Community Care
JANUARY 18, 2023
Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay.
Community Care
MARCH 2, 2023
The government will “strongly encourage” councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision, it said today. It confirmed its support for authorities appointing designated social care officers (DSCOs), in its improvement plan for SEND and alternative education provision (AP).
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Community Care
JANUARY 14, 2022
The Department for Education has scrapped its national assessment and accreditation scheme (NAAS) for children’s social workers. The DfE’s original plan was for all children’s social workers to be assessed by 2020, which it later revised to rolling out the scheme from that year following a series of trial phases.
Community Care
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Council social workers and care staff in Scotland will no longer have to pay registration fees after unions agreed a pay deal with employers. Council workers will also gain an extra day’s leave. Social workers to have registration fees paid. These are currently £80 a year for social workers.
Community Care
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Government intervention in children’s services must be sensitive to the ‘bruising’ impact on staff of working in an ‘inadequate’ authority, in order to succeed. Inadequate’ councils bore brunt of sharp rise in social workers quitting posts last year, analysis shows. Related articles.
Community Care
MARCH 25, 2022
Children’s social workers’ caseloads are bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. A third of social workers said their caseloads had increased “a lot” over the past year, while a further 36% said they had risen “slightly”.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Social worker pay at Cafcass will be “uncompetitive” in many places unless the government gives the family courts body more freedom to set salaries, its chief executive has warned. Social workers need at least three years’ post-qualifying experience to join Cafcass as an FCA. Pay freeze.
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