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After exchanging pleasantries about our weekends I complete a Care Act assessment for someone I saw more than two weeks ago. Although I have my written notes to refer to, I may have forgotten some facts so I contact the residential home to clarify.
My afternoon is spent in a different nursing home with a man who has a significant cognitive impairment. Staff at the unit are friendly but I have to ask the carers to talk in the office. I’m aware everyone can hear as they talk abo
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Social work diary: ‘The client doesn’t want to see us, is suspicious and tells us, firmly, to go away’
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Social workers from 22 bodies to develop resources to cut workloads
Social workers and managers from 22 organisations are to help develop and test resources designed to cut workloads among children’s practitioners.
They will work with the Department for Education (DfE) appointed national workload action group (NWAG) to identify and quality assure solutions to ‘unnecessary’ drivers of workload.
The work of the review, testing and implementation network (RTIN), which comprises 21 councils and one children’s trust (see below), will cover are -
Transparency data: Families first for children pathfinder: grant determination letters
via gov.ukLetters outlining the grant provided to local authorities in England to support delivery of families first for children (FFC) pathfinder and family network pilot projects. -
Guidance: Higher education tuition fees for foundation years
via gov.ukHow higher education (HE) providers can implement the HE tuition fee cap for classroom-based foundation years in the 2025 to 2026 academic year. -
Statutory guidance: NHS (General Medical Services - Premises Costs) Directions: previous directions
via gov.ukThese previous directions, published for public reference, were for the NHS from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and relate tohow payments should be calculated and made to general practice contractors in respect of premises costs. -
Statutory guidance: NHS (General Medical Services - Premises Costs) Directions
via gov.ukDirections for the NHS from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care relating to how payments should be calculated and made to general practice contractors in respect of premises costs. -
Guidance: Phonics screening check data collection: guide
via gov.ukGuide for local authorities to help them complete and return the 2024 phonics screening check data collection. -
Carer’s allowance scandal is not going away – but will DWP reform happen?
via theguardian.comAfter the Guardian exposé there is pressure on ministers to save people from a system described as ‘setting carers up for a fall’• DWP’s unchecked database leaves tens of thousands at risk of debtIt has been a month since the Guardian revealed the shocking scale of the carer’s allowance overpayments scandal, and the misery and despair it has inflicted on tens of thousands of unpaid carers. The issue is not going away – but what happens next?The story has -
DWP’s unchecked database leaves tens of thousands of carers at risk of debt
via theguardian.comAbout 50% of earnings ‘alerts’ for carer’s allowance overpayments not looked at by staff, figures reveal• Will DWP act on carer’s allowance scandal?Tens of thousands of unpaid carers are at risk of debt and criminal prosecution because their cases are lying unchecked on a government “alert” database of people being overpaid benefits, according to new figures.Officials are aware of the mounting number of instances where UK carers are at risk of racking up -
Social work across the decades: the Maria Colwell inquiry
It is fifty years since the launch of Community Care as a resource for social workers and others within social services.
It was also fifty years ago, in 1974, that the Maria Colwell inquiry report was published. Its significance was recognised at the time – it was on the front cover of Community Care – and has not diminished over the past five decades.
Maria was seven years old when she was killed, in 1973, by her stepfather after being returned from foster care to the care of her mo -
Guidance: International recruitment fund for the adult social care sector 2024 to 2025
via gov.ukInformation on the £16 million support fund for regional partnerships to prevent and respond to exploitative employment practices of internationally recruited care staff. -
Policy paper: Shipbuilding skills in the UK
via gov.ukThe government's response and next steps to the UK shipbuilding skills taskforce's report on the changes needed to develop UK shipbuilding skills. -
Transparency data: Supply of skills for jobs in science and technology
via gov.ukAn assessment of the supply of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce to 2030 and the education pathways into STEM jobs. -
Research: Jobs and skills dashboard
via gov.ukDashboard showing statistics on jobs and skills in the UK. -
Open consultation: Strengthening protections in unregistered alternative provision
via gov.ukSeeking views on the introduction of new national standards and a quality assurance framework for unregistered alternative provision. -
Official Statistics: Apprenticeships: May 2024
via gov.ukMonthly apprenticeship starts in England from August 2023 to February 2024. -
Guidance: Addressing health inequalities across allied health professional (AHP) services: a guide for AHP system leaders
via gov.ukGuidance developed with AHP leaders to support the planning, implementation and evaluation of actions to reduce health inequalities in AHP services. -
Consultation outcome: Understanding the use of unregistered alternative provision
via gov.ukWe are seeking views to better understand how unregistered alternative provision is commissioned and delivered. -
Press release: Prime Minister to call on university leaders to protect Jewish students
via gov.ukVice Chancellors from some of the country’s leading universities will join forces with the government today (9 May) to discuss actions to address the rise in antisemitic abuse on campus and disruption to students’ learning. -
Transparency data: Special free schools: local authority applications for waves 3 and 4
via gov.ukList of local authorities who applied to open a special free school in waves 3 and 4, and those who were successful. -
Press release: Government expands support for pupils with SEND
via gov.ukLocations announced for 16 new special free schools and trusts appointed at a further 7 schools, providing thousands of vital places across England. -
‘Hundreds of social workers left in limbo’: BASW and unions urge action on fitness to practise delays
Hundreds of social workers in England are being “left in limbo”, often unable to work, because of long and increasing delays in fitness to practise (FTP) cases.
That was the warning from the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), Social Workers Union (SWU) and UNISON in a joint statement yesterday setting out their “significant concerns” about Social Work England’s operation of the FTP system.
The bodies, who each represent tens of thousands of social workers -
Transparency data: Privacy information: stakeholders
via gov.ukDetails of the personal data the Department for Education (DfE) processes for stakeholders in various organisations. -
Social workers begin strike over ‘unsafe’ staffing levels
Social workers have begun a three-day strike over staffing levels in their service that their union describes as unsafe.
The walkout, from 8-10 May, marks an escalation of an existing dispute at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust that saw children and families practitioners start taking industrial action short of a strike last month.
Their union, NIPSA, said the action was in protest against “a sustained staffing crisis in family and childcare services” across Northern Ireland, whi -
Consultation outcome: Fixed recoverable costs in lower damages clinical negligence claims – a supplementary consultation on disbursements
via gov.ukA supplementary consultation on disbursements within the fixed recoverable costs scheme for clinical negligence claims up to a value of £25,000 in England and Wales. -
Press release: New 5-year plan to combat antimicrobial resistance
via gov.ukThe government has announced its new national action plan on antimicrobial resistance to protect people and animals from the risk of drug-resistant infections. -
Policy paper: UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2024 to 2029
via gov.ukThe UK's second 5-year national action plan setting out ambitions and actions for the next 5 years in support of the 20-year vision for antimicrobial resistance (AMR). -
Press release: New five-year plan to combat antimicrobial resistance
via gov.ukThe government has announced its new National Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance to protect people and animals from the risk of drug resistant infections. -
Children in danger as NSW child protection reaches crisis point, striking caseworkers say
via theguardian.comPublic-sector workers call for pay rise, 500 additional staff and the de-privatising of out-of-home careGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales child protection workers have warned that some of the state’s most vulnerable children are being neglected or put at risk of being removed from their families because resourcing problems in the sector have reached crisis point.More than 2,000 public-sector child protection workers across the state pl -
Get up to speed with the DfE’s children’s social care reforms
The government’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy is the biggest reform programme for children’s social care in many years.
It is designed to ensure that many more children are supported to stay with their families or, with kinship carers; that those at risk are much better protected than is currently the case, and that those who do need to go into care receive a much better experience and, as a result, better life chances than now.
The Department for Education (DfE) st
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