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• DWP waives £1,300 penalty for unpaid carer threatened with fraud prosecution

  12-09-2024 18:51
  
  Clemency Jacques is one of 134,500 people repaying £251m in carer’s allowance overpaymentsAn unpaid carer threatened with prosecution for fraud after inadvertently breaching benefit rules has had a £1,300 penalty waived by officials after her case appeared in the Guardian.Clemency Jacques, who cares for her disabled son and elderly mother, said she was given the choice of paying the charge or risking police arrest and a court appearance after running up a £2,600 carer&rsq
  
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• UK politics: No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer as he outlines vision for health service – as it happened

  12-09-2024 18:48
  
  The prime minister blamed the Tories for ‘breaking’ the NHS and said reform of the service was needed Starmer sets out some of the most negative findings in the report.Take the waiting times in A&A - more than 100,000 infants waited more than six hours last year.And nearly a tenth of all patients are now waiting for 12 hours or more.Even Lord Darzi, with all his years of experience, is shocked by what he discovered. It is unforgivable, and people have every right to be angry. Con
  
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• Guidance: Special educational needs co-ordinator's (SENCO) national professional qualification

  12-09-2024 17:57 via gov.uk
  
  The mandatory course for special educational needs co-ordinators to learn how to effectively perform the SENCO role.
  
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• Guidance: Functional skills subject content: digital

  12-09-2024 15:26 via gov.uk
  
  Functional skills subject content at entry level and level 1.
  
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• Home Office’s use of age assessments for asylum seekers under inspection

  12-09-2024 15:20 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The Home Office is being inspected on its use of age assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers, it was announced this week.
  The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Bolt, said he was examining the “efficiency, effectiveness and consistency of age assessments” carried out by the department.
  The probe covers age assessments conducted by social workers in
  
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• Home Office age assessments for asylum seekers under inspection

  12-09-2024 15:20 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The Home Office is being inspected on its use of age assessments of unaccompanied asylum seekers, it was announced this week.
  The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Bolt, said he was examining the “efficiency, effectiveness and consistency of age assessments” carried out by the department.
  The probe covers age assessments conducted by social workers in
  
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• No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer as he outlines vision for health service – UK politics live

  12-09-2024 15:05
  The prime minister blamed the Tories for ‘breaking’ the NHS and said reform of the service was needed Starmer sets out some of the most negative findings in the report.Take the waiting times in A&A - more than 100,000 infants waited more than six hours last year.And nearly a tenth of all patients are now waiting for 12 hours or more.Even Lord Darzi, with all his years of experience, is shocked by what he discovered. It is unforgivable, and people have every right to be angry. Con
  
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• Speech: PM speech on the NHS: 12 September 2024

  12-09-2024 14:48 via gov.uk
  
  Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech on the NHS at the King's Fund today.
  
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• Keir Starmer vows to face down ‘loud opposition’ to fix NHS

  12-09-2024 13:21
  
  Prime minister promises 10-year plan after Darzi report concludes health service in a ‘critical condition’UK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has vowed to be bold and face down “loud opposition” to his planned public health measures and NHS reforms after a major inquiry found the health service was “in critical condition”.The prime minister said he was prepared to take “controversial” action to fix the NHS and public health in Engla
  
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• Open consultation: Introducing further advertising restrictions on TV and online for less healthy food and drink: internet protocol television (IPTV)

  12-09-2024 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  Government is seeking views on the proposed exemption of Ofcom-regulated IPTV services from online advertising restrictions on less healthy food and drink.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Introducing further advertising restrictions on TV and online for products high in fat, salt or sugar: secondary legislation

  12-09-2024 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  Government has formulated final policy for introducing advertising restrictions for HFSS products on TV and online and is now seeking your views on the draft regulations that accompany primary legislation.
  
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• Statutory guidance: Child and family social workers: agency rules

  12-09-2024 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  Statutory guidance for local authorities on the use of agency child and family social workers.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Child and family social workers: agency rules statutory guidance

  12-09-2024 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  We are seeking views on the draft statutory guidance for local authorities on the use of agency child and family social workers.
  
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• Research: Management information on recruitment to clinical research studies

  12-09-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Data on the recruitment of participants to clinical research studies, reported to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
  
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• Research: Management information on medicines supply issue notifications

  12-09-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Data on the total number of monthly medicine supply issue notifications in the UK, reported to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
  
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• Official Statistics: Apprenticeships: September 2024

  12-09-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Monthly apprenticeship starts in England from August 2023 to June 2024.
  
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• ‘Social work, domestic abuse and coercive control: do we know what is going on and why?’

  12-09-2024 10:00 via communitycare.co.uk
  
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  By Brid Featherstone and Kate Morris
  We have been involved in a research project for over two years now the state of knowledge about domestic violence and abuse (DVA) in child protection (Rethinking domestic abuse in child protection: responding differently – Nuffield Foundation).  Our research in three case-study sites has interrogated:The data that is gathered about prevalence
  
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• More than a million unpaid UK carers living in poverty, research finds

  12-09-2024 01:01
  
  Carers UK estimates 600 people a day quit jobs to care for loved ones and calls for review of benefits systemMore than a million unpaid carers in the UK who look after disabled, frail or ill relatives are living in poverty, with one in 10 experiencing such extreme hardship they struggle to afford to eat regularly or heat their homes, new research shows.Campaigners said carers – routinely lauded by politicians as unsung heroes whose sacrifices help prop up the NHS – were paying the pr
  
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• Independent report: Independent investigation of the NHS in England

  12-09-2024 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Lord Darzi's report on the state of the National Health Service in England.
  
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