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.

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Image: Jioji Ravulo, Malakai Waqa Kaitani, Nathan Chong-Nee, Andrzej Frank, Yvonne Crichton-Hill, At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, a team of six social workers, including representatives […]

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The number of social workers employed by council adults’ services in England has reached a new record high, official figures show. The rise in staffing numbers is likely to reflect an injection of government grant funding and council tax receipts into adults’ services from 2023-25. in 2022-23 to 8.8%

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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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Department for Education (DfE) is to quiz councils on the balance of social workers and alternatively qualified practitioners in family help teams, which authorities are expected to roll out over the next year. 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

MARCH 26, 2025

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).

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Social workers across practice settings provide services to individuals, including pregnant people, who are consuming alcohol at risky levels. This Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Month, social workers can deepen their understanding of FASDs and how to prevent them.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

Social workers could form part of neighbourhood-based multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) providing support for people with complex health and social care needs. 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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Tashara Robinson, LICSW Travel Social Worker I’ve been a social worker for the past 8 years, and let me tell you, it’s been a wild ride. I’ve navigated through various social work roles such as working within an Employee Assistance Program, to working with foster children and families within CPS.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You asked, what are the 10 roles of social workers ? While I can provide a list of 10 common roles of social workers, it’s important to note that our roles often go beyond these. Case Manager : Social workers coordinate services and resources for their clients, ensuring they receive comprehensive care and support.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Department for Education (DfE) is to give an update on its policy on early career support for children’s social workers next month. DfE officials are delivering a session on the issue as part of Social Work Week, Social Work England’s annual programme of online learning for professionals.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

There are compelling reasons why social workers should pay close attention. The launch is equally momentous for behavioral health practitioners – especially social workers –who provide direct services to those with serious emotional and substance use disorders. By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Collaboration Between Federal and State Government and Community Stakeholders. Given that the social work profession is a principal component of that workforce, it is critical that we become fully informed about the implications of the advent of the 988 system for us. Legislation. About The Author.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

You asked, what are the benefits of being a social worker? Social work is a profession dedicated to improving the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. It is a field that requires social work practice skills and offers a unique opportunity to make a real and lasting impact on people’s lives.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The government plans to strengthen recently introduced agency social work rules by putting them into law, in a move dubbed “reckless” by recruitment firm leaders. These are all covered by the existing rules, so it is not clear whether the government wants to strengthen the content of the rules as well as their legal status.

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2025

Im reporting back to you to say quite simply that you can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats the child of the state, he said, when concluding his 2013 talk. It wasnt social workers who were mediating, it was insurance companies. It wasnt social workers who were mediating, it was insurance companies.

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Welsh councils must be legally required to set maximum manageable caseloads for their children’s social workers and to take all reasonable steps to maintain them. Social work caseloads ‘too high’ “Overwhelmingly, we heard that children’s services social workers’ caseloads are too high,” said the report.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

The government has readvertised the chief social worker for adults position at a higher salary , six months after it started recruiting for a successor to Lyn Romeo. Having a proven track record of operating successfully in a senior leadership role within social work, adult social care or local government.

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2025

At triage, Social Work England staff determine whether the concerns about the social worker merit investigation. Final hearings: Social Work England held just five final hearings in October to December 2024, down from 13 in the previous two quarters, and from 64 in April to June 2023.

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International Federation of Social Workers

JANUARY 17, 2023

At a time when Afghanistan is going through significant challenges and support from many international humanitarian agencies has withdrawn, because of the recent Taliban government decision preventing women from working […].

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

The representation of Black social workers in the children’s services workforce in English councils halves between the front line and management, Department for Education (DfE) data has shown. of children’s social workers, as of September 2024, compared with 4.2% among senior social workers and 10.2%

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International Federation of Social Workers

JUNE 8, 2023

Photo: Heike Erkers president of Akademikerförbundet SSR Akademikerförbundet SSR, the Swedish Social Work trade union, have criticised government plans that require social and health professionals to report any persons living […]

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

She is one of the hardest working Members in Congress and she has looked out for her fellow social workers on many occasions, supporting our events in March, introducing important legislation and being one of the most vocal advocates for the poor. For many social workers, the focus has been on voting and rightly so.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

Home Office guidance for social workers assessing the age of young people arriving in Kent is unlawful, the High Court has ruled. These included not having an appropriate adult present or having the opportunity to know why their claimed age was being disputed by the social workers and to explain any inconsistencies in their account.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Sustainable Development Goals are designed to hold governments around the world accountable to ensure that the debilitating poverty and inequality in their countries are systemically addressed while also ensuring that measures are taken to ensure the planet is protected. Please register to get meeting link : [link]. Time: 9h00 to 17h00.

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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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International Federation of Social Workers

MAY 16, 2024

IFSW congratulates the Australian Association of Social Workers, the Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education, and all other involved parties for their successful lobbying of government ministers to […]

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Community Care

JANUARY 29, 2025

MPs have backed a plan enabling the government to regulate the use of agency staff in local authority children’s services. What is the government proposing on agency work? Clause 18 of the bill would enable the government to make regulations on local authorities’ use of agency workers in children’s social care.

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2022

Local government unions have called for an 11% pay rise for social workers and other council staff in response to the mounting cost of living. Employers and the government need to invest properly in the local government and school workforce to ensure the important services on which everyone relies are fit for the future.”.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Lyn Romeo will step down as England’s chief social worker for adults in January after just over a decade in the post. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said Romeo was taking retirement.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Student-led campaign for improved financial support The news follows a student-led campaign to improve financial support for those studying social work in Scotland, to prevent hardship and attrition from courses and provide equity of support with those studying to become health professionals.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Jeremy Hunt has scrapped plans to abolish the IR35 rules for agency social workers and other public sector staff working off payroll. The 2017 reforms were designed to tackle what the government described as “widespread non-compliance” with IR35. However, Hunt’s announcement means it will no longer go ahead.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Councils are losing ground to the NHS in the competition for social workers because of their different pay setting arrangements, the Local Government Association has warned. NHS social workers in England have received a 5.5% NHS social workers in England have received a 5.5% in 2024-25.

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

Most social workers believe a disconnect exists between senior management and frontline practitioners, a Community Care poll has found. In his 2021-22 Independent Review of Childrens Social Care , Josh MacAlister recommended that all registered social workers, at whatever level, complete 100 hours of direct practice annually.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Specialist social workers will be appointed to lead child protection cases while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers, the government has said in its response to the care review.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

A former Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has been appointed chief social worker for adults. Sarah McClinton will succeed Lyn Romeo in January 2025 , a year after the longstanding chief left the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) position.

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