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2 years ago
Scrap most community treatment orders, MPs and peers urge government
Community treatment orders CTOs should be scrapped in most cases because they are overused overly restrictive and used starkly disproportionately for black and ethnic minority people That was the headline recommendation from the parliamentary committee scrutinising the government's plans to...
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2 years ago
Combine social work with scientific methods to boost reliability of age checks, experts advise government
Social work assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers' age should be combined with scientific methods to reduce the risks of claimants being wrongly found to be children or adults That was the verdict from government advisers in a report last week...
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2 years ago
Festival of Learning is back with a week of high-quality social care training
Community Care's Festival of Learning is back offering practitioners a week of high-quality virtual social care training from leading experts Registration is now open for the event from - March with a wealth of learning on offer for adults'...
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2 years ago
The draft Mental Health Bill: parliamentary proposals for change
By Tim Spencer-Lane The joint committee on the draft Mental Health Bill was appointed in July to consider the government's draft bill to reform the Mental Health Act MHA which is summarised here More on this story Scrap...
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2 years ago
Newly Qualified Social Workers
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2 years ago
Reinstate hospital social workers to improve discharge outcomes, PSWs urge Barclay
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...
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2 years ago
‘Why I quit my placement after three weeks’
A few years ago while studying for my social work degree I started a placement with a third sector agency supporting adults with additional support needs to participate in community activities I only managed to complete three weeks before having...
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2 years ago
Risk of ‘poor or potentially illegal’ practice in care home discharge plan, warns ADASS
Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals into care homes may result in poor or potentially illegal practice through people being moving into residential care without their informed consent That was the warning from the Association of...
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2 years ago
Practising social work as part of a public inquiry
By Cassy Harrison and Jacqui Smith The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse IICSA set up in to examine a broad range of institutions and organisations and their responses to allegations of child sexual abuse CSA reported last October...
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2 years ago
Some Court of Protection report orders ‘overly burdensome’, warn mental health leaders
Some Court of Protection orders for professional reports on people subject to proceedings are disproportionate overly burdensome and wrongly authorised mental health leaders have warned The court's vice-president Mr Justice Hayden shared feedback from mental health trust directors regarding orders...