Social work news

• Readers’ Take: are bonuses the answer for social work roles that are hard to recruit or retain?

  20-04-2023 22:07
  
  Earlier this month, 60 adults’ social workers and occupational therapists (OTs) from South Gloucestershire Council went on strike over recruitment and retention payments received by children’s colleagues.
  The payments comprise a £3,000 lump sum for recruits who have already passed their assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE), on successful completion of their probation, and an equivalent annual payment for those with two years’ service with the council.
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• Starmer was not ‘soft on crime’. But this is politics – and the ruthless Tory machine is just starting up | Gaby Hinsliff

  20-04-2023 19:12
  
  The Labour leader’s record as an advocate for victims of sexual abuse is instructive, just don’t expect to hear about itFiona Ivison was 17 when she was strangled and battered to death by a man who had paid her for sex. He then left her body in a freezing car park.She was only 14 when she was groomed by an older man into what she thought was a loving relationship, and then became a victim of sexual exploitation. Although the killer was caught, her mother, Irene, felt strongly that th
  
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• Open consultation: Care workforce pathway for adult social care: call for evidence (easy read)

  20-04-2023 18:36 via gov.uk
  
  We want to find out what skills and experience you think are important for adult social care staff.
  
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• Safeguarding overhaul needed to better protect disabled children in care, says abuse inquiry

  20-04-2023 14:22
  
  Councils should have a bigger role monitoring local residential settings in their areas to better protect disabled children, an inquiry into the abuse of children in three services has concluded.
  The measure is among nine recommendations designed to overhaul the safeguarding of disabled children and those with complex health needs in residential care, made by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel today.
  The panel also called for disabled children and those with complex needs to have acces
  
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• Level 3 technical qualifications: funding approval process

  20-04-2023 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  How we will approve level 3 technical qualifications for funding.
  
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• Level 2 technical qualifications: funding approval process

  20-04-2023 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  How we will approve level 2 technical qualifications for funding.
  
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• Guidance: Guide to post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below in England

  20-04-2023 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  An overview of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below for awarding organisations and providers.
  
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• National Statistics: Permanent exclusions and suspensions in England: spring term 2021 to 2022

  20-04-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Levels of permanent exclusion and suspension in the spring term 2021 to 2022 by school type, and reasons for exclusions and suspensions.
  
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• Labour is on the warpath at last. But why is it targeting benefit claimants and disabled people? | Frances Ryan

  20-04-2023 09:00
  
  By reviving scrounger myths and rubbishing free social care, Starmer’s begun a race to the bottom – one the Tories will win With the local elections round the corner and the general election rumoured for next autumn, Keir Starmer, the measured lawyer, is rebranding. Faced with criticism over attack ads on Rishi Sunak, the newly bullish Labour leader has doubled down, insisting he will continue “no matter how squeamish it might make some feel”. Those who object to the new
  
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• Urgent calls for reform after horrific abuse of young people at private care homes

  20-04-2023 01:01
  
  Child safeguarding practice review panel says harm was result of day-to-day failures and oversightThe government’s child safeguarding advisers have urged major reforms to protect severely disabled young people in residential care after “horrific and shocking” abuse revelations at a string of homes run by a private operator.The child safeguarding practice review panel recommendations, published on Thursday, follow its earlier report on the systematic abuse and neglect of more th
  
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