Social work news

• New rules to prioritise recruiting care workers in England

  12-03-2025 17:53 via gov.uk
  
  Employers will be required to prioritise recruiting international care workers already in England before recruiting from overseas.
  
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• Equipping social workers to meet 21st century challenges relating to death and dying

  12-03-2025 12:26
  
  By Denise Turner
  The proposed assisted dying legislation, which is currently being debated in Parliament, recommends social workers are appointed to multi-disciplinary panels, making decisions about assisted dying requests, following sign-off by two doctors.
  This is an important potential change in the social work role. However, death and dying have always been firmly embedded within the profession, either directly, through people who are terminally ill or have experienced the death of a loved o
  
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• How conscious are social workers about their safety during visits?

  12-03-2025 09:45
  
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  Visiting people in need of support and face-to-face contact are considered integral parts of social work. 
  However, completing visits is a task practitioners often must carry out alone, which, in some cases, carries a degree of risk.
  As experienced children’s social worker Sophie Baker explained in a recent article for Community Care: “Many of these families are experiencin
  
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