Social work news

• Fall in proportion of Cafcass social workers holding more than 20 cases

  26-02-2025 22:28
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Just over a third of Cafcass social workers have caseloads above target levels but the proportion in this category is continuing to fall.
  The family courts body sees a caseload of 20 as being the maximum that enables relationship-based practice for social workers in its long-term teams.
  As of mid-January 2025, 34.9% of family court advisers (FCAs) in these teams held caseloads of 20+, down f
  
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• Guidance: Adult social care (ASC) workforce and work-related quality of life

  26-02-2025 15:00 via gov.uk
  
  Survey results on how working conditions, capacity, learning and development, and working relationships affect work-related quality of life in adult social care.
  
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• Care home throws 'rave' for resident's 105th birthday – video

  26-02-2025 13:13
  'I’ve had a wonderful time. The people here are wonderful and I think we’ve had a really good time,' said Hilda Jackson, her face decorated with UV rave paint, after the party held at Holbrook Hall residential home in Derbyshire. Jackson, who has lived at Holbrook Hall for about two-and-a-half years, attributes her long life to being dealt a good hand with her health – and to her love of dancing Continue reading...
  
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• Guidance: Co-ordinated admissions 2026: series 22 files

  26-02-2025 11:19 via gov.uk
  
  Files for the electronic transfer of 2026 co-ordinated admissions data, primarily for use by software suppliers.
  
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• Guidance: Common transfer file 25: specification

  26-02-2025 11:17 via gov.uk
  
  Technical documents for software suppliers for common transfer file (CTF) 25.
  
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• Policy paper: Digital Inclusion Action Plan: First Steps

  26-02-2025 11:01 via gov.uk
  
  The Digital Inclusion Action Plan aims to close the digital divide in the UK, ensuring that the benefits of technology can be felt by all.
  
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• Initial teacher training (ITT): accreditation for the academic year 2026 to 2027

  26-02-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Find out about eligibility and how to become an accredited provider of ITT for the academic year 2026 to 2027.
  
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• ‘Our finding that social care touches a quarter of children shows the need to tackle poverty’

  26-02-2025 10:09
  
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  By Professor Andy Bilson and Dr Matthew Jay
  Our study using national data estimated that a quarter of all children in England became a child in need before their 18th birthday.
  This means that these children, according to section 17 of the Children Act 1989, required services from children’s social care because they were disabled or would not otherwise reach a basic level of wellbeing
  
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• Free learning on restorative practice for World Social Work Day 2025

  26-02-2025 09:10
  
  To mark World Social Work Day 2025, Community Care is offering free learning to social care practitioners on relational and restorative practice.
  Consultant social worker Paul Nixon – formerly New Zealand’s chief social worker – will explore how these approaches bring families and communities into decision making about children and adults, to create lasting change, in a one-hour webinar.
  Paul Nixon
  Paul, who worked as a social worker and leader in England for 20 years before ta
  
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• Hospices receive multi-million pound boost to improve facilities

  26-02-2025 01:15 via gov.uk
  
  The government has confirmed the release of £25 million for upgrades and refurbishments today for hospices across England,
  
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