
Taisha Mathieu, center, works with 8th-grade students participating in the Teen Outreach Program, a weekly workshop led by social workers that focuses on mental health, at a middle school in New Jersey
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Taisha Mathieu, center, works with 8th-grade students participating in the Teen Outreach Program, a weekly workshop led by social workers that focuses on mental health, at a middle school in New Jersey
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The results from the clinical trial, published in The Lancet: Healthy Longevity and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), evaluated the effect and cost-effectiveness of a new service, consisting of six personalised home-based visits from a support worker, tailored to each person to identify what they need to stay well and independent. Interventions could include home exercise programmes, nutritional support to improve energy levels, improving mental wellbeing and increasing social connections.
The SSSC currently regulates about 176,500 of the approximately 213,000 people working in the sector in Scotland, including social workers, social work students, children’s and adults’ residential care staff, day care workers in children’s services and adult home care workers. The proposed new groups would add about 7,400 to this total, including 2,800 social work assistants.