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Placing social workers in mental health trusts can help tackle out of area placements, says report

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Integrating local authority social workers within NHS mental health trusts can help reduce the number of “harmful” out of area hospital placements (OAPs), a report has found. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Infants at greater risk from growth in parental mental health and substance use issues, say councils

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Infants are at increased risk of harm due to growth in the numbers of parents with mental health and substance misuse issues, ,research has found. According to the DfE’schildren in need census : Parental mental health concerns were identified 165,480 times in 2023-24, up from 158,330 in 2021-22, a rise of 4.5%.

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There is progress on advancing the Improving Access to Mental Health Act

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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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Mental Health Organizations Decry Supreme Court Decision Upholding the Criminalization People who are Unhoused

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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.

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Government to create new type of accommodation for children at risk of deprivation of liberty

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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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Scottish Government scraps national care service restructure

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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.

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Children’s social workers to be measured against new post-qualifying standards

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Children’s social workers are to be measured against a new set of post-qualifying standards (PQS), under Department for Education (DfE) proposals. Published for consultation last week, the suggested PQS are designed to work in tandem with the proposed social work induction programme (SWIP).