Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Article by Diana Ling, MA, Program Manager; and Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH, Senior Health Strategist; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin. Government. Drinking during pregnancy is more common than you might think.

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Community Care

MARCH 16, 2023

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has urged its members, and other social workers, not to work for a new Home Office agency established to assess the ages of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2024

Since Lyn Romeo announced her retirement in October last year , the tributes to the now former chief social worker for adults from across the profession have been warm and fulsome. Lyn Romeo is without a doubt a social worker for social workers! Will be hugely missed by many and certainly me.

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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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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

March is National Social Work Month and KVC is joining the National Association of Social Workers to recognize the powerful, positive impact social workers have on their clients and their communities! Social workers and other helping professionals provide crucial support to children, adults and families in need.

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Community Care

JANUARY 11, 2024

The government will give councils funding to train more staff as social workers in adults’ services through apprenticeships. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will give councils and adult social care providers just over £20m between them to fund social work and nursing apprenticeships in 2024-25.

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Community Care

JANUARY 27, 2022

Social work caseloads will be explicitly addressed in a government-commissioned independent review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland, launched last week. The UK government has said MacAlister cannot assume additional government funding to implement his recommendations.

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 29, 2023

Scores of macro practice social workers and students will gather at the Brown School at Washington University in St. The Special Commission to Advance Macro Social Work, co-chaired by Drs. Board members of CRISP’s Social Work Democracy Project will lead a 10:00 a.m.

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Community Care

JULY 18, 2024

The government needs to boost funding for social work bursaries, placements and apprenticeships to attract more people into the profession and tackle persistently high vacancy and turnover rates. That was the message from sector leaders in a 15-year strategy for the adult social care workforce in England, released today.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

Social workers’ quality of working life continued to decline following the end of Covid lockdown measures despite other frontline professionals reporting improvements, according to a new study. But social workers’ overall wellbeing recovered from phase three to four, as it did for other professionals. in phase one.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

April is Alcohol Awareness Month, an invitation to social workers to make conversations about alcohol use part of routine practice—and to make sure they’re armed with the facts. How can social workers help clients feel comfortable discussing their drinking? Government.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

He also criticised the DfE’s failure to commit to the introduction of universal care standards, which his review had said would guarantee the provision of care to all looked-after children, in whatever setting. Government as a whole therefore needs to prioritise legislative time and investment for these children.”

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Community Care

MAY 6, 2022

‘Inadequate’ authorities bore the brunt of a sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving their jobs last year, a Community Care analysis has found. As was the case last year, the higher an authority’s Ofsted grade, the lower its agency worker, vacancy and sickness absence rates, and caseloads, as measured by the DfE.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The government has scrapped the second round of the adult social work apprenticeship fund. The £4m payment would have enabled English councils to recruit about 130 additional social work apprentices to work in adult social care during 2024-25. of apprentices who started training in 2019 qualified as a social worker.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Social workers have been urged to help tackle the impact on Gypsy and Traveller families of increased police powers to evict them from unauthorised camps, brought in this year. “So social workers need to separate those two things. . “So social workers need to separate those two things.

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2022

A report for social work leaders has proposed specific caseload limits for practitioners to help mitigate the mounting workload burdens many face. Scottish Government proposes National Social Work Agency. Caseloads bigger, more complex and harder to manage, say children’s social workers. Push and pull factors.

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2023

All the figures will be uprated each year in line with the government’s consumer prices index measure of inflation. We are pleased to see the government taking such a positive step forward in recognising the value of foster carers,” she said. We estimate that means another £7bn this year, and £9bn next year.”

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Beyond Advocacy

JULY 30, 2024

The Compton Foundation Centennial Professor of Social Work for the Prevention of Children and Youth Problems, she served on the faculty of the Columbia University School of Social Work —where she received her Ph.D.—from She was inducted into the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) in 2010.

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amending the Working Together to Safeguard Children child protection guidanc e to allow non-social workers to hold child in need cases, in the face of criticism from Ofsted and the British Association of Social Workers that this would increase risk to children.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 27, 2022

She initiated a national effort to modernize the social work profession, helping to establish a new vision of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) emphasizing the role of social work in policy and politics. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2024

Do you have eight minutes to help your fellow social workers? Eight minutes is all it takes to help us better train and educate social workers to have informed conversations with clients about COVID-19 vaccination. We are grateful for your participation and support for fellow social workers. Government.

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Beyond Advocacy

MARCH 10, 2024

Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a beacon of social work in Congress, was voted this year’s Outstanding Congressional Social Worker. Russell Professor at Teacher’s College at Columbia University and author of the New York Times bestseller Punished for Dreaming , will give remarks. Dr. Halaevalu Vakalahi will emcee the program.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The trainees will be employed, and based, in their children’s services departments, and follow existing three-year university social work apprenticeship programmes, with councils then deciding whether to hire them on qualification. ”

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Beyond Advocacy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Our Social Work Day on the Hill day begins with our 10:00 a.m. Policy and Politics Forum at New York University DC’s Abramson Family Auditorium, 1307 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005, featuring a presentation by Dr. Stephanie Boddie, Associate Professor of Church and Community Ministries at the Diana R.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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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. of FTE children’s services posts were held by agency workers, up from 15.5% At the same time, 17.6% as of September 2021.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A third of social workers polled by the charity said they had faced pressure from managers or colleagues to cease or delay intervention in neglect cases, while professionals in partner agencies criticised how children’s social care responded to the issue.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 10, 2023

Advancing Social Work Practice, Policy and Research – Series Editor: Professor PK Shajahan Professor P.K. Advancing Social Work Practice, Policy and Research – Series Editor: Professor PK Shajahan Professor P.K. tannt@suss.edu.sg tannt@suss.edu.sg India, shajahan@tiss.edu Editorial Team: Professor Darja Zaversik, Chair of the Dept.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The government has delayed its response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care until next year. Resource concerns following autumn statement.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The government has appointed Social Work England’s interim chair to the role on a substantive basis. The Department for Education has also reappointed Adi Cooper and Sue Ross – both registered social workers – to the regulator’s board, also for a three-year term.

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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

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

MARCH 15, 2024

Decline in provision of statutory placements The SSSC/SWEP-commissioned report – based on written evidence from stakeholders, data analysis and research with councils, universities third sector bodies, practice educators and students – found the relative provision of statutory placements had declined in recent years.

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Community Care

APRIL 6, 2023

A government asylum age assessment body that the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has urged practitioners not to take jobs with has started work. The NAAB will oversee a new system for age assessing unaccompanied asylum seekers established by the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The trends were laid bare in the Department for Education’s annual children in need census , published last week, which also revealed that social workers’ assessment caseloads hit a record high in 2022-23, as did the average amount of time they took. Directors warned that the 3.5%

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Then, through a deep dive into the experiences of three other countries— Romania, Rwanda and Viet Nam—it will explore the different ways countries have made progress in strengthening their workforce over the past decade and will highlight the continuing and emerging challenges facing the workforce in each country. Opening Remarks: Rebecca Levy, U.S.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Just over four in five of the first cohort of social work apprentices gained their qualification, official data has shown. of apprentices qualified as a social worker in 2021-22, including all of those who completed the course. According to Skills for Care , 82.7% The remainder (17.3%) did not finish their training.

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