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• Guidance: Submit Learner Data known issues

  10-04-2025 13:00 via gov.uk
  
  The regularly updated known issues document gives information on service problems we are aware of.
  
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• Survey launched to inform NHS dental contract reform

  16-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Dentists in England encouraged to take part to inform government plansto improve NHS dentistry
  
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• Almost million more pupils get access to mental health support

  16-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  School mental health support rollout to reach up to 900,000 more pupils this year, covering six in ten children across the country.
  
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• Adult social care needs £3.4bn annual funding boost by 2028-29 to stand still, says report

  15-05-2025 23:36 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Adult social care in England needs an extra £3.4bn in real-terms annual funding by 2028-29, at a “bare minimum”, to deal with rising demand and increased costs, an analysis has found.
  Councils would need an extra £6.4bn annually by 2028-29 if they wanted to also reduce unmet need for care, and an additional £8.7 to tackle low pay in addition, said the Health Fou
  
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• We are no strangers to highly skilled care staff | Letters

  15-05-2025 18:48
  Jane O’Regan writes that the happiest part of her day is when a care visitor arrives to help her husband. Plus, a letter from Jonathan ErskineThank you, Zoe Williams (‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved ones, 12 May). My husband suffered a severe stroke 14 years ago. Every day since, a care worker has visited us to get him up and wash and dress him. We live in east London and every single care worker we
  
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• Guidance: Apprenticeship funding rules, 2025 to 2026

  15-05-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  The rules employers and training providers must follow to get funding for training and assessing apprentices in England.
  
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• Guidance: Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant for maintained schools and academies with 16 to 19 provision

  15-05-2025 16:42 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for maintained schools and academies with 16 to 19 provision on the teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant.
  
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• Guidance: National Tutoring Programme (NTP) allocations for 2023 to 2024 academic year

  15-05-2025 14:21 via gov.uk
  
  Allocations and conditions of grant of the 2023 to 2024 National Tutoring Programme (NTP) funding for schools and local authorities.
  
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• Embedding learning in social work teams through a multi-agency approach

  15-05-2025 12:57 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  North East Lincolnshire Council is taking a proactive approach to ensuring social workers and partner agencies are working collaboratively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people across its district.
  Through the North East Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (NELSCP), children’s services, the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and Humberside Police work alongside relevant agencies to help, support and protect children and young peopl
  
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• Transparency data: Targeted retention incentive for FE teachers

  15-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Data for the targeted retention incentive for further education (FE) teachers as of 5 May 2025.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2025

  15-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Statistics on approved placements by type, sex, age, ethnicity and length of stay.
  
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• NHS leaders face both ‘carrot and stick’ in new performance drive

  15-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  NHS leaders will face new performance-based pay system with bonuses for improved patient care and penalties for failing trust executives.
  
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• Improved PE and sport for more than 240,000 pupils with SEND

  15-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Government launches Inclusion 2028 programme which will improve access to PE and school sports for pupils with SEND.
  
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• What will ending overseas recruitment mean for adult social care?

  15-05-2025 00:38 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 government’s decision to stop adult social care providers from recruiting staff from overseas – at some point later this year – has sent shockwaves through the sector.
  According to provider bodies, it risks creating “extreme workforce shortages” and consequent harm to older and disabled people (the Homecare Association), and was a “short-sighted”
  
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• Correspondence: DfE Update: 14 May 2025

  14-05-2025 13:56 via gov.uk
  
  Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.
  
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• Guidance: Care workforce pathway for adult social care (easy read)

  14-05-2025 13:28 via gov.uk
  Information about the 8 groups of jobs in adult social care in England.
  
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• Transparency data: Funding allocations to training providers: 2024 to 2025

  14-05-2025 13:22 via gov.uk
  
  Funding values for colleges, training organisations and employers with an adult skills fund, apprenticeship or advanced learner loan contract for 2024 to 2025.
  
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• Health and Social Care Secretary's speech on men's health

  14-05-2025 12:47 via gov.uk
  
  Wes Streeting spoke at the launch of the Centre for Policy Research for Men and Boys (CPRMB) on Tuesday 13 May
  
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• Minority ethnic social care staff continue to face worse outcomes than white colleagues – report

  14-05-2025 12:15 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Black, Asian and minority ethnic social care staff continue to face worse outcomes than white colleagues in English councils across most indicators, Skills for Care research has revealed.
  Council staff from minority groups fared less well than white counterparts on most of nine indicators designed to measure racial inequalities, including in relation to recruitment, pay, progression and bein
  
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• Rethinking ‘disguised compliance’ in child protection practice

  14-05-2025 09:19 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  This article presents a few key considerations from Community Care Inform Children’s guide on understanding ‘disguised compliance’ and how to apply a relationship-based approach to removing barriers to parental engagement. Inform Children subscribers can access the full guide here.
  This guide was written by Jadwiga Leigh, founder of New Beginnings, a foundation working to support and keep families together, and a part-time senior lecturer in social work.‘Disguised complia
  
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• Social work opinion split over 2025-26 local government pay offer

  14-05-2025 09:16 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 workers are divided on whether to accept the 2025-26 pay offer for council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a poll has found.
  The proposed 3.2% hike – worth about an additional £1,260 for a social worker outside of London on the bottom of pay point 13 (currently earning £39,419) – fell far short of the claim for a £3,000 rise made by UNISON,
  
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• The family safeguarding approach: 5 years on

  14-05-2025 09:00 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  The family safeguarding approach has played a key role in reducing caseloads for social workers and the number of court proceedings in Oxfordshire County Council’s (OCC) children’s services.
  There has also been a 23% reduction in the total number of children’s cases open to statutory services from March 2022 to December 2024.
  In the same period, the number of open child protection plans decreased by 19% along with a 12% downturn in the number of children in care.
  How has this b
  
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• Tens of thousands more patients receiving crucial scans quicker

  14-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  More people were seen faster for scans including endoscopies, ultrasounds, and MRIs
  
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• ‘She brings warmth, hope, and humanity to a role that can be emotionally demanding’

  13-05-2025 15:45 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, social work assistant Rita Gibson celebrates Danielle Holmes, a newly qualified practitioner in her team whom she describes as an inspiration to families and colleagues.Danielle’s na
  
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• Find a telecare provider

  13-05-2025 12:20 via gov.uk
  Information on telecare monitoring systems and personal alarms that can help you stay safe and independent at home.
  
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• Consistent financial reporting framework XML generator 2024 to 2025

  13-05-2025 11:43 via gov.uk
  Use the XML generator to prepare your data for uploading to COLLECT.
  
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• Consistent financial reporting framework 2024 to 2025

  13-05-2025 11:43 via gov.uk
  Guidance to help schools collect information about their income and expenditure.
  
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• No change in number of AMHPs in England over past six years, data reveals

  13-05-2025 10:27 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 number of the approved mental health professionals (AMHP) in England has not changed in six years, data has revealed.
  There were about 3,800 AMHPs as of March 2025, the same number as in each of the previous three years and as in 2019, according to Skills for Care’s annual report on the workforce in England, based on a survey of AMHP leads.
  The report also found that councils were
  
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• The Guardian view on Labour’s immigration plan: cohesion isn’t helped by talk of ‘strangers’ | Editorial

  12-05-2025 19:20
  The prime minister says he wants to rebuild communities and opportunities, but he risks playing into opponents’ handsEvery government needs an immigration policy and the one led by Sir Keir Starmer is no exception. Laws are required to establish the terms under which migration to the UK is allowed, and to deal with the complexities surrounding irregular arrivals. But the decision to publish an immigration white paper a week after Reform UK made significant gains in local elections, when it
  
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• Labour MP says Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ warning over immigration mimics scaremongering of far right – as it happened

  12-05-2025 19:11
  PM unveils new policies meant to drive down net migration by end of this parliamentQ: If you want to grow the economy, won’t these plans make it harder because it will be more difficult for people to get UK citizenship?Starmer says he does not accept the argument that high immigration is always good for growth. The last government had high immigration but stagnant growth.I promise that [net migration] will fall significantly, and I do want to get it down by the end of this parliament, sign
  
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