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• Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund expires with no news on future

  31-03-2025 23:06
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) has expired today (31 March 2025), with no news on its future.
  The Department for Education said today that it would “set out more details on the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund as soon as possible”, while children’s minister Janet Daby reported that announcements on ASGSF funding from April 2025 woul
  
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• Policy paper: Framework agreement between DHSC and the Health Research Authority

  31-03-2025 17:46 via gov.uk
  
  Describes the working relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care and the Health Research Authority.
  
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• Guidance: Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2025 to 2026

  31-03-2025 17:28 via gov.uk
  
  Find out how much local authorities receive for DSG funding in the 2025 to 2026 financial year and how it is calculated.
  
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• Guidance: Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework: 2024 to 2025 and 2025 to 2026

  31-03-2025 16:40 via gov.uk
  
  A letter to community pharmacy contractors to set out the detail of the agreed funding arrangements for community pharmacy.
  
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• Policy paper: 2025 to 2026 financial directions to NHS England

  31-03-2025 16:39 via gov.uk
  
  The government's financial directions to NHS England set out its revised budgets for 2025 to 2026.
  
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• Policy paper: 2024 to 2025 revised financial directions to NHS England

  31-03-2025 16:39 via gov.uk
  
  The government's financial directions to NHS England set out its revised budgets for 2024 to 2025.
  
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• Qualified teacher status (QTS): qualify to teach in England

  31-03-2025 16:32 via gov.uk
  
  Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
  
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• Transparency data: High needs: allocated place numbers

  31-03-2025 14:39 via gov.uk
  A list of allocated high needs place numbers to help collaboration between local authorities and institutions.
  
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• Guidance: High needs funding arrangements: 2025 to 2026

  31-03-2025 14:30 via gov.uk
  
  Information for local authorities, schools and colleges about high needs funding arrangements for the 2025 to 2026 financial and academic year.
  
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• Get childcare: step by step

  31-03-2025 14:16 via gov.uk
  
  How to find childcare, get help paying for it and what to do if your circumstances change.
  
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• Guidance: Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2024 to 2025

  31-03-2025 13:32 via gov.uk
  
  Find out how much local authorities receive for DSG funding in the 2024 to 2025 financial year and how it is calculated.
  
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• Social workers least likely to feel valued of adult social care staff groups, find survey

  31-03-2025 13:11
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social workers are the least likely adult social care staff group to feel valued or that they are making a difference to the people they support, government-commissioned research has found.
  As a result of this, and other indicators, such as how safe and autonomous staff feel in their role, social workers have the lowest work-related quality of life of any part of the adult social care workfo
  
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• Social workers least likely adult care staff group to feel valued or that they are making a difference

  31-03-2025 13:11
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social workers are the least likely adult social care staff group to feel valued or that they are making a difference to the people they support, government-commissioned research has found.
  As a result of this, and other indicators, such as how safe and autonomous staff feel in their role, social workers have the lowest work-related quality of life of any part of the adult social care workfo
  
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• Transparency data: Funding allocations to training providers: 2022 to 2023

  31-03-2025 13:06 via gov.uk
  
  Funding values for colleges, training organisations and employers with an adult education budget, apprenticeship, advanced learner loan or traineeship contract for 2022 to 2023.
  
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• Social Worker of the Year Awards 2025 opens for entries

  31-03-2025 11:23
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The Social Worker of the Year Awards 2025 is open for entries.
  Eighteen category awards are up for grabs this year, for practitioners, teams, leaders, organisations, students and educators in England.
  There is one new award this year, for international social work, which has replaced the approved mental health professional (AMHP) gong, which was presented in 2023 and 2024.
  The Social Work Aw
  
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• Guidance: GCSE computer science

  31-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  Subject content, aims and learning objectives for GCSE in computer science for teaching from 2025.
  
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• Guidance: Drug and alcohol treatment and recovery funding: 2025 to 2026

  31-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  Funding to local councils to help them improve their drug and alcohol treatment and recovery systems, from 2025 to 2026.
  
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• GCSE computer science subject content update

  31-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  We are seeking views on an update to the subject content for GCSE computer science.
  
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• Designated Social Care Officer

  31-03-2025 09:54
  
  https://jobs.communitycare.co.uk/job/1401767994/designated-social-care-officer/
  
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• New services for patients under record pharmacy funding deal

  31-03-2025 01:15 via gov.uk
  
  Patients to benefit from new services thanks to funding deal agreed between the government and Community Pharmacy England (CPE).
  
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