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Community Care
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Councils would be able to exceed regionally agreed agency social work price caps under proposed statutory guidance issued by the Department for Education. full-time equivalent children’s services social work posts were held by a locum, up from 15.5% As of September 2022, 17.6% a year earlier.
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
JULY 5, 2023
No agency social workers are left practising in Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts , says the region’s Department of Health (DoH). High quality social work services require stable and consistent social work teams, in which social workers feel valued.
Community Care
MARCH 15, 2024
Non-statutory placements make up over half of practice learning provision for social work students in Scotland, leaving some graduates underprepared for practice, research has revealed. At least 160 days of this must be spent in supervised practice in service delivery settings and this element must be assessed.
Social Worker Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2017
I know that I moaned when I was employed about how much I felt I was loosing each month to my pension. Little did I know that when I became an agency social worker it would involve a lot more research. Please note that by no means am I an expert with pensions but this […]
Community Care
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The Department for Education (DfE) has backed a care review proposal for a five-year early career framework (ECF) for the development of children’s social workers, but rejected its call to introduce national pay scales to recognise progress. “We do not intend to create new DfE-led pay scales. .
Community Care
MARCH 15, 2023
However, social care leaders have criticised the lack of funding for core services for the coming years, while the statement also did not provide further detail about public sector pay settlements for 2023-24. All the figures will be uprated each year in line with the government’s consumer prices index measure of inflation.
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