The guideline from NICE – the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – will ensure people with social care needs who need hospital treatment get the support they need to leave hospital in a coordinated and timely way. The guideline will also help to avoid repeated hospital stays.
Detailed analysis of the social care funding measures outlined in the Spending Review, conducted by the ILC-UK Centre for Later Life Funding and supported by Age UK reveals a bleak future for older people needing care.
The Committee of Public Accounts raises fresh concerns over the funding and provision of public services in its tenth Report of this Session, Care Act first-phase reforms and local government new burdens.
On Thursday 5 November 2015, Shropshire Adult Safeguarding Board held their first consultation event at Shrewsbury Town FC’s stadium.
Around 50 people gathered to discuss the changes in adult safeguarding following the introduction of the Care Act. They also gave their feedback on the strategic plan, and had their say on how the board can communicate with the public.
The concerns of older carers of an adult with disabilities have been well documented. The sudden incapacity or death of the carer can result in a crisis response rather than a planned transition to a chosen sustainable alternative care arrangement for the person with disability. Building on previous ‘Futures Planning’ projects, the aim of this project was to enrich the lives of people with disabilities and their carers whilst ensuring that their wishes for the future are documented to provide security. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
This study, conducted in Finland, is an attempt to quantify the impact of moral distress on social workers.
Moral distress is described as the sense that social workers (in this context) feel when they feel that they are not able to work in a ‘morally appropriate way’ either because of internal or external pressures and obstacles. In a world with increasing pressures and funding challenges, it is particularly apposite for the current climate of English social work practice.
This paper is concerned with improving assessment practices with people who are carers of people with mental illness. It is established that the well-being of carers is negatively impacted by the burden of their caring role, and that the needs of carers are often overlooked and poorly responded to by formal helping services.
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Almost half of inpatients (1,450 or 48 per cent2) with learning disabilities3 in specialist inpatient units on 30 September 2015 were also receiving inpatient care at the time of previous census collections dating back to 20134. This finding comes from the third annual Learning Disability Census, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) today.
Positive behavioural support (PBS) may be a potentially interesting service for adults with intellectual disabilities and behaviours that challenge, improving outcomes and lowering the cost of care in the longer term. This is the main finding of our initial look at the economic case in collaboration with a small local authority in England, with funding from the National Institute for Health Research School for Social Care Research (NIHR SSCR).
In October an inquest jury found neglect contributed to the death of 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk at a Southern Health NHS Trust learning disabilities unit.
Internationally, mental health care systems have identified recovery as the underlying philosophy for practice and policy in mental health care, although establishing a specific definition of recovery is still work in progress. This mixed-methods study explored the meaning and scope of recovery from the perspective of people diagnosed with mental illnesses.
This paper explores the concept of recovery-oriented social work practice in mental health settings as it is understood and practised by social workers. The authors describe an investigation of the implementation of mental health reforms in Quebec. This study explored the gap between the reforms' philosophical orientations of mental health recovery and its practical realisation. Specifically, we will discuss the ways in which the social work field encompasses approaches that potentially espouse contradictory understandings of recovery.
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W. Schröer, and S. Sting. Handbuch Soziale Arbeit in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Grundlinien - Konzepte - Handlungsfleder – Methoden, Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt a. M., (2004)
K. Scheiwe. Erziehung und Bildung von Kindern als gemeinsames Projekt: zum Verhältnis familialer Erziehung und öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung., Schneider Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler, (2010a)
J. Krawietz, and W. Schröer. Die soziale Welt quer denken: Transnationalisierung und ihre Folgen für die Soziale Arbeit., Frank & Timme, Berlin, (2010)