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Arthur and Star cases show need for expert child protection units, finds review

Community Care

That was the verdict today from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s inquiry into the lessons from the killings of six-year-old Arthur and 16-month-old Star, in each case at the hands of the partner of one of their parents, with those parents’ complicity. ” Directors cautious on specialist units. .

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Pay now top motivator for social workers to change jobs

Community Care

While pay was also the most compelling reason to move for respondents to our 2021 survey, a bigger proportion (55%) selected it in 2023 than in previous rounds of the research. Find out more The full report has been made available to Community Care Jobs partners, with whom we work to solve their recruitment and retention challenges.

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‘Insufficient social workers to meet need’ in town where Arthur Labinjo-Hughes died, probe finds

Community Care

It said the number of health and police partners in Solihull’s MASH also remained “insufficient” to deal with demand, fuelling “drift and delay” in decision-making to reduce risk for children. The LSCP partners completed a rapid review [following Arthur’s murder] in July 2020,” it said. Police told to improve information system.

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Skills for Care to develop social care workforce strategy

Community Care

“We can’t simply recruit our way out of our retention challenges. To further bolster the workforce this week we launched the next phase of our Made With Care recruitment campaign – designed to reach millions of people via video on demand, radio and digital channels – and the average pay for care workers has also increased.”

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Lower caseloads – not expert units or staff – best way to improve safeguarding, say social workers

Community Care

The care review’s proposal to ring-fence child protection work for expert social workers gained just 5%, a similar proportion to the other three options given: improving multi-agency working without specialist units, improving practice within partner agencies and improving social workers’ training and supervision. Sir Alan Wood.

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National social work terms and conditions needed to tackle ‘recruitment crisis’ – SASW

Community Care

Our asks are not a simple answer to the crisis the profession is in, but we believe that without addressing these basic factors, it will be impossible to steer social work into a stable and sustainable future.”

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Council cedes control of children’s services

Community Care

It also comes after the authority and its safeguarding partners admitted failings in their handling of the Star Hobson case, in December last year, after Star’s mother’s partner was found guilty of murdering the 16-month-old girl. Star Hobson: Safeguarding partnership regrets failure to act after toddler killed by mother’s partner.