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DfE to collect data on children’s social worker salaries
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Making a difference: why Hampshire County Council should be your next career move
At Hampshire County Council, it’s the people who make the difference. That’s why Hampshire’s Heads of Service are committed to creating the right conditions for practitioners in their community teams to thrive.
From providing supportive environments to considered training opportunities, Hampshire offers practitioners the chance to make a real difference to the lives of those needing support to live as independently as possible.
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Third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties – research
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties, research has found.
However, in most cases, parents’ conditions were only identified at the court stage, in part because social workers lacked the time and training to do so.
As a result, parents missed out on support that could have helped them prove or develop their parenting abilities, f -
The Guardian view on care failures: vulnerable children need homes, not court orders | Editorial
via theguardian.comThe lack of suitable placements for at-risk young people has led to a huge rise in deprivation of liberty orders. Family judges are right to be furiousSeven years ago, Sir James Munby, then the president of the family division of the high court, issued a highly unusual public judgment. Denouncing a “disgraceful and utterly shaming lack”, he called for an overhaul of council provision for children who need intensive support in a residential setting. Since then, the children’s co -
Book review: ‘Looked After: A Childhood in Care’
What is the book about?
This book is a memoir based on author Ashley John-Baptiste’s childhood experiences growing up in care. Throughout the book, Ashley, who is now a BBC journalist, reflects on his childhood and adolescence as a looked-after child, recounting times of hardship, trauma and confusion with such detail and introspection that you can’t help but be tremendously moved.
The take-home messages
Ashley describes specific encounters with social care professionals, teachers, f -
Official Statistics: Secondary and primary school applications and offers: 2024
via gov.ukOffers made to applicants for secondary and primary school places in England to start in September 2024, and the number and proportion that received preferred offers. -
Official Statistics: Apprenticeships: June 2024
via gov.ukMonthly apprenticeship starts in England from August 2023 to March 2024. -
Accredited official statistics: Education, health and care plans: England 2024
via gov.ukData on the number of children and young people with a statement of special educational needs (SEN) or education, health and care (EHC) plan in England. -
Social work across the decades: the birth of the adults’/children’s divide
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by Ray Jones
This article on social work in the 1980s is the second in a five-part series by Professor Ray Jones for Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Each part will look back at key events from the previous five decades – starting with the 1970s – that have shaped the social work sector today.
The 1970s saw the creation of a unified generic profession of social work and -
No new funding for children’s social care reforms in Tory manifesto despite £2.6bn care review bill
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The Conservatives have allocated no new funding to reforming children’s social care in their election manifesto, despite the blueprint for the changes carrying a £2.6bn bill.
The manifesto, issued yesterday, made two specific pledges on children’s social care, to create more places in children’s homes and to expand befriending and mentoring programmes for care leavers -
Conservative manifesto pledge to implement cap on care costs unfunded, warns think-tank
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A Conservative manifesto pledge to implement a cap on adult social care costs and associated charging reforms is unfunded, a think-tank has warned.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the plan to implement the changes in October 2025 would require cuts elsewhere, because the funding originally allocated to the scheme had been diverted and the party did not allocate any funding to the -
Conservative manifesto pledge to implement cap on care costs is unfunded, warns think-tank
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A Conservative manifesto pledge to implement a cap on adult social care costs and associated charging reforms is unfunded, a think-tank has warned.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the plan to implement the changes in October 2025 would require cuts elsewhere, because the funding originally allocated to the scheme had been diverted and the party did not allocate any funding to the -
Social workers divided on striking over pay offer
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social work opinion is divided on whether to strike over this year’s local government pay offer for 2024-25, a Community Care poll has found.
While a slight majority of practitioners would take action in pursuit of a better deal, over a third were sceptical that this would work.
Last month, employers announced a “full and final” pay offer for council staff in England, Wales -
How parents with learning disabilities lack support before, during and after care proceedings
By Mary Baginsky
Just a quarter of people with learning disabilities (26%) are on their GP surgery’s learning disability register, according to research published this year by the Nuffield Trust.
This indicates the majority are not known to services, including social care. Similarly, we know many parents with a learning disability manage without calling on services.
In research published earlier this year, Professor Rick Hood and colleagues found that a reference to a ‘parental learn -
Choose Social Work: free resource pack to inspire future social workers
In June 2023, Community Care launched our Choose Social Work campaign. We wanted to show the reality of social work: of dedicated, hard-working people, working alongside children, families and adults, supporting them to improve their lives.
Over the last year, we have published brilliant interviews with people like Jenny Molloy and Fatima Whitbread, spent a day with children’s social workers in a London borough, and shared social workers’ best advice for those contemplating joining t -
Social care is a timebomb beneath Britain – why does neither main party have a plan to tackle it? | Gaby Hinsliff
via theguardian.comPlans to fund adult care have been derided as a ‘dementia tax’ or a ‘death tax’. The carers I visited showed me that what they need is both urgent and simpleIn a church hall in suburban Croydon, south London, a familiar Beatles medley plays. The crowd sways and sings along, and an 80-year-old woman reaches out to hold her husband’s hand.Paul has vascular dementia and can no longer speak, but he smiles occasionally as if in recognition. His wife, Jill, says they were -
How prioritisation tool can help councils tackle their DoLS backlogs
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By Lorraine Currie
The number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) cases handled by English councils hit another record high in 2022-23.
Though councils completed a record 289,150 applications, the backlog grew by 2%, to 126,000, and the average duration of completed cases increased from 153 to 156, year on year.
At the same time, there is no current prospect of the Liberty Protectio -
Frontline rebrands fast-track social work programme
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Frontline has rebranded its fast-track social work training programme as Approach Social Work.
The rebrand comes a decade after the charity started delivering the scheme, under which trainees qualify in a year and are prepared for a career in child protection social work.
The organisation itself will retain the name Frontline.
Because Approach Social Work is publicly-funded, the announcement -
Council outsources mental health service to cover social work strike
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A council has outsourced a mental health service in order to cover a strike by its social workers.
Barnet Council has engaged recruitment firm Imperium Solutions to provide a mental health duty service for 10 weeks in the midst of a nine-week strike by about 20 of the London borough’s practitioners.
While agencies are prohibited from supplying locum workers to do the work normally carr -
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Nearly half of England’s care workers get less than real living wage, study finds
via theguardian.comExclusive: Campaigners say next government should match policy in Scotland and Wales ensuring adequate payNearly half of all care workers in England earn less than a real living wage, according to research.Analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) for the Living Wage Foundation found that 400,000 workers in social care (43% of the workforce) in England are paid less than £12 an hour, the amount required to cover living costs. In London the picture is even starker, with 80 -
‘I literally work to pay bills’: A care worker’s struggle to make ends meet
via theguardian.comAs research reveals half of care workers in England earn less than living wage, Matt shares his own struggle in the sectorNearly half of all care workers in England are paid less than the living wage, according to research.Analysis carried out by the Institute for Public Policy Research for the Living Wage Foundation found that 400,000 workers in social care are paid less than £12 an hour, the amount required to cover living costs. Continue reading... -
Vulnerable children locked up and ‘gravely damaged by the state’, former top family judge warns
via theguardian.comSir James Munby says measure reflects government’s ‘shocking moral failure’ to help those in England and Wales with complex needs• Judges are sick of locking up vulnerable children who just need help. Why has nothing been done?Vulnerable children with complex needs are being locked away in unregulated placements and are being “gravely damaged by the state” while their parents are driven to despair, according to England and Wales’s former top family judge. -
Vulnerable children locked up and ‘gravely damaged by the state’, England’s former top family judge warns
via theguardian.comSir James Munby says measure reflects government’s ‘shocking moral failure’ to help those with complex needs• Britain’s judges are sick of locking up vulnerable children who just need help. Why has nothing been done?Vulnerable children with complex needs are being locked away in unregulated placements and are being “gravely damaged by the state” while their parents are driven to despair, according to England’s former top family judge. Sir James Munb -
Judges are sick of locking up children who just need help. Why has nothing been done?
via theguardian.comLack of provision for complex cases in England and Wales is a moral failure, says a former president of the high court’s family divisionThe BBC recently reported extensively on the rising and excessive use of deprivation of liberty (DoL) orders on vulnerable children in England and Wales. What was described is shocking and the stories they reported are heartbreaking. But this scandal is nothing new.For many years, judges have been calling for urgent action to address the shortage -
Britain’s judges are sick of locking up children who just need help. Why has nothing been done?
via theguardian.comLack of provision for complex cases is a moral failure by our ‘civilised’ country, says a former president of the high court’s family divisionThe BBC recently reported extensively on the rising and excessive use of deprivation of liberty (DoL) orders on vulnerable children. What was described is shocking and the stories they reported are heartbreaking. But this scandal is nothing new.For many years, judges have been calling for urgent action to address the shortage of -
Lib Dems to promise £1.5bn reform of carer’s allowance including debt amnesty
via theguardian.comProposals also include a £20-a-week boost to payments and an increased limit on earnings from part-time workUK general election live – latest updatesThe Liberal Democrats will commit to a £1.5bn overhaul of carer’s allowance, including a £20-a-week boost for more than 1 million people who devote their lives to looking after frail, ill and disabled loved ones, in their general election manifesto.An ongoing Guardian investigation has revealed that tens of thousands of -
Nottingham city council to review case of women found dead in their home
via theguardian.comLocal agencies’ involvement with Alphonsine Djiako Leuga and her daughter will be subject to inquest and ‘full review’On the last few occasions Alphonsine Djiako Leuga was seen in her neighbourhood, she is said to have told shopkeepers that she could not afford to heat her home or buy food for her disabled daughter.Months later, Leuga and her teenage daughter were found dead inside their Nottingham home. Police said the pair had “lain undiscovered for some time” but -
Mounting social care costs leave councils facing £6.2bn black hole over next two years, warns LGA
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Mounting social care costs will leave councils facing a £6.2bn financial black hole over the next two years, the Local Government Association has warned political parties ahead of the general election.
The LGA calculated that authorities would need an additional £4.7bn in 2025-26, compared with 2024-25, to maintain services at existing levels, but would only be able to cover half
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