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• Hunt’s Budget boosts tax relief for foster and shared lives carers and support for care leavers

  15-03-2023 23:08
  
  Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today.
  However, social care leaders have criticised the lack of funding for core services for the coming years, while the statement also did not provide further detail about public sector pay settlements for 2023-24.
  While many foster and other carers do not pay tax on the payments they r
  
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• Hunt’s disability plans put 1m at risk of losing £350 a month, IFS says

  15-03-2023 19:26
  
  Charities and disability campaigners say chancellor’s proposals set out in his budget more ‘stick than carrot’Budget 2023 - live coverage and reactionUp to 1 million people currently claiming incapacity benefits could lose hundreds of pounds a month as a result of plans outlined in the budget to push ahead with the “biggest reforms to the welfare system in a decade,” experts have said.The warning came as ministers unveiled a range of measures to try to drive more pe
  
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• Hunt’s disability plans put 1 million people at risk of losing £350 a month, IFS says

  15-03-2023 19:26
  
  Charities and disability campaigners say chancellor’s budget proposals are more ‘stick than carrot’Hunt gives top 1% a pension bonus, ignores public services Up to 1 million people claiming incapacity benefits could lose hundreds of pounds a month as a result of plans outlined in the budget to push ahead with the “biggest reforms to the welfare system in a decade,” experts have said.The warning came as ministers unveiled a range of measures to try to drive more peop
  
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• Guidance: Review of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below in England

  15-03-2023 17:45 via gov.uk
  
  An overview of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below for awarding organisations and providers.
  
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• Independent report: UKNHCC annual report 2022

  15-03-2023 15:44 via gov.uk
  
  The United Kingdom Nutrition and Health Claims Committee (UKNHCC) annual report for the calendar year 2022.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Childcare: regulatory changes

  15-03-2023 14:35 via gov.uk
  
  We are gathering a range of views to help us reach well-informed and fair decisions on proposed regulatory changes to childcare in England.
  
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• Social workers should not assess asylum seeker ages for Home Office, professional body says

  15-03-2023 14:17
  
  Home Office is recruiting them for national assessment board, taking decision away from local authoritiesThe professional body for social workers has urged its members not to work with the Home Office to assess the ages of asylum seekers, saying that political pressures could undermine their professional judgment.The Home Office is recruiting social workers to join the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB), which was set up under the Nationality and Borders Act to take responsibility for determin
  
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• Social workers should not assess ages of asylum seekers, professional body says

  15-03-2023 14:17
  
  Home Office is recruiting them for national assessment board, taking decision away from local authoritiesThe professional body for social workers has urged its members not to work with the Home Office to assess the ages of asylum seekers, saying that political pressures could undermine their professional judgment.The Home Office is recruiting social workers to join the National Age Assessment Board (NAAB), which was set up under the Nationality and Borders Act to take responsibility for determin
  
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• Social Work Recap: regulation of care leaver accommodation and legal action over children in hotels

  15-03-2023 13:17
  
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  Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week.
  From a council scrapping care charges for its disabled residents and potential strikes by Care Quality Commission staff to a call for the regulation of care leaver accommodation, here’s this week’s line-up:
  Killing of 18-year-old
  
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• Guidance: Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers: how to apply

  15-03-2023 12:54 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for employers and employer-providers on organisations that are eligible to receive government funding to train apprentices.
  
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• Government has no plans to review level of social work bursaries despite nine-year freeze

  15-03-2023 08:59
  
  The government has no plans to review the level of social work bursaries despite them having been frozen since 2014.
  Care minister Helen Whately said the government did not intend to “assess the adequacy of social work bursaries for the forthcoming academic year”, 2023-24, in response to a written parliamentary question from Labour’s Emma Lewell-Buck.
  Whately also said that ministers “had no plans to assess [the] distribution of and access to social work bursaries fo
  
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