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Press release: £85 million pledged to tackle antibiotic emergency
via gov.ukFunding of £85 million will be announced at a global event to support the international community in tackling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. -
Sector concern as DfE ends social work teaching partnership funding
The government has stopped funding social work teaching partnerships, sparking sector concern that progress brought about by the arrangements will stall.
The Department for Education wrote to partnerships at the beginning of April telling them that it would not be renewing funding for the 2024-25 financial year.
One sector leader said that the DfE had told partnerships that there would be funding for 2024-25 last autumn and invited them to bid; however, there followed a several-month delay, culm -
Find a school census code: applicable from August 2024
via gov.ukA list of codes to use when completing your school census. -
Data items 2024 to 2025
via gov.ukGuidance about every piece of information you need to send us in autumn 2024, and spring and summer 2025. -
Changes for 2024 to 2025
via gov.ukAny changes to the information we ask for or how it should be provided since the 2023 to 2024 academic year. -
‘Sally has been my cheerleader at every stage of my career’
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.For Community Care’s 50th anniversary, our My Brilliant Colleague series invites you to celebrate anyone who has inspired you in your career.
In the latest entry, social worker Claire Shaw celebrates her mentor and former practice educator, Sally Lee, who has supported her through her final placement and well into her career in adults’ social work.I want to nominate Sally Lee as -
Adoption leaders bid to reform ‘institutionally racist’ system
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The adoption system is “institutionally racist”, sector leaders have warned, in a strategy designed to tackle ethnic inequalities facing children and prospective adopters and a lack of diversity in the workforce.
In its strategy for 2024-27, Adoption England, the national body supporting regional adoption agencies (RAAs), said it wanted to “end the racial disparity” t -
Official Statistics: Further education workforce in England 2022 to 2023
via gov.ukStatistics on the size and characteristics of the further education workforce in England from the 2022 to 2023 academic year. -
Labour has ‘no plans’ to allow health worker visas to include family members
via theguardian.comRules were changed this year in effort to cut immigration, but experts warn bar on dependents will have significant impact on health serviceUK politics live – latest updatesLabour has “no plans” to change rules barring health and care workers from bringing their families to the UK on their visas, despite a plummeting number of NHS staff since the rules were changed earlier this year.Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said the health service had become too reliant on ov -
Our children’s services system is broken. This sharp rise in deprivation of liberty orders proves it | Letter
via theguardian.comSteven Walker, a retired social worker, is worried by an exponential increase in orders and the issues underlying itThe number of applications to the family courts for children’s deprivation of liberty (DOL) orders – most of which are granted – has risen massively in the last six years, from around 100 to more than 1,200, as reported by the BBC’s File on 4 programme last week. This is testimony to a broken children’s services system. Worse still, the places chi -
News story: New restrictions on puberty blockers
via gov.ukNew regulations restrict the prescribing and supply of puberty-suppressing hormones to children and young people under 18. -
Closed consultation: Health and social care statistical outputs
via gov.ukWe are seeking views on health and social care statistical outputs published by DHSC (including OHID), NHSBSA, UKHSA, ONS and NHS England. -
Social workers don’t feel able to speak about Israel-Gaza war at work, poll finds
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Social workers do not feel supported in their workplaces to speak about how they’ve been affected by the war in Gaza, a Community Care poll has found.
UK practitioners have been deeply affected by the conflict, in which over 36,000 people have been killed in Gaza due to Israeli attacks, following the killing of about 1,139 people and the taking of 253 hostages in the Hamas-led attack -
Mandatory child sexual abuse duty plan dropped in pre-election legislation rush
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A planned new duty on staff working with children to report child sexual abuse (CSA) was dropped in last week’s pre-election rush to pass legislation.
The government’s Criminal Justice Bill fell in the so-called ‘wash-up’ period between prime minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to call an election last Wednesday (22 May) and the end of the parliamentary session last -
Social workers’ encounters with dogs: addressing the evidence gap
By Denise Turner
Social workers may encounter dogs in their practice in multiple ways.
These include home visits, making court recommendations in which decisions about child placements are affected by whether a family relinquishes its dog, or assessing the suitability of dogs in the homes of foster carers.
In cases of domestic abuse, people may be reluctant to leave a dangerous situation due to their dog, or dogs may have to be re-homed anonymously in order to prevent the perpetrator from locati -
Assistant Team Manager
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National reckonings and public inquiries: what scandals come next?
via theguardian.comAfter the Post Office, infected blood, Grenfell Tower, Windrush and more, what could fall on the next prime minister’s watch? Reckonings with shocking national scandals have lately become a defining feature of British public life.Some, like the Post Office and infected blood scandals, have erupted from cases of wrongdoing hidden in plain sight. Again and again, whistleblowers are shown to have been sidelined, ignored and dismissed. Continue reading... -
COSLA pay offer to council staff at ‘limit of affordability’
Scottish local government body COSLA has issued a pay offer to council staff for 2024-25 that it says is at the “limit of affordability”.
Under the proposal, social workers and other Scottish local authority staff would receive a 2.2% pay rise backdated to April 2024 and a further 2% in October this year, extending until October 2025. The proposal is worth about 4.2% over 18 months or 3% on an annualised basis.
According to the Scottish Government, its £14bn settlement for -
The Guardian view on private equity and public services: this trend needs reversing | Editorial
via theguardian.comFrom railways to nurseries and children’s homes, investors are taking advantage of chances to siphon taxpayer funds offshoreSector by sector, private equity is making deep inroads into UK public services. More than a decade ago, the collapse of Southern Cross, the private-equity-owned care home operator, revealed the havoc that can be wreaked when essential public services are run by heavily indebted businesses with complex financial structures. Typically, such owners maximise profits by u -
‘No one would accept blame’: Carers highlight DWP failures over debt crisis
via theguardian.comCarers asked to repay sums as high as £20k say officials did not share eligibility information between departmentsCarers put through the wringer of carer’s allowance overpayments raise the same question time and again: they weren’t aware they had infringed benefit rules but welfare officials were. Why were they not told, rather than overpayments being allowed to run on for months, landing them with debts of thousands of pounds?For thousands of carers who unwittingly breached ca -
‘It feels like contempt’: DWP tells 85-year-old dementia patient to repay £13k
via theguardian.comCypriot-born Sia Kasparis, who speaks limited English, was not told about disability premium overpayment for several yearsEighty-five-year-old Sia Kasparis was in her hospital bed in the living room of her small north London flat when there was a knock at the door.The grandmother-of-five has been bedbound for the last two years, the result of a collapsed vertebra and a range of other health problems, including vascular dementia, heart failure and kidney disease. Continue reading... -
‘It feels like contempt’: DWP asks 85-year-old dementia patient to repay £13k
via theguardian.comCypriot-born Sia Kasparis, who speaks limited English, was not told about disability premium overpayment for several yearsEighty-five-year-old Sia Kasparis was in her hospital bed in the living room of her small north London flat when there was a knock at the door.The grandmother-of-five has been bedbound for the last two years, the result of a collapsed vertebra and a range of other health problems, including vascular dementia, heart failure and kidney disease. Continue reading... -
Next government urged to wake up to UK’s ‘shocking’ levels of child poverty
via theguardian.comCharities call for law within first 100 days after general election to ensure annual rises in the financial help parents receiveThe next government should pass a new law within 100 days of winning the general election that would commit ministers to eradicating child poverty for good, the five biggest UK children’s charities say this weekend.The organisations demand legislation in the first king’s speech that would include plans for a “child lock” – equivalent t -
Union threatens court action over council plan to cover social work strike
A union has threatened court action over a council’s plan to bringing in an external service to cover mental health social workers during a nine-week strike over staffing levels in their teams.
UNISON has sent a legal letter to Barnet Council’s chief executive, John Hooton, stating that the planned move is unlawful ‘strike breaking’ and urging the authority to desist or risk court action.
However, the council has maintained that its action is both lawful and necessary to -
Independent report: Making prevention everyone’s business
via gov.ukProfessor John Deanfield’s vision for a modern, personalised heart health prevention service. -
Monetising children in care is morally bankrupt | Letters
via theguardian.comDavid Scattergood on how the work of independent fostering agencies is offering a glimmer of hope and Peter RC Williams on the government’s obligations. Plus a letter from Nina Lopez and Tracey NortonGeorge Monbiot is right to highlight the state of the free market in children’s social care (How can a child in care cost £281,000 a year? Ask the wealth funds that have councils over a barrel, 18 May). With more children in care now than ever before, children’s residential a -
Family safeguarding founder recognised in Frontline Awards 2024
Sue Williams, the mind behind the family safeguarding model, has been recognised for her outstanding contribution to children and families in the second annual Frontline Awards.
Her award was presented by chief social worker for children Isabelle Trowler, who described Sue as “a leading light in bringing change and innovation to children’s social care across England”.“Her incredible tenacity, intellectual clout, creativity and commitment to the sector has made a huge and -
Form: Secretary of State direction to admit a child to an academy
via gov.ukForms to be used by local authorities for requesting that the Secretary of State for Education directs an academy to admit a child. -
News story: Ofqual Chief Regulator preferred candidate
via gov.ukSir Ian Bauckham CBE has been announced as the preferred candidate for the role at Ofqual following a recruitment and assessment process. -
Bill to end profit from children’s care placements in Wales published
Legislation to end profit-making from the provision of children’s care placements in Wales has been published.
The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill would permit only not-for-profit organisations and councils from providing fostering, children’s home or secure accommodation placements.
The reform would make Wales the first UK country to ban profit-making from both fostering and residential services.
However, following concerns during consultation that the reform would disrupt the s
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