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• ‘Parallel to care system’ for unaccompanied children to be scrapped in asylum reforms

  10-02-2025 21:32
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A “parallel to the care system” for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, under which they would be accommodated by ministers, is to be be scrapped by the government.
  The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill would also remove provisions that would see unaccompanied young people whose age was disputed treated as adults if they refused a “scientific” age assess
  
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• Legislation creating ‘parallel to care system’ for unaccompanied children to be scrapped in asylum reforms

  10-02-2025 21:32
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Legislation creating a “parallel to the care system” for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, under which they would be accommodated by ministers, is to be be scrapped by the government.
  The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill would also remove provisions that would see unaccompanied young people whose age was disputed treated as adults if they refused a “scienti
  
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• Learn from the lived experience of childhood trauma

  10-02-2025 15:40
  
  Hearing directly from people with lived experience of social care is one of the most powerful and effective ways to learn and reflect on social work practice.
  Author, motivational speaker and care leaver Jenny Molloy, in partnership with Community Care Inform, will be sharing her experience of childhood neglect, parental addiction and domestic abuse, in a session at Social Work England’s Social Work Week 2025.
  She will discuss the opportunities missed by professionals to help her and how p
  
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• AI tool improves direct work in adult social care despite accuracy issues, practitioners report

  10-02-2025 14:42
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Adult social care professionals have reported that using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool saved them time and improved direct work, despite some concerns over accuracy.
  Research commissioned by Beam, the company behind the Magic Notes tool, found practitioners reported reduced time spent on case recording and assessments, enhanced engagement with people they supported, and improved quali
  
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• Statutory guidance: The Primary Dental Services Statement of Financial Entitlements (Amendment) (No.2) Directions 2025

  10-02-2025 13:50 via gov.uk
  
  Sets out the conditions attached to the dental recruitment incentive scheme (DRIS), also known as the 'golden hello' scheme.
  
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• Independent report: Reports on children’s services in Stoke-on-Trent City Council

  10-02-2025 13:00 via gov.uk
  
  Reports on children’s services in Stoke-on-Trent from the children’s services commissioner and the children's services improvement adviser.
  
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• Decision: Revised direction issued to Stoke-on-Trent City Council (revoked February 2025)

  10-02-2025 13:00 via gov.uk
  
  Revised statutory direction issued in to Stoke-on-Trent City Council due to poor performance in children's social care services.
  
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• Service Director – Strategy, Transformation & Commissioning

  10-02-2025 10:20
  
  https://jobs.communitycare.co.uk/job/1401766428/service-director-strategy-transformation-and-commissioning/
  
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• Bill to remove profit from children’s care in Wales approved by Senedd

  10-02-2025 09:15
  
  Legislation to eliminate profit from the provision of care to looked-after children in Wales has been approved by the Senedd and so will become law.
  Under the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill, new placements in for-profit children’s homes, secure accommodation or foster placements, by Welsh or English councils, will be banned – other than in exceptional circumstances – in April 2030.
  This is three years later than Welsh ministers’ original target for eliminating profit
  
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• Unpaid carer to challenge DWP allowance overpayment penalty in court

  10-02-2025 07:00
  
  ‘It takes the little people to stand up,’ says Andrea Tucker, who was told to repay £4,600 after caring for mother for 15 yearsAn unpaid carer is to challenge in the courts an “unfair and nonsensical” demand by welfare officials to repay £4,600 in carer’s allowance overpayments, five years after being advised by the same department she was following benefit rules correctly.Andrea Tucker, a part-time charity shop worker who cared full-time for her mother
  
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