Community Care

MARCH 31, 2025

Social workers are the least likely adult social care staff group to feel valued or that they are making a difference to the people they support, government-commissioned research has found. For example, senior care workers averaged 22.67, occupational therapists 23.17, registered managers 24.72 and personal assistants (PAs) 26.82.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. Adoption UK, which supports adoptees and adoptive parents, said it had long campaigned for this change as current arrangements had reduced access to therapists by disincentivising counsellors from offering a service.

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2024

Mounting social care costs will leave English councils facing a £6.2bn financial black hole over the next two years, the Local Government Association has warned political parties ahead of the general election. It expects government grants – with the exception of the public health grant – will be flat in cash terms.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

You can also find clinical social work roles within the federal or local government. Many of the clinical social work roles are within hospitals, insurance companies, and mental health agencies. Also, over the last few years, there has been an increase in online mental health agencies that recruit a lot of clinical social workers.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2024

A government-backed leadership training scheme has been launched for principal social workers (PSW), approved mental health professional (AMHP) leads and principal occupational therapists (POT) in adults’ services in English councils.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A sharp rise in vacancy rates for council occupational therapists is putting “significant stress” on remaining practitioners, OT leaders have warned. The Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) said the figures did not come as a surprise to the profession. As of September 2022, 11.3% a year previously and 7.1%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Councils will be able use a £15m international recruitment fund to source social workers from overseas to work in adults’ services, the government has confirmed. Social Work England said it was allocating more resources to its overseas applications team to address the issue.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2022

The government’s adult social care funding reforms will increase demand for assessments, reviews and the case management of people needing care and support by bringing more existing self-funders into the system. We call on the government to address this as a matter of urgency.” ” Related articles.

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Community Care

APRIL 10, 2024

The government has set out some of the details of its new fund for subsidising training for adult social care staff. The DHSC has implied that it will be just for nurses, occupational therapists, nursing associates and allied health professionals, such as physiotherapists and speech and language therapists, working in adult social care.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

The British Association of Social Workers England has warned of the risks of diluting the social worker role after the government unveiled plans for more assessments to be carried out by non-social work qualified staff.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

She found housing, got a job, took classes, left a toxic relationship, found a therapist, and began taking her medication. The statutes governing termination proceedings require only “reasonable” efforts—not perfect efforts—from DHHS to reunify the family. Raising a child is difficult, even when there is no crisis.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

They pore over reports from therapists. When, after at last freeing themselves from the tyranny of apartheid, South Africa’s new government, led by Nelson Mandela, created a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, all those white racists didn’t confess to committing atrocities because they decided not to be white racists anymore.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

This will be the basis of the case it will be making to government for how it invests in, and reforms, the system over the coming years. The roadmap gives us a tool, a resource to support a narrative with government. The government will listen to the public. We want a shift from the dominant narrative around hospital discharge.

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

Estimated number of additional Care Act needs assessments required each year as a result of the government’s funding reforms (source: County Councils Network and Newton, May 2022 ). Get full coverage on the government’s adult social care reforms. This week, it announced details of a £15.5m

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Local Government Association (LGA) and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) issued the call with the rollout of assessments of England’s 153 authorities due to start imminently. There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists.

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Beautiful Voyager

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Ecotherapy is a very specific form of mental health treatment that is most often directed by a trained therapist. This therapist-led form of ecotherapy has been used by mental health professionals treating young adults and teens for decades.

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Community Care

APRIL 8, 2022

Withdrawal of government funding . The figures come with the government withdrawing additional funding to support recruitment and retention in the sector, which was worth £462.5m Government Covid funding for adult social care ends. Government scraps mandatory vaccination for social care staff. Related articles.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

difference for occupational therapists and one of 58p for nurses, while the next biggest gap, for registered managers, was £4.58. Estimated average hourly pay for local authority adult social workers was £19.75 in 2021-22, compared with £12.56 in the independent sector. hourly pay gap compares with a £1.47

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Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’ve always felt most comfortable working with the sickest of the sick, and I have a lot of sympathy and empathy for their plight because I’ve increasingly noticed that they are most neglected by treatment providers and the government. Breakdown recommends that inpatient units that discriminate be held accountable and face consequences.

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Community Care

JUNE 25, 2024

Authorities told the Local Government Association (LGA) that they were struggling to compete with other employers, including the NHS, on salary, while half lacked confidence in their ability to adequately staff mental health services over the coming year.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

Child Welfare Social Worker vs. Social Services Specialist III) Organization Type: (Government, Non-profit, For-profit, Outside social services) Setting: (School, Clinic, Hospital, etc.) I introduced her to the art therapist, which became a powerful outlet for her emotions. Job Information: Descriptive Job Title: (e.g.,

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Community Care

JUNE 29, 2023

In a recent report, a committee of Senedd members called on the Welsh Government to take steps to address this through a workforce sufficiency plan that addressed routes into the profession, pay and conditions and career pathways. This was similar to 2021, as was the fact that women occupied 85% of posts in social work teams.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This was enabled by the government diverting money from reforming the social care charging system to frontline services, and permitting authorities to raise council tax by 5% this year without a referendum, with some of the proceeds ring-fenced for adults’ services. However, the total then grew to 470,000 by August 2023.

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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. “The government has committed to offer more support for carers through its reform funding and there are new rights for unpaid leave in the new Carer’s Leave Act , but that won’t be enough.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In a speech to NHS leaders today , health and social care secretary Steve Barclay said other possible uses included supportive technology and using physiotherapists and occupational therapists to support people’s recovery at home. vacancy rate, as of March and the mounting cost of living crisis.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The government has legislated to replace DoLS with a new system, the Liberty Protection Safeguards, but is yet to set out a timetable for implementation, with the Department of Health and Social Care scotching a recent that it would come into force in October 2023. Related articles.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

There will be no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. The CQC’s assessments will involve a combination of desk-based checks and visits to the council concerned. I was in Solihull the other day and, while they were worried, they saw it as an opportunity.” ”

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Beautiful Voyager

MAY 7, 2023

I don't agree with our government. I'm close to the mental health field myself because I've been seeing a therapist for a very long time and I have to wrestle with my thoughts and mental states every day. My name is Olga. I'm a freelance cartoonist/illustrator. Q: Can you tell us about some of your favorite illustrations?

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Clinical Philosophy

MAY 2, 2019

You start getting upset with your partner but this time, because you've recently been going to therapy, you find your therapist's words ringing round your head: 'You tend to find in him what you experienced from your father / what you don't want to see in yourself'. so now the difficult feelings just don't come up.'). (I'm

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Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

It has launched the consultation in the wake of the government’s decision in April to delay introducing the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) – its planned replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) – beyond the next election, due in 2024.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Association of Directors of Children’s Services urged the government to “move at pace” in tackling the issue, while the British Association of Social Workers England said the figures were “not a surprise” as practitioners’ working conditions had been “deteriorating year after year”.

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Gateway Foundation

DECEMBER 19, 2022

State governments offer lotteries to increase revenue and fund projects such as senior services, environmental protection, and education, but lotteries can become harmful when people develop an addiction to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of talk therapy you can complete with a therapist.

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Community Care

MAY 15, 2024

Practitioners also feel less valued and supported by their employers and are more likely to quit their roles over the next 12 months than was the case a year ago, found the latest Local Government Association ‘health check’, carried out from February to April this year.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 14, 2023

There are a wide range of job positions available in various settings, including healthcare, education, mental health, government agencies, private practice, counseling centers, research organisations and more. Counsellor/Therapist – In this role, social workers provide counselling and therapy to individuals and families.

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Community Care

JUNE 22, 2023

Temporary staff were significantly more positive than permanent colleagues about their workloads, supervision, employer, the resources they were given and their ability to manage their role, found the Local Government Association’s (LGA) latest social work health check. However, we know that sadly that is not the case right now.”

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

This type of structural change could make a huge difference to social workers and occupational therapists, too many of whom who we know are exhausted and leaving their roles. “This is an opportunity and challenge for councils,” said ADASS joint chief executive Sheila Norris.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

child welfare services are provided or managed by the government agency in each state. These professionals work with individuals, families, schools, universities, nonprofit agencies, corporations, hospitals and government agencies. Social workers do NOT remove children from their homes. In the U.S.,

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