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How social workers can use attachment theory in direct work
Sep 2, 2015 · Exploring how the past might be affecting the present will need to become a central feature of social workers’ supervision if practitioners are going to work more to help families rather than ‘assess them to death’.. Unresolved loss and trauma in the carer’s past can often impede progress when working with a family but it is more difficult for social workers to …
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Community Care Inform provides social work practice and legal information and learning tools in an accessible format. The resources help professionals make and evidence their decisions, keep up-to-date with best practice and the law, and contribute to continuing professional development (CPD). If you have a subscription to Community Care …
The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on
Apr 11, 2024 · Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary.. More than 20 years after delivering his report into the death of Victoria Climbié, there is still a quiet sadness about Lord Herbert Laming at the mention of her name.
Safeguarding adults enquiries: do you need consent?
Jan 23, 2024 · Should the person refuse any action being taken, it would be helpful to reflect on this very important section from 39 Essex Chambers’ Mental Capacity Guidance Note: Assessment and Recording of Capacity: ‘… If you have proper reason to think that the person may lack capacity to take a relevant decision, especially if the consequence of what they are wanting to do is likely to lead to ...
Employers rebuff union calls to increase local government pay offer
Local government employers have rebuffed union calls to increase their pay offer to staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for 2024-25.. UNISON, Unite and the GMB wrote to employers urging “open meaningful pay talks” and an improved offer in the light of superior pay settlements handed out to other public sector workers by the government. ...
What the 'least restrictive option' means under the Mental …
Dec 18, 2012 · Social care practitioners can be unclear about what is meant by using the “least restrictive option” to support people under the Mental Capacity Act. In this article, reproduced with kind permission from the English Community Care Association newsletter, Rachel Griffiths explains how they should apply this principle.
How to write a good report - Community Care
Jul 28, 2010 · Social workers are expected to communicate effectively and lucidly with other professionals, but many fail to do so. Anita Pati looks at the extent of the problem and Martin Cutts offers tips on writing reports
A trauma-informed approach to social work: practice tips
Sep 12, 2023 · There is increasing understanding that traumatic events can seriously impact individuals’ psychological and physical health and wellbeing. Being trauma-informed means understanding that those in most need of services may also be the hardest to reach and least likely to engage effectively with services.
10 years on from Victoria’s death, what’s changed?
Feb 24, 2010 · Community Care's exclusive poll finds that information sharing has improved in the 10 years since Victoria Climbié died, despite continuing problems with computer systems.