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International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt Despite growing knowledge of intervention outcomes associated with Solution-Focused Brief Therapy practitioner-centred processes of training and implementation especially involving social workers of the same organisation in a non-Western Asian setting remain research gaps Over year using in-depth qualitative interviews with Singaporean youth workers to understand individual and organisational experiences of training and implementation findings indicated that chronologically and cumulatively the combination of a formative training experience...

The government will strongly encourage councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability SEND provision it said today It confirmed its support for authorities appointing designated social care officers DSCOs in its improvement plan for SEND...

The Home Office has ended a scheme to give councils additional payments to incentivise them to take in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from hotels on its scheduled date As of today authorities will no longer receive for each child they...

International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt Thus far casework practice has been based solely on reason In this article we propose that to form a good casework relationship between worker and client it is important to adopt a mental state that goes beyond reason This refers to a state of mind wherein the workers themselves abandon their attachment to the 'self' obsession with the self...

The system for challenging councils on their adult social care decisions is failing those who need it the Equality and Human Rights Commission EHRC has warned Inaccessible information complicated and stressful processes and a lack of advocacy were undermining people's...

An unavailability of mental health beds doctors and transport are leading to severe delays in Mental Health Act MHA assessments that are increasing risks to people and their families That was the warning from approved mental health professional leaders...

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The number of children's social workers quitting their posts annually has risen by in five years Department for Education figures have shown While councils lost full-time equivalent FTE staff in the year to September this jumped to...