Social work news

• Labour needs the will to solve social care crisis | Letters

  08-12-2024 18:16
  
  A free adult social care system modelled on one already in operation in a London borough is achievable, according to Sally Powell and Stephen Burke. Plus a letter from John Ransford A royal commission on the future of social care (Editorial, 3 December) would be yet another example of how successive governments have kicked the care can further down the road. Older and disabled people, and their families, are desperate for the government to sort out the care crisis once and for all. With its larg
  
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• Teresa Smith obituary

  08-12-2024 11:36
  
  My wife, Teresa Collingwood Smith, has died after a short illness, aged 82. Like her father, RG Collingwood, a philosopher and archaeologist, and her grandfather, WG Collingwood, an artist, writer and secretary to John Ruskin, Teresa is hard to pigeonhole. She was a successful Oxford academic, and also an experienced community organiser and activist with the ability to act as a catalyst for others.From an early age, Teresa, her mother Kate (nee Edwardes), and grandmother, lived with another fami
  
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• Press release: Government to tackle NHS workforce crisis with refreshed plan

  08-12-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Revised Workforce Plan to be unveiled in summer, ensuring we train necessary staff and provide the NHS with stability and certainty to plan into the future.
  
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