Social work news

• Guidance: Assessment only route to early years teacher status (EYTS)

  15-09-2023 16:17 via gov.uk
  
  Criteria and advice for accredited early years initial teacher training providers offering the assessment only route to EYTS.
  
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• ‘The advice that has stayed with me through my social work career’

  15-09-2023 16:07
  
  In a video for our Dear Future Social Worker series, director Steph Downey shares the “best piece of advice” she has received during a career lasting over 25 years.
  It came from a retired social worker just after Steph – now service director in adult social care at Gateshead Council – joined the profession and was afflicted by imposter syndrome.
  “I was a bundle of nerves,” she says in the video. “Anxious that both the university that had qualified m
  
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• £10m boost to adult social care funding to tackle NHS winter pressures

  15-09-2023 15:27
  
  The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m.
  Councils will be able to bid from a pot of £40m – up from £30m – for cash to help prevent hospital admissions and speed up discharges from wards. The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter.
  The Department of Health and Social Care suggested that councils use the funding to purchase more
  
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• Open consultation: Fixed recoverable costs in lower damages clinical negligence claims – a supplementary consultation on disbursements

  15-09-2023 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  A supplementary consultation on disbursements within the fixed recoverable costs scheme for clinical negligence claims up to a value of £25,000 in England and Wales.
  
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• Open call for evidence: Improving integrated commissioning in health and social care

  15-09-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  We want your views on changes to section 75 of the NHS Act 2006 to increase the use of pooled budgets to support the integration of health and care.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Fixed recoverable costs in lower value clinical negligence claims

  15-09-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Proposes the introduction of fixed recoverable costs and a new streamlined process in clinical negligence claims up to a value of £25,000 in England and Wales.
  
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