A ‘massive reduction’ in the care population, with many more children cared for at home or with extended family, will be the key measure of success for the Department for Education’s (DfE’s) social care reforms.
That was the message from the DfE’s chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler in a session today at Social Work Week, the annual online event organised by Social Work England.
Trowler also said that she thought that the general election
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‘Massive’ cut in care population is key success measure for DfE reforms, says chief social worker
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Regulator urges TV industry to ‘change the script’ on how it depicts social work
Social Work England has urged the entertainment industry to ‘change the script’ on how it depicts the profession after commissioning research that linked negative media portrayals to social work having a poor public image.
The regulator launched a campaign on the issue today after releasing research showing that just 11% of social workers, and 44% of members of the public, thought that the profession was well-respected within society.
The views of the public, as surveyed by YouGov, o -
Open consultation: Proposed update to the statutory scheme to control the cost of branded health service medicines
via gov.ukThis consultation seeks views on proposals to update the statutory scheme to control the cost of branded health service medicines. -
Guidance: International recruitment toolkit for adult social care providers
via gov.ukGuidance for adult social care providers to ethically and sustainably recruit care workers and senior care workers from overseas. -
Press release: 4D tech to prevent falls to be rolled out in social care settings
via gov.uk4D mapping technology that detects falls using sensors and alerts carers is piloted in care homes. -
What happens when you put a nursery in a care home? - podcast
via theguardian.comAt Belong Chester, residents spend their days with nursery-age children. What effect does it have on the wellbeing of both groups? Helen Pidd reports“I think there’s something very natural about bringing young children and older people together, and yet in the UK it’s not the norm any more,” Helen Pidd, the Guardian’s north of England editor, tells Nosheen Iqbal.Is the UK missing out on the benefits of intergenerational living? Helen visits Belong Chester, a multige -
Ed Davey: ‘We need a cross-party agreement on social care’
via theguardian.comSpeaking ahead of the party’s spring conference, the Liberal Democrat leader challenges the Tories and Labour to find consensus on financial package for the NHSRishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have been challenged to sign up to cross-party talks finally resolving the impasse over social care, as part of a Liberal Democrat plea to “grasp the nettle” after years of failure.Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, said that his party would include in its forthcoming manifesto a promise to attend -
Minority ethnic social care staff face disproportionately high levels of bullying and disciplinaries – study
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Black, Asian and minority ethnic social care staff face disproportionately high levels of workplace bullying, disciplinary action and fitness to practise referrals, while also being less likely than white counterparts to be shortlisted for jobs.
Those were among the damning findings from a Skills for Care study assessing the performance of 23 local authorities in England against a set of rac -
Notice: Notice to improve: St Aidan’s Church of England Academy
via gov.ukA notice to improve issued to St Aidan’s Church of England Academy by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. -
Aged care workers to get 23% average pay rise as union heralds move as ‘one of the best outcomes’ ever achieved
via theguardian.comHealth Services Union secretary says new benchmark pay rate will make sector competitive with public health systemFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAged care workers will receive an average pay rise of 23% after the Fair Work Commission delivered its decision in a long-running work value case.The commission’s expert panel said those involved in direct care including nurses and home care workers des -
Non-statutory placements make up over half of provision for students in Scotland, report reveals
Non-statutory placements make up over half of practice learning provision for social work students in Scotland, leaving some graduates underprepared for practice, research has revealed.
The lack of placements in local authorities is driven by underfunding and practice educator shortages, said a report commissioned by regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and the Social Work Education Partnership (SWEP), an alliance of council and university leaders that oversees the education sys -
‘It’s hopeful work’: social work in an adults’ mental health team
“I love my job and the amazing team I work with. It can be frustrating at times, but just as I think I’m getting fed up something fantastic happens,” says Abigail, a practice consultant in the forensic social work team within Norfolk.
Abigail works with patients who have been convicted of a crime but have also been diagnosed with a mental health problem, such as personality disorder, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. The latter is the most commonly diagnosed mental health cond -
Guidance: Accelerating Reform Fund 2023 to 2024: grant determination
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Open consultation: Childminder recruitment and retention consultation
via gov.ukWe are seeking views on Department for Education proposals to support childminders and childminder agencies (CMAs) and future policy development. -
Aged care workers to get 23% average pay boost as union heralds move as ‘one of the best outcomes’ ever achieved
via theguardian.comHealth Services Union secretary says new benchmark pay rate will make sector competitive with public health systemFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAged care workers will receive an average pay rise of 23% after the Fair Work Commission delivered its decision in a long-running work value case.The commission’s expert panel said those involved in direct care including nurses and home care workers des -
Press release: £20 million boost for adult social care and unpaid carers
via gov.uk£20 million invested in innovative projects supporting people in adult social care and unpaid carers across the country -
Press release: Childcare applications for parents of 9-month-olds to open 12 May
via gov.ukPlaces boosted even further with new measures to support childminders, and funding rates confirmed for all childcare providers ahead of historic rollout -
Transparency data: Privacy information: artificial intelligence (AI) tools
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Press release: Community Diagnostic Centres deliver more than 7 million checks
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Transparency data: ICT and digital qualifications with removed funding approval
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‘Even though you’re not here anymore, you still influence my passion for social work’
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.In Community Care’s new series, My Brilliant Colleague, we’ve asked social workers to celebrate the excellent practice and achievements of their fellow practitioners.
In the series’ latest entry, Purna Patel, an independent reviewing officer (IRO) at Leicester City Council, talks about her late mentor, Janice Brien, who to this day continues to inspire her during difficult -
Official Statistics: Postgraduate initial teacher training targets: 2024 to 2025
via gov.ukAnnual target for the number of trainees to start postgraduate initial teacher training in the 2024 to 2025 academic year, in England, by subject. -
Guidance: FE funding: initial teacher education (ITE) bursary
via gov.ukGuidance for FE ITE providers about bursary funding for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. -
Podcast: supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism post-pandemic
In the latest episode of the Workforce Insights podcast, we speak to Dan Wilkins and Juliana Ameh about their work at Wiltshire Council in adult social care.
Dan is the head of transformation and quality assurance for adults and has over 20 years’ experience working with adults with learning disabilities and autism. Juliana is a social worker in the learning disability and autism team. Prior to qualifying as a social worker, she was a support worker for people with learning disabilities.
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40% of family support staff have personal experience of domestic abuse, finds survey
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Four in ten family support and early help workers have personal experience of domestic abuse, a survey has found.
The proportion of those who reported personal experience of domestic abuse (39.1%) compares with a prevalence rate for women aged over 16 across England and Wales of 27% as of 2023, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data.
Women accounted for 90.9% of the 350 pract -
Transparency data: DHSC: spending over £500, December 2023
via gov.ukDepartment of Health and Social Care spending by electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS), over £500. -
Transparency data: DHSC: spending over £25,000, December 2023
via gov.ukReports on departmental spending over £25,000. -
Social workers expecting ‘significant cuts’ to social care funding over coming year
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Most social workers are expecting “significant cuts” to social care funding in their area in 2024-25, a Community Care poll has found.
This is despite the government allowing councils to raise expenditure on services in general by £4.5bn next year, a 7.5% in cash terms or 5.7% in real terms, dependent on authorities maximising increases in council tax.
Grant funding for soc -
UK home care workers cannot work as visa regime tightened, says employer
via theguardian.comGrosvenor says it is prevented from making 3,000 visits a week as it pays migrant workers to sit at home because permits not renewedOne of the UK’s biggest home care providers says it is paying dozens of migrant workers to sit at home and do nothing because the Home Office has not renewed key immigration permits.Thousands of workers, mostly from Africa, were welcomed into the UK to help fill the one in 10 care worker jobs vacant after the Covid crisis. But after scammers abused the system, -
Press release: Urgent call to smokes to make a quit attempt for No Smoking Day
via gov.ukSmokers in England are being urged to make a quit attempt this No Smoking Day to improve their health and wealth. -
Press release: Urgent call to smokers to make a quit attempt for No Smoking Day
via gov.ukSmokers in England are being urged to make a quit attempt this No Smoking Day to improve their health and wealth. -
DoLS: older people routinely having rights breached because of failure to tackle ‘huge’ backlog, warns charity
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Older people are routinely having their human rights breached because of a failure to tackle the “huge” Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) backlog and a system in “complete disarray”.
That was the verdict from an Age UK report that warned many people were being unlawfully deprived of their liberty because of the government’s failure to reform DoLS, signifi -
AMHPs to stage walkout as social work strike action hits sixth council within a year
Strike action involving social workers will hit a sixth local authority in England within 12 months this weekend.
Approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) in Cumberland Council’s urgent care team will stage a 48-hour walkout from 15-17 March in protest against the authority’s decision not to regrade their role.
According to their union, the GMB, the practitioners requested a regrading in July 2022 – when services were run by the former Cumbria County Council – in the -
Social work in Wales: how student numbers have grown following bursary boost
Wales had seen a drop in applications to social work courses in recent years but an increase in the value of bursaries may have helped reverse this trend.
A 2022 report for Social Care Wales found only about 200 of the 350 or so social workers needed each year were joining the profession.
The cost of training was key, especially for postgraduate courses, where the bursary had failed to keep pace with rising tuition fees.
Boost to bursaries
In response to the report, and a campaign led by social -
Guidance: National flu immunisation programme plan 2024 to 2025
via gov.ukThe annual flu letter describes the national flu immunisation programme and outlines which groups are eligible for flu vaccination. -
Australia’s aged care fees are under review. Will wealthy people have to pay more?
via theguardian.comAn expert panel has recommended people with a lot of super contribute more to aged care – but the government may not respond any time soonThe long-awaited report of the government-appointed aged care taskforce has recommended wealthier Australians be expected to tap into their superannuation balances to pay for more, in a bid to keep the system sustainably funded.While the government is urged to remain the “major funder” of aged care, the expert panel said older Australians are -
Rape and sexual harassment reported by foreign care workers across UK
via theguardian.comMultiple cases of abuse and exploitation have been documented, but many staff feel ‘powerless to complain’ for fear of losing the right to work in the countryA foreign care worker says she was repeatedly raped by her manager but felt unable to report him to the police for fear of losing her right to work, in a case that exposes the way the UK’s visa system for health and care workers leaves people completely dependent on their employer.The case is one of more than 170 examples -
A Medicare-style levy would guarantee all Australians the right to aged care when we need it | Sarah Holland-Batt
via theguardian.comThe government-appointed taskforce has failed to mount a convincing argument why a modest financial contribution across a lifetime shouldn’t extend to aged careThe aged care royal commissioners were notably split on a number of key issues, but on one principle they were united. Older Australians should not be required to contribute to their cost of care, nor should care be means tested.Instead, commissioner Tony Pagone wrote, every Australian should “contribute towards the financing -
Wealthy older Australians should pay more for aged care services, expert panel recommends
via theguardian.com‘Strong case’ to increase co-contributions for people with means, as there will always be some who need more government support, report saysGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastOlder Australians with more wealth should have to pay more for the cost of their aged care, a government-appointed expert panel has recommended, potentially from their superannuation balances.But the government will not pursue a new levy or tax to pay for rising care costs, -
Policy paper: Government response to the report of the equity in medical devices: independent review
via gov.ukGovernment’s response to the independent review into racial, ethnic and other factors leading to unfair biases in the design and use of medical devices. -
Independent report: Equity in medical devices: independent review - final report
via gov.ukFindings and recommendations of the independent review into racial, ethnic and other factors leading to unfair biases in the design and use of medical devices. -
Call for evidence outcome: Equity in medical devices: independent review call for evidence
via gov.ukWe are seeking your views on the design, development, evaluation and use of medical devices. -
Press release: New action to tackle ethnic and other biases in medical devices
via gov.ukGovernment outlines action to make UK a world leader in tackling ethnic and other biases in medical devices. -
News story: New laws to cut migration and tackle care worker visa abuse
via gov.ukReforms to restrict care workers from bringing family members are now in force, while care providers are required to register if they are sponsoring migrants. -
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Press release: Get Your Blood Pressure Checked
via gov.ukMillions at risk from 'silent killer' as NHS campaign warns there are often 'no clues' when it comes to high blood pressure. -
Fitness to practise delays set to rise further due to Social Work England budget pressures
Fitness to practise (FTP) delays are set to rise further due to pressures on Social Work England’s budget, the regulator has confirmed.
Case lengths – from referral to a decision on the practitioner’s fitness to practise – will increase over the next 12 months from a current average of just over two years, Social Work England said in a report to its board meeting last month.
The situation is driven by the regulator’s constrained capacity to hold hearings determining -
Warning over use in UK of unregulated AI chatbots to create social care plans
via theguardian.comUniversity of Oxford study shows benefits and risks of technology to healthcare, but ethical issues remainBritain’s hard-pressed carers need all the help they can get. But that should not include using unregulated AI bots, according to researchers who say the AI revolution in social care needs a hard ethical edge.A pilot study by academics at the University of Oxford found some care providers had been using generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard to create care plans for people rec -
Press release: £35 million investment to boost maternity safety
via gov.ukThe investment will be provided over the next three years to ensure maternity services listen to and act on women’s experiences -
Revealed: homeless children spending entire lives in temporary housing in England
via theguardian.comThousands of families have not found permanent accommodation for more than a decade, according to alarming new research• Read more: ‘My children never had a place they could say was home’Some homeless children are now spending their entire childhoods in supposedly “temporary accommodation”, while thousands of families have been housed in it for more than a decade, according to alarming new evidence of a homelessness crisis “spiralling out of control”
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