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How to fill the huge gaps in social care provision | Letters

14-08-2024 19:03

Families bear the brunt of politicians’ neglect of elder care, writes Alan Walker, while Maria Brenton and Tim Johnson look to the Netherlands and Ireland Gaby Hinsliff’s piece will have resonated with anyone who has ever given frail parents everything that is lumped together under the label of “care” (The shrunken state expects families to fill the voids in health and social care. Woe betide those without children, 9 August). It has always been the case in this country t

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Accredited official statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term 2023

14-08-2024 14:39 via gov.uk

Absence statistics on the levels of overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded schools.

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How to develop critical reflection in your practice

14-08-2024 10:16

This article presents a few key pieces of advice from Community Care Inform Children’s guide to critical reflection. The full guide explores what critical reflection entails and outlines three models of critical reflection that practitioners can apply to their practice. The full guide also provides an example critical reflection based on a fictionalised child and family assessment and aims to increase practitioners’ confidence in using critical reflection. Community Care Inform Child

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ASYE failure rate falls but racial gap persists, reports Skills for Care

14-08-2024 10:00

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The failure rate for the children’s assessed and support year in employment (ASYE) has fallen but black and minority ethnic practitioners remain less likely than white counterparts to pass the year.
Skills for Care’s annual report on the children’s ASYE for 2023-24 also showed that women were consistently more likely to pass the year compared with men, continuing another tr

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