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. New training routes into social work pledged in adult care white paper. Related articles.

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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. However, they may come under pressure when the bill goes to the House of Lords. Age assessment board.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Champions of asylum-seeking children and anti-racist practice, respectively, were among social workers recognised in the New Year Honours. Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The government has started its quest for a new chief social worker for adults, after Lyn Romeo announced her retirement after a decade in post. A proven track record of operating successfully in a senior leadership role within social work, adult social care, or local government.

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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. In general, the direction of travel is going to continue.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Local authorities’ use of agency social workers in adults’ services rose by a quarter from September 2022 to September 2023, official figures have shown. Councils employed about 1,900 locum adult social workers in September 2023, compared with around 1,500 a year earlier, according to Skills for Care figures.

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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

JULY 19, 2023

The government is seeking a new chair for Social Work England , in the wake of Lord Patel’s resignation from the role in March. The chair’s role is to run Social Work England’s governing board, holding its chief executive, Colum Conway, to account for the regulator’s performance.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Councils will be able use a £15m international recruitment fund to source social workers from overseas to work in adults’ services, the government has confirmed. It said most had come from social workers from South Africa, Zimbabwe and India.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

pay rise for council social workers and other local authority staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for 2023-24. to local authority social workers, a better deal than those accorded to NHS practitioners in England and Wales and Cafcass family court advisers (FCA). Unions are seeking a 12.7%

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2022

Local government unions have called for an 11% pay rise for social workers and other council staff in response to the mounting cost of living. Employers and the government need to invest properly in the local government and school workforce to ensure the important services on which everyone relies are fit for the future.”.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Jeremy Hunt has scrapped plans to abolish the IR35 rules for agency social workers and other public sector staff working off payroll. The 2017 reforms were designed to tackle what the government described as “widespread non-compliance” with IR35. However, Hunt’s announcement means it will no longer go ahead.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Council leaders have offered social workers and other care staff in England and Wales a £1,925 pay rise for 2023-24, matching last year’s increase but well below unions’ claim. pay rise for council social workers What pay rises have social workers received in 2022-23? Offer worth up to 6.4%

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Pay is now the top motivator for social workers to change jobs, Community Care’s annual jobseeker survey has found. The jobseeker survey is the only annual piece of research into social worker job seeking behaviour. Three-quarters of respondents worked for councils, with 89% being qualified social workers.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The government should find £500,000 to help 200 former practitioners return to social work in its forthcoming autumn statement, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. 6,760 posts were held by agency workers, as of September 2022, up 13% on the previous year.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Specialist social workers will be appointed to lead child protection cases while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers, the government has said in its response to the care review.

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Community Care

JANUARY 11, 2024

The government will give councils funding to train more staff as social workers in adults’ services through apprenticeships. 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.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

UNISON members have voted to back councils’ offer of a £1,925 pay rise for local authority social workers this year. The union – which represents an estimated 40,000 social workers – announced the move on Twitter earlier today. in favour of the offer. Real-terms pay cut.

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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.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Adult social worker numbers in local authorities hit a record high last year, official figures show. English councils increased their headcount of adult social workers, including agency staff, from 17,300 to 18,500 in the year to September 2023, a 7% boost, according to annual statistics released this week by Skills for Care.

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Community Care

MAY 30, 2023

UNISON is calling on social workers and other council staff in England and Wales to back strikes after opening its industrial action ballot on this year’s council pay offer. A yes vote could lead to walkouts by the union – which represents an estimated 40,000 social workers across the UK – this summer.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2022

Home Office guidance for social workers assessing the age of young people arriving in Kent is unlawful, the High Court has ruled. These included not having an appropriate adult present or having the opportunity to know why their claimed age was being disputed by the social workers and to explain any inconsistencies in their account.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Agency social worker pay in would be capped to the equivalent earned by permanent staff under government plans to reduce the use and cost of locums in statutory children’s services. ” “However, overreliance on agency social work resource has led to workforce instability, churn and high costs,” it said.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The local government pay dispute for England, Wales and Northern Ireland remains unresolved following a meeting between the three unions last week. The pay settlement covers the majority of councils across the three countries – those that are covered by the National Joint Council for Local Government Services (NJC).

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Council social workers are receiving a 1.75% pay increase this month, back paid from April last year, after unions agreed a deal with employers. The rise constitutes a real-terms pay cut with the government’s preferred measure of inflation – the consumer prices index – having risen from 1.5% in April last year to 5.5%

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JANUARY 20, 2023

Most English councils are struggling to recruit and retain social workers, with finding and keeping children’s practitioners the biggest challenge across the workforce. 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

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.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Adults’ services in England will need more social workers over the next two years to implement the government’s social care reforms, the chief social worker has said. This compares with a headcount of 33,966 social workers employed by councils or children’s trusts as of September 2020.

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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.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

The British Association of Social Workers England has warned of the risks of diluting the social worker role after the government unveiled plans for more assessments to be carried out by non-social work qualified staff. At the same time, the vacancy rate for council adult social workers rose from 9.5%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Pre-court meetings between children’s social workers and Cafcass guardians have the potential to improve the care proceedings process, a pilot study has concluded. Attend to understand what the courts expect from social workers and your priorities and responsibilities at each stage of the PLO, including through pre-proceedings.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services. This included initiatives such as the use of social work academies to develop staff, with training days backfilled and caseloads capped. of the workforce.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 19, 2023

UNISON has announced a fresh round of strikes after its members overwhelmingly rejected an improved pay offer for local government staff in Scotland. A social worker earning £33,531 (spinal point 55) would receive an extra £2,199 (6.56%). A practitioner earning £38,586 (spinal point 65) would receive an extra £2,334 (6.05%).

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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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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

The purpose of this article is two fold: To share about the world of FSC social work, and what you should be mindful of before you join To help you assess whether this is something for you When people asked me where I worked at, I used to describe the FSC as a GP (general practitioner) for social services. Who fits this kind of work?

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2023

The government has dropped a pledge to invest in new social work training routes as part of a halving of committed spending on developing the adult social care workforce. However, in November last year, the government announced a two-year delay to the reforms, recycling £3.2bn to help councils meet current pressures.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Average pay for adult social workers is 57% higher in local authorities than in the independent sector, official data has revealed. The hourly pay gap was higher for social workers than for any other job role in adult social care, showed Skills for Care’s annual state of the adult social care sector and workforce report.

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