Community Care

MARCH 7, 2022

The Department for Education calculates average caseloads for children’s social workers in England as 16.3. As a result, councils lack funds to invest in early intervention, to help children stay with their families, he said. Does this chime with your experience? Take our survey.

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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.) How does your social work education specifically contribute to this position? My MSW education provided a good foundation.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Rising costs and demand are a huge strain on council budgets and services face ‘intolerable pressures’, says Adass England’s overstretched and creaking adult social care services need urgent government intervention to stabilise them financially as rising costs and demand play havoc with council budgets, care bosses have warned.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 6, 2023

On the Frontlines: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Workers’ Well-Being. The crisis created by the spread of COVID-19 brought increasing needs and referrals to social welfare services in many countries. The Experiences of Caretaking and Financial Stress among Social Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Supporting those families financially and with social services, rather than removing the child, would reduce caseloads significantly and allow workers to focus on the cases that really require intervention. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

● “Which would be worse,” asks Jasmine Wali, director of policy & advocacy at JMAC for Families, in this story for The Nation : “being beaten by your partner, or having social services take away your children? 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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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It can be customised and expanded upon to suit the specific needs and objectives of the social work organisation or agency. What do social services look for in a home check or visit? To maximise this opportunity, social services workers should employ a comprehensive checklist to gather vital information during visits.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This would build on the existing DHSC-funded care and health improvement programme , delivered by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and Local Government Association. Government intervention. Councils would have the right to make representations before any statutory intervention was carried out.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 20, 2024

Safeguarding staff say they can’t get referrals for serious cases and don’t have the expertise to give pupils the help they need Increasing numbers of children suffering from domestic abuse, serious neglect and homelessness are being refused help from over-stretched social services, schools across England have told the Observer.

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ministers will have the power to direct authorities to take actions to improve services or to take over specific council functions, but will not remove services from authorities and transfer them to other bodies, as they have the power to do in children’s services.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ relatives criticise local child protection service that ignored months of torture and abuse The family of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, the six-year-old boy murdered by his stepmother after months of torture and abuse, have said they fear more children will die unless there is “total reform of social services”.

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Social Work Haven

APRIL 16, 2023

Social workers gain a greater understanding of how people may be affected by their surroundings, relationships and community, which helps them develop interventions that can have a positive impact. What is an example of a system theory in social work? What are the limitations of systemic theory in social work?

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We help parents access services like SNAP, Medicaid, and provide early childhood screenings to ensure infants and young children are meeting developmental milestones, because we know that early intervention is key to helping children thrive going forward. We don’t have an end in sight to the current migrant crisis.

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Brightpoint

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We help parents access services like SNAP, Medicaid, and provide early childhood screenings to ensure infants and young children are meeting developmental milestones, because we know that early intervention is key to helping children thrive going forward. We don’t have an end in sight to the current migrant crisis.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 9, 2023

Social service agencies, healthcare, schools Psychologist vs social worker It’s important to note that this table provides a general overview, and there may be some overlap and variation in specific roles and responsibilities depending on the context and region.

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Social Work Blog

MAY 5, 2023

The authors conclude that the significant impact of loneliness on mental health symptoms and the effect of social support on service use highlight the importance of developing interventions to prevent and reduce loneliness over the life course.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

She said the end of Covid-related support and the temporary £20 Universal Credit uplift, as well as rising fuel and food costs, could add pressures to low-income families and therefore potentially increase demand on children’s social services, which was “already unsustainable”. What has happened to council budgets?

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

The letter, which has been backed by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) England, warned that a lack of social work assessments prior to discharge was leading to people ending up in the wrong place, reduced independence and lower quality of life. Risks of ‘poor or potentially illegal practice.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

About council ‘bankruptcy’ notices Five authorities with social services responsibilities – Birmingham, Croydon, Nottingham, Slough and Thurrock – have issued a section 114 notice in the past three years, meaning they were unable to meet their legal requirement to set a balanced budget.

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Community Care

JUNE 7, 2024

It expects the national living wage, which is a significant driver of adult social care cost pressures, to rise by 6.5% It has assumed that authorities with social services responsibilities will raise standard council tax by 3%, and the adult social care precept (which is ring-fenced for the service) by 2%, each year.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As a Newly Qualified Social Worker a few years ago, I understood that to become effective at what I do as a social worker , there was a need for me to write good Care Act 2014 needs assessments. A needs assessment is carried out by social services to decide your care and support needs.

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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. . ” For the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, president Beverley Tarka said: “Families up and down the country are facing constant struggles to get the support they need to care for loved ones.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 14, 2023

It provides social workers with a framework to better understand the legal structure within Adult Social Services. This book will give you a solid foundation to kick-start your career in Adult Social Services without a doubt!

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Community Care

AUGUST 27, 2024

It also analysed workloads across children’s services and older people’s teams in Northern Ireland’s HSC trusts, which identified both caseload sizes and vacancy levels. It was carried out by a team of academics from Ulster University and Queen’s University Belfast led by Paula McFadden, professor in social work at Ulster University.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 3, 2023

Social work plays a vital role in child safeguarding, providing support and intervention to vulnerable children and their families. This involves taking a proactive approach to identifying and responding to early signs of harm, with a focus on prevention and early intervention.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2024

.” Of the additional £500m for the social care grant, he added: “Where possible, councils should invest in areas that help place children’s social care services on a sustainable financial footing, whilst being mindful of the level of adult social care provision. in cash terms or 5.7% in real terms.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ninety four per cent of directors disagreed that they had sufficient money to fund care over the coming months, while the same proportion disagreed that there were enough social care staff locally to meet needs this winter, in response to an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) survey.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

The Connect to End COVID-19 project was a multi-level, multi-pronged intervention, and I believe it demonstrated that preventing and ameliorating any such crisis in the future will require that type of intervention in order to successfully have the desired impact.

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The Guardian

AUGUST 30, 2024

Matt Atkinson on having to persuade his local authority to investigate a young traveller, and Joan Lewis on cross-Europe travel I am one of those interfering do-gooders who have referred instances of children travelling alone across Europe to social services. Matt Atkinson Southampton Continue reading.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Social workers to have registration fees paid. In addition, staff who need to be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) to perform their role will have their annual fees paid for by the Scottish Government. These are currently £80 a year for social workers.

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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. ‘Anxiety’ over agency ban.

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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. At least 160 days of this must be spent in supervised practice in service delivery settings and this element must be assessed.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Social workers offer a wide range of services, including counseling and therapy, individual and group sessions, to help people deal with emotional, psychological, and behavioural issues. Social workers advocate for their clients’ rights and requirements, ensuring they receive the support and services they require.

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Relias

JANUARY 16, 2023

While many behavioral health and social service organizations have moved toward implementing trauma-informed practices, it is rarely recognized in organizations serving the IDD population. For those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who have experienced abuse, trauma-informed care can prove very helpful.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It is likely that the Care Quality Commission will assess councils against these outcomes when performance assessments of adult social services are reintroduced, in April 2023 at the earliest. This should not add to existing burdens so the government will consider how these can be aligned to existing outcome frameworks.

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Social Work With Adults

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have always been keen to maker sure adult social workers apply approaches and interventions that will make a positive difference people’s lives. Often, it isn’t clear which of these approaches and interventions have an evidence base. Adults with complex needs often have extensive experience of health and social services.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

.” UNISON, which represents an estimated 40,000 social workers across the UK, was also critical of the proposals. “Social services departments are in desperate need of more social workers, and are losing overworked staff all the time,” said head of local government Mike Short.

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