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• Boost social work bursary and placement funding to attract more students, sector tells government

  18-07-2024 19:31
  
  The government needs to boost funding for social work bursaries, placements and apprenticeships to attract more people into the profession and tackle persistently high vacancy and turnover rates.
  It should also invest in the development of social workers at different levels, while also taking action to tackle racial inequalities in the social care workforce.
  That was the message from sector leaders in a 15-year strategy for the adult social care workforce in England, released today.
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• Boost bursary and placement funding to attract more people into social work, sector tells government

  18-07-2024 19:31
  
  The government needs to boost funding for social work bursaries, placements and apprenticeships to attract more people into the profession and tackle persistently high vacancy and turnover rates.
  It should also invest in the development of social workers at different levels, while also taking action to tackle racial inequalities in the social care workforce.
  That was the message from sector leaders in a 15-year strategy for the adult social care workforce in England, released today.
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• Adult social care workforce strategy urges investment in training more social workers

  18-07-2024 19:31
  
  The government needs to boost funding for social work bursaries, placements and apprenticeships to attract more people into the profession and tackle persistently high vacancy and turnover rates.
  It should also invest in the development of social workers at different levels, while also taking action to tackle racial inequalities in the social care workforce.
  That was the message from sector leaders in a 15-year strategy for the adult social care workforce in England, released today.
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• Transparency data: DfE monthly workforce management information: 2024 to 2025

  18-07-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Staff numbers and costs for the Department for Education (DfE) group for the financial year 2024 to 2025.
  
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• Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire

  18-07-2024 16:00
  
  As their families await justice, Jayro Bustamante’s movie, Rita, highlights the bravery of victims of 2017 blaze, and the authorities’ failure to protect themAda Kelly Alfaro says the cries from friends asking for help still haunt her daughter, Cynthia Phaola Morales, seven years after she survived a fire at a children’s shelter in Guatemala that killed 41 girls.Cynthia was one of only 15 survivors of the blaze at the Virgen de la Asunción (HSVA), in San José Pinu
  
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• How aware are social workers of their power over people?

  18-07-2024 14:48
  
  In a recent interview with Community Care, renowned social work researcher June Thoburn called attention to the power imbalance between practitioners and the children, families and adults they support.
  While researching her 1980 book ‘Captive Clients’, which examined children in care returning home ‘on trial’, Thoburn saw many examples of the influence practitioners’ involvement had on parents’ behaviour.
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• Guidance: Family Nurse Partnership programme

  18-07-2024 13:02 via gov.uk
  
  How the Family Nurse Partnership supports first-time young mothers and families in England, why it works, where it is delivered and how to commission it.
  
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• Official Statistics: National pupil projections: July 2024

  18-07-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Projections for the number of pupils in schools by type of school and age group.
  
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• Official Statistics: Academy transfers and funding 2023 to 2024

  18-07-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Information on grant funding for academies that have changed trust in the past 11 financial years.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: 2022 to 2023

  18-07-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Levels of suspension and permanent exclusion in the academic year 2022 to 2023 by school type, and the reasons for suspending and excluding pupils.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Further education and skills: July 2024

  18-07-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Further education and skills summary data, including apprenticeships and detailed non-apprenticeship adult further education, for August 2023 to April 2024.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Apprenticeships: July 2024

  18-07-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Apprenticeship starts in England from August 2023 to April 2024.
  
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• Health groups call for social care minimum wage to avert staffing crisis in England

  18-07-2024 01:01
  
  Warning on ‘cycle of low wages’ comes as government pledges in king’s speech to introduce fair pay agreementA specific minimum wage for social care is needed if England is to avert a staffing crisis, according to leading thinktanks.Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation have also called for the introduction of of national pay banding to tackle pernicious low pay in adult social care and encourage key workers to stay in the industry. Continue reading...
  
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