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• My Care Story: ‘Every social worker appeared always to be in a rush’

  27-03-2025 17:18
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.‘My Care Story’ is a new series dedicated to amplifying the stories of care-experienced individuals and providing social workers with vital insights to improve the support they offer.
  Rebekah Pierre, deputy director at children’s rights charity Article 39, has dedicated her career to championing the rights of children in the social care system.
  Formerly a professional offic
  
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• My Care Story: ‘Every social worker always seemed to be in a rush’

  27-03-2025 17:18
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.‘My Care Story’ is a new series dedicated to amplifying the stories of care-experienced individuals and providing social workers with vital insights to improve the support they offer.
  Rebekah Pierre, deputy director at children’s rights charity Article 39, has dedicated her career to championing the rights of children in the social care system.
  Formerly a professional offic
  
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• Transparency data: DfE: senior officials' business expenses, hospitality, and meetings, October to December 2024

  27-03-2025 17:08 via gov.uk
  Data on senior officials’ business expenses, hospitality, and meetings with external individuals and organisations.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: special advisers' gifts, hospitality and meetings, October to December 2024

  27-03-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Data on gifts and hospitality received by special advisers, and meetings they attended with senior media figures.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: senior officials’ business expenses, hospitality and meetings, October to December 2024

  27-03-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  All data on senior officials’ business expenses, external meetings and hospitality.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: ministerial travel and meetings, October to December 2024

  27-03-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Data on ministers' external meetings and any overseas travel.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: business appointment rules advice, October to December 2024

  27-03-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Summaries of advice given under the business appointment rules to applicants at SCS2 and SCS1 level and equivalents.
  
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• Transparency data: DfE: special advisers’ gifts, hospitality and meetings, October to December 2024

  27-03-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Data on gifts and hospitality received by special advisers, and meetings they attended with senior media figures.
  
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• Transparency data: DfE: ministerial overseas travel and meetings, October to December 2024

  27-03-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Data on ministers’ overseas travel and meetings with external individuals and organisations.
  
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• Research: Technical education learner progression survey 2024

  27-03-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  A report on T Level and level 4 and 5 learners outcomes, destinations, future plans and course experiences.
  
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• Research: Safeguarding partners yearly reports analysis 2023 to 2024

  27-03-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Analysis of how safeguarding partnerships developed their approaches in 2023 to 2024.
  
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• Research: Early years experts and mentors programme evaluation

  27-03-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Process and impact findings from the evaluation of the early years experts and mentors programme.
  
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• Corporate report: Performance of the health service in England: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care annual report 2022 to 2023

  27-03-2025 15:03 via gov.uk
  
  The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care's assessment of the performance of the health and care service in England for 2022 to 2023.
  
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• Decision: Improvement notice issued to Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: March 2025

  27-03-2025 14:49 via gov.uk
  
  An improvement notice issued to Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council.
  
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• Podcast: practising social work in Israel

  27-03-2025 14:40
  
  In the second episode of our new ‘Social work around the world‘ miniseries, we continue the conversation with Yohai Hakak, senior social work lecturer at Brunel University, London, who shares some fascinating insights about his time as a mental health social worker in Israel.
  In case you missed it, you can listen to episode one – about Hakak’s research into migration by social workers – here.
  In episode two, Hakak, who was born and raised in Israel, discusses the di
  
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• Guidance: Pre-entry health assessments: UK resettlement schemes

  27-03-2025 14:02 via gov.uk
  
  Protocol guidance on the aim, objectives and scope of pre-entry health assessment for individuals who are resettled in the United Kingdom.
  
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• School capital funding

  27-03-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  An overview of school capital funding, who it’s for, current and past allocations, how it’s calculated and spending guidance.
  
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• Decision: VPAG dispute resolution panel, February 2025: DHSC and B. Braun

  27-03-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  A decision from the VPAG dispute resolution panel that the sales of a branded medicine by B. Braun Medical Ltd did not meet the definition of an ECP.
  
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• £740 million allocated for 10,000 new places for pupils with SEND

  27-03-2025 11:49 via gov.uk
  New SEND places to create more inclusive classrooms in mainstream schools, delivering on Plan for Change to break down barriers to opportunity.
  
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• Guidance: Pre-entry health assessments guidance for UK refugees

  27-03-2025 11:41 via gov.uk
  
  Protocol guidance on the aim, objectives and scope of pre-entry health assessment for refugees who are resettled in the United Kingdom.
  
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• National Professional Qualifications (NPQ) framework review

  27-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  We are seeking recent, relevant and high-quality research that may inform updates to the evidence-base underpinning 3 NPQ frameworks.
  
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• Official Statistics: School capacity in England: academic year 2023 to 2024

  27-03-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Statistics on state-funded school places in England, as collected in the 2024 school capacity survey.
  
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• Correspondence: Apprenticeship standards achievement rates update

  27-03-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  A letter from the Minister for Skills on current apprenticeship standards achievement rates.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Further education and skills: March 2025

  27-03-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Further education and skills summary data, including apprenticeships and detailed education and training, from August 2024 to January 2025.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Apprenticeships: March 2025

  27-03-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Statistics on apprenticeships in England from August 2024 to January 2025.
  
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