Social work news

• Social workers from 22 bodies to develop resources to cut workloads

  09-05-2024 23:05
  
  Social workers and managers from 22 organisations are to help develop and test resources designed to cut workloads among children’s practitioners.
  They will work with the Department for Education (DfE) appointed national workload action group (NWAG) to identify and quality assure solutions to ‘unnecessary’ drivers of workload.
  The work of the review, testing and implementation network (RTIN), which comprises 21 councils and one children’s trust (see below), will cover are
  
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• Transparency data: Families first for children pathfinder: grant determination letters

  09-05-2024 17:41 via gov.uk
  
  Letters outlining the grant provided to local authorities in England to support delivery of families first for children (FFC) pathfinder and family network pilot projects.
  
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• Guidance: Higher education tuition fees for foundation years

  09-05-2024 17:36 via gov.uk
  
  How higher education (HE) providers can implement the HE tuition fee cap for classroom-based foundation years in the 2025 to 2026 academic year.
  
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• Statutory guidance: NHS (General Medical Services - Premises Costs) Directions: previous directions

  09-05-2024 17:35 via gov.uk
  
  These previous directions, published for public reference, were for the NHS from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and relate tohow payments should be calculated and made to general practice contractors in respect of premises costs.
  
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• Statutory guidance: NHS (General Medical Services - Premises Costs) Directions

  09-05-2024 17:34 via gov.uk
  
  Directions for the NHS from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care relating to how payments should be calculated and made to general practice contractors in respect of premises costs.
  
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• Guidance: Phonics screening check data collection: guide

  09-05-2024 17:34 via gov.uk
  
  Guide for local authorities to help them complete and return the 2024 phonics screening check data collection.
  
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• Carer’s allowance scandal is not going away – but will DWP reform happen?

  09-05-2024 17:23
  
  After the Guardian exposé there is pressure on ministers to save people from a system described as ‘setting carers up for a fall’• DWP’s unchecked database leaves tens of thousands at risk of debtIt has been a month since the Guardian revealed the shocking scale of the carer’s allowance overpayments scandal, and the misery and despair it has inflicted on tens of thousands of unpaid carers. The issue is not going away – but what happens next?The story has
  
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• DWP’s unchecked database leaves tens of thousands of carers at risk of debt

  09-05-2024 17:22
  
  About 50% of earnings ‘alerts’ for carer’s allowance overpayments not looked at by staff, figures reveal• Will DWP act on carer’s allowance scandal?Tens of thousands of unpaid carers are at risk of debt and criminal prosecution because their cases are lying unchecked on a government “alert” database of people being overpaid benefits, according to new figures.Officials are aware of the mounting number of instances where UK carers are at risk of racking up
  
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• Social work across the decades: the Maria Colwell inquiry

  09-05-2024 14:12
  
  It is fifty years since the launch of Community Care as a resource for social workers and others within social services.
  It was also fifty years ago, in 1974, that the Maria Colwell inquiry report was published. Its significance was recognised at the time – it was on the front cover of Community Care – and has not diminished over the past five decades.
  Maria was seven years old when she was killed, in 1973, by her stepfather after being returned from foster care to the care of her mo
  
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• Guidance: International recruitment fund for the adult social care sector 2024 to 2025

  09-05-2024 13:24 via gov.uk
  
  Information on the £16 million support fund for regional partnerships to prevent and respond to exploitative employment practices of internationally recruited care staff.
  
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• Policy paper: Shipbuilding skills in the UK

  09-05-2024 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  The government's response and next steps to the UK shipbuilding skills taskforce's report on the changes needed to develop UK shipbuilding skills.
  
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• Transparency data: Supply of skills for jobs in science and technology

  09-05-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  An assessment of the supply of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce to 2030 and the education pathways into STEM jobs.
  
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• Research: Jobs and skills dashboard

  09-05-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Dashboard showing statistics on jobs and skills in the UK.
  
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• Open consultation: Strengthening protections in unregistered alternative provision

  09-05-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Seeking views on the introduction of new national standards and a quality assurance framework for unregistered alternative provision.
  
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• Official Statistics: Apprenticeships: May 2024

  09-05-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Monthly apprenticeship starts in England from August 2023 to February 2024.
  
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• Guidance: Addressing health inequalities across allied health professional (AHP) services: a guide for AHP system leaders

  09-05-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance developed with AHP leaders to support the planning, implementation and evaluation of actions to reduce health inequalities in AHP services.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Understanding the use of unregistered alternative provision

  09-05-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  We are seeking views to better understand how unregistered alternative provision is commissioned and delivered.
  
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• Press release: Prime Minister to call on university leaders to protect Jewish students

  09-05-2024 01:15 via gov.uk
  
  Vice Chancellors from some of the country’s leading universities will join forces with the government today (9 May) to discuss actions to address the rise in antisemitic abuse on campus and disruption to students’ learning.
  
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• Transparency data: Special free schools: local authority applications for waves 3 and 4

  09-05-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  List of local authorities who applied to open a special free school in waves 3 and 4, and those who were successful.
  
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• Press release: Government expands support for pupils with SEND

  09-05-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Locations announced for 16 new special free schools and trusts appointed at a further 7 schools, providing thousands of vital places across England.
  
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