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Social Work Futures
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
What does it look like when an entire government or a large government agency commits to a futures lens? Africa Foresight Academy (both private sector and government mentioned). Foresight, insight and oversight: Enhancing long-term governance (2019).
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.
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Community Care
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Government as a whole therefore needs to prioritise legislative time and investment for these children.”
Community Care
DECEMBER 6, 2021
The government has ended statutory interventions in two council children’s services, while removing a commissioner appointed to direct improvements at a third.
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.
Community Care
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Councils should stop automatically triggering child protection enquiries under section 47 of the Children Act 1989 in response to bruising in pre-mobile infants, government advisers have said.
Community Care
MARCH 18, 2022
The government has decided to produce one overarching code to ensure the principles of the MCA are embedded in the LPS from its introduction. By Tim Spencer-Lane, legal editor, CC Inform.
Community Care
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Council leaders have welcomed reports that the government will delay implementing its cap on care costs for a year, but warned that the funding allocated to the reform should be retained by authorities. Theresa May’s government then scrapped them altogether in 2017.
Community Care
AUGUST 5, 2022
The government must delay the implementation of its social care reforms to avoid making services worse, council heads have warned.
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.
Community Care
AUGUST 22, 2022
The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. The Welsh Government’s consultation runs until midnight on 7 November 2022.
Community Care
DECEMBER 19, 2022
An increase in adult social care funding next year should deliver “tangible improvements” to services, the government told councils today. ‘Government has listened’ Michael Gove (credit: HM Government).
Community Care
JANUARY 19, 2023
That was the verdict from government advisers, in a report last week advising ministers on how to introduce their controversial plans, opposed by campaigners, to introduce of scientific methods where there are doubts over claimants’ age.
Community Care
MAY 11, 2022
The government has increased weekly payments for care home residents with nursing needs by 11.5% as vacancies for nurses working in social care continue to mount.
Community Care
APRIL 4, 2022
‘Adding further pressures to underfunded sector’ A Local Government Association spokesperson said: “The loss of funding streams for social care puts councils and providers onto an even more unstable footing and highlights how volatile the financial situation is within social care.
Community Care
MAY 27, 2022
The number of council child and family social workers in England quitting children’s services altogether rose by 22% last year, suggest government figures. Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show. By Charlotte Goddard and Mithran Samuel.
Community Care
OCTOBER 21, 2022
The government must fund better pay and training for adult social care staff to tackle a deepening workforce crisis that is undermining the quality of services.
Community Care
AUGUST 18, 2022
Social care’s “increasingly unsustainable reliance” on agency staff needs urgent government intervention, a provider body has warned. Government seeks overseas care staff to fill mounting shortages.
Community Care
APRIL 6, 2022
The House of Lords has rejected – for a second time – a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit to less wealthy people. “The government talk about levelling up for disabled people, but really they are doing the opposite.
Community Care
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Adult social care has a new cabinet minister as the government mulls delaying its proposed funding reforms, including the cap on care costs. By Mithran Samuel and Anastasia Koutsounia.
Community Care
APRIL 27, 2022
A government change reducing the cap on care costs’ benefit to less wealthy people has become law, following a parliamentary battle. The government says its change will save £900m a year.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Those who were managers rose to 21.7%, up from 19.9%, a trend described as “concerning” by Josh MacAlister who is leading the government-commissioned children’s social care review. Government examining how councils can take more social work students.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Campaigners have accused the government of undermining practitioners’ knowledge and experience with its proposals to tighten age assessments for unaccompanied young people claiming asylum. Story updated 3 November 2021.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
In its latest adoption strategy , published in July, the government said it wanted to cut waits for children with a placement order to less than 18 months, saying it was “unacceptable” that 1,000 children were waiting longer than this.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Councils piloting the cap on care costs have paused their work after the government announced a two-year delay to the policy. These had been due to start last month, but were paused when it was first rumoured that the government would delay the reforms.
Community Care
JANUARY 7, 2022
Councils will need to recruit more adults’ social workers to deal with hundreds of thousands more assessments and reviews per year on the back of care funding reforms, the government has confirmed.
Community Care
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Wales remains the only UK nation not to have commissioned a review of its children’s social care services, after the Welsh Government resisted calls to do so following the inquiry into Logan Mwangi’s murder.
Community Care
APRIL 28, 2022
The UK government must fully fund the introduction of a £10.50-an-hour minimum wage for adult social care care workers in England, its migration advisers have urged. Government to consider recommendations. “We
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… .
Community Care
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
The government’s care funding reforms will do very little for those with longstanding needs and modest wealth, following changes that reduce their benefit for the less well-off.
Community Care
JANUARY 27, 2022
Social work caseloads will be explicitly addressed in a government-commissioned independent review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland, launched last week. The UK government has said MacAlister cannot assume additional government funding to implement his recommendations.
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 also overturned a Lords vote to bring forward the implementation of the cap to April 2023, in order to maintain its planned October 2023 start date.
Community Care
OCTOBER 25, 2021
English councils need £2.7bn more in funding for children social care by 2024-25, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned, ahead of the government’s spending review this week.
Community Care
JANUARY 28, 2022
The government should be responsible for ensuring there are enough secure placements for looked-after children to address the current shortage, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
People with less wealth and in poorer regions will have significantly reduced protection against “catastrophic” care costs due to a government change to the way the cap on care costs will work, an analysis has found.
Community Care
JANUARY 7, 2022
The Scottish and Welsh governments are seeking an urgent meeting with the Home Office to raise concerns over its now-mandatory requirement for UK councils to take unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
Community Care
OCTOBER 29, 2021
The government will assess the percentage of agency social workers in the children’s services workforce as a measurement of how successful its latest spending review has been. Cafcass asks government to fund agency social worker recruitment as staff reach ‘breaking point’.
Community Care
JANUARY 26, 2022
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.
Community Care
APRIL 12, 2022
People who take Ukrainian refugees into their homes should not have the money they receive for doing so counted for the purposes of care charges, the government has said.
The Guardian
DECEMBER 4, 2021
Local government Politics Society Rishi Sunak Michael Gove Tax and spending Council tax Social care Business UK newsAfter years of austerity followed by Covid, local authorities are millions short on budgets. What has happened to ‘levelling up?’
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