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• 16 to 19 education: financial support for students

  04-04-2025 16:12 via gov.uk
  
  Advice for institutions on the financial support young people may be able to access to help them participate in education and training.
  
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• Should Social Work England remove CPD requirement for registration renewal?

  23-04-2025 12:40 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.
  Social Care Wales recently announced it had dropped the requirement for practitioners to evidence continuing professional development (CPD) to renew registration.
  Previously, and since the register first opened in Wales in 2001, social workers had had to demonstrate that they had carried out 90 hours of CPD over the previous three years to retain their right to practise.
  Under the new syste
  
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• Guidance: PE and sport premium: conditions of grant 2024 to 2025

  23-04-2025 12:24 via gov.uk
  
  Allocations for academic year 2024 to 2025 and the terms and conditions that local authorities, maintained schools and academies must follow.
  
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• Guidance: Maximum loan amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications

  23-04-2025 11:30 via gov.uk
  
  Methodology for establishing maximum amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications and the maximum amounts for the funding year.
  
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• Guidance: Advanced learner loans funding and performance management rules

  23-04-2025 11:30 via gov.uk
  
  Sets out the rules for provision funded by learners through advanced learner loans the funding year.
  
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• Guidance: School estate management standards

  23-04-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  The standards set out practices and processes required to effectively manage the school estate.
  
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• Guidance: Estate management: competency framework and relevant training

  23-04-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance on the functions, skills, knowledge and training needed to manage the school estate.
  
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• Breakthrough in bowel cancer research will speed up diagnosis

  23-04-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Government backs world-leading trial of cutting-edge technology to diagnose bowel cancer earlier, harnessing the power of technology to treat patients.
  
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• Local government pay: employers make ‘full and final’ offer

  22-04-2025 22:57 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Employers have made a “full and final” pay offer to council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2025-26.
  The proposed 3.2% pay rise would put “additional pressure…on hard-pressed council finances”, but was “fair to employees”, according to the national employers for local government services, which negotiates terms and conditions on beha
  
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• New DHSC Permanent Secretary Appointed

  22-04-2025 17:02 via gov.uk
  
  Samantha Jones has been appointed as the new Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care
  
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• Guidance: Teachers’ pension employer contribution grant 2024 for schools, high needs settings and local authorities: 2024 to 2025

  22-04-2025 15:01 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for schools and local authorities on the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) 2024 for March 2024 to April 2025.
  
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• Guidance: Teachers' pay additional grant 2024 to 2025

  22-04-2025 15:01 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for schools and local authorities on the teachers' pay additional grant: allocations for 2024 to 2025 financial year.
  
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• Shaping the national cancer plan (easy read)

  22-04-2025 15:00 via gov.uk
  
  We want to hear your ideas about how to make cancer care better for everyone. Your ideas will help the government to make a national cancer plan for England.
  
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• Guidance: Core schools budget grant (CSBG) 2024 to 2025

  22-04-2025 15:00 via gov.uk
  
  Allocations and guidance for schools and local authorities for the core schools budget grant (CSBG) for September 2024 to March 2025.
  
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• Set up and manage the early career teacher entitlement

  22-04-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  What schools need to do to set up and manage training, support, assessment and changing circumstances for the early career teacher entitlement (ECTE).
  
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• Guidance: Early career teachers: your training and support entitlement

  22-04-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  What early career teachers (ECTs) can expect during their early career teacher entitlement (ECTE).
  
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• Guidance: Early career teacher entitlement: roles and responsibilities

  22-04-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  How headteachers, induction tutors and mentors can support early career teachers (ECTs) during their early career teacher entitlement (ECTE).
  
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• Guidance: Early career teacher entitlement

  22-04-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  The training programme and supporting activities that make up the early career teacher entitlement (ETCE).
  
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• Eligibility and funding for the early career teacher entitlement

  22-04-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  Early career teacher entitlement (ECTE) eligibility criteria and DfE grant funding for schools, early career teachers and mentors.
  
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• Guidance: Breakfast club early adopters grant: 2024 to 2025 academic year

  22-04-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for schools and local authorities on funding for the breakfast club early adopter schools from April 2025.
  
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• Free breakfast clubs roll out as costs for families cut by £8,000

  22-04-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Thousands of children to attend free breakfast clubs across the country today, as government delivers its manifesto commitment and promise to working families
  
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• The Guardian view on social care: while politicians dither, those in need suffer | Editorial

  21-04-2025 19:25
  
  With rising threats of eviction from care homes, this underfunded sector is in danger of falling apartThe rising human cost of our shamefully inadequate social care system is illustrated by the shocking case of Hugh Kirsch, as reported by the Guardian. Mr Kirsch, who is 66 and has severe learning difficulties, suffered abuse in a previous placement. That home, Mendip House, was closed down. Now his family fear another disruption is on the way. For nine years he has been looked after by Some
  
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• Pensioner with severe learning disabilities could face eviction over care costs dispute

  21-04-2025 12:05
  Hugh Kirsch’s case one of wave of evictions of vulnerable residents caused by crisis in adult social care fundingA pensioner with severe learning disabilities who was a victim of one of the most notorious care home abuse scandals of recent years has been told he faces eviction over a dispute about who pays for the costs of his state-funded care.The family of Hugh Kirsch, 66, said they had been warned he would have to leave his supported home because the council that funds his care refused
  
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• Team Manager – Children’s Services (Family Solutions Plus Service)

  21-04-2025 09:38 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  https://jobs.communitycare.co.uk/job/1401768256/team-manager-children-s-services-family-solutions-plus-service-/
  
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• Parents get 95 hours back as free Breakfast Clubs are rolled out

  20-04-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  First 750 breakfast clubs to rollout from Tuesday, delivering on government’s manifesto commitment and promise to put more money in working people’s pockets
  
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• Sector bodies urge Phillipson to reconsider Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund cuts

  18-04-2025 09:30 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Sector bodies have urged education secretary Bridget Phillipson to reconsider huge cuts to payments for therapy for care experienced children and their families under the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF).
  Adoption UK, the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies (CVAA), Coram and Kinship said the changes risked disrupting placements and causing children to return
  
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• Councils given guide to evidence on mentoring schemes for children in care

  17-04-2025 22:37 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Councils have been handed government-commissioned guidance on the evidence base for mentoring and befriending schemes for care-experienced children and those at risk of entering the care system.
  The practice guide, covering programmes that help children and young people build trusting relationships with adults, to improve their wellbeing and other outcomes, highlighted “strong evidence
  
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• UK government accused of ‘delay and drift’ over adult social care talks

  17-04-2025 20:11
  Lib Dems say not a single all-party meeting on issue has taken place since plan for national care service was unveiledThe government has been accused of “delay and drift” after it emerged crucial cross-party talks aimed at building political consensus for large-scale changes to adult social care have failed to get off the ground.The Liberal Democrats said not a single all-party meeting on the issue had taken place in the four months since the government announced ambitious plans to b
  
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• ‘I have followed my manager to different agencies because of her supportive leadership’

  17-04-2025 13:58 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Our My Brilliant Colleague series invites you to celebrate anyone who has inspired you in your career. It is part of Community Care’s ongoing Choose Social Work campaign, which aims to champion the brilliant work social workers do every day and inspire the next generation of practitioners.
  In this entry, senior social worker Katya Kobuszko celebrates her manager, Pauline Griffith, whom she has followed to different agencies over the years because of her ‘thoughtful’ leadership
  
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• Guidance: Early Years Foundation Stage nutrition

  17-04-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Helping early years providers offer healthy, balanced and nutritious food.
  
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