Social work news

• Social work through the decades: a timeline

  28-10-2024 10:09
  
  As part of Community Care’s 50th anniversary, we’ve spent much of this year reflecting on the pivotal events that have shaped the social work profession over the past five decades.
  This has included in-depth interviews with key sector figures, such as Herbert Laming, Eileen Munro, June Thoburn and David Howe, and Professor Ray Jones’s ‘Social work across the decades‘ series, which explored defining moments in social work from each decade since the 1970s.
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• Creaking public services are costing companies in absent staff, employers tell TUC

  28-10-2024 07:00
  
  Union group urges chancellor to better fund health, social care and childcare to get staff back to work and boost productivityUK businesses are losing staff working time because of waits for healthcare or caring duties due to underfunded public services, according to a poll of managers before Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget.More than half of 500 UK business leaders polled for the TUC said workers had to take time off in the last year because of problems accessing public services. Co
  
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