Social work news

• Practitioners to be mandated to report child sexual abuse

  03-04-2023 23:21
  
  Social workers and other children’s services staff and volunteers will be mandated to report child sexual abuse (CSA), Suella Braverman pledged yesterday.
  The home secretary said the government would introduce a mandatory reporting duty, subject to consultation, in response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s final report, published last October.
  This was one of IICSA’s central recommendations, which it said would combat systemic under-identification of CSA.Pro
  
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• Readers’ Take: should a single word define the quality of social work services?

  03-04-2023 22:24
  
  Berkshire headteacher Ruth Perry’s death has reignited an old debate about the appropriateness of Ofsted’s single-word grading system.
  Under this, schools, social care providers and local authority children’s services receive an overall grade based on the same scale – outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate.
  This has long been opposed by children’s services leaders, with directors and academics criticising Ofsted’s assessment system last ye
  
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• Peter Westland obituary

  03-04-2023 21:58
  
  My friend and mentor Peter Westland, who has died aged 90, was one of the first directors of social services in the UK, and later had a significant influence on social care at the Association of Metropolitan Authorities (AMA), where he campaigned against the marketisation of care services.Peter was born in Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, to Fred, a railway shunter, and Kathleen (nee Kemp), a housewife who occasionally took in washing. He attended Scunthorpe grammar school and at the age of 23, aft
  
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• Guidance: NHS injury costs recovery scheme: tariff and charges from 1 April 2023

  03-04-2023 17:16 via gov.uk
  
  Annual amendment in the tariff and ceiling of charges payable by compensators for the recovery of NHS charges under the NHS injury costs recovery scheme.
  
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• Decision: Revised direction issued to Bradford Council: February 2022

  03-04-2023 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  A revised statutory direction issued to Bradford Council due to poor performance in children’s social care services.
  
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• Decision: Revised direction issued to Bradford Council: April 2023

  03-04-2023 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  A revised statutory direction issued to Bradford Council in relation to children’s social care services.
  
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• Experienced Social Worker – Children and Young People’s Disabilities

  03-04-2023 10:58
  
  https://jobs.communitycare.co.uk/job/1401740020/experienced-social-worker-children-and-young-people-s-disabilities/
  
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• NSPCC warns against framing grooming gangs problem as ethnicity-based

  03-04-2023 10:22
  
  Sir Peter Wanless welcomes creation of taskforce but says ‘there must be a focus on more than just race’Politics live - latest updatesThe NSPCC and experts on grooming gangs have warned ministers against framing the issue as one based around ethnicity, warning this could hamper efforts to tackle a crime that a Home Office report said was carried out predominantly by white men.One expert said Suella Braverman, who has argued that grooming gangs are “almost all” made up of
  
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• Would my mum lose her house and savings if she had to go into care?

  03-04-2023 08:00
  
  She wonders whether to give her property to me and my brother or buy a place with meQ My mum would like to give her property to me and my brother, as she is worried that if she had to go into a care home she would lose her house and savings. I have read about deprivation of assets and am just curious to know how the council decide that this has occurred.Another option my mum and I have been considering is buying a property together. That way I can care for her if she gets sick. Again, if she did
  
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