Social work news

• Social care staff go back on strike over ‘doing social work tasks without extra pay’

  08-08-2024 22:06
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social care staff are going back on strike over being asked to carry out what they see as social work tasks without commensurate pay.
  The approximately 200 practitioners, represented by UNISON, staged a walkout over four days last month in their dispute with Lancashire council.
  They will now stage another strike from Friday (9 August) until Tuesday (13 August), in pursuit of their objective
  
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• Scheme to tackle racial disparities in social care workforce doubles in scope

  08-08-2024 16:00
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A scheme to tackle racial disparities in councils’ social care workforces has more than doubled in scope.
  Skills for Care said today that over 50 of England’s 153 authorities would take part in the social care workforce race equality standard (SC-WRES) improvement programme in 2024-25.
  This is up from 23 who took part in the programme last year.
  Through the SC-WRES, councils coll
  
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• Social care ministers should have a background in the sector, say social workers

  08-08-2024 15:01
  
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  Social workers believe social care ministers should have a background in the sector, a Community Care poll has found.
  The results followformer fostering social worker Janet Daby’s appointment as minister for children and families, with responsibility for children’s social care, within the Department for Education.
  Daby’s appointment was much celebrated by social work bodie
  
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• Social worker shortage set to increase over next decade, says DfE

  08-08-2024 10:00
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The shortage in children’s social workers in English local authorities is likely to increase over the coming decade, the Department for Education has said.
  The DfE has raised the level of risk to its objectives posed by there being insufficient social workers from “moderate” to “critical”, according to its annual report for 2023-24, published last week.
  It also
  
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