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Category: Community Care- Adults

  • ‘Substituted parenting’ risk used to justify removing children without evidence base, finds study

    By Mithran Samuel and Clare Jerrom Councils are justifying removing children from parents with learning disabilities using a concept that lacks evidence, risking discrimination, research has found. The term ‘substituted parenting’ has become a “negative shorthand”, based on unevidenced, “theoretical concerns” about services potentially providing excessive support to a family such that the child was, […]

  • Lack of social care workforce plan ‘a missed opportunity’

    By Clare Jerrom and Mithran Samuel Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From criticism of the lack of a social care workforce plan to accompany this week’s NHS strategy, concerns over the state of child protection and […]

  • Mental health social workers consider striking over staffing levels

    By Dan Parton Mental health social workers could strike over what their union has dubbed “chronic staffing issues” within their teams. Barnet UNISON has applied to the union’s national industrial action committee to approve an industrial action ballot for members across the London borough’s north and south mental health teams and approved mental health professional […]

  • Council must tackle ‘significant’ DoLS delays, says watchdog

    By Dan Parton A council must tackle “significant” delays in processing Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) cases, the local government watchdog has said. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman issued the call in a report on Surrey council, which had the highest DoLS backlog in England, with 5,700 outstanding requests, as of 31 March, […]

  • 60,000 cut in social care waiting lists but need continues to mount, says ADASS

    By Mithran Samuel and Dan Parton Adults’ services teams have cut care and assessment waiting lists by 60,000 since last summer and are arranging more home care, but continue to struggle with mounting need. That was the message from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) today as it released the results of […]

  • Child protection ‘should be key driver of asylum response to children’

    By Nicole Weinstein Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From a report on improving the asylum system for children to disabled people’s experience of rising social care charges and the value of podcasts in social work learning, here’s […]

  • 20% boost in NHS mental health social worker numbers

    The NHS increased the size of its mental health social work workforce by 20% from 2019-22, official figures show. However, there appears to have been a sharp fall in the number of partnership arrangements between NHS trusts and councils to deliver services while vacancy rates also appear to have risen, according to a census of […]

  • Politicians urge end to ‘horrendous’ handcuffing of children in care

    Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From a campaign to ban the handcuffing of children in care to a new blueprint for reforming adult social care reforms, here’s what you might have missed this week in social work: […]

  • Unaccompanied children in hotels are councils’ responsibility – judge

    Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From a ruling over who’s responsible for unaccompanied migrant children living in hotels to the exploitation of overseas staff recruited to work for a social care provider, here’s what you might have […]

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