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• Staff-to-service-user ratios 'not safe' in UK social work, say two-thirds ... - Communitycare.co.uk

  15-05-2023 23:20 via news.google.com
  
  Staff-to-service-user ratios 'not safe' in UK social work, say two-thirds ...  Communitycare.co.uk
  
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• Staff-to-service-user ratios ‘not safe’ in UK social work, say two-thirds of practitioners

  15-05-2023 23:17
  
  The ratio between the numbers of staff and the people they support is not safe in UK social work services, say two-thirds of practitioners.
  Social workers are also working increasing amounts of overtime and facing rising levels of burnout on the back of the pandemic, while over a third have considered leaving the profession.
  Those were among the findings of the sixth wave of research into Covid-19’s impact on health and social care practitioners, which started in May 2020 and has been carr
  
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• Correspondence: Gillian Keegan writes to NEU on the teachers' pay offer

  15-05-2023 18:27 via gov.uk
  
  Letter to NEU about the response from the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) on whether the teachers' pay offer was evidenced to be fully funded.
  
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• Guidance: Initial teacher training reform funding guidance

  15-05-2023 16:57 via gov.uk
  
  Funding available to training providers and placement schools for initial teacher training (ITT) in 2024 to 2025.
  
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• Press release: Health secretary attends Japan summit with health tech at top of the agenda

  15-05-2023 16:46 via gov.uk
  
  Secretary of State visits Japan for G7 Health Ministers’ meeting to see how tech is improving patient care and reducing the burden on staff
  
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• My dad is ill, but his flat's ceiling is falling in and our food bill has doubled. There’s no one to help us | Siobhan

  15-05-2023 14:00
  
  I’m stumped by the endless bureaucracy of the system. Why can’t we just find him somewhere warm and safe?This article is part of the heat or eat diaries: a series from the frontline of Britain’s cost of living emergencyWe take things day by day with my dad. After more than 10 years as his full-time carer, I know not to get my hopes up that things will magically get better. At the end of last year, he had some polyps removed from his colon. The surgery helped him to start eating
  
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• Staff-to-service-user ratios 'not safe' in UK social work, say two-thirds of practitioners - Communitycare.co.uk

  15-05-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Staff-to-service-user ratios 'not safe' in UK social work, say two-thirds of practitioners  Communitycare.co.uk
  
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• Staff-to-service-user ratios ‘not safe’ in UK social work, say two-thirds of practitioners - Community Care

  15-05-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
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• A third of Britons wait ‘more than a month’ to discuss dementia concerns

  15-05-2023 07:00
  
  Alzheimer’s Society says fear and confusion delays discussion for 33% of those who think they or a loved one may have dementiaA third of Britons who have concerns about whether they, or a loved one, might have dementia wait more than a month to discuss their worries with others, a leading charity has found, despite early diagnosis being important for treatment, support and planning.According to the World Health Organization, more than 55 million people have dementia worldwide, with 60-70%
  
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• Press release: Six new community diagnostic centres to deliver more than 500,000 lifesaving checks a year

  15-05-2023 01:30 via gov.uk
  
  New CDCs to open in regions across the UK, adding to the 106 centres already up and running and helping to cut NHS waiting lists
  
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• Press release: Six new CDCs to deliver more than 500,000 lifesaving checks a year

  15-05-2023 01:30 via gov.uk
  
  New community diagnostic centres (CDCs) to open in regions across the UK, adding to the 106 centres already up and running and helping to cut NHS waiting lists.
  
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• Why council was found to have breached Care Act needs duty after panel cut indicative budget

  15-05-2023 01:22
  
  By Pete Feldon
  A recent High Court judgment, which found that a local authority acted unlawfully in deciding how to meet a person’s needs, provides helpful guidance for practitioners on applying the Care Act 2014 and its statutory guidance.
  This article examines the importance of the judgment for decision-making about personal budgets and also responding to complaints, and highlights the implications for defensible decision-making and the Care Quality Commission’s new responsibility
  
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• How social workers can better support families affected by online child sexual abuse

  15-05-2023 01:08
  
  By Natasha Sabin, Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse
  Across the UK in 2021, there were, on average, over 850 arrests for online sexual offences every month. Sadly, the ease with which child sexual abuse material can be viewed and shared has led to a huge growth in the production of abuse images and in the numbers of people accessing them.
  Data shows that, compared with those convicted of other forms of sexual offending, individuals who access child sexual abuse material are more likely to
  
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