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• How TikTok’s algorithm ‘exploits the vulnerability’ of children

  04-04-2023 21:38
  
  Up to 1.4m children under 13 use app, watchdog finds – and experts say they are being flooded with harmful content to promote addictionTikTok fined £12.7m for illegally processing children’s dataIt is the home of dance tutorial videos and viral comedy sketches. But it is also host to self-harm and eating disorder content, with an algorithm which has been called the “crack cocaine of social media”.Now, the information commissioner has concluded that up to 1.4 million
  
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• Transparency data: Common basic data set (CBDS): requests for change (RFC) 2023

  04-04-2023 17:38 via gov.uk
  
  Completed RFCs that we'll make to the CBDS during 2023, including details of the change and the reasons for the request.
  
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• Press release: Over 37,700 women access cheaper hormone replacement therapy scheme

  04-04-2023 15:59 via gov.uk
  
  37,700 women have purchased Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) prescription pre-payment certificates (PPC) following the launch, saving over £1.13 million.
  
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• News story: Government unveils taskforce chair to boost older people's housing

  04-04-2023 15:44 via gov.uk
  
  A new taskforce to help improve housing options for older people will be headed by Professor Julienne Meyer
  
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• Transparency data: Higher education short courses trial: courses included

  04-04-2023 14:30 via gov.uk
  
  Courses included in the higher education short courses (HESC) trial.
  
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• Press release: Government sets out next steps to support social care

  04-04-2023 14:08 via gov.uk
  
  Building on the People at the Heart of Care white paper, the government has set out plans to further digitise the social care sector and bolster the workforce.
  
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• Open consultation: Care workforce pathway for adult social care: call for evidence

  04-04-2023 13:06 via gov.uk
  
  We want your views on what should be included within a new care workforce pathway for adult social care.
  
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• Policy paper: Better Care Fund policy framework 2023 to 2025

  04-04-2023 13:05 via gov.uk
  
  This document sets the national conditions, metrics and funding arrangements for the Better Care Fund in financial years 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025.
  
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• Policy paper: Adult social care system reform: next steps to put People at the Heart of Care

  04-04-2023 13:05 via gov.uk
  
  A plan for adult social care system reform 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 financial years.
  
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• Press release: Findings of independent review of ICSs published

  04-04-2023 11:43 via gov.uk
  
  An independent review of integrated care systems (ICSs) has today published its final report.
  
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• Independent report: The Hewitt Review: an independent review of integrated care systems

  04-04-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt was commissioned to lead an independent review of integrated care systems in November 2022.
  
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• Independent report: Hewitt Review: an independent review of integrated care systems

  04-04-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt was commissioned to lead an independent review of integrated care systems in November 2022.
  
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• UK-wide peer support for social work students is launched - British Association of Social Workers

  04-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  UK-wide peer support for social work students is launched  British Association of Social Workers
  
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• Podcast: Child-focused case recording – what social workers should know

  04-04-2023 09:00
  
  In this episode of Employer Zone Insights we speak to principal social worker Fiona Hayward and child and youth voice worker Cameron Draisy, both from Wiltshire Council.
  In 2020, after feedback from children and young people, Wiltshire’s children’s services made changes to how social workers wrote up reports and case records. This included avoiding using jargon to make reports more sensitive and thoughtful.
  Fiona captured these changes in Ways of Writing, a chapter in a new book by p
  
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• BASW UK holds ‘Social Work Stands Against Poverty’ event in Parliament - new.basw.co.uk

  04-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  BASW UK holds ‘Social Work Stands Against Poverty’ event in Parliament  new.basw.co.uk
  
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• BASW UK holds ‘Social Work Stands Against Poverty’ event in Parliament - British Association of Social Workers | BASW

  04-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  BASW UK holds ‘Social Work Stands Against Poverty’ event in Parliament  British Association of Social Workers | BASW
  
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• BASW UK holds ‘Social Work Stands Against Poverty’ event in Parliament - British Association of Social Workers

  04-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  BASW UK holds ‘Social Work Stands Against Poverty’ event in Parliament  British Association of Social Workers
  
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• BASW UK holds 'Social Work Stands Against Poverty' event in Parliament | BASW - new.basw.co.uk

  04-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  BASW UK holds 'Social Work Stands Against Poverty' event in Parliament | BASW  new.basw.co.uk
  
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• BASW UK holds 'Social Work Stands Against Poverty' event in Parliament | BASW - BASW

  04-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  BASW UK holds 'Social Work Stands Against Poverty' event in Parliament | BASW  BASW
  
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• Halving social care workforce funding in England an ‘insult’, ministers told

  04-04-2023 07:00
  
  Charities criticise new plans, described as a ‘shadow of the reform needed’ with the care system ‘on the precipice’Charities have criticised an announcement that funding promised for the social care workforce in England is to be halved, with one calling the move “an insult”.In a white paper on adult social care reform published in December 2021, ministers pledged to invest “at least £500m over the next three years to begin to transform the way we s
  
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