Social work news

• ‘The grief and loss is hard to bear’: the cruelty of Alzheimer’s disease | Letter

  12-07-2024 18:21
  
  Readers respond to Michael Aylwin’s article about his wife’s dementiaI am not ashamed to say that I wept while reading Michael Aylwin’s article (‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s’, 9 July). He has articulated so many of the feelings and experiences that my wife and I have encountered across the more than 10 years since her diagnosis.She too feared Alzheimer’s – her mother having died of
  
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• Principal social worker networks announce new chairs

  12-07-2024 18:17
  
  New chairs have been announced for the two principal social worker networks that represent PSWs in England.
  Cheshire West and Chester Council’s Gavin Butler and Kate Concannon, the PSW in Southampton, will take the helm of the Adult Principal Social Worker (APSW) Network for the next two years.
  They succeed Sarah Range (Southend) and Hannah Scaife (South Gloucestershire), and will be supported by new vice-chairs Vanna Changlee (Waltham Forest), Seanna Lasseter (Walsall) and Coleen Simon (C
  
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• How children are missing out on family care because councils fail to consider overseas placements

  12-07-2024 15:59
  
  By Sorcha Morgan, head of service, CFAB
  Recently, I closed Baby Leo’s case. His mother had been unable to care for him due to her substance misuse and consideration was given to him being cared for by his maternal grandmother in Italy, who had been identified as a potential carer earlier in proceedings.
  The local authority had initially sought an assessment through the Central Authority for the Hague Convention 1996 (see box) but the standard of reporting and analysis was too brief and so
  
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• Bolstering AMHP role can ‘vastly reduce’ detentions under existing Mental Health Act, say service heads

  12-07-2024 15:07
  
  Bolstering approved mental health professionals’ (AMHP) role in preventing detention in hospital can “vastly reduce” use of the Mental Health Act within the existing law, say service heads.
  The AMHP Leads Network made the claim as charities urged the new Labour government to bring forward a bill to replace the MHA in its first legislative programme, which will be set out in next Tuesday’s King’s Speech.
  MHA reform is long overdue with the Conservatives having pledge
  
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• Bolstering AMHP role can ‘vastly reduce’ detention numbers under existing MHA, say service heads

  12-07-2024 15:07
  
  Bolstering approved mental health professionals’ (AMHP) role in preventing detention in hospital can “vastly reduce” use of the Mental Health Act within the existing law, say service heads.
  The AMHP Leads Network made the claim as charities urged the new Labour government to bring forward a bill to replace the MHA in its first legislative programme, which will be set out in next Tuesday’s King’s Speech.
  MHA reform is long overdue with the Conservatives having pledge
  
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