Social work news

• ‘Resource pressures’ behind decision to shelve LPS, says care minister

  03-05-2023 23:38
  
  “Resource pressures” were behind the government’s decision to shelve the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), according to the care minister.
  However, Helen Whately said the government remained committed to introducing the LPS to replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), in an appearance yesterday before Parliament’s health and social care select committee.
  Whately’s appearance, alongside the Department of Health and Social Care’s top civil servant
  
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• Social work supervision of school safeguarding leads has no impact on appropriate referrals – study

  03-05-2023 23:15
  
  A scheme to provide school designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) with supervision from a social worker has had no impact on measured outcomes, research has revealed.
  The programme did not lead to more appropriate referrals from schools to children’s social care, nor did it enhance DSLs’ wellbeing, said What Works for Early Intervention and Children’s Social Care (WWEICSC), which managed the Department for Education (DfE) funded project.
  On the back of the research, WWEICSC advis
  
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• Open consultation: NHS Pension Scheme: proposed uplift to member contribution thresholds for 2023 to 2024

  03-05-2023 17:31 via gov.uk
  
  We are consulting on changes to the NHS Pension Scheme Regulations 2015 concerning uplifts to member contributions in 2023 to 2024, in line with the Agenda for Change pay deal.
  
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• Social work supervision of school safeguarding leads has no impact on appropriate referral levels – study

  03-05-2023 16:09
  
  A scheme to provide school designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) with supervision from social workers has had no impact on measured outcomes, research has revealed.
  The programme did not lead to more appropriate referrals from schools to children’s social care, nor did it enhance DSLs’ wellbeing, said What Works for Early Intervention and Children’s Social Care (WWEICSC), which managed the Department for Education (DfE) funded project.
  On the back of the research, WWEICSC advise
  
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• Industrial action on cards at Scottish councils as union members reject offer

  03-05-2023 16:06
  Industrial action is on the cards at Scotland’s councils after union members overwhelmingly rejected employers’ offer to raise pay by 5.5% on average in 2023-24.
  Consultative ballots saw 87% of UNISON members oppose the proposed settlement, with 94% of staff belonging to the GMB and 84% of those from Unite doing the same.
  The vast majority (91%) of UNISON members who voted to reject said they would be prepared to take some form of industrial action in pursuit of an improved deal, wit
  
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• Independent report: COVID-19 vaccination of children aged 6 months to 4 years: JCVI advice, 9 December 2022 (updated 26 April 2023)

  03-05-2023 15:48 via gov.uk
  
  Statement setting out the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 6 months to 4 years.
  
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• NHS social workers’ pay deal to go through after majority backing from unions

  03-05-2023 14:47
  
  A proposed pay deal for NHS social workers in England will go through after unions representing the majority of members gave it their backing.
  The government will now implement the deal, which amounts to a 5% rise in pay for this year, backdated to April 2023, in addition to two one-off payments for 2022-23.
  UNISON, the biggest NHS union and one which supported the deal, urged the government to ensure the money was paid into practitioners’ June salaries. The Department of Health and Social
  
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• Four care staff convicted of mistreating people with learning disabilities at hospital

  03-05-2023 11:40
  
  Four workers have been convicting of mistreating people with learning disabilities in their care, following the trial into abuse at a hospital uncovered by a BBC investigation.
  Matthew Banner was convicted of five charges of ill-treatment of a person in his care, while Peter Bennett and Ryan Fuller were each convicted of two charges and John Sanderson of one count of the same offence.
  The four care workers were convicted of the offence of ill-treating a person they have the care of, by virtue of
  
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