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• Guidance: Public health commissioning in the NHS: 2024 to 2025

  18-12-2024 14:49 via gov.uk
  
  Information about NHS England's objectives and funding arrangements as it commissions public health services.
  
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• Councils failing to take homeless young people into care

  29-12-2024 10:00
  
  Exclusive: UK teenagers placed in temporary housing until they are adults as there are fewer obligations to support them if they are not care leaversCouncils are treating teenagers like homeless adults and placing them in unsuitable temporary housing rather than taking them into care, new research has shown.Local authorities are “waiting out the clock” when assessing vulnerable 16- and 17-year-olds until they can be classed as adults. The teenagers were kept in the dark about their r
  
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• Former world’s tallest man calls for more compassion for vulnerable in UK

  28-12-2024 08:00
  
  Hussain Bisad, who has had health problems, says government should do more for people with physical or mental illnessWhen Hussain Bisad first settled in north London as an asylum seeker after fleeing from war in Somalia 23 years ago, he did so in the hope of a new and more settled life. Little did he know that shortly after arriving he would be at the centre of the media spotlight, not for his story of escaping conflict but for something altogether different: his height.Bisad had been in the UK
  
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• Guidance: Medicine choices in opioid substitution treatment

  27-12-2024 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Recommendations for prescribing methadone and buprenorphine to people in treatment for opioid dependence in England.
  
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• A year celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary

  23-12-2024 16:04 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  As 2024 comes to a close, we conclude a year dedicated to marking Community Care’s 50th anniversary.
  In many ways, this became an opportunity to celebrate social work’s enduring legacy and profound impact.
  Since our first issue in April 1974, Community Care has spent 50 years witnessing and reporting on the evolution and trials of the sector – from legal reforms and social movements to public inquiries, media storms and seismic political shifts.How Community Care has evolved
  We
  
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• Corporate report: DHSC register of senior civil servants' secondary paid employment, 2023 to 2024

  23-12-2024 11:08 via gov.uk
  
  Details of any paid or otherwise remunerated outside employment held by senior civil servants in the Department of Health and Social Care during the 2023 to 2024 financial year.
  
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• Service Lead – Children’s Disabilities

  23-12-2024 10:35 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  https://jobs.communitycare.co.uk/job/1401765151/service-lead-children-s-disabilities/
  
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• ‘Free and impartial’ addiction helplines paid secret commission by rehabs

  22-12-2024 08:00
  
  Advertising regulator reprimands services that claim to offer unbiased advice but then direct people to partner facilitiesHelplines that claim to offer “free” and “impartial” addiction support have been reprimanded by the advertising watchdog for hiding the fact they are paid thousands in commission by private rehabilitation clinics.Amid record drug death rates and high demand for services, one website is promising “free, impartial, expert” advice for those tr
  
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• Sara Sharif told social worker ‘they don’t hit me’ four years before her murder

  21-12-2024 06:00
  
  When she was six, Sara complained that her mother hit her, but that her father and stepmother, who were convicted of her murder, didn’tSara Sharif told a social worker she felt safe living with her father and stepmother because “they don’t hit me”, four years before she died from their brutal campaign of torture.The schoolgirl’s haunting words are buried in hundreds of pages of private family court papers that were disclosed after an application by media organisatio
  
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• Breaking the social care reform logjam | Letters

  20-12-2024 18:49
  
  Cross-party buy-in is essential. This cannot be a government-only solution, writes Paul BurstowThe “deep reform” that social care needs (Editorial, 3 December) must break the cycle of short-term fixes and insufficient funding, which leaves the sector in a perpetual state of uncertainty – forever playing the role of Oliver Twist asking for more, yet lacking long-term security.A better-funded version of the current system won’t suffice to address the profound demographic, s
  
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• Press release: GP reforms to cut red tape and bring back family doctor

  20-12-2024 12:57 via gov.uk
  
  The measures are backed by the biggest boost to GP funding in years, an extra £889m on top of the existing budget for general practice
  
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• Working with adults with dementia from minority ethnic backgrounds: practice tips

  20-12-2024 09:30 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  This article provides tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on dementia and adults from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. The updated guide promotes a person-centred approach to supporting individuals, but within a cultural context. It outlines important issues to consider that may explain why people from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities tend to present to services later than do white British people, and more often in a crisis. Inform Adults subscribers can
  
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• How managers are inspiring social workers to progress in their careers

  19-12-2024 15:00 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Patricia has been working as a practice educator in a secondment role in a safeguarding team in South Gloucestershire Council’s children’s services since July 2023. This is her fourth promotion since starting her social work career at the council in 2016.
  “I like the sense of belonging that I get in South Gloucestershire,” she says. “The work environment is very friendly, open, you feel like you can be yourself – and there is always someone you can talk to.&rd
  
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• Corporate report: Business critical models for Department of Health and Social Care

  19-12-2024 14:29 via gov.uk
  
  A list of the main analytical models used by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and its arm's length bodies.
  
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• Look back at the ‘brilliant’ social work colleagues of 2024

  19-12-2024 13:10 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.At the start of this year, we launched our My Brilliant Colleague series to enable social workers to champion the achievements of those they work with.
  Amid the challenges the sector continues to face, we wanted to create a space for practitioners to celebrate one another. A series that would serve as a reminder that their impact extends beyond those they support, to include even those they
  
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• Extra £200m for social care in council settlement ‘wholly inadequate’, warn sector heads

  19-12-2024 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.An extra £200m for social care in next year’s council finance settlement is “wholly inadequate” to tackle additional costs facing adults’ services, sector leaders have warned.
  The government pledged to increase the social care grant – which is ring-fenced for adults’ and children’s services in England – by £880m, in its provisional
  
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• Press release: Biggest investment into hospices in a generation

  19-12-2024 11:33 via gov.uk
  
  £100 million boost for adult and children’s hospices and £26 million to support children and young people’s hospices.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Improving the experiences of people with ME/CFS: interim delivery plan

  19-12-2024 10:31 via gov.uk
  
  We're seeking your views on an interim delivery plan to improve the experiences and outcomes of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.
  
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• Podcast: Christmas Special

  19-12-2024 10:00 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  It’s that time of year! And to celebrate we recorded a Christmas Special for The Social Work Community Podcast.
  The social work sector and the face of Community Care, have both changed a lot over the last 50 years. As it is Community Care’s 50th birthday year we got some of the longest-standing members of the Community Care team together for this special one-off.
  For this episode I sat down with three people, who together, have been at Community Care for over a whopping 80 years.
  All
  
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• A Christmas special podcast: a peek inside Community Care

  19-12-2024 10:00 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  It’s that time of year! And to celebrate we recorded a Christmas special for The Social Work Community Podcast.
  The social work sector and the face of Community Care, have both changed a lot over the last 50 years. As it is Community Care’s 50th birthday year we got some of the longest-standing members of the Community Care team together for this one-off special.
  For this episode I sat down with three colleagues, who together, have been at Community Care for over a whopping 80 years.
  
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• A Christmas special podcast: a peak inside Community Care

  19-12-2024 10:00 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  It’s that time of year! And to celebrate we recorded a Christmas special for The Social Work Community Podcast.
  The social work sector and the face of Community Care, have both changed a lot over the last 50 years. As it is Community Care’s 50th birthday year we got some of the longest-standing members of the Community Care team together for this special one-off.
  For this episode I sat down with three colleagues, who together, have been at Community Care for over a whopping 80 years.
  
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• Agencies to be required to set up multi-agency child protection teams, under social care reform bill

  18-12-2024 22:07 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 and partner agencies are to be required to establish multi-agency child protection teams, under legislation to overhaul children’s social care.
  The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill would also allow for the regulation of agency work in children’s social care and the creation of a new type of placement in which a child could be deprived of liberty.
  Other planned
  
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• Correspondence: Notice to improve: Furness College

  18-12-2024 17:42 via gov.uk
  
  A notice to improve, issued to Furness College.
  
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• Consultation outcome: Changes to regulations relating to the Care Quality Commission

  18-12-2024 15:01 via gov.uk
  
  The government seeks views on proposals to amend regulations relating to the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
  
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• ‘What 50 years of social work has taught us’

  18-12-2024 13:48 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  In 1974, around twenty young people began a four-year course at the University of Bradford, combining a BA in applied social studies with a certificate of qualification in social work (CQSW).
  Many of us have kept in touch and most meet every few years as a group.
  Although mostly retired now, we have all had long careers in health and social care, working in the public, charity and private sector, and with the full range of client groups. Some of us have focused on frontline social work, while ot
  
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• What are social workers’ job plans for 2025?

  18-12-2024 13:43 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 end of the year is naturally a time for reflection, resolutions, and planning for the future.
  It’s also a period that leads into one of the busiest times for hiring and resignations.
  January has become synonymous with “new beginnings”, another opportunity to follow the dreams and plans that were disregarded or forgotten the year before.
  It’s probably why it sees
  
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• Policy paper: Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary

  18-12-2024 13:02 via gov.uk
  
  Information on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
  
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• These women lost their children because they were lesbians – why can’t the government say sorry? | Sophie Wilkinson

  18-12-2024 13:00
  
  As late as the 1990s, the law sided with fathers over custody on the basis of a woman’s sexuality. I detailed the scandal for Radio 4,and was shocked at the cruelty involvedI am more than just aware of the faint outlines of queer history – it is something I see in Technicolour. I immerse myself in lesbian books, films and art, and have written all sorts of articles about contemporary lesbianism. It is for this reason that I was shocked to learn only recently of the state having remov
  
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• Judge in Sara Sharif case warns of ‘dangers’ of automatic right to home school children

  17-12-2024 19:00
  
  Judge says killers home schooled Sara as a ‘ruse’ to hide evidence of 10-year-old’s repeated beatings A senior judge who jailed the killers of Sara Sharif has said the 10-year-old’s murder “starkly illustrates the dangers” of parents automatically being able to home school their children.Sara had twice been pulled out of school by her father, Urfan Sharif, and stepmother, Beinash Batool, as a “ruse adopted for wholly selfish purposes” to cover up e
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: non-consolidated performance-related pay for 2022 to 2023

  17-12-2024 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  Non-consolidated performance-related pay for the Department of Health and Social Care and its agencies between 2022 and 2023.
  
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