Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Liberty Protection Safeguards shelved At the same time, the government has shelved its plan to replace DoLS with the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) until after the next election, following repeated delays to its planned implementation date. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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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. Independent practice educators being regulated by SSSC and placed on a national register to ensure they meet professional standards.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2023

There is “momentum for change” among sector leaders and practitioners to tackle the social work’s mounting workforce “crisis”, according to a Social Work England lead. Workforce group membership and terms of reference The group meets every six weeks and is chaired by Social Work England.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Approaches in which people are not allocated a fixed desk and work at different times and locations depending on need have become increasingly common, but practitioners are consistently negative about them, found a five-year study into newly qualified social workers published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). .

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. Carers were more stressed, less able to take breaks and less supported by paid services, found a 2021-22 survey of over 40,000 by NHS Digital (now part of NHS England). These scores will inform the single-word rating.

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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.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2024

The government has stopped funding social work teaching partnerships, sparking sector concern that progress brought about by the arrangements will stall. Increased support for social workers on their assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE). Refreshed and updated skills for social workers from workforce training.

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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. 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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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Councils’ ‘spending power’ – the maximum amount they have at their disposal – will rise by 3% a year in real terms, faster than from 2019-21, However, this includes £3.6bn for councils to fund the government’s reforms to adult social care, announced last month. average for government departments.

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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.

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Community Care

JUNE 27, 2024

Then, in 2012, she became chair of the mental health faculty at The College of Social Work, the body set up to provide leadership for the profession, which closed in 2015 after the government withdrew funding and it was unable to sustain itself. How integrated is mental health social work across settings?

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

. “I want to look at the full breadth of social media platforms to be involved in as many conversations about social work as possible.” ” “I’d like us to look very differently at our relationships with employers and universities. Back to her social work roots. Increased clout.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A document from the California Department of Social Services indicates the agency was appropriately appalled by the “ethics review.” An excellent story in The Imprint reveals that, after extensive consultation with an impressive and diverse group of people, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has pulled the plug.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Even though the ethics review for that one was co-authored by a faculty colleague of one of the creators of the algorithm, it cautioned that one reason AFST is ethical is that it does not attempt to stamp the scarlet number on every child at birth – something known as “universal-level risk stratification.” One of the ethics reviewers, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. This story from The Imprint has a good summary of Prof.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Few can boast a long career in social work these days. Ray Jones, emeritus professor of social work at Kingston University, is one of the rare ones with more than 50 years of experience. Jones recalls his teams at Wiltshire council, where he was a director of social services in the 1990s, as an example. “We

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Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

By Lorraine Currie The timeline provided by Community Care , from the 2014 Cheshire West judgment to the government’s postponement of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) , is incredibly helpful in reminding us of events we would otherwise forget. Cut in best interests assessor training However, we are losing the workforce.

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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.

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Community Care

AUGUST 7, 2024

Variations in access to care According to the NHS England data, 58% of requests in 2022-23 in England ended with no care being provided, which includes cases where the person was signposted to other organisations, such as charities, offered universal services or died while waiting for a response.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2023

However, Ofsted’s chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, has defended the current system , saying that, while the debate was legitimate, grades gave parents “a simple and accessible summary of a school’s strengths and weaknesses” and helped government decide when to intervene in struggling schools.

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2022

I truly enjoy their commitment to inclusion and justice and the hands-on experience provided through my studies at this prestigious university. This generous award allows me to continue my education in the Master of Social Work program. Your generosity has inspired me to help others and to give back to the community.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

She has since worked as a researcher, writer and public speaker in education, social care and public perception, as well as a visiting lecturer for student social workers in several universities. We just have to keep challenging the government and media [when they are wrong] and get out there and hit back.”

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded initiative to help social workers and their clients to make informed decisions about life-saving vaccines. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Posttraumatic stress, grief, burnout, and secondary trauma of social workers in the United States. Government. LM, Curran, L.,

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 7, 2024

This blog was originally prepared as a report for the project, Lives Cut Short: Children Who Have Died of Abuse and Neglect in the United States Since 2022 , which is sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. US Government Accounting Office (2011).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Experts say the volume is unlike anything they've heard of in local government. … “[I]f it's true, it would be the most massive sex abuse scandal imaginable," said Stewart Mollrich, an attorney with Manly, Stewart & Finaldi, one of the law firms specializing in sex abuse claims that is suing the county. I have a blog post about it.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

However, the bill would allow arrests on college or university campuses. Impact on Service Providers to Migrant and Immigrant Communities, including Social Workers SB 4 impacts not only immigrants but all Texans, creating an environment of fear and mistrust.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Editor’s note: This post was written by Melanie Sage from the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a follow-up to her post – A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19. As a university professor , I do not work with clients directly.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. That’s the choice facing many parents I’ve worked with as a social worker, and the answer is always the same.

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