Social work news

• Councils increasingly using ‘golden hellos’ to attract social workers

  02-06-2023 20:44
  
  Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week.
  From a look into the increasing use of incentive payments to recruit social workers to disabled people going into debt, or without care, because of rising charges, here’s what you might have missed this week in social work:
  One-third of councils using incentive payments to attract social workers, finds investigation
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• Caring is work. It is time that was recognised | Letter

  02-06-2023 18:11
  
  When I reach state pension age, my carer’s allowance will be taken from me, writes one readerHaving cared for my daughter for 33 years and claimed carer’s allowance for only half of that period because I didn’t know that I was entitled to it, I am angry that next year, on reaching the state pension age, this will be taken away from me. My caring duties, however, will not stop (The Guardian view on carers: those who do the caring deserve care themselves, 24 May).I gave up my car
  
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• AMHP leads sound alarm over Met Police withdrawal from mental health-related incidents

  02-06-2023 15:25
  
  Approved mental health professional (AMHP) leads have sounded the alarm over the Metropolitan Police’s decision to withdraw from attending mental health-related incidents in London by the end of August.
  The AMHP Leads Network joined organisations including the Royal College of Psychiatrists and mental health charity Mind in warning that the policy risks leaving people in crisis without the support they need.
  Met commissioner Mark Rowley announced last week that the force would “withd
  
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• Decision: Direction: Brian Richard Martin barred from managing independent schools

  02-06-2023 10:03 via gov.uk
  
  A decision from the Secretary of State to direct that Brian Richard Martin should be prohibited from the management of independent schools.
  
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