Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Lack of accessible information and advice Despite the Care Act 2014 and Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 requiring councils to provide people with accessible information and advice on social care in their areas, the EHRC found this was not always the case in relation to challenging decisions.

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Community Care

JULY 3, 2024

Parmar worked for Leicestershire County Council from 1989-97, joining Leicester when it took over responsibility for social services in the city from the county authority in 1997 and then working there until 2022, when she was dismissed.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Researchers also carried out in-depth interviews with 11 of the social care professionals, six of whom were social workers with one to six years’ experience. Using AI to speed up admin tasks will give care workers more time to spend with people they support, which is key to good quality social care, she added.

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University of Connecticut

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The more than 700 youth interviewed were participants in the CalYOUTH Study, which evaluated the impact of extending the foster care age limit from 18 to 21 on youth outcomes in early adulthood.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The report includes interviews with parents, family defenders, and more than 50 ACS employees from frontline caseworkers to top staff. The central office was described as predominantly white, where staff rarely had direct service experience and often were hired from graduate school or adjacent social service systems.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Junior minister Neil O’Brien is understood to be covering the adult social care brief and has carried out visits to social care services, according to sector sources, but has made no public statements specifically in this capacity of which Community Care is aware.

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Community Care

AUGUST 27, 2024

The research team carried out 10 focus groups with social work teams from all five health and social care (HSC) trusts, interviewed over 20 practitioners and analysed time diaries that they provided. Impact of high vacancy levels The situation was driven in part by high vacancy levels, with 22.4%

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

The last point was highlighted by social worker from the North West, who was interviewed for role which was advertised as being open to part-time hours. “I put in a lot of hard work for the interview and it went really well.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. TRENDING CONTENT ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN What is the main role of a social worker? What skills does a social worker need?

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

Each county and jurisdiction has its own department of social services responsible for caring for children and youth in foster care and those unable to be reunited with their first families are often available for adoption.” She has a passion for working with under-tapped populations.

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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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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. Action to cut admin and diversify staffing.

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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.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

Labour is still committed to implementing the cap on care costs and related reforms to adult social care charging, the shadow care minister said yesterday. “I’d be very interested to know how the government, were it still in government then, would proceed with Dilnot and what resources it would make available for this.”

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

Our interview with Ruth Allen is part of a series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary. There needs to be a credible, long-term investment programme in social work and social services in England to restore the confidence of practitioners.

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2024

This is despite the organisation having managed “unprecedented demand” for its services in the wake of Covid-19 and the resulting “challenging delays” for children involved in court proceedings.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

However, both social work agencies and Community Care readers have warned these would worsen the situation by driving locum staff out of the profession , and no similar initiatives have been launched in relation to adults’ services or beyond local government.

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The Frontline

JUNE 7, 2023

It’s a job that has a lot of what I’m looking for in terms of variety and intellectual stimulation; I get to work with children, adults, different services and use so many skills and that I didn’t expect to find all in one job. I really enjoyed the recall days about it and practising it within my unit.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My current internship has provided me with so many opportunities to meet with community partners, learn how to use anticipatory empathy, and practice motivational interviewing. When I graduate next May, I believe this program will have prepared me well enough to begin my journey as a future clinical social worker.

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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Gavin is interviewed at school without his parents and does not disclose abuse. The investigator visits the home for a second time, interviews the adults and interviews Gavin outside the presence of the alleged abusers. Both children should have had a physical exam and a forensic interview.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as Vermont Public reports, the lawsuit alleges that the state Department for Children and Families maintains a secret so-called high-risk pregnancy calendar to regularly monitor pregnant Vermonters deemed unsuitable for parenthood, using confidential information illegally obtained from medical providers and social service organizations.

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University of Connecticut

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This support includes locating housing, assisting refugees in finding jobs, and facilitating access to schooling, healthcare, and social services. Throughout the course of their current project , the team has interviewed community sponsorship volunteers and medical, mental health, and immigration attorneys throughout the U.S.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Dorothy Roberts has received a MacArthur Fellowship -- the awards that are commonly known as “genius grants.” Not only for me personally, but for all the people, especially Black women, who’ve been devalued in these systems.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

It deters families from seeking needed assistance and weakens the capacity of teachers, doctors, and social service workers to nurture children’s well-being. So many of the parents I interviewed for this story have none of these luxuries. ?

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 9, 2024

Social workers work in a variety of fields, including mental health, aging, child welfare, and social services. Many of these social workers develop a wealth of expertise in this area and are ready to be resources to the media and other organizations. Here is information to help the public and news media.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As noted in yesterday’s post, about Putnam-Hornstein’s work in California, the California Department of Social Services declared that The Department believes that “universal-level risk stratification” is unethical and has no intention to use it now or in the future. At that point three things happen: ?

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. I think that social workers have gotten a much better understanding of their role, responsibilities and their powers.”

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Disability 69

University of Connecticut

JANUARY 4, 2024

Their research is part of a broader team effort that has included Associate Professor Scott Harding and a number of doctoral students from the School of Social Work. Researchers who attended the conference continue to meet and have formed an interdisciplinary working group. They plan to organize a workshop next year at UConn.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Now let’s flash forward to 1989.

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Community Care

JULY 10, 2024

While authorities strove to protect adult social care from these cuts, their spending on the service was only marginally higher 2019-20 than 2010-11, after taking account of inflation. One result was a significant fall in the number of people who received long-term care, from 872,520 in 2016 to 838,530 in 2020 ( source: NHS Digital ).

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Social Work Blog

JULY 31, 2024

A Look Back, A Look Ahead: Part Two of a Three-Part Series In a three-part series, the Connect to End COVID-19 team examines the impact of this initiative, the important role social workers played in the pandemic, as well as lingering questions around the long-term impacts of COVID-19 and the pandemic. To read Part One, follow this link.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation. But there are few consequences for wrongly removing children from their homes.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In its Study of the Root Causes of Juvenile Justice System Involvement ,” the District of Columbia’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council interviewed youth service providers with first-hand experience working with justice-involved and at-risk youth.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 22, 2025

And finally Columbia Journalism Review has a fascinating interview with Alec Karakatsanis on the Medias Role in Spreading Copaganda So what is an interview about covering the police doing in a list of stories about family policing? Well, you dont have to change the wording much to see the similarity.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation. The plaintiffs also allege that DCF, then known as the Department of Social Services, ignored 14 reports of abuse and was “deliberately indifferent to the ongoing abuse.”

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