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Since 2010-11, directors report ha
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Worsening social care funding position wreaking increased human cost, warn directors
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Guidance: Common transfer file 24: specification
via gov.ukTechnical documents for software suppliers for common transfer file (CTF) 24. -
Notice: Notice to improve: Mowbray Education Trust Limited
via gov.ukA notice to improve issued to Mowbray Education Trust Limited by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. -
Social Work England committed ‘abuse of power’ in ‘punishing’ practitioner’s gender critical beliefs
This article draws significantly on Community Care Inform legal editor Tim Spencer-Lane’s analysis of the original tribunal judgment.
Social Work England carried out a “serious abuse of its power as a regulatory body” in allowing its fitness to practise (FTP) processes to be “subverted to punish and suppress” a practitioner’s protected gender critical beliefs.
That was the damning verdict of an employment tribunal in a judgment issued this week.
The ruling was -
DHSC to publish every council’s waiting times for adult social care assessments and services
The government plans to publish data on every council’s waiting times for adult social care assessments and services, it has revealed.
The DHSC announced the plans in guidance on councils’ use of its ring-fenced market sustainability and improvement fund (MSIF), a grant designed to drive improved performance in adult social care, including by cutting waiting times.
The statistics will cover the average time people wait from a request or referral for a service to, firstly, an assessme -
'Behind the Blue': UK grad finds passion for global social work through Explore First - UKNow
'Behind the Blue': UK grad finds passion for global social work through Explore First UKNow -
Reform Mental Health Act and implement LPS: new ADASS president’s message to next government
The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said.
However, Melanie Williams said she was not expecting either major party to implement the cap on care costs and associated reforms to the adult social care charging system should they win the next election.
Williams took over as ADA -
Reform Mental Health Act and implement LPS: new ADASS head’s message to next government
The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said.
However, Melanie Williams said she was not expecting either major party to implement the cap on care costs and associated reforms to the adult social care charging system should they win the next election.
Williams took over as ADA -
Increasing qualification levels, linked to pay, under consideration in adult social care workforce strategy
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Increasing qualifications levels for the adult social care workforce – linked to higher pay – is among the ideas under consideration by the group developing a 15-year strategy for the adult social care workforce.
Other potential proposals include providing registered managers with a supported year in which to develop, developing a graduate training scheme for that role or making -
Transparency data: NHS injury costs recovery scheme: April 2024 to March 2025
via gov.ukData on the funds collected by the Compensation Recovery Unit and funds paid to the NHS. -
Official Statistics: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: May 2024
via gov.ukOfficial statistics on a range of topics including occupancy, infection control measures and flu vaccinations in adult social care settings. -
DfE to collect data on children’s social worker salaries
The government will collect data on social workers’ salaries in its annual census of the local authority children’s services workforce in England.
Councils will be required to submit figures on each permanently employed practitioner’s base annual salary in next year’s census, for the 12 months ending 30 September 2025, according to guidance published this week by the Department for Education.
They will also have to provide information on whether they offer some or all of -
‘Things have gone backwards for parents with learning disabilities’, says BASW officer
By Upasana Rajagopalan
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Denise Monks’s passion for social justice is evident not only in her work now as a professional officer at the British Association of Social Workers, but also her beginnings in the sector.
While working at Stockport Council in 2002, just a few years after qualifying, she noticed a gap in support for parents with learning disabilities. So she created a specialist -
DCS turnover rises for third consecutive year on back of high number of interim appointments
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The turnover of directors of children’s services (DCSs) rose for the third consecutive year in 2023-24, on the back of high numbers of interim appointments and leaders moving between councils.
In total, 62 DCS appointments were made across the 153 local authorities over the past year, up from 50 in 2022-23 and a recent low of 39 in 2020-21, revealed the Association of Directors of Chil -
Transparency data: Privacy information: parents, carers and legal guardians
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Axing leadership training scheme risks undermining support for social workers, warn PSWs
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The government’s axing of a social work leadership training scheme risks undermining support for practitioners as well as the retention of managers, principal social workers have warned.
The chairs of the Principal Children and Families Social Worker (PCFSW) Network said the loss of the Pathways programme – used by all but 10 local authorities – had left a gap in management -
Decision: Improvement notice issued to London Borough of Bexley: May 2024
via gov.ukAn improvement notice issued to the London Borough of Bexley following an Ofsted and CQC inspection in February 2024. -
Press release: Government To Lift Cap on Faith School Places
via gov.ukGovernment to launch consultation on lifting the 50% cap alongside proposals on opening special faith-based academies. -
Open consultation: Faith school designation reforms
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Government proposes disability benefits overhaul in face of ‘spiralling’ caseload and costs
The government has proposed overhauling a key disability benefit in the face of its “spiralling” caseload and costs, in a move labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” by charities.
Its green paper on reforming personal independence payment (PIP) floats restricting access to the benefit and replacing regular cash payments with other types of provision.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) proposals are premised on the idea that PIP does not account for t -
Recognising and responding to shame in child protection: key practice points
This article presents a few key pieces of advice from Community Care Inform Children’s guide on shame and how it may present in children and parents. The full guide looks at the role shame might play in a child’s life and provides guidance for practitioners on how to minimise its ongoing effects. The guide explores theoretical frameworks that can help us understand shame and approach direct work with children and families where there are behavioural presentations of shame. Community -
Open consultation: NHS Constitution: 10 year review
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Press release: NHS Constitution plans to strengthen privacy, dignity and safety
via gov.ukProposed updates NHS Constitution for England will reflect biological needs of patients and empower people to request same-sex wards and care -
Fostering is getting a shot of much-needed millennial energy – just ask Kiri Pritchard-McLean | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
via theguardian.comWith Britain crying out for foster carers, my schoolfriend’s comedy show sheds light on what it’s like for those in their 30s What do you do if you always imagined a house full of children, but don’t want to be a biological parent? This was the dilemma facing one of my schoolfriends, the standup comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean, who lives on Ynys Môn (Anglesey) with her partner. Like many people in their 30s, they were surrounded by friends embroiled in the maelstrom of bab -
Guidance: Lifelong Learning Entitlement: tuition fee limits
via gov.ukExplains how the tuition fee limits at colleges and universities will work from 2025 as part of the Lifelong Learning Entitlement. -
Social Worker (Learning Disabilities)
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Are social workers stigmatised for mental health diagnoses?
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In a recent Community Care article, Sophie Ayers revealed that, following a return to social work after her bipolar diagnosis, she was ‘outed’ to her manager by a colleague who had read her blogs discussing her condition.
“My manager saw the move as one of a bystander wishing to help. I recognised the action for what it was: an attempt to alert the organisation that my bip -
Guidance: Manage School Experience service: information for schools
via gov.ukSchools can offer people who want to become teachers an experience in their school. -
Guidance: Protective security and preparedness for education settings
via gov.ukHow education settings should prepare for and respond to terrorism and other major incidents. -
From potholes to planning: the issues at stake in England’s 2 May local elections
via theguardian.comWhile some voters may want to send a message to Westminster, more local concerns will have an influenceThis week’s local elections have been widely described as one of the toughest tests of Rishi Sunak’s 18-month premiership, with Westminster-watchers considering the results as portents of his fate in the coming national poll – considered to be coming this autumn.But while some voters in England may use their vote to bloody his nose this Thursday, a host of more local issues ar
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