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• Press release: Cancer survival rates improve by almost 10%

  13-04-2023 17:47 via gov.uk
  
  Three in every four people survive their cancer the first year after being diagnosed with rates of survival for some cancers even higher, according to latest figures.
  
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• Guidance: Register of Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agencies

  13-04-2023 17:27 via gov.uk
  List of approved Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agencies
  
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• Decision to shelve LPS ‘unacceptable blow to thousands unlawfully detained’

  13-04-2023 12:57
  
  The government’s decision to shelve the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is “an unacceptable blow” to the thousands of people currently unlawfully deprived of their liberty.
  That was the damning verdict of the country’s leading advocacy providers, VoiceAbility, after the government announced last week that it would not implement the LPS this side of the next general election, which will take place before the end of 2024.
  The Welsh Government dubbed the decision to dela
  
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• UK Social Work celebrates graduation of Army MSW cohort at Fort ... - UKNow

  13-04-2023 12:29 via news.google.com
  
  UK Social Work celebrates graduation of Army MSW cohort at Fort ...  UKNow
  
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• When Britain's care homes reward shareholders over staff, we need a new system | Amy Horton

  13-04-2023 11:19
  
  Care workers kept the industry going in the Covid years on low wages at great personal cost – yet many are still strugglingOur care system should be enabling people to live fulfilling lives, but each week brings new evidence that Britain’s social care system is unable to deliver this.Huge numbers of people are struggling to access support. The majority of people who deal with care services are unsatisfied with them. And the number of vacant posts in adult social care is the highest s
  
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• Palliative care social work: ‘this is proper social work, this is what I trained to do’

  13-04-2023 10:40
  
  To some, at first glance, working in a hospice might seem a gloomy place to practise social work.
  However, Wendy Ashton, joint education lead at the Association of Palliative Care Social Workers (APCSW), believes social work in palliative care is about celebrating life rather than focusing on death.
  “This is proper social work, this is what I trained to do. I don’t mean that to be demeaning of any other social work but it is totally different,” she says.
  Palliative care, usuall
  
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• Official Statistics: PPE distribution (England): quarterly update to 31 March 2023

  13-04-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Experimental statistics about PPE (personal protective equipment) deliveries and related documents.
  
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• Official Statistics: Apprenticeships and traineeships: April 2023

  13-04-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Monthly apprenticeship starts in England (August 2022 to January 2023, reported to date).
  
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• UK Social Work celebrates graduation of Army MSW cohort at Fort Sam Houston - University of Kentucky

  13-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  UK Social Work celebrates graduation of Army MSW cohort at Fort Sam Houston  University of Kentucky
  
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• UK Social Work celebrates graduation of Army MSW cohort at Fort Sam Houston - uknow.uky.edu

  13-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  UK Social Work celebrates graduation of Army MSW cohort at Fort Sam Houston  uknow.uky.edu
  
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• UK Social Work celebrates graduation of Army MSW cohort at Fort Sam Houston - UKNow

  13-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  UK Social Work celebrates graduation of Army MSW cohort at Fort Sam Houston  UKNow
  
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• UK Social Work celebrates graduation of Army MSW cohort at Fort Sam Houston - UK NOW

  13-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  UK Social Work celebrates graduation of Army MSW cohort at Fort Sam Houston  UK NOW
  
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• Council’s failures left disabled child in chronic pain for three years, watchdog finds

  13-04-2023 01:01
  
  Local government ombudsman rules that delay in finding suitable accommodation for family caused serious health risksA severely disabled child missed out on vital NHS surgery and was left in chronic pain for more than three years because a council failed to move them out of unsuitable housing despite repeated pleas from health professionals, a watchdog has ruled.Lambeth council in London was fined £20,000 by the local government and social care ombudsman for a catalogue of service failures
  
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