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• Social Work England will not review sample of CPD records following current registration renewal period

  02-10-2024 23:38
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social Work England will not review a sample of practitioners’ continuing professional development (CPD) records following the current registration renewal process, the regulator has revealed.
  It has launched a review of its approach to CPD, during which it has suspended its usual practice of having independent assessors check the anonymised submissions of 2.5% of registered practition
  
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• Social Work England will not review sample of CPD records following current registration renewal

  02-10-2024 23:38
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social Work England will not review a sample of practitioners’ continuing professional development (CPD) records following the current registration renewal process, the regulator has revealed.
  It has launched a review of its approach to CPD, during which it has suspended its usual practice of having independent assessors check the anonymised submissions of 2.5% of registered practition
  
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• Care proceedings taking less time but average duration still well above 26-week target

  02-10-2024 14:31
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Care proceedings are being completed more quickly in England and Wales, but their average duration still far exceeds the 26-week statutory target, official figures have shown.
  Cases where councils applied for a care or supervision orders that were completed in April to June 2024 took an average of 41.2 weeks, down from a recent high of 44.8 weeks in January to March 2023, when just a quarter
  
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• Care proceedings delays reduce but 26-week target still missed in most cases

  02-10-2024 14:31
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Care proceedings are being completed more quickly in England and Wales, but their average duration still far exceeds the 26-week statutory target, official figures have shown.
  Cases where councils applied for a care or supervision orders that were completed in April to June 2024 took an average of 41.2 weeks, down from a recent high of 44.8 weeks in January to March 2023, when just a quarter
  
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• Care cases being completed more quickly but average duration remains well above 26 weeks

  02-10-2024 14:31
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Care proceedings are being completed more quickly in England and Wales, but their average duration still far exceeds the 26-week statutory target, official figures have shown.
  Cases where councils applied for a care or supervision orders that were completed in April to June 2024 took an average of 41.2 weeks, down from a recent high of 44.8 weeks in January to March 2023, when just a quarter
  
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• Councils given £1,125 each to meet agency social worker data burdens

  02-10-2024 10:29
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Councils are being given £1,125 each to meet new requirements to report on their use of agency social workers in children’s services.
  The Department for Education funding, which will be paid in October 2024, is designed to cover the burdens on English authorities of fulfilling a new legal duty to submit quarterly data to the DfE on each assignment carried out by an agency social
  
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• Guidance: International relocation payments: guidance for schools

  02-10-2024 00:08 via gov.uk
  
  Information for schools about international relocation payments for teachers of languages and physics from outside the UK.
  
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