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• Martin Rowson on Wes Streeting’s plans for adult social care reform – cartoon

  03-01-2025 16:55
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• Ask the experts: ‘I’ve lost motivation for my job in child exploitation, what can I do?’

  03-01-2025 16:18
  
  Welcome to The Social Work Community Podcast’s mini-series, ‘Ask the experts’, where we put your careers questions to three social work experts.
  In this episode, Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans respond to a social worker who has lost enthusiasm and motivation in the area she works in.
  This episode is hosted by Ruth Hardy-Mullings, head of content at Community Care.
  If you have a question you’d like our experts to answer or if you felt the
  
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• Wes Streeting defends pace of plans for adult social care reform – as it happened

  03-01-2025 16:01
  
  Health secretary says initial reports from commission led by Louise Casey will come next yearAs well as being asked about plans for adult social care and a new national care service, Wes Streeting was questioned this morning on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme about progress on assisted dying legislation in England and Wales.As health secretary, Streeting intervened before November’s vote, suggesting that legalising assisted dying in the two countries would have resource implications for th
  
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• Press release: New reforms and independent commission to transform social care

  03-01-2025 12:18 via gov.uk
  
  Immediate investment and reforms to improve adult social care, and Louise Casey appointed to head independent commission and build cross-party consensus.
  
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• Fixing England’s social care will be biggest challenge yet for Louise Casey

  03-01-2025 12:17
  
  Troubleshooter for four previous prime ministers is charged with saving adultsocial care sectorMinisters plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decadesWes Streeting: Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix itShe is the no-nonsense civil servant from Portsmouth who was called upon by four prime ministers to tackle deep-rooted social issues, including rough sleeping, antisocial behaviour, victims’ rights and troubled families.Now Louise Casey
  
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• Wes Streeting defends pace of plans for adult social care reform – UK politics live

  03-01-2025 11:30
  
  Health secretary says initial reports from commission led by Louise Casey will come next yearAs well as being asked about plans for adult social care and a new national care service, Wes Streeting was questioned this morning on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme about progress on assisted dying legislation in England and Wales.As health secretary, Streeting intervened before November’s vote, suggesting that legalising assisted dying in the two countries would have resource implications for th
  
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• Cross-party talks on adult social care reform in England to start next month

  03-01-2025 10:54
  
  Wes Streeting hit back at claims that Casey commission would take too long to act, saying ‘it’s reporting next year’UK politics live – latest updatesCross-party talks over the future of social care will begin next month as the health secretary hit back over criticism that a commission on the issue would take too long to bring about change.Wes Streeting said he wanted all parties to “agree on the direction on social care for the long term” and that the Conserva
  
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• One in three practitioners would recommend social work as a career, finds regulator

  03-01-2025 09:25
  
  Just one-third of social workers (34%) would recommend the profession as a career, a Social Work England has found.
  A greater proportion – 42% – would not recommend social work, with the remainder being neutral on the issue, according to the regulator’s first annual survey of the profession.
  The online survey, carried out in spring 2024, received 2,120 responses, equivalent to 2% of the registered population in England.
  Social Work England quizzed practitioners on their confide
  
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• Ministers plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decades

  03-01-2025 01:01
  But final report on reforms would not emerge until 2028, which health leaders say is kicking crisis ‘into the long grass’Wes Streeting: Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix itFixing UK social care will be biggest challenge yet for Louise CaseyMinisters are to launch a historic independent commission to reform adult social care, as they warned older people could be left without vital help and the NHS overwhelmed unless a “national consensus&rdqu
  
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• Fixing UK social care will be biggest challenge yet for Louise Casey

  03-01-2025 01:01
  
  Troubleshooter for four previous prime ministers is charged with saving troubled national care sectorMinisters plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decadesWes Streeting: Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix itShe is the no-nonsense civil servant from Portsmouth who was called upon by four prime ministers to tackle deep-rooted social issues, including rough sleeping, antisocial behaviour, victims’ rights and troubled families.Now Louise
  
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• Commission on adult social care reform announced by government

  03-01-2025 01:01
  
  The government will set up an independent commission to recommend long-term reform to adult social care, it announced today.
  The body, which will be led by former senior civil servant Baroness (Louise) Casey, will examine the key issues facing the sector today before recommending changes designed to help achieve the government’s ambition of creating a ‘national care service’ and based on a cross-party consensus.
  Care minister Stephen Kinnock said the Casey Commission would &ldq
  
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• Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting

  03-01-2025 01:01
  
  Our National Care Service will meet the urgent needs of our generation – just as the NHS did when it was created in 1948Wes Streeting is secretary of state for health and social careThree sentences in Labour’s 1945 manifesto contained a simple but historic promise: “The best health services should be available free for all. Money must no longer be the passport to the best treatment. In the new National Health Service there should be health centres where the people may get the b
  
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