Social work news

• How managers are inspiring social workers to progress in their careers

  19-12-2024 15:00
  
  Patricia has been working as a practice educator in a secondment role in a safeguarding team in South Gloucestershire Council’s children’s services since July 2023. This is her fourth promotion since starting her social work career at the council in 2016.
  “I like the sense of belonging that I get in South Gloucestershire,” she says. “The work environment is very friendly, open, you feel like you can be yourself – and there is always someone you can talk to.&rd
  
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• Corporate report: Business critical models for Department of Health and Social Care

  19-12-2024 14:29 via gov.uk
  
  A list of the main analytical models used by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and its arm's length bodies.
  
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• Look back at the ‘brilliant’ social work colleagues of 2024

  19-12-2024 13:10
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.At the start of this year, we launched our My Brilliant Colleague series to enable social workers to champion the achievements of those they work with.
  Amid the challenges the sector continues to face, we wanted to create a space for practitioners to celebrate one another. A series that would serve as a reminder that their impact extends beyond those they support, to include even those they
  
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• Extra £200m for social care in council settlement ‘wholly inadequate’, warn sector heads

  19-12-2024 12:40
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.An extra £200m for social care in next year’s council finance settlement is “wholly inadequate” to tackle additional costs facing adults’ services, sector leaders have warned.
  The government pledged to increase the social care grant – which is ring-fenced for adults’ and children’s services in England – by £880m, in its provisional
  
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• Press release: Biggest investment into hospices in a generation

  19-12-2024 11:33 via gov.uk
  
  £100 million boost for adult and children’s hospices and £26 million to support children and young people’s hospices.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Improving the experiences of people with ME/CFS: interim delivery plan

  19-12-2024 10:31 via gov.uk
  
  We're seeking your views on an interim delivery plan to improve the experiences and outcomes of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.
  
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• Podcast: Christmas Special

  19-12-2024 10:00
  
  It’s that time of year! And to celebrate we recorded a Christmas Special for The Social Work Community Podcast.
  The social work sector and the face of Community Care, have both changed a lot over the last 50 years. As it is Community Care’s 50th birthday year we got some of the longest-standing members of the Community Care team together for this special one-off.
  For this episode I sat down with three people, who together, have been at Community Care for over a whopping 80 years.
  All
  
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• A Christmas special podcast: a peek inside Community Care

  19-12-2024 10:00
  
  It’s that time of year! And to celebrate we recorded a Christmas special for The Social Work Community Podcast.
  The social work sector and the face of Community Care, have both changed a lot over the last 50 years. As it is Community Care’s 50th birthday year we got some of the longest-standing members of the Community Care team together for this one-off special.
  For this episode I sat down with three colleagues, who together, have been at Community Care for over a whopping 80 years.
  
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• A Christmas special podcast: a peak inside Community Care

  19-12-2024 10:00
  
  It’s that time of year! And to celebrate we recorded a Christmas special for The Social Work Community Podcast.
  The social work sector and the face of Community Care, have both changed a lot over the last 50 years. As it is Community Care’s 50th birthday year we got some of the longest-standing members of the Community Care team together for this special one-off.
  For this episode I sat down with three colleagues, who together, have been at Community Care for over a whopping 80 years.
  
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