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Devolved governments raise funding concerns about UK policy compelling councils to take asylum-seeking children

Community Care

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. A Scottish rota already ensures the most appropriate local authorities offer placements and that Home Office targets are met.

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Caseload limits proposed to ease burnout and support effective social work

Community Care

The report, commissioned by leadership body Social Work Scotland, said such limits could empower practitioners to support people more effectively, against a backdrop of rising workloads and burnout. How proposed caseload limits were reached.

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Technology Disruption Readiness Plan: A Best Practice for the Social Work Classroom

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Your institution may already offer guidance or have policies established – please check with your administrators, online learning specialists, and offices of disability services. Provide a list of institutional supports. Include non-academic supports as well, such as the campus food pantry and student health services.

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Five Steps to Planning your Social Work Program’s Self-Study: CSWE Accreditation

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Editor’s note: Melissa Freedman, MSW, is a social work educator and consultant specializing in leadership, supervision, administration, and quality management and assurance. In doing this, I encourage you to consider who else may have the skills and/or experience to effectively provide support.

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Councils to be able to exceed agency social work price caps under planned locum rules

Community Care

Rules designed to reduce use of agency staff The draft statutory guidance sets out how the DfE intends to implement the rules, which are designed to reduce councils’ reliance on agency staff, cut costs, improve workforce stability and enhance continuity of support for children and families. As of September 2022, 17.6% a year earlier.

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Cap on care costs: significant risks around plan to deliver delayed reform by 2025, says watchdog

Community Care

The National Audit Office (NAO) said work needed to start soon, backed by more resource, to deliver the cap and a more generous means-test for care by the revised target date, two years later than originally planned. Their needs would then be reviewed annually. To address this, the DHSC had planned to invest in new routes into social work.

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Is this guy the most helpless “child welfare” leader in America? His own comments suggest the answer is yes.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

New York City Administration for Children's Services Commissioner Jess Dannhauser Poor Jess Dannhauser. If a call about a New York City child is accepted by the state, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required by state law to respond to allegations and assess the safety of the child. Laws can be amended.