Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Care proceedings are being completed more quickly in England and Wales, but their average duration still far exceeds the 26-week statutory target, official figures have shown.
Cases where councils applied for a care or supervision orders that were completed in April to June 2024 took an average of 41.2 weeks, down from a recent high of 44.8 weeks in January to March 2023, when just a quarter
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Care proceedings taking less time but average duration still well above 26-week target
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Children raised by friends or relatives are being ‘plunged into poverty’, says UK charity
A lack of financial and emotional support for kinship carers could push up to 18,000 children into an already overstretched foster care systemChildren are being “plunged into poverty”, a charity says, because of a lack of support for kinship carers – relatives or family friends who step in to look after children after a crisis.Kinship carers, who are often grandparents, are twice as likely as other adults to rely on food banks and four times as likely to fall behind o -
Coroners warn of risk to lives without urgent reform of NHS adult care
Health secretary Wes Streeting told to speed up changes as inability to free up hospital bed linked to deaths of patientsHealth secretary Wes Streeting has been urged to speed up reforms to the adult care system in the wake of patient deaths after two coroners warned him of the impact insufficient care beds and service provision are having on the NHS.Last month, coroners sent two prevention of future deaths (PFD) reports to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) after the inab -
Private firms ran almost all care homes forced to shut for breaches in England
Study finds more than 90% of facilities for children and 98% of those for adults that were closed down were run for profitAlmost all the care homes shut down for endangering children or vulnerable adults were run to make a profit, according to a landmark study examining the long-term impact of outsourcing care to the private sector.Research published last week by Oxford University reveals that 98% (804 out of 816) of the adult care homes closed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in England to -
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8% of social workers had completed key registration tasks by end of first month of renewal period
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Eight per cent of social workers had completed key tasks required for retaining their registration at the end of the first month of the renewal period, the regulator has said.
Social Work England said practitioners’ progress on completing their registration renewal form and meeting CPD requirements as of 30 September 2024 was lagging slightly behind the position at the same point in 20 -
Speech: Health and Social Care Secretary speech at RCGP conference
via gov.ukThe Health and Social Care Secretary delivered the below speech at the Royal College of GPs in Liverpool on Friday, October 4, 2024. -
AI could be time-saving for social workers but needs regulation, say sector bodies
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Social work bodies have called for the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) to address the ethical implications, as more councils employ AI tools to save time on administration.
Currently, 28 councils in England are using or testing the AI tool Magic Notes in children’s and adults’ services, to produce case notes from visits and assessments.
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Press release: Trial to let women use breast diagnostic clinics through NHS App
via gov.ukThe Health and Social Care Secretary confirmed the update during a speech at the Royal College of GPs’ conference in Liverpool -
Notice: Notice to improve: Vantage CE Academies Trust
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Self-reported disability rate among care leavers double that recorded by councils, finds research
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The self-reported rate of disability among care leavers is double that recorded by councils, research has found.
Meanwhile, recorded disability rates among children in care and care leavers differ widely between local authorities, according to the report, published this week by Coram Voice.
The charity also found that leaving care practitioners had limited data and information on disability -
Transparency data: The 2024 VPAG operational review: 22 July 2024
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Correspondence: Elective home education and children missing education data collection: grant determination
via gov.ukLetter giving local authorities notice of a grant to help with costs of data returns. -
Half of councils given funding to recruit adult social work apprentices
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Half of English councils were given government funding to recruit social work apprentices to work in adults’ services this year, the Department of Health and Social Care has revealed (DHSC).
The DHSC allocated £7.7m out of a possible £8m to 74 of the 153 local authorities in March 2024. It was due to provide a further £4m in 2024-25 but the incoming Labour government -
Woman who lay dead in flat for three years wrote she was ‘starving’ in diary
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Guidance: DHSC public appointments: 2024 to 2025
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Correspondence: Additional support materials for GCSE exams
via gov.ukThe Secretary of State’s letter to Ofqual outlining DfE's decision on arrangements for GCSE maths, physics and combined science in 2025, 2026 and 2027. -
The social work assistant who became ‘the glue that holds the team together’
For Community Care’s 50th anniversary, our My Brilliant Colleague series invites you to celebrate anyone who has inspired you in your career.
In this entry, Bridgend’s west integrated network team has nominated social work assistant and student, Charlotte, who, over the past five years, has become the “glue that holds them together”.Pictured: Charlotte
Charlotte has been with the team for five years, employed as a social work assistant, and is now in the final year of her -
Guidance: Prevent duty: core standards for healthcare commissioners and providers
via gov.ukSets out the standards that commissioners and providers of NHS healthcare should meet in their work to protect people at risk of radicalisation. -
Official Statistics: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: October 2024
via gov.ukOfficial statistics on a range of topics including occupancy and infection control measures in adult social care settings. -
Rare court records show how poor women pioneered foster care in 1600s
Vital role looking after destitute children gave these women unusual degree of power for the time, say researchersIn June 1697, at a sitting of the quarter session court in Preston, Lancashire, a widow called Alice Brewer submitted a petition in which she demanded to be paid her due.Brewer, described as “very poor, old and necessitous”, had been caring for 12 years for a “poor distressed child” called Anne Helme, which entitled her to a small annual payment from the local -
Rising cost of social services in England putting arts and youth services at risk, say councils
Some councils are already spending up to 80% of their budget on social care and say costs are rising and increasingly unsustainableThe spiralling cost of social services is eating into the budgets of England’s largest councils to the extent that many will soon be forced to abandon “nice to have” functions such as arts and youth clubs and Sure Start centres.Council leaders are concerned town halls are at risk of becoming “care authorities” focused primarily on the pr -
Social Work England will not review sample of CPD records following current registration renewal period
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social Work England will not review a sample of practitioners’ continuing professional development (CPD) records following the current registration renewal process, the regulator has revealed.
It has launched a review of its approach to CPD, during which it has suspended its usual practice of having independent assessors check the anonymised submissions of 2.5% of registered practition -
Social Work England will not review sample of CPD records following current registration renewal
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social Work England will not review a sample of practitioners’ continuing professional development (CPD) records following the current registration renewal process, the regulator has revealed.
It has launched a review of its approach to CPD, during which it has suspended its usual practice of having independent assessors check the anonymised submissions of 2.5% of registered practition -
Care proceedings delays reduce but 26-week target still missed in most cases
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Care proceedings are being completed more quickly in England and Wales, but their average duration still far exceeds the 26-week statutory target, official figures have shown.
Cases where councils applied for a care or supervision orders that were completed in April to June 2024 took an average of 41.2 weeks, down from a recent high of 44.8 weeks in January to March 2023, when just a quarter -
Care cases being completed more quickly but average duration remains well above 26 weeks
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Care proceedings are being completed more quickly in England and Wales, but their average duration still far exceeds the 26-week statutory target, official figures have shown.
Cases where councils applied for a care or supervision orders that were completed in April to June 2024 took an average of 41.2 weeks, down from a recent high of 44.8 weeks in January to March 2023, when just a quarter -
Councils given £1,125 each to meet agency social worker data burdens
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Councils are being given £1,125 each to meet new requirements to report on their use of agency social workers in children’s services.
The Department for Education funding, which will be paid in October 2024, is designed to cover the burdens on English authorities of fulfilling a new legal duty to submit quarterly data to the DfE on each assignment carried out by an agency social -
Guidance: International relocation payments: guidance for schools
via gov.ukInformation for schools about international relocation payments for teachers of languages and physics from outside the UK.
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