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• ‘How reablement can better support independence and quality of life’

  14-03-2025 16:04 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  By Deborah Rozansky, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  Reablement services play a critical role in maintaining people’s independence and quality of life. Most frequently used to support people’s recovery after a hospital stay, reablement can also be preventive, reducing the need for hospital admissions or long-term residential care.
  However, our research has shown that reablement is misunderstood, potentially preventing people from fully benefiting from it. Inconsistent sta
  
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• Education Secretary's speech at the ASCL conference

  14-03-2025 16:11 via gov.uk
  
  The Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, speech at the Association of School and College Leaders.
  
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• Social workers urged to share experience of using AI in practice

  14-03-2025 13:18 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 being urged to share their views and experiences in relation to using artificial intelligence (AI) in practice, to inform research into the issue.
  The survey, which is also open to social work employers and educators, along with local authority data, performance or innovation leads, forms part of a Social Work England project to examine AI’s impact on the profession.
  
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• Proposed review of the statutory scheme for branded medicines pricing

  14-03-2025 12:00 via gov.uk
  
  This consultation seeks views on proposals to update the statutory scheme to control the cost of branded health service medicines.
  
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• Lack of staff and beds leading to ‘harmful’ gaps in mental healthcare, warns CQC

  14-03-2025 11:55 via communitycare.co.uk
  
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  A lack of staff and hospital beds, at a time of “overwhelming demand”, is leading to “harmful” gaps in mental healthcare, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said.
  As a result, people were being discharged prematurely, often without adequate community support, leading to cycles of readmission to hospital, with increasing use of inappropriate out-of-area placements.
  
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• Corporate report: Monitoring the Mental Health Act: 2023 to 2024

  14-03-2025 10:34 via gov.uk
  
  The Care Quality Commission’s annual report on the use of the Mental Health Act 1983.
  
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• Research: The impact of school absence on lifetime earnings

  14-03-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  This report estimates the monetary impact of one day of school absence in state-funded secondary schools.
  
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• Research: Link between attendance and attainment

  14-03-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Report showing that school attendance is associated with higher average academic performance in an assessment year across all pupils from all backgrounds.
  
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• Help and support for colleges

  13-03-2025 17:55 via gov.uk
  
  Information about the range of help and support available from the Further Education Commissioner, Department for Education and delivery partners.
  
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• World’s largest quango scrapped under reforms to put patients first

  13-03-2025 15:35 via gov.uk
  
  Changes to NHS England will reduce bureaucracy, make savings and empower NHS staff to deliver better care for patients.
  
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• NHS England: Health and Social Care Secretary's statement

  13-03-2025 14:49 via gov.uk
  
  The Health and Social Care Secretary made a statement to the House of Commons on plans to abolish NHS England.
  
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• Government curbs overseas recruitment with providers required to prioritise staff already in England

  13-03-2025 13:12 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 has curbed the recruitment of care staff from overseas with adults’ providers in England instead required to prioritise hiring international workers already in the country.
  Ministers said the measure, which comes into force on 9 April 2025, was designed to provide work for care staff who had come to England and then been exploited, leaving them without a job.
  However, pr
  
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• Primary school SuDS schemes finished by the Preston flood scheme

  13-03-2025 12:20 via gov.uk
  
  SuDS schemes reduce flood risk by temporarily storing rainwater; reducing its flow and surface water runoff. Three primary schools have benefited.
  
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• Transparency data: Turing Scheme funding outcomes 2023 to 2024

  13-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  The results of applications for funding for international study and work placements from schools, further education providers and higher education providers.
  
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• Transparency data: Turing Scheme funding outcomes 2022 to 2023

  13-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  The results of applications for funding for international study and work placements from schools, further education providers and higher education providers.
  
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• Transparency data: Turing Scheme funding outcomes 2021 to 2022

  13-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  How funding was allocated and used by successful applicants to the first year of the Turing Scheme.
  
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• Guidance: Support offer to international ASC workers whose employer's sponsor licence has been revoked

  13-03-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  Document outlining the support available to adult social care (ASC) workers in England affected by the revocation of their employer's sponsor licences.
  
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• ‘My manager has gone above and beyond for me’

  13-03-2025 09:51 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Our My Brilliant Colleague series invites you to celebrate anyone who has inspired you in your career.
  In this entry, mental health practitioner Sam celebrates her manager, Claire, who, despite knowing her for a short time, has supported her throughout major life and professional changes.I would like to nominate my senior and new manager, Claire.I’ve recently started with a new mental health team, started a social work apprenticeship and left my abusive husband.Claire has stuck by me, supp
  
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• New rules to prioritise recruiting care workers in England

  12-03-2025 17:53 via gov.uk
  
  Employers will be required to prioritise recruiting international care workers already in England before recruiting from overseas.
  
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• Equipping social workers to meet 21st century challenges relating to death and dying

  12-03-2025 12:26 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  By Denise Turner
  The proposed assisted dying legislation, which is currently being debated in Parliament, recommends social workers are appointed to multi-disciplinary panels, making decisions about assisted dying requests, following sign-off by two doctors.
  This is an important potential change in the social work role. However, death and dying have always been firmly embedded within the profession, either directly, through people who are terminally ill or have experienced the death of a loved o
  
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• How conscious are social workers about their safety during visits?

  12-03-2025 09:45 via communitycare.co.uk
  
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  Visiting people in need of support and face-to-face contact are considered integral parts of social work. 
  However, completing visits is a task practitioners often must carry out alone, which, in some cases, carries a degree of risk.
  As experienced children’s social worker Sophie Baker explained in a recent article for Community Care: “Many of these families are experiencin
  
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• ‘Sea change’ needed in approach to race in safeguarding practice, says national panel

  11-03-2025 21:47 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 “sea change” is needed in practitioners’ approach to race in child protection cases to better safeguard Black, Asian and mixed-heritage children from harm.
  That was the message from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel in a report on the impact of race, ethnicity and culture on multi-agency practice where children have died or suffered serious harm.
  The study was
  
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• Corporate parenting duty to be placed on government departments and public bodies

  11-03-2025 16:07 via communitycare.co.uk
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Government departments and public bodies are to be placed under a duty to promote life chances for children in care and care leavers in England, the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed.
  They would be placed under a “corporate parenting duty”, through government amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, ministers’ legislative vehicle for reformin
  
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• Corporate report: Academies consolidated annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023

  11-03-2025 10:03 via gov.uk
  
  Report on academy school sector expenditure and performance for the year ended 31 August 2023.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: workforce management information October 2024

  11-03-2025 09:24 via gov.uk
  
  Reports on departmental staff numbers and costs.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: workforce management information November 2024

  11-03-2025 09:24 via gov.uk
  
  Reports on departmental staff numbers and costs.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: workforce management information December 2024

  11-03-2025 09:24 via gov.uk
  
  Reports on departmental staff numbers and costs.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: workforce management information September 2024

  11-03-2025 09:23 via gov.uk
  
  Reports on departmental staff numbers and costs.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: workforce management information July 2024

  11-03-2025 09:23 via gov.uk
  
  Reports on departmental staff numbers and costs.
  
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• Transparency data: DHSC: workforce management information August 2024

  11-03-2025 09:23 via gov.uk
  
  Reports on departmental staff numbers and costs.
  
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