Social work news

• Guidance: Public health commissioning in the NHS: 2025 to 2026

  14-04-2025 15:24 via gov.uk
  
  Information about NHS England's objectives and funding arrangements as it commissions public health services.
  
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• ‘How social workers can rebuild trust with, and better support, Roma families’

  18-05-2025 09:23 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  By Dr Joanna Kostka and Mihai Calin Bica
  Imagine receiving a letter you can’t understand, from an authority you don’t trust, about your child’s future. For many Roma families in England, this is not just a scenario – it’s their reality.
  This recently published report, Come to Us in a Peaceful Way, explores the experiences of Roma families navigating the complex world of children’s services in England.
  This research, a collaboration between Advicenow (formerly
  
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• Independent report: Review into the operational effectiveness of the Care Quality Commission (easy read)

  16-05-2025 16:30 via gov.uk
  
  Easy read of the final findings and recommendations of the review into the operational effectiveness of the Care Quality Commission.
  
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• Dover to Calais school trips

  16-05-2025 15:40 via gov.uk
  How school groups can reduce processing time when travelling by ferry from Dover to Calais.
  
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• Notice: Notice to improve: Broughton Jewish Cassel Fox Primary School

  16-05-2025 13:14 via gov.uk
  
  A notice to improve issued to Broughton Jewish Cassel Fox Primary School by the Department for Education.
  
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• Adult education and skills funding allocations

  16-05-2025 13:05 via gov.uk
  
  Information on how we allocate adult skills funding, loan facilities and bursaries, apprenticeships carry-in and non-levy extensions to providers.
  
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• ‘I represented a social worker in a fitness to practise hearing – it felt like I was in a criminal court’

  16-05-2025 11:58 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  by Anonymous, with additional reporting by Anastasia Koutsounia
  I was recently involved in a fitness to practise (FTP) hearing as the representative of a social worker who was under investigation.
  While practitioners should ideally have a legal representative, this is beyond most people’s means.
  In light of that, any familiar face can take up that role, subject to permission obtained in advance from the regulator.
  It was on that basis that I took part in a seven-day hearing, held remotely.
  
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• ‘I represented a social worker in a fitness to practise hearing – at times it felt like I was in a criminal court’

  16-05-2025 11:58 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  by Anonymous, with additional reporting by Anastasia Koutsounia
  I was recently involved in a fitness to practise (FTP) hearing as the representative of a social worker who was under investigation.
  While practitioners should ideally have a legal representative, this is beyond most people’s means.
  In light of that, any familiar face can take up that role, subject to permission obtained in advance from the regulator.
  It was on that basis that I took part in a seven-day hearing, held remotely.
  
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• ‘I represented a social worker in a fitness to practise hearing – at times it felt like a criminal court’

  16-05-2025 11:58 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  by Anonymous, with additional reporting by Anastasia Koutsounia
  I was recently involved in a fitness to practise (FTP) hearing as the representative of a social worker who was under investigation.
  While practitioners should ideally have a legal representative, this is beyond most people’s means.
  In light of that, any familiar face can take up that role, subject to permission obtained in advance from the regulator.
  It was on that basis that I took part in a seven-day hearing, held remotely.
  
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• School business professionals: training and development

  16-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Sources of training and development for school business professionals (SBPs) in schools and trusts.
  
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• Guidance: Early years teacher degree apprenticeship: guidance for employers

  16-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  How employers in the early years sector can effectively deliver the early years teacher degree apprenticeship (EYTDA).
  
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• Survey launched to inform NHS dental contract reform

  16-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Dentists in England encouraged to take part to inform government plansto improve NHS dentistry
  
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• Almost million more pupils get access to mental health support

  16-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  School mental health support rollout to reach up to 900,000 more pupils this year, covering six in ten children across the country.
  
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• Adult social care needs £3.4bn annual funding boost by 2028-29 to stand still, says report

  15-05-2025 23:36 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Adult social care in England needs an extra £3.4bn in real-terms annual funding by 2028-29, at a “bare minimum”, to deal with rising demand and increased costs, an analysis has found.
  Councils would need an extra £6.4bn annually by 2028-29 if they wanted to also reduce unmet need for care, and an additional £8.7 to tackle low pay in addition, said the Health Fou
  
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• We are no strangers to highly skilled care staff | Letters

  15-05-2025 18:48
  Jane O’Regan writes that the happiest part of her day is when a care visitor arrives to help her husband. Plus, a letter from Jonathan ErskineThank you, Zoe Williams (‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved ones, 12 May). My husband suffered a severe stroke 14 years ago. Every day since, a care worker has visited us to get him up and wash and dress him. We live in east London and every single care worker we
  
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• Guidance: Apprenticeship funding rules, 2025 to 2026

  15-05-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  The rules employers and training providers must follow to get funding for training and assessing apprentices in England.
  
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• Guidance: Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant for maintained schools and academies with 16 to 19 provision

  15-05-2025 16:42 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for maintained schools and academies with 16 to 19 provision on the teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant.
  
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• Guidance: National Tutoring Programme (NTP) allocations for 2023 to 2024 academic year

  15-05-2025 14:21 via gov.uk
  
  Allocations and conditions of grant of the 2023 to 2024 National Tutoring Programme (NTP) funding for schools and local authorities.
  
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• Embedding learning in social work teams through a multi-agency approach

  15-05-2025 12:57 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  North East Lincolnshire Council is taking a proactive approach to ensuring social workers and partner agencies are working collaboratively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people across its district.
  Through the North East Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (NELSCP), children’s services, the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and Humberside Police work alongside relevant agencies to help, support and protect children and young peopl
  
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• Transparency data: Targeted retention incentive for FE teachers

  15-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Data for the targeted retention incentive for further education (FE) teachers as of 5 May 2025.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2025

  15-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Statistics on approved placements by type, sex, age, ethnicity and length of stay.
  
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• NHS leaders face both ‘carrot and stick’ in new performance drive

  15-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  NHS leaders will face new performance-based pay system with bonuses for improved patient care and penalties for failing trust executives.
  
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• Improved PE and sport for more than 240,000 pupils with SEND

  15-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Government launches Inclusion 2028 programme which will improve access to PE and school sports for pupils with SEND.
  
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• What will ending overseas recruitment mean for adult social care?

  15-05-2025 00:38 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The government’s decision to stop adult social care providers from recruiting staff from overseas – at some point later this year – has sent shockwaves through the sector.
  According to provider bodies, it risks creating “extreme workforce shortages” and consequent harm to older and disabled people (the Homecare Association), and was a “short-sighted”
  
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• Correspondence: DfE Update: 14 May 2025

  14-05-2025 13:56 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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• Guidance: Care workforce pathway for adult social care (easy read)

  14-05-2025 13:28 via gov.uk
  Information about the 8 groups of jobs in adult social care in England.
  
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• Transparency data: Funding allocations to training providers: 2024 to 2025

  14-05-2025 13:22 via gov.uk
  
  Funding values for colleges, training organisations and employers with an adult skills fund, apprenticeship or advanced learner loan contract for 2024 to 2025.
  
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• Health and Social Care Secretary's speech on men's health

  14-05-2025 12:47 via gov.uk
  
  Wes Streeting spoke at the launch of the Centre for Policy Research for Men and Boys (CPRMB) on Tuesday 13 May
  
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• Minority ethnic social care staff continue to face worse outcomes than white colleagues – report

  14-05-2025 12:15 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Black, Asian and minority ethnic social care staff continue to face worse outcomes than white colleagues in English councils across most indicators, Skills for Care research has revealed.
  Council staff from minority groups fared less well than white counterparts on most of nine indicators designed to measure racial inequalities, including in relation to recruitment, pay, progression and bein
  
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• Rethinking ‘disguised compliance’ in child protection practice

  14-05-2025 09:19 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  This article presents a few key considerations from Community Care Inform Children’s guide on understanding ‘disguised compliance’ and how to apply a relationship-based approach to removing barriers to parental engagement. Inform Children subscribers can access the full guide here.
  This guide was written by Jadwiga Leigh, founder of New Beginnings, a foundation working to support and keep families together, and a part-time senior lecturer in social work.‘Disguised complia
  
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