Social work news

• DfE seeks councils to pilot kinship carer allowances

  17-06-2025 13:59
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The Department for Education (DfE) is seeking up to 10 councils to trial paying allowances to kinship carers.
  Under the scheme, carers with, or applying for, a court order to look after children who would otherwise be in care would be paid a sum equivalent to the national minimum fostering allowance.
  This sets a floor for councils and independent fostering agencies (IFAs) for the payments th
  
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• A quarter of children in care had at least three social workers in 2023-24, DfE reveals

  17-06-2025 09:17
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A quarter of looked-after children in England had at least three social workers in 2023-24, the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed.
  Just 38% had one practitioner assigned to them during the year, with 35% having two social workers, 18% three and 9% four or more, according to DfE data on the stability of looked-after children’s lives.
  While there was little variation between ma
  
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• Welsh Government funds post to promote anti-racist social work practice

  17-06-2025 09:15
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The Welsh Government has funded a post to promote anti-racist social work practice in the country.
  Singeta Kalhan-Gregory has been appointed to the role of consultant social work – race, which will be based within the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) Cymru.
  The post was committed to in last year’s update of the government’s anti-racist Wales action plan, which i
  
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• Louise Casey is right: children must be saved from grooming gangs. But the culture warriors must be ignored | Polly Toynbee

  17-06-2025 07:00
  The new inquiry needs a sharp focus on the reality of this horrific abuse. A process hijacked by opportunists will only fail victims againPoison runs through every aspect of the grooming gang horror. Every element stirs up a particular political bile, from those pathetically vulnerable girls and their vile exploiters, to those well-chosen cases weaponised by the Tories and Faragists with no record of concern for the general plight of children in care.It’s odd that the Tories should wade in
  
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