Social Work Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

Social services use is a critical aspect in the field, and the current study seeks to better understand the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and social services use. Do family characteristics have any association with parental social services use?

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International Federation of Social Workers

MARCH 2, 2022

This week the leaders of the Panamanian Social Work and Public Health professional associations met to discuss the policy and practice gaps between health and social services. Both national associations recognize that there cannot be public health without social well-being, nor social wellbeing without public health.

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 23, 2023

by Alex Collins, Senior Technical Advisor, Data for Impact (D4I) project, Palladium

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A Q&A with Heather Boetto, Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Charles Sturt University

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International Federation of Social Workers

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Image: Augustina Onyinye Ugbana (CPF) and Basamba Drammeh (TASWIG) In a significant step toward enhancing social work practices in The Gambia, The Association of Social Workers in The Gambia (TASWIG) […]

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 25, 2023

by Lucy Marie Richardson*

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

County Departments of Human/Social Services (a county) will try to work with immigration enforcement officials (ICE) to contact the detained parents to make a plan. County departments of human/social services (a county) will try to work with immigration enforcement officials to contact the detained parents to make a plan.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

Again from the story: Lorie Bragg, interim commissioner for the state Bureau of Social Services, told lawmakers this bill wasnt addressing the overall lack of appropriate child placements, something she said the agency is currency working on.

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International Federation of Social Workers

JANUARY 8, 2024

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH, POLICY, AND PRACTICE CONFERENCE Responsive social services: strengthening the impact of user participation Bucharest, 22-23 April 2024 IFSW Europe is a partner in organizing an international conference that […]

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MARCH 12, 2025

People with disabilities, whether temporary or permanent, experience greater poverty, discrimination, and social exclusion. They face barriers to accessing social services, employment, independent living, their legal rights, and civic participation.

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Community Care

MARCH 19, 2025

Cost of national insurance rise for adult social care Think-tank the Nuffield Trust has calculated that the NICs rise will cost England’s 18,000 independent adult social care providers 940m in 2025-26.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

This is why we wrote an article to offer guidance and considerations for the social work field educator with a student placed in their agency. The full article can be downloaded here and shared with your local social services agencies. Our goal is to introduce use cases, debates, and potential policies.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Social work assistants would be regulated in Scotland under plans issued for consultation. Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is also consulting on adding adult day centre supervisors, practitioners and support workers, and offender accommodation managers, supervisors and practitioners to its register.

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Social Service Workforce

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Submitted by Michael Byamukama Ntanda and John Mary Ssekate from the National Association of Social Workers of Uganda (NASWU)

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Swhelper

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Recently, I had the opportunity to give a webinar on disability cultural competence to social service workers, but was met with many blank stares. As a disabled social worker myself, I often notice that the disability community is not recognized as a cultural group. Elspeth Slayter.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

There is no observation of practice by social workers or other professionals, such as occupational therapists. . “We want to work with the CQC to ensure the assurance process is productive and valuable, helping councils build on strengths as well as tackle areas for improvement.”

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CO4Kids

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

County departments of human/social services will try to work with immigration enforcement officials to contact the detained parents to make a plan. The County Department of Human/Social Services must locate the least restrictive placement for children and youth when they can not be safely returned to a parent or caregiver.

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Michigan Social Work

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The SWEC will continue to be a way for students with a social service work history to significantly reduce the cost of an MSW education at U-M. All existing course content will be maintained in the transition, with only minor changes to accommodate the Canvas platform.

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International Federation of Social Workers

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

IFSW is pleased to announce a webinar jointly hosted by the International Social Service (ISS) and Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB). This pivotal webinar aims to address the urgent need […]

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CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

Promoting equity and working through an equity lens is an intentional and necessary practice to ensure services and practices are built with multiple perspectives, not just a select few. To this end, CISU created, A Guide to Promoting Equity During Evidence-Building Initiatives: Resources for Consideration.

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International Federation of Social Workers

MARCH 23, 2022

Continuous Professional Development (CPD) International Short Course by the Social Services in the Context of Conflict Network Download Course Brochure Co-organisers: Educating for Peace – Social Work in the Context of War and Conflict This 6-week CBT Short Course critically explores different dimensions of social work in the context of conflict. (..)

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

However, this is due to cover all authorities – including those with no social services responsibilities – for the increased costs of all of their services. The trust estimated that the increased costs to councils was roughly equivalent to the 3.2%

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The results of these tests are used as grounds for social service investigations that can lead to newborns being unjustly taken from parents. . ● Writing for the libertarian Reason Foundation , Layal Bou Harfouch says: The current standard of care in U.S.

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 13, 2023

by Kathryn Conley Wehrmann , PHD, LCSW, Global Social Service Workforce Alliance Steering Committee Chair "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has…" -Margaret Mead

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International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A group picture of students and staff of Bugema University after INSPIRE training in January 2023 In an effort to strengthen the social service workforce in Uganda, the National Association […]

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Similar rights exist in Wales under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. Long waits and lack of support following assessments Carers UK’s found that 23% of carers had had an assessment in the previous 12 months, though only 41% had sought help from adult social services for their caring role.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 8, 2025

New York law requires local departments of social services to investigate all fatalities from maltreatment. The states Office of Children and Family Services is required to review each local fatality investigation and issue its own report within six months of the local investigation.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Future social work practice requires a holistic framework to deal effectively with the great social and economic disruptions of this unprecedented time. Innovation and creativity are indispensable to empowering social workers and social service organizations to make an impact on the lives of people and societies in today’s world.

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2025

At age of 12, the family rejected him and he was sent back to social services. No monetary help had been allowed him either a specific request by the then head of social services at Wigan, he tells me. He spent the next six years in various childrens homes, the only black boy in most cases.

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 11, 2023

How Ghana's Integrated Social Services (ISS) provide comprehensive assistance to child survivors of sexual violence by Young Joo Lee, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Ghana

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The number of social work students registered in Scotland has fallen for a second consecutive year, with student poverty cited as a factor. drop the year before, according to the Scottish Social Services Council’s (SSSC) annual snapshot of the registered workforce. Student numbers fell by 2.7%

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 10, 2023

by Beth Bradford, Senior Associate, Maestral International and Marie Blum, Program Manager of Influence, Learning and Communications, C hanging the Way We Care.

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Child Welfare Monitor

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In its Make Homeschool Safe Act , the Coalition for Responsible Home Education proposes that a child cannot be withdrawn from school for homeschooling within three years of being investigated for abuse or neglect, regardless of the outcome, unless there is a risk assessment by social services or child welfare that finds that the child will not be endangered (..)

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Social Service Workforce

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) Moldova works in partnership with leaders in the care reform sector to support the Moldova social service system to ensure it has the capacity, infrastructure and services at the local level to serve all children and families. by Changing the Way We Care.

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International Federation of Social Workers

MAY 7, 2022

hrs CET Dear social workers, social services staff and managers, We would like to invite you to take part in a webinar on climate change and the importance of the role social workers […]. IFSW Europe – WEBINAR – Developing eco-wisdom – leave no one behind!

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The report also indicates the preference for a master’s degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited program for anyone serving as a director of social services in a nursing home. (NASEM report , p. 511; recommendations , p. 3, item 2b).

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Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2025

Separately, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has calculated that councils face 1.8bn in increased costs in adult social care in 2025-26 due to the two measures, and wider inflation.

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