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The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. It is the worst case of child abuse and neglect that I have ever seen,” said a hospital consultant who treated Victoria in her final days.

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‘Why practice education research must be catalyst for tackling longstanding issues facing role’

Community Care

By drawing on a literature review and focus groups, interviews, and surveys of PEs, course providers and local authorities, the review provided a comprehensive exploration of the challenges faced by PEs. NOPT also agrees with the research findings, which validate discussions that have occurred throughout the profession for many years.

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Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvement – study

Community Care

Councils that had made progress highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

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No adult social care minister appointed six weeks into Truss premiership

Community Care

In an interview published this week with his constituency’s local paper, the Harborough Mail, O’Brien said he was honoured to have been appointed to the DHSC and commented on its priorities across health and social care. The DHSC appears to be an outlier among government departments in not having agreed ministerial portfolios.

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Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

Community Care

John Pearce told Community Care that these should include a calculated fair cost for care and rules on provider behaviour, in an interview at this year’s National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC). “Both the CHA and the LGA have made the government aware of the impact of the lack of sufficient funding in this sector.

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Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvemen – report

Community Care

Councils that had progressed highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

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DfE likely to go ahead with rules restricting agency social work, suggests sector leader

Community Care

The DfE consulted on the proposals, which include capping the pay of agency staff to the equivalent of permanently-employed social workers , between February and May this year, and is due to report back on the consultation this September. “My sense is that we have been listened to by the DfE.”