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Community Care
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Acknowledgement but inaction Copy: Have employers acknowledged or addressed high caseloads? Infogram But while there is mounting evidence demonstrating the impact high caseloads have on practitioners and practice, particularly in children’s services, what are employers doing about it? Tell us in the comments below.
Community Care
JUNE 28, 2023
By Clare Jerrom Employers have been set standards to tackle the “poor support” received by the UK’s growing band of overseas social workers. To help social workers and their families settle in the UK, the guidance says employers should provide access to psychological, medical, educational and cultural support, and offer practitioners a buddy.
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Community Care
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
A record 6,028 FTE social workers joined a new employer in 2022-23, up from 4,826 in 2021-22. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The hike was driven by a 24.9% rise in the numbers recruited by councils in the year to September 2023, compared with the previous year.
Community Care
AUGUST 21, 2023
The employers reiterated that the proposed increases, of £1,925 for those earning up to £49,950 and 3.88% for higher earners, was their “full and final offer” for 2023-24 to workers across most councils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Though the employers’ offer is worth up to 6.4% to social workers and 9.4%
University of Connecticut
MARCH 14, 2024
Associate Professor Meg Feely co-authored a paper published in Social Service Review that examines the relationship between maternal employment and the risk for child maltreatment. Feely and the research team found that too little and too much maternal employment was associated with maltreatment risk. Read more about Feely’s work.
Community Care
AUGUST 1, 2023
A “tail of very bad employers in the social care sector” are exploiting overseas staff brought to the UK to fill gaps caused by endemic low pay, a government adviser has warned. “There are lots of really great employers out there,” he said. But] there are two main problems.
Community Care
JUNE 8, 2022
Employers are failing to advertise part-time roles to social workers, shutting many expert practitioners out of the labour force, according to new research. Employers ‘need to wake up’ She said employers needed to “wake up”, as they were “missing out on expert and committed staff due to their failure to offer part-time posts”.
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