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• How prioritisation tool can help councils tackle their DoLS backlogs

  10-06-2024 16:36
  
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  By Lorraine Currie
  The number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) cases handled by English councils hit another record high in 2022-23.
  Though councils completed a record 289,150 applications, the backlog grew by 2%, to 126,000, and the average duration of completed cases increased from 153 to 156, year on year.
  At the same time, there is no current prospect of the Liberty Protectio
  
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• Frontline rebrands fast-track social work programme

  10-06-2024 14:07
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Frontline has rebranded its fast-track social work training programme as Approach Social Work.
  The rebrand comes a decade after the charity started delivering the scheme, under which trainees qualify in a year and are prepared for a career in child protection social work.
  The organisation itself will retain the name Frontline.
  Because Approach Social Work is publicly-funded, the announcement
  
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• Council outsources mental health service to cover social work strike

  10-06-2024 12:53
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A council has outsourced a mental health service in order to cover a strike by its social workers.
  Barnet Council has engaged recruitment firm Imperium Solutions to provide a mental health duty service for 10 weeks in the midst of a nine-week strike by about 20 of the London borough’s practitioners.
  While agencies are prohibited from supplying locum workers to do the work normally carr
  
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• Early Help Worker – £29,269 – £33,024 Per Annum

  10-06-2024 10:34
  
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• Early Help Worker – £29,269 – £33,024

  10-06-2024 10:34
  
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