Social Work Matters

Information & ideas about social work practice with children & families

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It's important to make good decisions about contact for children who are looked after outside of their birth family home, link to a brief summary on Instagram: https://t.co/uKQ0KV32wr

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This quote will forever stick in my mind as one which epitomises the social work relationship with people we work with. Check out my Instagram for more posts: https://t.co/uKQ0KV32wr

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If your working with young people, growth mindset could be one of the most important perspectives you support them to develop for mental health and education progress. FREE workbook in the link: https://t.co/6eBqHI1gfH #GrowthMindset

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The culture of unpaid over time in children's social care masks an understaffing crisis, harms retention, and contributes to burnout of practitioners. https://t.co/iJf9IrvVGT

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NQSW: ‘I get to the end of the second week after being paid and don't have any money’ https://t.co/VtipGmPbqt

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Agile working failing to meet social workers' needs https://t.co/25m15somba

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Social care and education staff are among groups of workers being hit hardest by the cost-of-living crisis. https://t.co/F6wbKyUyPa

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A social worker, and mother of three, discusses what it means to have £9 in their bank account with three weeks till payday. https://t.co/VtipGmPbqt

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Quarter of workers across health and social care are struggling to feed their families and experienced food insecurity.
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Practitioners consistently negative about practices such as hotdesking that reduce opportunity for peer support, take time and increase stress. https://t.co/25m15somba

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'Government must completely revamp its local authority dispersal scheme for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children' Former children’s minister says. #UASC https://t.co/4cUVB9fczH

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A majority of social workers are out of pocket from inadequate mileage allowances while battling the cost of living crisis https://t.co/1cqJyQwKjd

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“We have lost quite a lot of our experienced social workers, with people re-evaluating their life after the pandemic” https://t.co/UaO4EC92Se

[Sam Upton @samuptonn]

This is an open call out! 📣
I’d like to hear from anyone who is care experienced and has accessed or tried to access their care records. I’m putting together a workshop on the process - if you’d like to be involved, please dm me!

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Care leavers share hopes and fears on starting university #CareLeavers #CEP
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The benefits of providing better support for care leavers with insecure immigration status #CareLeavers #UASC https://t.co/AnJiJ2S2t2

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Welsh government launches consultation on plans to “eliminate profit from the care of looked-after children”. #ChildrensSocialCare https://t.co/hZYAWSzH7j

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The Department for Education has announced that changes to legislation surrounding the regulation of children's social work will go ahead later this year, following a public consultation on reforms. https://t.co/SDA9my0lHe

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Neurodivergent social workers 'exhausted' by lack of understanding at work https://t.co/6uEAueKw9I

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How poetry can be used to enhance social workers’ reflection and self-care https://t.co/Jr8GZpCvjQ