Social work news

• ‘In memory of Pat, my social work mentor and inspiration’

  24-07-2024 19:54
  
  For Community Care’s 50th anniversary, our My Brilliant Colleague series invites you to celebrate anyone who has inspired you in your career.
  Social worker Nicola Silk lost her mentor and friend of 16 years, Pat Curtis, just a couple of weeks ago.
  In the following letter, addressed to Pat, Nicola remembers the years she spent beside her colleague and the lives that were touched by her.
  Pat,
  It was almost 16 years to the day I met you.
  Me, a newly qualified social worker at a time without p
  
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• Social work bursary delay risks excluding disadvantaged applicants from courses, academics warn

  24-07-2024 19:29
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A delay in confirming social work bursary arrangements in England for 2024-25 risks preventing disadvantaged applicants from taking up places, academics have warned.
  The government is yet to confirm bursary allocations for universities this year, with less than two months to go until courses start.
  This means students who have been offered a place on master’s courses do not know if the
  
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• Social work bursary delay risks disadvantaged applicants not taking up places, academics warn

  24-07-2024 19:29
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A delay in confirming social work bursary arrangements in England for 2024-25 risks preventing disadvantaged applicants from taking up places, academics have warned.
  The government is yet to confirm bursary allocations for universities this year, with less than two months to go until courses start.
  This means students who have been offered a place on master’s courses do not know if the
  
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• Rachel Reeves must overhaul ‘perverse’ carer’s allowance rule, Martin Lewis says

  24-07-2024 06:00
  
  Consumer expert writes to chancellor outlining four changes to help remedy financial injusticesRachel Reeves must overhaul the allowance that has resulted in thousands of unpaid carers being saddled with life-changing debt, and in some cases threatened with criminal prosecution, the consumer finance expert Martin Lewis has said.Lewis has written to the chancellor, identifying four measures that he says are possible to enact without great cost to the taxpayer that would remedy financial injustice
  
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