Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social workers are doing more with less, seeing increased need and weighed down by administrative work, a survey of just over 7,000 practitioners has found.
Practitioners also feel less valued and supported by their employers and are more likely to quit their roles over the next 12 months than was the case a year ago, found the latest Local Government Association ‘health check’,
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Social workers doing more with less, seeing increased need and weighed down by admin, finds health check
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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 -
Proportion of social work roles offered part-time grows slightly but remains less than a quarter
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The proportion of social work roles advertised as part-time or flexible hours has grown for the second consecutive year but remains at less than a quarter.
Almost a quarter of positions (23.1%) were advertised as either part-time, part-time or full-time or available on a flexible-hours basis, found a Social Workers Union (SWU) study of online job postings in April and May this year.
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Social Work England interim chair set to serve 21 months in post
Social Work England’s interim chair is set to serve 21 months in post after the government failed to recruit a permanent leader for the regulator’s board.
Andrew McCulloch, who was already on the Social Work England board, was appointed to the interim post in March 2023 following the resignation of founding chair Lord Patel of Bradford.
On appointing McCulloch, the Department for Education (DfE), which oversees the regulator, said that he would serve for “up to one year, standi -
Social Work England interim chair reappointed following DfE failure to recruit permanent head
Social Work England’s interim chair has been reappointed after the government failed to recruit a permanent leader for the regulator’s board.
Andrew McCulloch, who was already on the Social Work England board, was appointed to the interim post in March 2023 following the resignation of founding chair Lord Patel of Bradford.
On appointing McCulloch, the Department for Education (DfE), which oversees the regulator, said that he would serve for “up to one year, standing down as so -
Free social care for all should be a Labour policy | Letter
via theguardian.comSally Powell says the policy that her husband introduced in 1991 in one London borough – and from which he now benefits – could be implemented by every local authorityIt has been reported that the Labour party is meeting this Friday to agree its manifesto. One of the most important challenges people face is the cost of social care for their loved ones. My husband, Iain Coleman, the MP for Hammersmith and Fulham from 1997 to 2005, has had about 20 strokes since 2004, and as a con -
‘How admitting I disliked a child helped me grow as a social worker’
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.As a newly qualified social worker, I was wracked with guilt and shame when I found myself disliking a child I was working with.
These feelings snuck up on me, a slow burner perhaps, but however hard I tried to suppress them, they were real.
Charlie* was a pre-teen living in a residential setting. During our meetings, he would interrupt me, call me a liar and other names and tell me that he -
Transparency data: Median teacher pay using teacher pension scheme data
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Official Statistics: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: June 2024
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National Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2024
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National Statistics: School workforce in England: November 2023
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Social workers not confident in DfE project to cut their workloads, poll finds
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social workers have little faith in a Department for Education’s (DfE) project to cut their workloads, a Community Care poll has found.
Three-quarters said they did not believe resources produced by the national workload action group (NWAG) would result in a reduction in the burdens on children’s practitioners.
The NWAG, a group of sector leaders, is working with social workers a -
How creative life story work puts care experienced children in control
By Jo Stephenson
Life story work can play a key role in helping care experienced children and young people understand their family background and how they came into care.
“Ultimately it contributes to their sense of identity, which is absolutely critical,” says CoramBAAF adoption consultant Jane Poore.
“It’s a grounding in who they are and where they came from, and if they don’t have that information they will either seek it out themselves – possibly putting t -
The Guardian view on social care: the Lib Dems have a plan. It should be welcomed | Editorial
via theguardian.comAfter years of broken Tory promises, Sir Ed Davey’s policy of free home visits is a step forwardGood for the Liberal Democrats. Sir Ed Davey’s campaign pledge that his party would, if elected, fund free social care at home is the most significant policy announcement so far in a crucial area. The past 14 years have not been short of social policy failures. But the Conservatives’ lack of action on care is one of the most egregious. This is an issue they should have taken a l -
Award-winning manager on why family drug and alcohol court services need a secure future
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.In 2023, Jane Dunne was named the children’s services team leader of the year for her work with the Coventry and Warwickshire family drug and alcohol court service (FDAC).
This was not her first award since becoming manager of the then Coventry FDAC in 2016, with the team winning the public sector children’s team prize at the 2018 Children & Young People Now awards.
In 2021,
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