Social work news

• Social Work England to hold ‘national conversation’ on future regulation of profession

  02-07-2025 22:26
  
  Social Work England is to hold a “national conversation” on the future regulation of the profession.
  It is running a roadshow this autumn, to which it is inviting social workers, people with lived experience, employers, students, academics and representatives from sector bodies to discuss key issues relating to its role as regulator, in five events around the country.
  Participants will be able to discuss:What Social Work England should prioritise in its next three-year strategy, cove
  
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• Council failings a factor in death of foster carer run over by child, inquest finds

  02-07-2025 20:06
  Marcia Grant, 60, was killed when 12-year-old boy she was fostering hit her with her own car in SheffieldFailings by a local council contributed to the death of a woman who was killed when a 12-year-old boy she was fostering ran her over with her own car, an inquest has found.Marcia Grant, 60, suffered catastrophic injuries as she tried to stop the boy taking her car outside her home in the Greenhill area of Sheffield in April 2023. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Full of excuses’: families condemn Matt Hancock’s testimony to Covid inquiry

  02-07-2025 19:36
  Former health secretary defends decision to discharge untested patients into care homes as ‘least worst option’ Bereaved families have said Matt Hancock’s evidence to the Covid inquiry “was full of excuses and completely devoid of accountability” as he described discharging untested patients into care homes as “the least worst option”.In his testimony to the UK Covid-19 inquiry on Wednesday, the former health secretary defended the decision to move hospi
  
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• Transparency data: Step up to social work: regional partnerships

  02-07-2025 17:03 via gov.uk
  
  Details of the regional partnerships, and their partner local authorities and universities, that deliver the step up to social work programme.
  
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• Step up to social work

  02-07-2025 17:03 via gov.uk
  If you have a non-social-work-related degree and want to become a child and family social worker, you can train through this programme.
  
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• Guidance: Academies budget forecast return: guides to using the online form

  02-07-2025 15:38 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance to help academies and academy trusts complete their budget forecast return.
  
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• Correspondence: DfE Update: 2 July 2025

  02-07-2025 15:37 via gov.uk
  Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.
  
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• Older people’s access to social care based an ‘unjust’ postcode lottery, finds analysis

  02-07-2025 14:28
  
  Access to care for older people in England is “poor and unjust”, an analysis has found.
  There was a fourfold difference between the councils with the highest and lowest proportions of older adults receiving funded long-term care, said the Institute for Government (IfG).
  While some of this was related to factors known to drive need, such as rates of disability or local deprivation, access was lower in areas with higher proportions of older people, found the think tank.
  ‘A poor a
  
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• Children’s social workers most likely to consider switching specialisms, poll finds

  02-07-2025 09:30
  
  Children’s social workers are more likely to consider switching areas of practice than practitioners in adults’ or mental health services, a Community Care poll has found.
  The finding mirrors a 2024 Social Work England survey of 1,375 practitioners, which found that children’s practitioners were more likely than their adults’ counterparts to consider changing to a different specialism.
  Of 321 children’s social workers who responded to our poll, 46% said they we
  
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• PM launches new era for NHS with easier care in neighbourhoods

  02-07-2025 01:00 via gov.uk
  The Prime Minister launches a new era for the NHS, bringing more easily accessible care closer to home.
  
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• 'Innovator passports’ set to accelerate cutting-edge NHS care

  02-07-2025 01:00 via gov.uk
  New 'innovator passports' will slash red tape so cutting-edge tech and treatments can be rolled out across the NHS quicker under the 10 Year Health Plan.
  
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