Social work news

• Tell us what you value in a social work job, to help us influence what employers offer

  05-08-2024 16:35
  
  Community Care has launched its annual jobseekers’ survey to find out what social workers and other social care practitioners look for in a job.
  As in previous years, the research will explore what you look for in an employer, your preferences for agency or permanent roles, or part-time or full-time work, what might tempt you to move roles and how you feel application processes should operate.
  We will share the results with employers to help influence what they offer and support the recrui
  
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• Project seeks to improve quality of child safeguarding reviews

  05-08-2024 13:00
  
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  A project has been launched to improve the quality of reviews of cases where children die or are seriously harmed following known or suspected abuse or neglect.
  The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, the national body that oversees learning from serious cases, has commissioned the work to explore how local child safeguarding practice reviews (LCSPR) could be delivered more quickly an
  
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• Minister highlights prison social workers’ role in helping female inmates maintain relationships

  05-08-2024 09:45
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A minister has highlighted the role of prison-based social workers in helping female inmates maintain family relationships and supporting them with family court proceedings.
  Prisons minister Lord (James) Timpson cited the pilot in response to a written parliamentary question from Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard, who had asked what proportion of female prisoners had children who had been t
  
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