Date: 24th June 2024
Time: 12noon - 1.30pm
The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (the Social Care Council) have announced a new Lunchtime Seminar to be presented by Chief Social Worker Aine Morrison, Department of Health, Ulster University’s Professor Paula McFadden and Emeritus Professor Mary McColgan.
As part of the Safer and Effective Staffing in Social Work Research and Policy Development Project, they will be presenting The Starting Point, with Baseline Analysis in Children’s and Older People’s Social work in Northern Ireland.
The seminar will focus on the main question of the study, specifically “How can safe staffing levels be established for children’s and older people’s services in social work in Northern Ireland?”.
Open for anyone to attend, this Lunchtime Seminar will be of particular interest to social workers and social work managers, social care workers, social care managers, regulators and professional bodies.
Discussion will be around the following solutions:
- To undertake a literature review and scoping exercise to evaluate existing practice across Northern Ireland and the UK as well as internationally, for assessing safe staffing levels in Older People and Children’s services and any examples of caseload management.
- To gather information on the scope of current social work and social work assistant posts in older people’s and children’s services across Northern Ireland.
- To document overall average and range of caseload numbers at team and Program of Care level, funded establishment, social work activity, vacancies, and sickness absence.
- To examine governance structures in single disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams in Older People and Children’s services
- To explore caseload weighting or measurement tools in use across NI in older people and children’s services.
This Lunchtime Seminar is free and open to anyone. To book your place simply register through the Zoom link here.
