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• Interfering do-gooders, social services and Interrail adventures | Letters

  30-08-2024 18:37 via theguardian.com
  Matt Atkinson on having to persuade his local authority to investigate a young traveller, and Joan Lewis on cross-Europe travelI am one of those interfering do-gooders who have referred instances of children travelling alone across Europe to social services. I’m surprised that they were so quick to investigate Kirstie Allsopp (Kirstie Allsopp reported to social services for allowing son, 15, to travel abroad, Report, 25 August), considering the difficulty I had persuading my local authorit
  
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• Half of Rape Crisis services expect to make cuts, despite growing demand from children’s social care

  30-08-2024 18:25
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Half of Rape Crisis centres are expecting to make cuts to services, despite growing demand from children’s social care.
  That was among the findings of a Rape Crisis England & Wales (RCEW) survey carried out from May to June 2024, responded to by 34 of its 38 members.
  Rape Crisis centres provide counselling, advocacy, peer support, helpline and other services to victims and survivor
  
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• Social worker numbers increase in Scottish councils

  30-08-2024 16:57
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The number of social workers employed by Scottish councils increased last year, official figures have shown.
  At the end of 2023, authorities were employing a record 6,427 practitioners, up 2.5% on the year before (6,271), according to the Scottish Social Services Council’s (SSSC) annual data report on the country’s social care workforce.
  On a full-time equivalent basis, the workf
  
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• Press release: Government funded childcare offer to kick in from next week

  30-08-2024 14:20 via gov.uk
  
  Hundreds of thousands of parents of children from nine months old take up new 15 government funded hours of early education from Monday
  
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• Social Work England seeks AMHPs and BIAs to inspect training courses

  30-08-2024 13:50
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social Work England is seeking approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) and best interests assessors (BIAs) to help it inspect and monitor training courses.
  It plans to recruit 30 practitioners as education quality assurance (EQA) inspectors to help it assess qualifying courses for social workers, AMHPs and BIAs.
  The role involves working with the regulator’s EQA team to carry out
  
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• Alarm at failure to inspect 60% of England homecare providers in four years or longer

  30-08-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Care leaders warn of serious safety risk as research reveals some providers have never been inspectedCare leaders have warned of a serious safety risk as research revealed 60% of homecare providers had not been inspected for at least four years, or ever.As the government prepares to receive a report on profound failings at its Care Quality Commission (CQC) that triggered the chief executive’s removal this summer and a public apology, the Homecare Association warned 37% of providers of domi
  
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• Press release: Over 130,000 people to benefit from life-saving health checks

  30-08-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  More than 130,000 people across the country will be better protected from diseases such as heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes.
  
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