Social work news

• Independent review of physician associates and anaesthesia associates: survey of healthcare professionals

  07-03-2025 17:44 via gov.uk
  
  The Leng review is seeking views from healthcare professionals to understand the day-to-day practice of AAs and PAs, and the development of these roles.
  
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• Brewing beer: rules and regulations for commercial brewing

  07-03-2025 16:03 via gov.uk
  
  Regulations that brewers and contract brewers must comply with when producing beer to sell.
  
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• Sustainability leadership and climate action plans in education

  07-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  The Department for Education's (DfE) sustainability leadership and climate action plans initiative.
  
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• Policy paper: Interministerial Group for Health and Social Care: communiqués

  07-03-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Details of the meetings held by the Interministerial Group (IMG) for Health and Social Care.
  
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• Community water fluoridation expansion in the north east of England

  07-03-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  The government is seeking views on expanding community water fluoridation schemes in the north east with new arrangements or by varying existing arrangements.
  
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• ‘Substantial work’ needed to improve family group conference data, study finds

  07-03-2025 10:29
  
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  “Substantial work” is needed to improve the recording and reporting of data on family group conferences (FGCs,) ahead of an expected increase in their use on the back of government legislation.
  That was among the conclusions of a study commissioned by Department for Education-funded evidence body Foundations into council approaches to collecting and analysing data on FGCs.
  It co
  
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• Social workers reject regulator’s planned 33% rise in fees

  07-03-2025 09:00
  
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  Practitioners have rejected Social Work England’s proposed 33% rise in registration fees, with most saying that the regulator should focus on improving “value for money” instead, in response to a Community Care poll.
  The plan, currently subject to a 12-week consultation, would mean fees for joining the register, and for annual renewal, would rise from £90 t
  
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• About the new standard of kinship care assessment

  07-03-2025 09:00
  
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  By Ann Horne, kinship care consultant, CoramBAAF
  There are an estimated 132,800 children living in kinship care in England (Kinship and Centre for Care, 2025).
  In many such cases, family members step in to care for a child without the involvement of social workers.
  However, a growing proportion of children in care – 16% in 2024, up from 13% in 2018 – are living with kinship fost
  
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• Ministers delaying inquiry into treatment of migrant carers, RCN says

  07-03-2025 08:00
  
  Exclusive: Nursing union says it continues to receive complaints about low pay, unfit housing and illegal feesMinisters are dragging their heels on an investigation into the mistreatment of migrant carers, the country’s largest nursing union has said, as it continues to receive complaints about low pay, substandard accommodation and illegal fees.Nicola Ranger, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, has written to Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, to urge her to speed up he
  
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• Supervised toothbrushing for children to prevent tooth decay 

  07-03-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Programme will reach up to 600,000 children in most deprived areas
  
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