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Government readvertises chief social worker post at higher salary

Community Care

Having a proven track record of operating successfully in a senior leadership role within social work, adult social care or local government. A DHSC spokesperson said: “Our chief social worker recruitment campaign remains open until 20 May, and we will be announcing an appointment to this role in due course.”

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Ex-Post Office executive says she does not recall email telling her Horizon terminals could be remotely accessed – UK politics live

The Guardian

Angela van den Bogerd says she forgot about email in 2010 saying cash balances in post office operators’ accounts could be remotely accessed Humza Yousaf, the SNP leader and Scottish first minister, is holding a press conference now. We are, of course, the only part of the UK to avoid strike action in NHS.

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Rising children’s social care costs deepening councils’ financial woes, finds study

Community Care

Despite authorities budgeting to spend 11% more in real terms on children’s social care in 2023-24 than 2022-23, they are on course for a significant overspend on their financial plans, said the County Councils Network (CCN).

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Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

Community Care

At the same time, the Local Government Association released research showing authorities as a whole were on course to exceed their approximately £4.7bn care placement budgets by £680m (14%), following a similar overspend last year. of the total in 2018-19 to 1.6% in 2022-23.

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Social Work England finds broad support for proposed expectations of new graduates

Community Care

Following a consultation , the regulator will now move ahead with plans to assess social work course providers against a set of statements of their students’ readiness for professional practice, from 2024. Social Work England’s education and training standards , against which it assesses social work courses providers.

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

Community Care

The Home Office has not met Scottish and Welsh government representatives since receiving the letter nor sent a response, with a spokesperson saying it it would respond to the devolved governments’ requests “in due course”. We will keep its operation under review.”. Needless bureaucracy’. Concentration of children at port authorities.

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Council at risk of losing control of children’s services as DfE sends in commissioner

Community Care

In the light of Ofsted rating Sefton inadequate across the board, the DfE’s direction said: “There is a presumption in cases of persistent or systemic failure that children’s social care services will be removed from local authority control in order to bring about sustainable improvement, unless there are compelling reasons not to do so.”