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Future of Social Work
with Adults
Lyn Romeo
Chief Social Worker for Adults
Twitter: @LynRomeo_CSW
[email protected]
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As Chief Social Worker for Adults my role is to:
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Provide an expert voice for social work in government
through influencing national policy and legislation.
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Continue the reform of social work education,
training and practice.
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Improve the wider public’s perceptions and understanding of
the role and value of social work in improving people’s lives.
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Changing landscape in health and social care
Policy Drivers – Integration, Personalisation, Outcomes-focused
Care Act 2014
Mental Capacity Act / DOLS
Mental Health Act - Code of Practice
Dementia strategy,
Autism strategy,
Transitions to adulthood
Winterbourne view
Service DE – approaches to local authority commissioning
Integrated health and social care providers (Better Care Fund)
Integrated Mental Health Services
Social enterprises /
community interest
companies (CICs)
Integrated responses with primary care
Standards and Regulation
Chief Social Workers for Children
& Adults, education reform, AYSE, CPD
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Refreshed employer
standards for social workers
HCPC regulations
The Care Act is built around people
Ensures that people’s well-being and
the outcomes which matter to them, will
be at the heart
of every
decision that is made.
Creates a new focus
Puts carers on
the same footing as
those they care for.
Puts personal budgets on a legislative
footing for the first time, which people will be
able to receive as direct payments if they wish.
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on preventing
and delaying
needs for care
and support,
rather than only
intervening at crisis
point.
Regulations, Guidance and Good Practice
Produced in partnership
with a wide range of
stakeholders – in much
the same collaborative
approach use to
Final publication of
produce the Act
Regulations and
Guidance in
Good practice
October 2014
guidance and
implementation
tools
Act
implementation
April 2015/2016
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Repositioning of social work
in adult social care
Promote social workers as the
lead professional
responsible for personalised,
integrated care and supports
– especially:
• Prevention – promoting independence
and resilience
• Assessment or review of an individual
or carer with complex social care needs
• Supervising safeguarding enquiries
• Transition to adulthood
Social workers have
the qualifications,
knowledge and
skills to work:
- with complexity, risk and conflict
- Operate within a legal framework
- therapeutically and in the community
- with capacity and mental health needs
- to shape the social care market
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Opportunities for innovative social work practice
Task-centred/problem-solving
Making safeguarding
personal approach
Family
systemic
approaches
Micro-providers/
innovative use of
personal budgets
Attachment based
strategies with adults
Strengths and
community-based
approaches
Motivational
approaches
Client-centred interventions
which make a real difference
to people’s lives
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Ability to make a difference
Social Worker
“Working with a man living in squalor, eating
out of bins and very unkempt and neglecting
all personal and nutritional care....the work
done with this man has made a vast difference
to his life. He was shunned and discriminated
against by neighbours, schoolchildren and
others in the community. It seems he has lost
all self-respect, however this is gradually
coming back in very small stages...”
“It was the social worker who was the greatest
professional support and put me in touch with a
wonderful independent carer who helped to look
after mum at home for the last few months before
she needed residential care. Of all the
professionals, she had the most hands-on
understanding”
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Carer
Implications for Social Work Practice
Renewed focus on
Away from
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Maximising independence and
choice
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Strong legal literacy
Will mean
Positive risk-taking
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Working with other
professionals
Professional responsibility for continuous professional
development
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Common values, ethics and models of interventions
across adults’ and children’s services
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Leadership at all levels
Procedure and process-driven approaches to
assessment and care planning
Social work must deepen its knowledge and skills if it is to
respond to the transformation of health and social care
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Changing expectations of care and support – user of services
as equal partner; strengths/asset-based approaches
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Responding to meet the challenges arising from demographic
changes – aging population, dementia, long-term conditions,
mental health, financial constraints
Requires: Workforce planning, organisational commitment to
social work and access to quality assured CPD
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