Social work news

• Social Work England to hold more of fitness to practise hearings as backlog continues to grow

  22-11-2024 13:39
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social Work England is to hold more fitness to practise hearings this year as its case backlog continues to grow.
  The regulator plans to hold 81 final hearings to determine a social workers’ fitness to practise in 2024-25, up from a previously planned 34.
  Most of the additional hearings will take place from January to March 2025, subject to the availability of parties and witnesses.
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• Guidance: Pupil referral units: converting to alternative provision academies

  22-11-2024 12:36 via gov.uk
  
  What pupil referral units (PRUs) interested in becoming alternative provision (AP) academies should do.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Information standards for health and adult social care

  22-11-2024 12:20 via gov.uk
  
  We are seeking your view on proposals for the procedure to be set out in regulations in connection with preparing and publishing information standards for health and adult social care in England.
  
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• Press release: New skills hubs launched to get Britain building

  22-11-2024 11:26 via gov.uk
  
  Thousands more apprentice construction workers will be hired each year to build homes and kickstart growth, through new skills hubs funded by industry leaders
  
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• Social workers more likely to quit over management than pay, poll finds

  22-11-2024 09:37
  
  Being a social worker is no easy feat.
  Practitioners face a mountain of challenges: limited resources, high caseloads, increasingly complex needs, staff shortages and pay increases that have been criticised as inadequate.
  Yet, while inadequate pay is frequently cited as a reason for practitioners leaving permanent roles, a recent Community Care poll suggests a different story.
  Management key to retention 
  Of around 2,200 respondents, 62% named “unsupportive management” as more l
  
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• Large parts of adult social care market in England face collapse, thinktank warns

  22-11-2024 06:16
  
  Sector will have extra £2.8bn cost burden from April due to tax and wage rises announced in budget, says Nuffield TrustLarge parts of England’s adult social care market face collapse as a result of tax and wage rises announced in the budget, with devastating consequences for vulnerable and older people who rely on care services, a leading thinktank has warned.The Nuffield Trust said that while the government has consistently spoken of its long term ambition to reform the social care
  
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• Social care providers face £2.8bn bill from wage and tax rises next year, analysis finds

  22-11-2024 01:01
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Independent adult social care providers in England face a £2.8bn in extra costs in 2025-26 due to wage and tax rises announced in last month’s Budget, an analysis has found.
  The Nuffield Trust assessed that the almost 18,000 providers would face £940m in increased costs from the rise in employer national insurance contributions (NICs) plus £1.85bn from the boost to th
  
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