Social work news

• Podcast: helping older adults avoid unnecessary hospital visits

  14-01-2025 15:15
  
  Hampshire County Council is working to ensure that older adults avoid unnecessary trips to hospital thanks to a collaboration with the South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS).
  Through the collaboration, the Social Work Line was created – a dedicated phone number that ambulance crew can use to contact a social worker directly.In this episode, you will hear from Matt Hutchinson, head of service for South Hampshire older adults’ team, and senior social worker Maria Kneller, who talk abou
  
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• Farewell to my practice educator: ‘You set the foundation blocks of my career’

  14-01-2025 14:48
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Our My Brilliant Colleague series invites you to celebrate anyone who has inspired you in your career.
  In this entry, social worker Yvonne Perkins celebrates the life of her former practice educator, Stewart Russell, whose ongoing guidance throughout the years built her career to where it is now.To Stewart Russell,
  Today we said farewell to you. Probably a hundred people were there to celebr
  
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• Policy paper: Government response to the House of Lords inquiry into preterm birth: reducing risks and improving lives

  14-01-2025 11:13 via gov.uk
  
  Details the government's response to the recommendations made by the House of Lords Preterm Birth Committee report.
  
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• How one local authority is keeping more children in family-based care

  14-01-2025 09:30
  
  It is no secret that there is a shortage of foster carers and residential placements across the country, meaning children are often placed too far away from their families, networks and communities.
  Norfolk County Council has been working hard to recruit, support and retain foster carers, while also revamping some of its in-house residential provision to make sure far more children remain in Norfolk, either with their families or within family-based care, wherever possible.
  Using the M
  
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• How to conduct confident direct work with children

  14-01-2025 09:01
  
  This article presents a few key considerations from Community Care Inform Children’s guide on conducting confident direct work with children and young people. The full guide provides practice guidance on conducting direct work exercises, including examples of tools, resources to take, how to set the tone and how to engage with the family. Inform Children subscribers can access the full guide here.
  This guide was written by Yvonne Shemmings, a child protection trainer and previously a local
  
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• How to conduct confident direct work

  14-01-2025 09:01
  
  This article presents a few key considerations from Community Care Inform Children’s guide on conducting confident direct work with children and young people. The full guide provides practice guidance on conducting direct work exercises, including examples of tools, resources to take, how to set the tone and how to engage with the family. Inform Children subscribers can access the full guide here.
  This guide was written by Yvonne Shemmings, a child protection trainer and previously a local
  
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• Council social care fee rises lag national living wage hike for third year running, providers report

  14-01-2025 01:01
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Council fee rises for social care providers have lagged behind increases in the national living wage (NLW) for each of the past three years, providers have reported.
  The research, carried out before the government’s autumn 2024 Budget added an estimated £2.8bn to the costs of adult social care in 2025-26, revealed that services were facing increasing workforce challenges.
  The lat
  
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• Charities forced to ‘evict’ adults in their care to stay solvent, survey finds

  14-01-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Annual sector review says tax and wage rises and council funding cuts have left services in ‘state of acute precarity’ Charities providing specialist care to thousands of vulnerable adults with learning disabilities and severe autism are having to “evict” residents to avoid insolvency because of tax and wage rises and local authority funding cuts.Non-profit providers say their work is in a “state of acute precarity” with many preparing to cut services, close d
  
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