Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Introducing specialist child protection social workers is posing workforce challenges for the councils testing the system. Issues included retaining staff, maintaining safeguarding skills among other social workers and avoiding disruption to families as a result of the reform. Leaders from Dorset, Lincolnshire and Wolverhampton councils relayed the messages in a session at this week’s National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) on their experience as families first for children

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Social Worker Adoption Diversity Consultation 256

CAPC

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Article in The New England Journal of Medicine highlights the need for methadone regulation reform for those living with a serious illness and opioid use disorder.

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Disorder 52

Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Councils need more funding to manage the impact of Care Quality Commission (CQC) performance checks of adults’ services, sector leaders have warned. The Local Government Association (LGA) and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) issued the call with the rollout of assessments of England’s 153 authorities due to start imminently.

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Government Social Worker Social Services Social Services 231