Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2024

The Department for Education’s (DfE) revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children has removed the previous requirement for child in need assessments and casework to be reserved for qualified social workers. Child protection enquiries and casework will remain ring-fenced for social workers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Department for Education commissioned the review as part of its draft strategy, Stable Homes, Built on Love , in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. Special educational needs and disability (SEND): entitlement to SEND provision is governed by the Children and Families Act 2014.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Editor’s Note: Jacqueline Jones is the MSW Field Coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and one of my colleagues in the UAB Department of Social Work. I will expand on using one specific realm of technology in social work education: artificial intelligence or AI. What is AI?

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, the vacancy rate for local authority children’s practitioners has fallen only slightly, while councils are continuing to increase their engagement of agency staff, amid Department for Education (DfE) plans to curb their use.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will give councils and adult social care providers just over £20m between them to fund social work and nursing apprenticeships in 2024-25. The government will give councils funding to train more staff as social workers in adults’ services through apprenticeships.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Department for Education funding will go to 79 of the 153 authorities, who were chosen following an application process. Half of councils have been given a share of £11.7m to recruit 461 social work apprentices to bolster their children’s services workforces.

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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. Councils would also be able to share data with specified agencies, for example, in relation to safeguarding concerns, and would also be under a duty to support home educators on request from the family.

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Rachel de Souza delivered the messages in a report issued today analysing Department for Education data – some of it previously unpublished – on children on CIN plans. “It is vital that we get things right for children on child in need plans,” said de Souza. ” Who are children in need?

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Councils have been urged to join a project to help curb the workloads of social workers in local authority children’s services departments. Fifteen authorities will scrutinise and test ideas and resources to tackle unnecessary burdens on practitioners in order to enable them to spend more time with children and families.

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Community Care

AUGUST 31, 2023

Johnston’s appointment comes with children’s social care facing one of its biggest periods of reform in decades, on the back of the Department for Education’s (DfE) draft strategy, Stable Homes, Built on Love, issued in February. Before that, Will Quince spent 10 months as children’s minister.

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MARCH 7, 2022

This is driving huge spending on placements by local authorities, with fees of £8,000 plus a week “not unusual”, Will Quince told the House of Commons’ education select committee last week. The Department for Education calculates average caseloads for children’s social workers in England as 16.3. Take our survey.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. We have worked closely with the Department for Education to look at ways to address these challenges.

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Community Care

APRIL 9, 2024

On the back of this, the CMA recommended that the Department for Education set up a market oversight regime to monitor the finances of the largest and most difficult to replace children’s home providers, which the DfE agreed to take forward in last year’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy. ”

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Department for Education (DfE) has today launched England’s first kinship strategy. The long-awaited document includes plans to pilot giving some kinship carers equivalent allowances to foster carers and expanding the role of virtual heads to cover support for children of kinship carers in education.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In response to the consultation, the regulator pledged to address specific concerns about the content and structure of the proposed 78 statements, as well as the “crowded landscape” of social work education standards to which the statements would be added.

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Community Care

JANUARY 22, 2024

Worcestershire County Council will take back control of early help, children’s social care and education services when its current contract with Worcestershire Children First ends in September 2024. A children’s trust will be disbanded with services returning to council control later this year.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The number of children’s social workers quitting their posts annually has risen by 40% in five years, Department for Education figures have shown. Source: Department for Education children’s social work workforce census, 2022 The net loss of staff was concentrated among frontline “case holding” practitioners.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Despite a full ministerial team being appointed to the Department of Health and Social Care on 7 September, the DHSC said their responsibilities had not yet been decided upon. The DHSC appears to be an outlier among government departments in not having agreed ministerial portfolios. Care minister role may be downgraded.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

‘Public face of social work with adults’ The Department of Health and Social Care said Romeo’s successor would be the “public face of adult social work in England”, and its job advertisement outlines two core elements for the role.

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Community Care

APRIL 5, 2022

Last month, the Department for Education, which is responsible for the regulator, launched a consultation on changes to the legal framework setting out how the organisation operates , the Social Work Regulations 2018. . ” Related articles.

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Community Care

APRIL 21, 2023

The Department for Education has asked the Law Commission for England and Wales to review the “patchwork of legislation” for the group , dating back to 1970. The ‘outdated’ legal framework on social care for disabled children in England will be reviewed with a view to making it fairer and more effective.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2024

A ‘massive reduction’ in the care population, with many more children cared for at home or with extended family, will be the key measure of success for the Department for Education’s (DfE’s) social care reforms. This is currently being tested through the so-called families first for children pathfinders.

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Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

WWEICSC – formerly What Works for Children’s Social Care – was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to pilot SWIS in three local authority areas in 2018-19, and then to roll it out to 21 areas for the RCT. No impact on social care outcomes It found that the rate of section 47s was 5.5%

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The study, based on Department for Education data and a survey of 125 directors, found that children’s services faced an estimated funding shortfall of £778m in 2022-23, against a budget of £11.2bn. rise in the number of child protection enquiries in 2021-22. ” Regional action to tackle agency use.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

However, a recent Social Work England report found that half of social work education providers were struggling to place students in the wake of the pandemic, with the biggest reasons being availability of practice educators and pressures on frontline staff reducing capacity to support students.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The Department for Education issued a second call for bids to trial the early career framework (ECF) today, after selecting eight organisations to do so last year. They will get £50,000 for taking part. Who is already testing the early career framework? Appoint a minimum of 20 NQSWs in children’s services each year.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

In its response to the review, published last month , the Department for Education (DfE) accepted the other seven in principle only, meaning ministers are not committed to implementing the panel’s specific proposals. This is currently the subject of a criminal investigation. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Publicly, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have not specified when they plan to implement the LPS, which was originally due to be implemented in October 2020, then delayed to April 2022 and, last year, further deferred to an unspecified date. What do the LPS plans mean for you? Related articles.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Department for Education’s annual children in need statistics also showed year-on-year increases in the number of children in need (up 4.1%) and assessments (up 3.1%), on the back of a surge in referrals, which rose by 8.8% The Department for Education is due to respond to the care review before the end of the year.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It pointed to Department for Education figures showing 8.6% They often have agreed workloads and are more expensive than permanent staff, which can lower the department’s overall headcount and capacity.” the previous year. Workloads are high and the demands of an already challenging job can become unsustainable.”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The Department for Education has appointed Josh MacAlister to advise on the implementation of the children’s social care review that he led. It is paying MacAlister £32,000 for six months’ work, with the role having started on 1 June 2022, shortly after the care review reported, and running until 3o November.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) has merged responsibilities for children’s social care and schools under new minister Kelly Tolhurst. The hiatus was caused in part by the mourning period following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Response to care review. Praise for Frontline. Kelly Tolhurst MP (@KellyTolhurst) September 27, 2022.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Prime minister Rishi Sunak appointed Gillian Keegan to the education secretary post this week, succeeding Kit Malthouse, James Cleverley, Michelle Donelan and Nadhim Zahawi, all of whom have held the role – which has overall responsibility for children’s social care – this year.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said these would be funded from £500m allocated for developing the adult social care workforce from 2022-25. The government has pledged to invest in new training routes into social work as part of its white paper on adult social care reform, published today. New training routes.

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Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2023

70% of directors saying they were not confident they would have enough permament child and family social workers in post over the subsequent year, in response to a Department for Education poll conducted in January to March 2022. One in six roles (16.7%) filled by agency social workers as of last June, up from 15.6%

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Community Care

JULY 19, 2023

As Social Work England is the responsibility of government, specifically the Department for Education, the chair must also “work closely with ministers and government officials to drive forward a clear strategic direction” for the regulator, said the DfE, in its job advertisement.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To be judged as outstanding, councils will have to demonstrate consistently good performance in relation to criteria including addressing care leavers’ health and emotional wellbeing, relationships and education and employment. Criteria for care leaver services.

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