The Scottish Government must pause its 'disruptive' plans to remove social care from council control in order to shore up local authority services that face real-terms cuts in - That was the message this week from the Convention of Scottish...

Social care leaders from across local and central government and provider bodies have been recognised in the New Year Honours as the sector battles one of the toughest winters in many years Leaders of two of the main provider organisations...

International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt Canadian social workers were surveyed about early adversities mental health and resilience Bivariate analysis n was conducted to understand relationships between predictor and outcome variables and logistic regression analyses were conducted for depression post-traumatic stress disorder anxiety and resilience The impact of pandemic-related factors was also investigated The results indicate that social workers are experiencing concerning levels of mental health issues with significantly lower levels of...

International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt In this article we apply theories of non-citizenship assemblage to conceptualise the dynamic relationship of social determinants of health for international students in Canada who face barriers to accessing COVID- vaccines and verifying their vaccination status Social workers' roles in responding to and reducing these inequities are also discussed with attention to micro practice meso service integration and macro public policy advocacy Through theorising assembled inequities...

Turning is an important milestone in any young person's life But for young people who need social care it also marks the transition point between children's and adults' services -- a process that has traditionally been a challenge in...

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I came to South Gloucestershire because I wanted to work in a place where I felt I could work therapeutically Fostering social worker Anna is discussing her motivations for joining South Gloucestershire Council three-and-a-half years ago Chief among them was...

A few weeks ago children's social worker Janny received a letter from a father she had been supporting who had experienced domestic abuse He wanted to thank her and let her know he and his family were moving into a...

High workloads and a lack of supervision are undermining the professional curiosity and challenge needed for effective child protection practice research has found Several serious case reviews found that high workloads meant social workers lacked the time to build the...

Government intervention in children's services must be sensitive to the 'bruising' impact on staff of working in an 'inadequate' authority in order to succeed That was among the findings of a Department for Education-commissioned study on the effectiveness of DfE...