said that the 50 per week rate for new claimants would also be frozen until 2029-30.

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Community Care

JUNE 25, 2024

Mental health social workers pose the greatest recruitment and retention challenge for adults’ services, a survey of councils has found. The LGA reported that: 87% of councils had found it very or fairly difficult to recruit mental health social workers over the previous three years: 60% very difficult and 27% fairly difficult.

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Relias

MAY 21, 2025

Achieving behavioral health equity is essential to ensuring that all individuals receive high-quality mental health care. As behavioral health providers, we have a critical role to play in closing these gaps. Stigma occurs when someone is judged or treated unfavorably due to a mental health condition.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The day began with a briefing to participants on NASW’s priority legislation including a state of play of top-level issues facing each branch of government. Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill gave social workers the opportunity to meet with policymakers to gain support on several mental health bills. Dr. Jaqueline Wade, LCSW.

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Community Care

MARCH 10, 2025

The families we work with are committed to their children but gravely concerned about the impact this break will have upon mental health and wellbeing. ASGSF support ‘a lifeline’ They called on the government to confirm funding arrangements for the ASGSF urgently for April 2025 onwards.

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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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