Social work news

• From apprentice to social worker: the value of practising while you learn

  29-11-2023 18:43
  
  Herefordshire Council delivers its three-year apprenticeship through Coventry University. Lectures occur in person each Monday at the university, making this the first year that the council has partnered with the university in this way. We asked Hannah, Amie, Kate and Caitlin what inspired them to start the apprenticeship course, and spoke to Rose, an advanced practitioner who supports them, about how the apprenticeship course is structured.
  Hannah: I’m a 16+ personal advisor for the
  
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• Councils say they are ‘held to ransom’ by private providers of children’s care

  29-11-2023 18:18
  One child cost a local authority £63,000 a week and the number of placements has shot up to more than 1,500 from 120 five years agoCouncils have claimed they are being “held to ransom” by private care providers, as it emerged the taxpayer has been paying as much as £63,000 a week for single children’s social care placements.The extraordinary bill – equivalent to £3.3m a year for one placement – came in new figures from local authorities in England
  
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• Guidance: SAFE taskforces

  29-11-2023 16:38 via gov.uk
  How SAFE (support, attend, fulfil, exceed) taskforces can help schools to keep children safe from the impact of serious youth violence.
  
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• How Labour’s plan for ‘fair pay’ deals looks to solve UK social care crisis

  29-11-2023 14:46
  
  Underfunded, overstretched sector to become testing ground for battle against low pay but critics say policy is weak and vague“My sister is a care worker. She was a care worker during the pandemic. Fourteen-hour shifts, often overnight. Unimaginable pressure. And the reward? A struggle every week – and I mean every week – just to make ends meet.”So spoke Keir Starmer last month, drawing on experience close to home in his party conference speech to underline his determinat
  
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• Homelessness social work role valuable but rare, isolated and temporarily funded – study

  29-11-2023 10:45
  
  Specialist social workers are helping improve outcomes for homeless people but their role remains rare, often isolated and usually temporarily funded.
  That was the message from a study launched this week that called for greater recognition and secure funding of the role.
  The publication of the paper, by the National Institute for Health Research Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, follows the establishment a peer support network for practitioners working with homeless peopl
  
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• UK ministers considering limit on foreign care workers’ dependants

  29-11-2023 10:23
  
  Steve Barclay says home secretary is looking at restrictions after Robert Jenrick proposed banning workers from bringing childrenThe number of dependants that foreign care workers are allowed to bring in to the UK could be cut under government plans to reduce immigration, a cabinet minister has said.Steve Barclay, the environment secretary, said the home secretary, James Cleverly, was considering restrictions on dependant numbers as an option to reduce figures. Continue reading...
  
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