Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

The government will “strongly encourage” councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision, it said today. In the improvement plan, the government said the role would “provide the capacity and expertise” to improve social care input into SEND provision.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The government will create a register of children who are not in school following longstanding safeguarding concerns around home education. The decision, following a consultation carried out in 2019, comes amid evidence of increasing numbers of children being educated at home.

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Schools Government Consultation 278

Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

We also know that retaining enough experienced social workers is a big challenge and ADCS urges the government to use this opportunity to develop a national recruitment and retention strategy to encourage more people into the profession, and crucially to want to stay. We look forward to working with the department in the coming months.”.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Government as a whole therefore needs to prioritise legislative time and investment for these children.” Sector bodies have roundly criticised the DfE for providing one-fifth of the funding recommended by MacAlister – £200m over two years as opposed to £2.6bn over five – to reform the system.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The government is examining how councils can place more social work students to meet its ambitions to increase numbers coming into the profession. It added: “The government plans to invest in new and existing training routes for people who want to become social workers.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

The way ordinary residence is determined for mental health aftercare remains unsettled, despite the government winning a court ruling relating to its radical new approach to the issue. Learn about the government’s new approach. High Court rules against government… . The second ground was not raised in the appeal.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

The government has reinstated a change to the cap on care costs that will reduce its benefit to less wealthy people. “The government believe[s] that the fairest version of the cap would be based on what people contribute towards their care, rather than our counting local authority contributions as well,” he said.

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Hospital Discharges Government Hospitals Consultation 200

Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers. ” .” ”

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Social Worker Government Domestic Violence Disorder 194

Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

The draft updated Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, was published for public consultation on 17 March. The government has decided to produce one overarching code to ensure the principles of the MCA are embedded in the LPS from its introduction. Consultation ends on 4 July. By Tim Spencer-Lane, legal editor, CC Inform.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Staff and volunteers working with children will face a duty to report child sexual abuse they are aware of, the government announced yesterday. Government mandatory reporting plan The Home Office said that it would introduce mandatory reporting of CSA through amendments to the current Criminal Justice Bill.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

It hasappointed consultant Peter Dwyer, a former director, as a commissioner to oversee improvements. Currently, children’s social care services are run outside of council control in 11 of the 152 English council areas, either because of voluntary decisions by councils or through government imposition.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The planned date was revealed in a report to today’s Social Work England board meeting and represents a six-month delay to the government’s previous internal target for bringing in the replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. The consultation closed in July this year and the departments are yet to respond.

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Consultation Government Social Worker 309

Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is certain to be delayed again, with the government yet to consult on how to put the scheme into practice. However, the government is yet to confirm that it will need to delay LPS again. However, the government is yet to confirm that it will need to delay LPS again.

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Consultation Government Advocacy Hospitals 321

Community Care

MARCH 6, 2024

The government has also pledged to bring forward measures later this year to tackle “profiteering” in the children’s residential sector. The funding is in addition to the £259m the government had previously allocated from 2022-25 to resource additional placements in open and secure homes.

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Government Consultation Mental Health Schools 263

Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Government safeguarding advisers have voiced their disappointment over ministers’ response to their recommendations to improve the safeguarding of disabled children in residential settings. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle.

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Community Care

APRIL 13, 2023

The government’s decision to shelve the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is “an unacceptable blow” to the thousands of people currently unlawfully deprived of their liberty. And in announcing the news, the DHSC gave no indication of an intent from the current government to implement the LPS should it return to power.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Specialist social workers will be appointed to lead child protection cases while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers, the government has said in its response to the care review. The DfE consultation on the social work workforce, published later today, will set out its proposals.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Peers have overturned a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit for less well-off people, and also voted to bring forward its implementation date from October to April 2023. The government has estimated that the Lords change would cost £900m a year compared to its favoured approach.

Hospital Discharges 263

Hospital Discharges Consultation Government Hospitals 263

Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

Case for opening up child in need role In its consultation on the plans, the DfE suggested this would enable staff already working with families – including family support workers, drug and alcohol practitioners, domestic abuse workers and youth workers – to take on the lead practitioner role.

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Disability Consultation Social Worker Youth Worker 319

Community Care

APRIL 3, 2023

The home secretary said the government would introduce a mandatory reporting duty, subject to consultation, in response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s final report, published last October. This was one of IICSA’s central recommendations, which it said would combat systemic under-identification of CSA.

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Consultation Government Healthcare Social Worker 259

Community Care

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Currently unregulated services for 16- and 17-year-old children in care and care leavers would be inspected a third as often as children’s homes, once requirements for them to register with Ofsted come into force next year, under government plans. Claire Coutinho (photo: HM Government).

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Consultation Government Foster Care 208

Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Napo and UNISON have sent out consultative ballots to their members – including social workers who practise as family court advisers – asking them whether they accept or reject the offer and, if the latter, whether they would be prepared to take industrial action in response. Cafcass restricted by government pay limit.

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Government Consultation Social Worker 231

Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Adult social care has its fourth cabinet minister in two years following Rishi Sunak’s major government reshuffle. Victoria Atkins has replaced Steve Barclay as health and social care secretary, after the latter spent one year in post in his second stint in the job.

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Consultation Government 256

Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Social Services 322

Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

Unlike fellow unions GMB and Unite, UNISON is not consulting its members on the offer of a £1,925 rise for 2023-24 but moving straight to a ballot on taking strike action or action short of a strike, such as working to rule. According to government rules, at least 50% of members must turn out for action to follow.

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Meanwhile, council spending on independent children’s homes more than doubled from 2015-16 to 2021-22, according to research by market analysts Revolution Consulting. “If the government were minded there are things they could do to manage and sort that.”

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Social Worker Diversity Government Adoption 245

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The care sector remains “unsustainable” in the face of spiralling energy costs despite the “much needed relief” provided by the government’s support package for business, charities and the public sector.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

But this week the court ruled that the government had been entitled to decide that placements in settings such as hostels, shared houses, flats and bedsits, rather than children’s homes or foster care, were suitable for some older children and that there was no legal basis for the court to intervene. Consultation process adequate.

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Consultation Government Foster Care Social Worker 220

Community Care

MARCH 17, 2022

The government’s adult social care funding reforms will increase demand for assessments, reviews and the case management of people needing care and support by bringing more existing self-funders into the system. We call on the government to address this as a matter of urgency.” ” Related articles. More follows.

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Case Management Social Worker Consultation Government 303

Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The measure is part of the government’s children’s social care reform agenda, set out in the Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy, which was consulted upon earlier this year.

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Consultation Social Worker Government University 240

The Guardian

DECEMBER 4, 2021

We have ways of swallowing our own smoke if the only problem is inflation, but there are so many other extra costs that we need to cope with,” says the former business consultant turned Labour councillor. It’s tough.” Continue reading.

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Community Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The challenge for councils of recruiting significantly more practitioners to implement the cap and associated reforms next year at a time of mounting staffing pressures was cited by many respondents to a DHSC consultation on guidance to implement the changes. . Get full coverage on the government’s adult social care reforms.

Social Worker 295

Social Worker Consultation Government Therapist 295

Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In issuing the draft guidance for consultation this week, the DfE also said it would be bringing forward the implementation of most of the rules from autumn to summer 2024, with the exception of the price caps and data collection requirements.

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Engagement Consultation Social Worker Administration 263

Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption support agencies.

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Adoption Counseling Psychotherapy Therapist 244

Community Care

APRIL 5, 2022

Social Work England is seeking to improve the efficiency of its operations, particularly in relation to fitness to practise, through changes to its governing laws and rules. This followed a consultation that Social Work England issued on changes to its rules , which are not dependent on legal changes.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

“Local government already has a national pay spine which includes job descriptions and grading for child and family social workers to help achieve consistency, transparency and fairness in pay and progression,” the DfE said. “We do not intend to create new DfE-led pay scales.

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Social Worker Consultation Government Adoption 231

Community Care

MAY 30, 2023

Fellow union Unite will start balloting members on industrial action shortly, while the third local government union, GMB, is also planning to do so. NB The figures refer to staff working in councils covered by the National Joint Council for Local Government Services agreement in England and Wales. by April 2024.

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Social Worker Government Consultation Social Services 240