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• Is there a disconnect between the front line and senior management?

  15-01-2025 19:34
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Most social workers believe a disconnect exists between senior management and frontline practitioners, a Community Care poll has found.
  The need to ensure leaders are in touch with the front line has been highlighted in both the major reviews of children’s services in England carried out over the past 15 years.
  In his 2021-22 Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, Josh Mac
  
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• Press release: UK invests £5.5 million to tackle mpox in sub-Saharan Africa

  15-01-2025 18:18 via gov.uk
  
  £5.5 million to go towards vital research projects to tackle ongoing mpox outbreaks in DRC and neighbouring countries.
  
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• Statement to Parliament: Health and Social Care Secretary's statement: winter 2025

  15-01-2025 18:17 via gov.uk
  
  The Health and Social Care Secretary made a statement to the House of Commons on winter pressures.
  
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• Press release: Government reaffirms commitment to Free Speech in universities

  15-01-2025 16:35 via gov.uk
  
  Key provisions from the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 will be brought into force, whilst burdensome provisions will be scrapped.
  
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• Looking after someone else's child

  15-01-2025 16:01 via gov.uk
  
  Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
  
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• Infants at greater risk from growth in parental mental health and substance use issues, say councils

  15-01-2025 15:39
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Infants are at increased risk of harm due to growth in the numbers of parents with mental health and substance misuse issues, ,research has found.
  Directors linked the trends in parental needs to poverty, inadequate housing and the legacy of pandemic, and said they were leaving the youngest children at risk of neglect and physical injury.
  The findings were reported in the latest phase of the
  
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• Babies at increased risk of harm due to growing parental needs, say councils

  15-01-2025 15:39
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Babies are at increased risk of harm due to growth in the numbers of parents with mental health and substance misuse issues, research has found.
  Directors linked the trends in parental needs to poverty, inadequate housing and the legacy of pandemic, and said they were leaving the youngest children at risk of neglect and physical injury.
  The findings were reported in the latest phase of the A
  
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• Guidance: Procuring SEND education placements and services

  15-01-2025 14:00 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance to help local authorities and education providers to understand how the Procurement Act 2023 interacts with the Children and Families Act 2014.
  
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• Guidance: Use of reasonable force in schools

  15-01-2025 11:31 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance about the use of physical restraint in schools for governing bodies, headteachers and school staff.
  
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• Transparency data: National Careers Service: course directory

  15-01-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  The course directory contains information on courses offered by learning providers who are publicly funded to deliver courses in England.
  
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• Parental mental health biggest cause of child protection referrals in England

  15-01-2025 06:00
  
  Public service cuts and ‘stark impact of poverty’ are causing worse outcomes for children, according to surveyPoor parental mental health has overtaken domestic violence as the most commonly reported factor in social worker assessments into whether a child is at risk of serious harm or neglect, according to new research.Growing rates of mental illness – in both parents and children – were an increasingly important driver of child safeguarding interventions in England, the
  
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• Statement to Parliament: Winter 2025: Health and Social Care Secretary's statement

  15-01-2025 01:00 via gov.uk
  
  The Health and Social Care Secretary made a statement to the House of Commons on winter pressures.
  
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