Social work news

• Social Care Online library closes after almost 20 years

  10-05-2024 16:51
  
  The Social Care Online library has closed after almost 20 years providing access to information on the sector.
  The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), which ran the service, said it was no longer meeting the needs of social care professionals.
  Social Care Online provided a searchable database of abstracts relating to good practice on different aspects of social care and was targeted at practitioners, as much as students or academics.
  ‘Social care’s equivalent of a search eng
  
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• Transparency data: Privacy notice: skills and training programme employer case studies

  10-05-2024 16:34 via gov.uk
  
  How the Department for Education will use and store information provided to it in relation to the promotion of government skills and training programmes.
  
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• DHSC launches £16m fund to tackle exploitation of overseas care staff

  10-05-2024 14:49
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The government has launched a £16m fund to tackle the exploitation of overseas adult social care staff.
  The resource is an extension of the international recruitment fund for the adult social care sector, issued last year to help councils and providers increase the employment of overseas staff.
  However, for 2024-25, the Department of Health and Social Care has switched the focus of the
  
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• How effective are case reviews in improving safeguarding practice?

  10-05-2024 13:46
  
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  Social work opinion is divided on how effective case reviews are in improving safeguarding practice, a Community Care poll has found.
  In late March, the local child safeguarding practice review into the murder of 10-month-old Finley Boden by his parents, 39 days after his return to their care, was published. 
  Though the inquiry acknowledged that practitioners’ jobs had
  
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• Press release: England's World Leading Attendance Drive Continues

  10-05-2024 12:53 via gov.uk
  
  Next phase of DfE’s world-leading attendance drive will provide new data for schools to help them spot trends in children’s attendance for earlier intervention.
  
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• Podcast: using new approaches to promote ‘old school’ social work for older adults

  10-05-2024 08:17
  
  When Hampshire County Council’s adult social care teams noticed a doubling of the care packages required for people within its population aged over 85 years, it found a solution through an approach called proactive enhanced care (PEC).
  This approach taps into a return to ‘old school’ social work values that focus on prioritising time with the older person and focussing on a person-centred approach to how they are supported.
  In this episode, social workers in Hampshire County Co
  
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