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• Would you move from the city to work in a more rural setting?

  14-02-2025 12:54
  
  Aline is an assistant team manager in one of East Hampshire’s family help teams. She loves the countryside and had always wanted a home with a garden. But these were not viable options when she lived and worked in London.
  “I grew up in the country and always wanted to eventually live somewhere where there was open space and a chance to be close to nature,” she says.
  Aline lived in a London flat with her cat. Her job – then as a private maternity nurse – meant late-n
  
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• Press release: Apprenticeship reforms set to turbocharge economic growth

  14-02-2025 12:23 via gov.uk
  
  New research shows apprenticeships contribute £25bn to England’s economy, with reforms announced during National Apprenticeship Week set to boost growth.
  
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• Apprenticeship reforms set to turbocharge economic growth

  14-02-2025 12:23 via gov.uk
  
  New research shows apprenticeships contribute £25bn to England’s economy, with reforms announced during National Apprenticeship Week set to boost growth.
  
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• ‘What I wish I had known about keeping safe during home visits’

  14-02-2025 11:01
  
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  by Sophie Baker
  This is the second installment in Sophie Baker’s ‘What I wish I had known…’ series, where she reflects on her approach to practice when she started out – and what she would tell her younger self now.
  As I perched on the edge of the two-seater sofa in the lounge, facing Vicki*, I knew I had made a big mistake.
  Not because I was intimidated by he
  
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• Ask The Experts: how to get a new job after receiving a negative reference

  14-02-2025 10:05
  
  In this episode of our ‘Ask The Experts’ series, Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Claire Barcham and Kayleigh Rose Evans respond to a question on how to secure a new job after receiving a negative reference.
  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 advice has helped you secure your next social work role, we want to hear from you.
  Listen to “#3 Ask The Experts: Ho
  
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• Adult social worker pay down 5% in real-terms since 2016, data shows

  14-02-2025 08:39
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Average pay for social workers in council adults’ services in England fell by 5.3% from 2016-24, official data shows.
  As of September 2024, the (mean) average salary for practitioners was £43,000, up 2% on the level 12 months earlier after taking account of inflation, said Skills for Care’s annual report on the local authority workforce.
  In cash terms, practitioners were ea
  
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