Social work news

• Emergency duty social workers resume strike following pause

  08-09-2023 19:40
  
  Emergency duty service (EDS) social workers have resumed ongoing strike action over their pay arrangements after pausing it for talks with employers.
  The GMB members have walked out every day since midnight on Monday (4 September) after cancelling planned strikes last weekend.
  The seven practitioners are currently planning to strike every day up to and including Sunday 17 September, followed by every weekend until the New Year.
  While the union has acknowledged that Swindon Council has offered st
  
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• DfE sets up group to tackle social worker workloads

  08-09-2023 12:53
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The Department for Education has set up a group to tackle workloads for social workers in local authority children’s services.
  Its establishment comes after DfE-commissioned research found that almost two-thirds of children’s services practitioners felt their workload was too high, as of autumn 2022, up from a half in 2018.
  The national workload action group (NWAG)’s remit
  
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• Consultation outcome: NHS Pension Scheme: McCloud remedy part 2: proposed changes to Scheme Regulations 2023

  08-09-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  DHSC is consulting on a draft statutory instrument making changes to NHS Pension Scheme Regulations necessary to implement the second part of the McCloud remedy.
  
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• ‘I was called “Mr Taliban” by a colleague’: one social worker’s experience of Islamophobia

  08-09-2023 09:02
  
  As a practising Muslim, I’ve faced Islamophobic abuse on many occasions, including during my social work career.
  For instance, I was allocated a case that had been removed from another social worker after they received sexist and racist comments.
  Except, when the person needing support emailed calling me a “Bin Laden social worker” and sent me death threats, my pleas to stop working with him for my safety were ignored by social work managers for more than two months. Why the st
  
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