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• Experienced care workers earn 4p per hour more than sector newcomers, reveals Skills for Care

  26-03-2025 23:37
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Experienced care workers were earning just 4p per hour more on average than newcomers to the sector as of December 2024, according to new Skills for Care data.
  This is the smallest pay gap between independent sector care workers with five or more years’ experience and those with those less than a year’s service yet recorded in a data series dating back to 2016.
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• Experienced care workers earn 4p per hour more than newcomers, reveals Skills for Care

  26-03-2025 23:37
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Experienced care workers were earning just 4p per hour more on average than newcomers to the sector as of December 2024, according to new Skills for Care data.
  This is the smallest pay gap between independent sector care workers with five or more years’ experience and those with those less than a year’s service yet recorded in a data series dating back to 2016.
  Then, experienced
  
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• Experienced care workers earn 4p per hour more than new staff, reveals Skills for Care

  26-03-2025 23:37
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Experienced care workers were earning just 4p per hour more on average than newcomers to the sector as of December 2024, according to new Skills for Care data.
  This is the smallest pay gap between independent sector care workers with five or more years’ experience and those with those less than a year’s service yet recorded in a data series dating back to 2016.
  Then, experienced
  
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• Pam Walker obituary

  26-03-2025 17:57
  My friend Pam Walker was a social worker who later turned her attention to painting.After starting out at the London borough of Brent in the early 1970s, a decade later Pam went part-time at the London borough of Barnet so that she could pursue her artistic interests. Working mainly in acrylics and collage, she took as her principal subjects urban landscapes undergoing change, although she also focused on the beaches of the south coast of England, where she went walking with her sketchbooks. Con
  
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• Over three million families to lose out from disability and incapacity benefit changes, says DWP

  26-03-2025 16:11
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Over three million families will lose an average of £1,720 per year in real terms by 2029-30, as a result of proposed changes to disability and incapacity benefits, the government has estimated.
  This includes 370,000 people who will lose their current entitlement to the daily living allowance element of personal independence payment (PIP), said the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP
  
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• ‘She has revolutionised the way we approach life story work’

  26-03-2025 14:20
  
  Our My Brilliant Colleague series invites you to celebrate anyone who has inspired you in your career. It is part of Community Care’s ongoing Choose Social Work campaign, which aims to champion the brilliant work social workers do every day and inspire the next generation of practitioners.
  In this entry, Debbie Elsheikh, service manager of Salford council’s workforce learning and development team, celebrates workforce development officer Vicky Wright.
  She praises Vicky for ‘rev
  
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• Guidance: Adult skills fund: funding rates and formula 2024 to 2025

  26-03-2025 14:06 via gov.uk
  Details of the 2024 to 2025 funding system for the DfE funded adult skills fund (ASF).
  
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• Guidance: Dedicated schools grant (DSG) management plan

  26-03-2025 13:54 via gov.uk
  Template and guidance for local authorities for the Department of Education (DfE) DSG management plan.
  
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• Children’s social workers to be measured against new post-qualifying standards

  26-03-2025 12:49
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Children’s social workers are to be measured against a new set of post-qualifying standards (PQS), under Department for Education (DfE) proposals.
  The proposed standards would replace the existing PQS, which largely date back to 2015, and are designed to set out what a practitioner working in local authority children’s services should know and be able to do after two years in pra
  
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• Guidance: NCR transactions in colleges and academy trusts

  26-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  Guidance on what to consider and when to get approval for novel, contentious or repercussive transactions.
  
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• Guidance: Framework for auditors and reporting accountants of colleges

  26-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  Audit and regularity assurance requirements for further education colleges, sixth-form colleges and designated institutions.
  
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• Guidance: College accounts direction

  26-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  Guidance on preparing and submitting annual report and financial statements (accounts) to the Department for Education (DfE).
  
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• Academies accounts direction and submitting your audited financial statements

  26-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  Guidance for academy trusts, external auditors and reporting accountants on preparing, auditing and submitting an academy trust's annual financial statements.
  
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• Apprenticeship funding rules

  26-03-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  The rules employers and training providers must follow to get funding for training and assessing apprentices in England.
  
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