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• Social work practice changes urged to promote direct contact between adopted children and birth families

  12-11-2024 21:27
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social work practice changes are needed to engineer a shift towards much greater direct contact between adopted children and their birth families, experts have said.
  The call came in a report that urged an overhaul of the current “outdated” approach to post-adoption contact in order to enable more face-to-face time between children and their birth relatives.
  Despite evidence of t
  
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• Rise in NICs will endanger public health services | Letter

  12-11-2024 17:22
  While the NHS has been given an exemption to the NIC increase, health services commissioned outside the health service have not, says Greg FellYour article outlining the extra strain on council budgets that the rise in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) will cause highlighted the likely impact on adult and children’s social care services (Adult social care in England needs urgent help from ministers, say bosses, theguardian.com, 6 November).There will also be a s
  
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• Sign in to your childcare account

  12-11-2024 10:31 via gov.uk
  
  If you're a parent registered for Tax-Free Childcare or free childcare if you're working, sign in to pay into your account, reconfirm your eligibility, update your details.
  
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• Podcast: locum v perm – what works for you?

  12-11-2024 09:51
  
  What are the pros and cons of working as a locum versus being a permanent social worker?
  In this episode of the Social Work Community Podcast, senior careers editor Kirsty Ayakwah asks two social workers from either side of the divide about what has driven their career choices.
  Kayleigh Rose Evans has spent her career working in permanent roles, while Le’Siran Edwards has largely worked in agency roles.
  Alongside her social work practice, Kayleigh works as an independent trainer and also s
  
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• Licences granted to nearly 200 UK care providers despite labour law violations

  12-11-2024 06:00
  
  Exclusive: Study finds evidence of major gaps in government oversight of foreign workers in care sectorNearly 200 care providers have been given government licences to bring foreign nurses to the UK despite having previously violated labour laws, according to a study that highlights widespread employment problems in the social care sector.The report by the Work Rights Centre shows 177 companies in England have been given licences to sponsor carers, even while publicly available information shows
  
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• Press release: GOV.UK One Login makes securing and completing an apprenticeship easier

  12-11-2024 01:15 via gov.uk
  
  GOV.UK One Login simplifies access to public services by offering a single sign-on, removing the need for multiple usernames and passwords.
  
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