Social work news

• Agencies to be required to set up multi-agency child protection teams, under social care reform bill

  18-12-2024 22:07
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Councils and partner agencies are to be required to establish multi-agency child protection teams, under legislation to overhaul children’s social care.
  The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill would also allow for the regulation of agency work in children’s social care and the creation of a new type of placement in which a child could be deprived of liberty.
  Other planned
  
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• Correspondence: Notice to improve: Furness College

  18-12-2024 17:42 via gov.uk
  
  A notice to improve, issued to Furness College.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Changes to regulations relating to the Care Quality Commission

  18-12-2024 15:01 via gov.uk
  
  The government seeks views on proposals to amend regulations relating to the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
  
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• Guidance: Public health commissioning in the NHS: 2024 to 2025

  18-12-2024 14:49 via gov.uk
  
  Information about NHS England's objectives and funding arrangements as it commissions public health services.
  
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• ‘What 50 years of social work has taught us’

  18-12-2024 13:48
  
  In 1974, around twenty young people began a four-year course at the University of Bradford, combining a BA in applied social studies with a certificate of qualification in social work (CQSW).
  Many of us have kept in touch and most meet every few years as a group.
  Although mostly retired now, we have all had long careers in health and social care, working in the public, charity and private sector, and with the full range of client groups. Some of us have focused on frontline social work, while ot
  
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• What are social workers’ job plans for 2025?

  18-12-2024 13:43
  
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  The end of the year is naturally a time for reflection, resolutions, and planning for the future.
  It’s also a period that leads into one of the busiest times for hiring and resignations.
  January has become synonymous with “new beginnings”, another opportunity to follow the dreams and plans that were disregarded or forgotten the year before.
  It’s probably why it sees
  
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• Policy paper: Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary

  18-12-2024 13:02 via gov.uk
  
  Information on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
  
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• These women lost their children because they were lesbians – why can’t the government say sorry? | Sophie Wilkinson

  18-12-2024 13:00
  
  As late as the 1990s, the law sided with fathers over custody on the basis of a woman’s sexuality. I detailed the scandal for Radio 4,and was shocked at the cruelty involvedI am more than just aware of the faint outlines of queer history – it is something I see in Technicolour. I immerse myself in lesbian books, films and art, and have written all sorts of articles about contemporary lesbianism. It is for this reason that I was shocked to learn only recently of the state having remov
  
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