Social work news

• Using motivational interviewing in social work: four key techniques

  09-07-2024 17:33
  
  This article presents a few key pieces of advice from Community Care Inform Children’s guide on motivational interviewing. The full guide sets out how practitioners can adapt this approach to social work practice, including explanations and examples of the key processes involved, and questions to consider when promoting behaviour change. It also provides examples of questions to ask in line with the core counselling skills that underpin motivational interviewing. Community Care Inform Chi
  
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• Press release: Secretary of State makes economic growth a priority

  09-07-2024 16:26 via gov.uk
  
  The Secretary of State, Wes Streeting, has announced that the Department of Health and Social Care will expand its focus to boost economic growth.
  
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• ‘We are all one big family’: how one council has built a culture of support

  09-07-2024 14:45
  
  A pregnant teenager whom Ellis supports as a social worker in children’s services has just asked Ellis to be with her when she gives birth.
  It is a big deal because a few months earlier, Ellis was struggling to build a relationship with the-mother-to-be, let alone be someone with whom she was willing to share such an intimate part of her life.
  But this is one of many examples of how North East Lincolnshire children’s services are actively encouraging their workforce to build trust an
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Key stage 2 attainment 2024: national headlines

  09-07-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Provisional national headline results for the 2024 national curriculum assessments at key stage 2.
  
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• ‘Your down-to-earth approach has made us feel like a family, not a service’

  09-07-2024 09:45
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.For Community Care’s 50th anniversary, our My Brilliant Colleague series invites you to celebrate anyone who has inspired you in your career.
  In this special entry, several practitioners from Birmingham Children’s Trust have nominated Diane Partridge, their assistant director for practice improvement and development, for creating a positive and supportive work environment that ha
  
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• I’ve been denied carer’s allowance for eight months after I owned up to a job

  09-07-2024 08:00
  I have been left in limbo after I told the Department for Work and Pensions a temporary job had pushed me over the earnings limitI was interested to see your story on 3 June about the person who spent more than four months trying to get their carer’s allowance restarted by the Department for Work and Pensions after a temporary job took them over the earnings threshold. I am a carer for my husband and in a very similar situation. Last year, when I resigned from my job because my husband&rsq
  
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