Social work news

• When private equity companies prioritise profit over care home residents | Letter

  11-10-2024 18:26
  For these companies, economies of scale, low wages, minimum staffing and cost-cutting are the order of the day, writes Norman EdwardsYour editorial on the failures of the privatisation of care services (7 October) rightly highlights the shameful situation that has developed for older people in residential care. The Nuffield Foundation’s research clearly shows that the increasing outsourcing of this provision is associated with lower standards of care.I have known many care home staff and m
  
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• When care homes just don't care | Letter

  11-10-2024 18:26
  Is it right that frail, sick and vulnerable elderly people should be used simply as profit generators for private equity companies, asks Norman EdwardsYour editorial on the failures of the privatisation of care services (7 October) rightly highlights the shameful situation that has developed for older people in residential care. The Nuffield Foundation’s research clearly shows that the increasing outsourcing of this provision is associated with lower standards of care.I have known many car
  
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• Employment Rights Bill: government to create body to set adult social care pay and conditions

  11-10-2024 18:20
  
  The government will create a body to set pay and conditions for adult social care staff in England should its Employment Rights Bill become law.
  The bill, published yesterday, would allow the government to make regulations creating an Adult Social Care Negotiating Body, to make agreements about the pay, terms and conditions of adult social care workers in England.
  The body would have to have representation from unions representing social care staff and sector employers though may have other memb
  
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• Guidance: Improving practice with children, young people and families

  11-10-2024 17:09 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for local areas to embed working together to safeguard children and the children’s social care national framework in practice.
  
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• Notice: Notice to improve: Nettleham Infant and Nursery School

  11-10-2024 16:00 via gov.uk
  
  A notice to improve issued to Nettleham Infant and Nursery School.
  
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• Statutory guidance: Kinship care: framework for local authorities

  11-10-2024 14:13 via gov.uk
  
  How local authorities should support children who are cared for by extended family, friends, or connected individuals.
  
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• Avoid and report internet scams and phishing

  11-10-2024 13:25 via gov.uk
  
  Find out how internet scams work and what to be aware of - misleading websites, report website fraud, suspicious communication and phishing
  
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• Guidance: Children’s social care dashboard

  11-10-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Data dashboard designed to support local authorities and partners with the implementation of the children’s social care national framework.
  
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• Leading UK provider of respite holidays for severely disabled people to close

  11-10-2024 08:00
  
  Revitalise says challenges ‘insurmountable’ due to local authority cuts, higher running costs and fall in donationsBritain’s only specialist respite holiday provider for severely disabled people and their carers is to close because of financial difficulties, in what has been called a bellwether example of the UK’s growing social care crisis.Revitalise, a charity that runs unique state-of-the-art respite stays, offering 24-hour care at two specially adapted hotels, said lo
  
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• Policy paper: EM on EU legislation concerning food safety (C(23)8519)

  11-10-2024 01:00 via gov.uk
  
  The government's summary of a European Commission delegated regulation aboutspecific hygiene requirements for certain food products.
  
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