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• Social work bursary levels frozen for tenth consecutive year

  29-07-2024 23:08
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social work bursary levels have been frozen for a tenth consecutive year, the Department of Health and Social Care revealed today.
  The decision means that payments for students on undergraduate or master’s courses are worth between £1,150 and £1,800 per year less than they were in 2014, as measured by the Bank of England’s inflation calculator (see table below).
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• Social work bursary levels frozen for 10th consecutive year

  29-07-2024 23:08
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social work bursary levels have been frozen for a tenth consecutive year, the Department of Health and Social Care revealed today.
  The decision means that payments for students on undergraduate or master’s courses are worth between £1,150 and £1,800 per year less than they were in 2014, as measured by the Bank of England’s inflation calculator (see table below).
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• Up to 2m pensioners will struggle without winter fuel help, say campaigners

  29-07-2024 20:23
  
  Charities warn that means testing as part of Rachel Reeves’ estimated £1.5bn cuts may create ‘heat or eat’ dilemmasUp to 2 million financially struggling older people could lose annual payments worth hundreds of pounds under government plans to restrict the winter fuel allowance to the poorest pensioners, campaigners have warned.Rachel Reeves announced the plans in a speech on Monday outlining a series of spending cuts to help fill what the government says is a £22b
  
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• The Guardian view on supporting carers: flawed rules around allowances must be fixed | Editorial

  29-07-2024 20:16
  
  Ministers have signalled good intentions towards unpaid carers, and must now follow throughConor Thackray, one of the carer’s allowance claimants who told his story about overpayments to the Guardian, referred to the Department for Work and Pensions as operating a “catch-out culture”. This phrase sums up what is wrong with the current system. The rule that any carer earning over £151 a week must forfeit the entirety of the allowance enabling them to care for a family memb
  
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• UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened

  29-07-2024 19:51
  
  Chancellor suggests budget, on 30 October, will involve tax rises and cuts to spending and benefitsDowning Street has refused to comment on a report saying junior doctors are being offered a pay rise worth about 20% over two years.In a story for the Times, Steven Swinford reports:The British Medical Association’s (BMA) junior doctors committee has recommended an offer that includes a backdated pay rise of 4.05 per cent for 2023-24, on top of an existing increase of between 8.8 per cent and
  
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• Independent report: Senior Salaries Review Body Report: 2024

  29-07-2024 19:48 via gov.uk
  
  Recommendations from the Senior Salaries Review Body on the remuneration of senior staff in the public sector.
  
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• Independent report: Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration 52nd Report: 2024

  29-07-2024 19:48 via gov.uk
  
  Recommendations and observations from the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration on doctors’ and dentists’ pay in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
  
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• Press release: Fresh offer paves way to end junior doctor strikes

  29-07-2024 18:51 via gov.uk
  
  The BMA will recommend members accept the offer following the negotiations, which could bring an end to 15 months of devastating strike action
  
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• Press release: Government confirms above inflation pay award for teachers

  29-07-2024 18:12 via gov.uk
  
  School teachers to receive fully funded 5.5% pay award.
  
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• Government scraps cap on care costs to help tackle spending ‘black hole’

  29-07-2024 17:40
  
  The government has scrapped the planned cap on care costs to help tackle a black hole in the public finances it claimed was left by the Conservatives.
  Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced today that the adult social care charging reforms, due to be implemented next October, would be cancelled, saving £1.1bn by the end of 2025-26.
  She made the announcement in a statement to the House of Commons on Labour’s spending inheritance from its Conservative predecessors.
  Reeves claimed that the
  
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• Government scraps cap on care costs to help tackle ‘£22bn public spending black hole’

  29-07-2024 17:40
  
  The government has scrapped the planned cap on care costs to help tackle what it says is a £22bn black hole in the public finances.
  Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced today that the adult social care charging reforms, due to be implemented next October, would be cancelled, saving £1.1bn by the end of 2025-26.
  She made the announcement in a statement to the House of Commons on Labour’s spending inheritance from its Conservative predecessors.
  Reeves claimed that the government as
  
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• Independent report: School Teachers’ Review Body 34th Report: 2024

  29-07-2024 17:22 via gov.uk
  
  Recommendations from the School Teachers’ Review Body on teachers’ and school leaders’ pay.
  
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• Guidance: Teacher appraisal and capability

  29-07-2024 17:05 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for schools on appraisal and capability policies.
  
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• Corporate report: Teachers' pension scheme: annual accounts 2023 to 2024

  29-07-2024 16:30 via gov.uk
  
  A summary of the teachers' pension scheme's annual accounts for England and Wales for the 2023 to 2024 financial year.
  
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• Corporate report: Department for Education consolidated annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024

  29-07-2024 16:29 via gov.uk
  
  A report on DfE expenditure and performance from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, and the core tables and register of interests as of 2024.
  
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• No 10 ‘determined to bring strikes to end’ with junior doctors offered significant pay rise – UK politics live

  29-07-2024 15:28
  Junior doctors’ leaders have reportedly recommended offer which will now be put to BMA membersDowning Street has refused to comment on a report saying junior doctors are being offered a pay rise worth about 20% over two years.In a story for the Times, Steven Swinford reports:The British Medical Association’s (BMA) junior doctors committee has recommended an offer that includes a backdated pay rise of 4.05 per cent for 2023-24, on top of an existing increase of between 8.8 per cent an
  
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• Social worker recruitment and retention: how one region bucked the trend on vacancy rates

  29-07-2024 13:43
  
  Social worker vacancies continue to be a daily challenge for local authorities, with the latest Department for Education statistics showing that 18.9% of children’s social work posts lay vacant as of September 2023. Children’s services in England were also employing a record number of agency social workers at the time (7,200).
  These national figures obscure significant variations at a regional level. While social worker vacancy rates stood at a quarter (25.2%) in London and 20.5% in
  
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• Lead Practitioner – Child Protection

  29-07-2024 11:05
  
  https://jobs.communitycare.co.uk/job/1401760647/lead-practitioner-child-protection?LinkSource=EmployerHub
  
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• Independent report: NHS Pay Review Body Thirty-Seventh Report: 2024

  29-07-2024 01:00 via gov.uk
  Recommendations from the NHS Pay Review Body on the pay of NHS staff paid on Agenda for Change terms and conditions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
  
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