Social Work Blog

JULY 8, 2022

If there were ever a time to truly appreciate the essential contributions to society made by social workers – it would be now. These escalating effects accentuate and accelerate community needs while often hindering social workers’ capacity to respond. Social workers are dedicated to serving their communities.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

By Sue Coyle Self-care is an often-discussed topic among social workers, the organizations that employ them, and the profession as a whole—and for good reason. Social work is a challenging career choice in myriad ways. Evidence of this exists in the rates of both turnover and burnout throughout social work.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MAY 1, 2025

On Friday, April 4, 2025, social workers, students, educators, and international delegates gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York City to celebrate the Annual Social Work Day at the UN. More here

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Community Care

APRIL 30, 2025

A fast-track scheme for training social workers will end in 2027 after the government decided to withdraw funding on financial grounds. A department spokesperson said: Mental health social workers provide an invaluable service, and they are critical to a thriving healthcare system.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

Editor’s note: In this blog post, four social worker educators share a sample from their new and free resource about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in social work education. Alexander Rubin , LCSW, is a clinical assistant professor based in field education at the University at Buffalo School of School of Social Work.

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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. It wasnt social workers who were mediating, it was insurance companies. It was so desolate, he says now.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

A clutch of social workers have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list, announced this week. The recipients included a past and present principal social worker (PSW), the co-founder of the secure base model of therapeutic caregiving and a retired practitioner who used to support Holocaust survivors.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Looked-after children are being denied their right to a family because of councils’ lack of data on potential overseas placements and “stretched” social workers’ difficulties in exploring them, a charity has warned. Social workers ‘stretched beyond imagination’. Conducting international social work during Covid-19.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

A former Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has been appointed chief social worker for adults. Sarah McClinton will succeed Lyn Romeo in January 2025 , a year after the longstanding chief left the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) position.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Lyn Romeo will step down as England’s chief social worker for adults in January after just over a decade in the post. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said Romeo was taking retirement.

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Shelter, Inc

MARCH 14, 2022

Chicago’s own Jane Adams who won the Nobel Prize in 1931, Dorothy Height won the Congressional Gold Medal, Wendy Sherman was awarded the National Security Medal…all social workers of whom we are proud. No one becomes a social worker for money, fame, or glory.

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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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Social Work Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

The report includes several recommendations supportive of social work , including the recommendation that every nursing home—regardless of size—employ a. 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.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

You asked, what is a social worker home visit checklist? A social worker home visit checklist serves as a comprehensive guide for social workers conducting home visits to assess the holistic health and well-being of their clients. Over the years of practice, I have also found this tool useful.

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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. At the same time, the vacancy rate for council adult social workers rose from 9.5%

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Champions of asylum-seeking children and anti-racist practice, respectively, were among social workers recognised in the New Year Honours. Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler.

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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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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

The government has readvertised the chief social worker for adults position at a higher salary , six months after it started recruiting for a successor to Lyn Romeo. Having qualifications that meet the requirements to register as a social worker with Social Work England.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The number of social workers leaving children’s posts in English councils or trusts has spiked to its highest point in at least five years, according to Department for Education figures. The number of FTE agency workers increased by 3% on the year to 5,977, a fourth consecutive annual rise.

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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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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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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2025

Social worker bodies have urged action from employers to improve flexible working opportunities for staff in Scotland, after finding there was a “long way to go” in this area. We need to see social work employers offering more roles on part-time or flexible hours contracts. in 2022 to 26.7%

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Community Care

MARCH 20, 2024

Most social workers have seen an increase in the number of experienced colleagues quitting their jobs in the past year, according to the British Association of Social Workers’ (BASW) annual survey. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

JULY 3, 2024

A council found by an employment tribunal to have racially discriminated against a social worker has lodged a second challenge to the decision after losing its initial appeal. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay.

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The lack of adult social workers is the sector’s biggest concern as it prepares to deliver the cap on care costs, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has found. More social workers needed amid shortages. It is giving a further £2.9m over that period.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Rules curbing councils’ use of agency social workers in children’s services will start coming into force next month, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. The proportion of agency staff in the children’s services workforce rose sharply between 2021 and 2023, from 15.5%

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Rangel and Arriaga are bilingual, bicultural social workers, which makes them highly sought after by social service employers. Experts say there is a shortage of social workers who are fluent in a language other than English. Read the full story in the NASW Social Work Advocates magazine.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

Her testimony came nearly a year after a Vermont social worker—the second in eight years—was killed while on the job. Increasingly, yet most commonly, after a fatality, social workers and the organizations that employ and support them are recognizing that personal safety, while important, is an often-overlooked issue.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

No agency social workers are left practising in Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts , says the region’s Department of Health (DoH). High quality social work services require stable and consistent social work teams, in which social workers feel valued.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Qualified social workers who have been out of practice for at least two years will face minimum learning requirements if they want to rejoin the register in Scotland. Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has launched a consultation on introducing return to practice requirements similar to those in England and Wales.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Joanne* recently completed the consolidation programme , a mandatory learning and development qualification for newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) in Wales. “It All social workers who qualified in Wales on or after 1 April 2016 must complete the programme during their first three-year registration period.

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

You Asked, Case manager vs Social Worker – What is the Difference? – Social workers and case managers are both integral parts of the healthcare industry. Despite having similar educational backgrounds, their job responsibilities differ depending on the services they provide to their clients.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Discover 9 thought-provoking Netflix documentaries for social workers. Delve into the world of social work and take a sneak peek at the reality of this industry. Listed below are our top 8 picks for movies and documentaries that focus on social work and everything that comes with it.

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Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

Scottish services are losing experienced social workers, leaving newly qualified practitioners without support and putting the quality of services at risk. “SASW are pushing government to urgently act to ensure the workforce is better supported.”

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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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The government has pledged action to tackle “excessive” workload pressures on council children’s social workers as part of its response to the care review. a year earlier, according to an Association of Directors of Children’s Services survey.

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