Social work news

• Councils able to recruit overseas social workers through £15m fund

  12-02-2023 17:52
  
  Councils will be able use a £15m international recruitment fund to source social workers from overseas to work in adults’ services, the government has confirmed.
  The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said that, though the focus of the fund should be on recruiting care workers, it could also be used to help source social workers, occupational therapists or nurses.
  The fund will be available in 2023-24 and is one of the DHSC’s responses to adult social care’s wors
  
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• CQC checks on council adult services still set for April 2023 start

  12-02-2023 15:26
  
  Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessments of local authority adult social services are still due to start in a matter of weeks despite the process for doing so not having been agreed.
  The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) confirmed that the adults’ assessments were still on course to commence at the start of April.
  This means it has not bowed to calls from council leaders for a delay, to help them deal with current pressures on services, including severe shortages of care staff,
  
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