Social work news

• Transparency data: Birthday Honours 2023: Ambulance Service list

  16-06-2023 23:30 via gov.uk
  
  Recipients of the King's Ambulance Service Medal 2023.
  
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• Community Care among winners at BASW social work journalism awards

  16-06-2023 17:37
  
  Community Care staff were among those recognised this week at the British Association of Social Workers’ (BASW) inaugural awards for social work journalism.
  Sharmeen Ziauddin, assistant careers editor, won the specialist features category for an article exploring the working lives of palliative care social workers.
  And editor Mithran Samuel was among two winners of the outstanding contribution to social work journalism award – alongside the BBC’s social affairs editor, Alison H
  
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• Community Care Live is back! Sign up now for free social work learning, wellbeing and networking

  16-06-2023 16:28
  
  Community Care Live 2023 has opened for registration, offering social care practitioners an unrivalled mix of learning, wellbeing support, networking and career development opportunities.
  You can sign up now for the 25 free seminars at this year’s event, while also taking advantage of our compelling launch offer for our excellent, paid-for legal learning sessions.
  Register now for Community Care Live, on 10-11 October 2023, at the Business Design Centre, London.
  Alongside the learning you
  
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• Unaccompanied children in hotels are councils’ responsibility – judge

  16-06-2023 13:33
  
  Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week.
  From a ruling over who’s responsible for unaccompanied migrant children living in hotels to the exploitation of overseas staff recruited to work for a social care provider, here’s what you might have missed this week in social work:
  Councils responsible for unaccompanied children, judge rules
  Photo posed by model (Jan H Andersen/
  
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• Life on a social work student’s income: ‘I’d never buy myself something unless it was a necessity’

  16-06-2023 12:05
  
  At 19, Omar Mohamed was travelling four hours a day to study social work, working a part-time job and the sole carer of his nine-year-old sister.
  He was also a recipient of a social work bursary. But, as for many others, it wasn’t enough to sustain him.
  Living in Milton Keynes to be with his sister while studying in Birmingham, he would often arrive home at 7pm. So, on top of rent and utilities, he had to pay for after-school clubs and childcare.
  Social worker Omar Mohamed
  And with no help
  
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• ‘I live in fear of debt collectors’: disabled people tell of toll of soaring UK care costs

  16-06-2023 08:00
  
  Readers explain how they are being forced to give up essential social care or forgo meals and sanitary products Disabled people in England are finding themselves in severe financial hardship owing to rising social care costs and the increase in the cost of living.Social care, unlike the NHS, is not free at the point of need. As disabled people are being forced to pay for their care out of their benefits, some are finding themselves thousands of pounds in arrears to councils. Others are having to
  
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