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‘Very bad’ employers exploiting overseas social care staff, warns government migration adviser

Community Care

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. .”

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The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. So the government called back Laming to review progress on child protection since his 2003 report.

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55,000 on waiting lists for child sexual abuse support services, estimates research

Community Care

The centre carried out a mapping exercise in 2022-23, identifying 468 specialist services for victims/survivors and their families in England and Wales, and then interviewed representatives from 168 of these, on which its findings were based.

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Systems for challenging adult social care decisions failing, warns regulator

Community Care

There is no requirement for an independent stage to the complaints process, though people can refer their complaints to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) within 12 months of the relevant decision, after exhausting their council’s complaints process. The PSOW already has such a power.

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Age assessment demands on social workers must be reduced, says ADCS president

Community Care

Age assessments are generally the responsibility of the local authority in which the claimant first presents (known as a “spontaneous arrival”), or where they have been moved to under the government’s National Transfer Scheme (NTS), which is designed to relieve pressure on ports of entry, such as Kent.

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Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvement – study

Community Care

Councils that had made progress highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).

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No adult social care minister appointed six weeks into Truss premiership

Community Care

In an interview published this week with his constituency’s local paper, the Harborough Mail, O’Brien said he was honoured to have been appointed to the DHSC and commented on its priorities across health and social care. The DHSC appears to be an outlier among government departments in not having agreed ministerial portfolios.