Social Work Blog

MAY 9, 2023

By Sarah Meisinger MSW, LICSW It has been a long time coming and I have finally decided to pause and dedicate some time to reflect on the importance mentorship has played throughout my social work career. S: Why do you think mentorship is important in the social work profession? Cloud State University in Minnesota.

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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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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission. Social workers who visit family or friends in nursing homes can encourage these residents to get vaccinated.

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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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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission. Social workers who visit family or friends in nursing homes can encourage these residents to get vaccinated.

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Community Care

JUNE 13, 2024

However, in most cases, parents’ conditions were only identified at the court stage, in part because social workers lacked the time and training to do so. They also interviewed 42 social care professionals, 17 lawyers and four mothers with learning disabilities or learning difficulties who had experience of proceedings.

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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. “It

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come. Photo: Community Care The early years Social work had always been close to Mark’s heart.

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Community Care

MAY 15, 2023

The ratio between the numbers of staff and the people they support is not safe in UK social work services, say two-thirds of practitioners. Social workers are also working increasing amounts of overtime and facing rising levels of burnout on the back of the pandemic, while over a third have considered leaving the profession.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

On the contrary, said the court: We expressly hold that there is no ‘social worker exception’ to compliance with constitutional limitations on an entry into a home without consent or exigent circumstances. A mid-level appeals court overturned the ban on recording interviews but upheld everything else.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

Authorities across England cut provision to people needing care and support and carers, for example, by closing day centres or reducing respite services, without making use of the so-called Care Act easements, found the research by the University of Manchester. “She went to a day centre, you know, for five hours.

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Beyond Advocacy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

I learned to appreciate the value of storytelling while teaching a course on persuasion in the DSW program at the University of Southern California School of Social Work. Social workers have used storytelling for many years. I was not a good storyteller. It helped him to connect with audiences.

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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

MAY 9, 2023

Social work leaders must integrate anti-racism into all aspects of practice to achieve change, experts told a conference recently. Self-reflection Fellow panelist Kristel Campbell, a trainee social worker with 20 years’ experience within youth justice, called on service leaders to look critically at their own biases.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. Judith Harwin is professor in socio-legal studies, School of Law, Lancaster University.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Spencer said he has managed to stabilise the council’s workforce somewhat by opening a social work academy, which recruits social workers through fast-track courses Step Up to Social Work and Frontline, as well as through Open University and apprenticeship qualifications. More on Arthur Labinjo-Hughes case.

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Community Care

MARCH 16, 2022

It praised the council’s investment in training for less-experienced managers and Gent’s “close oversight of exit interviews” to inform future retention strategies. Latest government workforce figures show Blackpool’s agency social worker rate has halved, to 15.2%, from 2019 to 2021, while its vacancy rate is down from 29% to 18.7%.

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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 13, 2024

However, it also underlined the importance of wellbeing services, including counselling and reflective supervision, for practitioners, said the report, produced by social work academics from the University of Central Lancashire and King’s College London. Interviews with four domestic abuse training providers.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding.

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Community Care

MAY 30, 2024

In an interview with Community Care, national adoption strategic lead Sarah Johal said Adoption England was funding the Black Adoption Project in testing approaches to improving the recruitment of black adopters. ” One issue highlighted in the ASGLB report was an apparent under-representation of black social workers in adoption teams.

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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. But before that, her focus was squarely on mental health social work. There was still a sense of, ‘What is it that social workers do?’.

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Community Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This is despite a 2017 literature review by Oxford University’s Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education indicating that outcomes for children placed with siblings in foster care were mostly better than for those placed apart from siblings. The focus of the session was child-led free play with supported activities.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

of FTE children’s services posts were held by agency workers, up from 15.5% The number of frontline “case holding” social workers working in children’s services fell by 8% , from September 2020 to September 2022. At the same time, 17.6% as of September 2021. a year earlier.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Between 2019-21, researchers analysed the impact of DfE intervention in 24 authorities after they were rated inadequate by Ofsted, through interviews with leaders, managers, social workers, partners and government-appointed advisers, and an analysis of outcomes. Social workers urge inspection overhaul to enable more direct work.

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Social Work Haven

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Some social work degree programs may only be offered through a university, college or higher education institute. Seventy-one percent (71%) of social work graduates in the UK are employed within 15 months post graduation. That is why it is vital to do your social work registration as soon as possible!

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Coffey, the work and pensions secretary since 2019, will take responsibility for one of the three priorities Truss articulated for her premiership in her opening speech yesterday : putting the NHS on a “firm footing” Social care one of four priorities for Coffey. Prospects for children’s social care.

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University of Connecticut

JANUARY 22, 2024

Clinical diagnosis may seem safe from cultural, political, and social influence, but in fact, it is often guided by these forces. Whether a condition is considered a disorder is based in social and political context, and certainly, what questions we ask in the psychiatric interview is culturally influenced.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The Ethics of Social Work: An Overview” by Felicia Kornbluh offers an accessible look at ethical issues that social workers face in their day-to-day practice. These readings will help equip any social worker with the knowledge they need to effectively apply their skills in practice.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Early Inspirations: High School and Beyond From the earliest days of high school, I found myself drawn to social issues and the incredible work done by social workers in our communities. It was during this time that I began to understand the profound influence of the social work profession.

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In this spirit, the Moving Social Work (MSW) programme aims to harness the skills and values of social workers to support the health, wellbeing and human rights of people with disabilities. They also said it should be included in social work courses in colleges and universities. Why this group specifically?

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

BSW Award Raymond and Mary Borecki Buck Endowed Scholarship Fund Mary Borecki Buck is an UConn School of Social Work alumna committed to supporting the education of future generations of social workers. Kinlock Endowment Fund in Social Work Established by Charlotte M. Charlotte M. The system overlooked me and failed me.

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University of Connecticut

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

To tell these stories, the authors utilized different qualitative research methods, such as interviews, historical records, and press accounts. A global pandemic such as this shows the need for much more global cooperation, and why there is a need for social workers to understand global interdependence and exchange,” says Thomas.

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Social Work With Adults

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Real improvements in the lives of older people, including outcomes that matter to them, arise out of good social work practice. Hopefully, as we build a stronger evidence base, more social workers will be deployed to work with and alongside older people and their carers, using their unique combination of knowledge, skills and values.

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The Frontline

JUNE 7, 2023

Naomi Allen was part of the 2017 Cohort of the Frontline programme and currently works as a consultant social worker, supporting current Frontline programme as they qualify as social workers. I first thought about social work when I was quite young.

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The Frontline

JULY 13, 2023

The research team consisted of Teesside University, the LGBTQ+ Youth in Care Network and three LGBTQ+ care experienced people as co-researchers including myself. The research interviewed LGBTQ+ young people and surveyed social care professionals working with care leavers. Teesside University, LGBTQ+ Youth In Care.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Dr Ty Lostutter, a clinical psychologist at the University of Washington Medical Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance reports that while everyone experiences anxiety, people experience differing degrees of severity. That is why a social work to-do list may help us manage better. So, what is anxiety? PIN IT FOR LATER!

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