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• Capital expenditure

  03-04-2025 14:54 via gov.uk
  
  This section provides information on capital expenditure for schools.
  
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• Look at how Reform speaks about minorities. Why would Labour want to mimic this nasty party? | Frances Ryan

  05-05-2025 15:45 via theguardian.com
  
  The British public is more liberal and tolerant than you would believe from our politicians. Time for Keir Starmer to appeal to Britain’s best sideReform UK’s ascendancy to power has at times felt like watching the cliched slow-motion car crash: a wounded Tory party, the rise of rightwing populism across the globe, a damp squib of a Labour government, then – bam! – staggering local election wins accompanied by Nigel Farage grinning on the morning news.Except, rather than
  
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• We all know the crisis in UK social care damages lives and the economy: it’s the Treasury we must convince | Layla Moran

  05-05-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  There are real costs to not tackling this grievous problem. But, as we report today, the data we need doesn’t seem to exist• Layla Moran is chair of the health and social care select committee and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon“The NHS undoubtedly saved my life, but social care helps me live it.” That is what a participant at a roundtable event on social care told me recently.Last October, the health and social care select committee I chair resolved to investigate the cos
  
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• Qualified Social Worker

  05-05-2025 09:26 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  https://jobs.communitycare.co.uk/job/1401769078/qualified-social-worker/
  
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• MPs warn social care needs substantial investment to fix ‘broken’ system

  05-05-2025 01:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Cross-party group’s report emphasises risk of failure after finding 3.5 million people not getting care they needA cross-party group of MPs has warned attempts to reform adult social care are doomed to fail unless ministers accept major investment is needed to overhaul a “broken” system that was failing millions of people.Reform of social care was typically seen by governments as a “burden” on the taxpayer, and a “drain on resources” rather than a positi
  
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• No 10 backs Lucy Powell after her apology for grooming gangs remark

  04-05-2025 11:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Commons leader had appeared to suggest Reform commentator was using a political ‘dog whistle’No 10 has backed the cabinet minister Lucy Powell after she apologised for appearing to suggest it was a “dog whistle” issue to discuss grooming gangs.Powell, the leader of the House of Commons, faced calls from the Conservatives to resign after she made the remarks on Friday night. Continue reading...
  
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• Government’s tech reform to transform cancer diagnosis

  04-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Cancer 360 brings patient data into one central system, so clinicians can prioritise those most in need and see patients quicker
  
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• Mother of autistic boy left with £10,000 debt after breaching DWP rules by £1.92 a week

  03-05-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Over five-year period Oksana Shahar – who cares for her son – was paid a small amount more than carer’s allowance earnings limits allowIt was three weeks after Christmas when the bombshell letter arrived. Guy Shahar and his wife, Oksana, looked at each other in stunned disbelief.They had followed the Guardian’s investigation into the carer’s allowance scandal that has left thousands of families with crippling debts and criminal records. Not once did they think they
  
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• ‘We need to change how we talk about social care to give reform a chance’, says new ADASS head

  02-05-2025 20:42 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  The launch of the Casey Commission this week follows a long line of unsuccessful attempts to reform adult social care in England over recent decades.
  This has left the sector weary and sceptical about the prospects of yet another attempt at solving its multiple problems: unmet and undermet need, inconsistent and, in some cases, poor-quality care, an underpaid and undervalued workforce, growing pressures on informal carers and the risk of some people facing catastrophic care costs.
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• Negative narrative on social care must be overturned to deliver reform, says new ADASS head

  02-05-2025 20:42 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  The launch of the Casey Commission this week follows a long line of unsuccessful attempts to reform adult social care in England over recent decades.
  This has left the sector weary and sceptical about the prospects of yet another attempt at solving its multiple problems: unmet and undermet need, inconsistent and, in some cases, poor-quality care, an underpaid and undervalued workforce, growing pressures on informal carers and the risk of some people facing catastrophic care costs.
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• Impact assessment: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: impact assessment

  02-05-2025 17:29 via gov.uk
  
  The impact assessment presents the impacts of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
  
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• Impact assessment: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: equality impact assessment

  02-05-2025 17:29 via gov.uk
  
  The equality impact assessment presents the impacts of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
  
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• Impact assessment: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: ECHR memorandum

  02-05-2025 17:28 via gov.uk
  Memorandum on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) relating to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
  
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• Guidance: Service pupil premium (SPP)

  02-05-2025 15:52 via gov.uk
  
  Service personnel with children in state schools must notify schools of their eligibility for the Service pupil premium (SPP).
  
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• Guidance: Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2025 to 2026

  02-05-2025 15:36 via gov.uk
  
  Sets out the guidance to support local authorities in administering the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund in 2025 to 2026.
  
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• Casey Commission tasked with producing plan for ‘national care service’ by 2026

  02-05-2025 13:59 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 Casey Commission has been tasked with producing a plan next year for delivering a “national care service” over the course of a decade.
  The 2026 report will be followed by a further report, due by 2028, setting out longer-term recommendations for the sector, according to the Department for Health and Social Care’s terms of reference for the commission, published today.
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• Guidance: Submit your section 151 officer assurance return and schools financial value standard assurance statement

  02-05-2025 10:28 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for local authorities on how to complete the section 151 (S151) officer assurance return and the schools financial value standard assurance (SFVS) statement for the 2024 to 2025 financial year.
  
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• Guidance: Independent commission into adult social care: terms of reference

  02-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  Terms of reference for Baroness Casey's independent commission into adult social care.
  
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• In the US, not even $11,000 a month can buy you dignity at the end of your life

  01-05-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  After watching my father’s struggle in a system that values profit over compassion, I wonder: how much longer will we accept a future where most of us lose our sense of human worth in old age?The last time I visited my father, I walked into his $11,000-a-month room in a posh assisted living residence and found him curled up on the floor. My sister Amy and I knelt down, touched him, and asked if he was okay.“I don’t know,” mumbled Dad, 96, a retired physician and lifelong
  
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• Guidance: Appropriate bodies guidance: induction for early career teachers

  01-05-2025 15:00 via gov.uk
  Guidance on the roles and responsibilities of appropriate bodies in the induction of early career teachers.
  
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• Social work bursary levels frozen for 11th consecutive year

  01-05-2025 12:45 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 work bursary rates in England have been frozen for the 11th consecutive year, the government has revealed.
  The standard undergraduate and postgraduate bursaries in England in 2025-26 will be the same as the levels set in 2014, according to the Department of Health and Social Care’s annual information pack on social work education funding.
  As a result, they are worth £1,200
  
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• Advanced learner loans: an overview

  01-05-2025 12:13 via gov.uk
  Information for colleges, training organisations and employers about advanced learner loans.
  
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• Correspondence: Revised notice to improve: Furness College

  01-05-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  A notice to improve, issued to Furness College.
  
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• Correspondence: Notice to improve: Havant and South Downs College

  01-05-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  A notice to improve, issued to Havant and South Downs College.
  
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• Correspondence: Financial health notice to improve: Mary Ward Settlement

  01-05-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  A financial health notice to improve issued to Mary Ward Settlement.
  
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• Official Statistics: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: May 2025

  01-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  Official statistics on a range of topics including occupancy and infection control measures in adult social care settings.
  
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• Guidance: Replacement certificates for apprenticeship frameworks

  01-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  How apprentices can claim replacement certificates.
  
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• Harnessing social work values to shape your career pathway

  01-05-2025 02:35 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  “Observing our practice and reflecting on it is where you develop your knowledge”.
  That is the beauty of using Hampshire County Council’s Excellent Practice Validation (EPV) framework, says Giane, a senior social worker in the authority’s older adults’ service.
  EPV is a framework used for the annual evaluation of practice. It focuses on core social work values and skills and explores ways that practitioners can build on their professionalism by looking at their
  
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• Fast-track social work scheme to end in 2027 after government decides to withdraw funding

  01-05-2025 00:06 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A fast-track scheme for training social workers will end in 2027 after the government decided to withdraw funding on financial grounds.
  The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will not renew charity Think Ahead’s contract to deliver its scheme to train people to work as adult mental health social workers, which began in 2016.
  This means that the 2025 cohort, due to start with T
  
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• Guidance: Social Work Bursary and Education Support Grant information packs

  30-04-2025 17:40 via gov.uk
  
  Information for higher education institutions and students on Social Work Bursary and Education Support Grant arrangements for the academic year 2025 to 2026.
  
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