Social work news

• Guidance: School workforce census 2023: technical information

  21-04-2023 17:04 via gov.uk
  
  Information on the scope and business rationale of the school workforce census 2023.
  
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• Social workers urged to report negative media coverage to union

  21-04-2023 16:09
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social workers have been urged to report negative media coverage of the profession to inform efforts to improve press reporting on social work.
  The Social Workers Union (SWU) wants practitioners to email it cases where media organisations have misrepresented the profession or revealed personal details about individual social workers, and said it would take action off the back of this.
  The SW
  
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• ‘Outdated’ law on social care for disabled children will be reviewed

  21-04-2023 14:01
  
  The ‘outdated’ legal framework on social care for disabled children in England will be reviewed with a view to making it fairer and more effective.
  The Department for Education has asked the Law Commission for England and Wales to review the “patchwork of legislation” for the group, dating back to 1970.
  The review was a commitment in the DfE’s draft children’s social care implementation strategy, published in February, in response to the Independent Review of
  
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