Social work news

• Vicki Martin obituary

  22-09-2023 21:27
  
  My friend Vicki Martin, who has died aged 86, worked in social care for many years before becoming a social work assessor operating across the whole of Wales. Vicki’s life embodied social justice and the importance of investing in better futures for everyone.After starting out in the field as a support worker for people with learning disabilities at Bryn y Neuadd hospital, Llanfairfechan, in the 1970s, Vicki was a maternity unit social worker at St David’s hospital, Bangor, in the 80
  
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• Unions split as council leaders boost pay offer again in Scotland

  22-09-2023 21:01
  
  Unions have split on the latest pay offer from council leaders in Scotland, announced yesterday.
  UNISON Scotland has rejected the offer from COSLA and will continue with planned strikes across the country’s schools next week.
  However, fellow unions GMB and Unite have suspended their part in the schools walkouts pending consultation with their members over the offer, with Unite recommending acceptance and GMB, seemingly, staying neutral.
  UNISON will also consult members but will recommend r
  
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• Press release: Government and NHS to help tackle killer heart condition

  22-09-2023 17:20 via gov.uk
  
  Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay has announced measures to tackle aortic dissection, a heart condition that kills 2,000 people every year.
  
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• Government presses ahead with scientific asylum age assessments in face of criticisms

  22-09-2023 16:49
  
  The government is pressing ahead with the use of scientific age assessments of asylum-seeking young people in the face of severe criticisms.
  It has issued regulations that would permit the use of specified scientific methods to inform age assessments of asylum-seeking young people.
  The law would authorise the use of X-rays of teeth and hand and wrist bones, and MRI scans of the collarbone and knee bones, as part of age assessments.
  The Immigration (Age Assessments) Regulations 2023 require the e
  
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• Lib Dems’ Ed Davey to make £5bn-a-year pledge on care in England

  22-09-2023 16:00
  
  On eve of party conference, leader says he feels a heavy responsibility to help get Conservatives out of powerEd Davey is to pledge a £5bn-a-year guarantee of free care packages for all in England as the Liberal Democrats gather for their first in-person conference since 2019.Desperate to translate recent byelection successes into a mass haul of parliamentary seats, the Lib Dem leader plans to use the event in Bournemouth, which starts on Saturday, to become the first of the major UK polit
  
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• Agency social work rules: ‘hugely frustrating’ delay to DfE consultation response

  22-09-2023 15:20
  
  The government has delayed its response to a consultation on controversial national rules to regulate agency social work in England’s statutory children’s services.
  The response was due in September, but the Department for Education (DfE) said it would now be published later in the year because it needed further time to get the policy right.
  In its response to the separate consultation on its wider children’s social care reform strategy, Stable Homes, Built on Love, the DfE sai
  
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• Guidance: NHS cost recovery - overseas visitors

  22-09-2023 13:42 via gov.uk
  
  Information for NHS bodies who need to make and recover hospital charges from overseas visitors.
  
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• Alito Extends Freeze Of Ban On Biden Social Media Work - Law360

  22-09-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Alito Extends Freeze Of Ban On Biden Social Media Work  Law360
  
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