Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

3,600 more social workers on register As a result, England starts the new registration year with 3,609 more registered social workers than last year, when 96,886 renewed. Overall, there was a significant year-on-year drop in the number of people removed from the register for failing to renew, from 3,740 to 2,256, which was 2.2%

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Community Care

MARCH 5, 2024

Register for the webinar now The webinar, which is on Tuesday 19 March from 12noon-1pm, will cover how to look after your wellbeing and manage secondary trauma, the feelings of hurt that result from exposure to others’ trauma. Register now for your free place at the webinar.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Social Work England recorded a 175% increase in the number of overseas applicants to register between 1 December 2019 to 30 November 2020 and the same period in 2021-22. Over the same period, the register as a whole grew by 1.5%. Over the same period, the register as a whole grew by 1.5%.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

However, it is in line with previous years, which have seen 4,000 to 6,000 people leave the register annually. It is illegal to practise in England using the protected title of social worker unless you are registered. It is currently updating the public register, but this will take a few days. Related articles.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A similar scheme in 2020-21, providing training to formerly registered social workers, saw 133 practitioners return to the register, with 79 having been offered a job, found a government evaluation published in 2022.

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Community Care

JANUARY 4, 2022

With staff absences within public services a mounting concern since the rapid rise of the Omicron variant, children’s minister Will Quince urged practitioners on Social Work England’s temporary register to contact their council’s children’s services department or sign up with a local agency. Temporary register set to close.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Qualified social workers who have been out of practice for at least two years will face minimum learning requirements if they want to rejoin the register in Scotland. Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has launched a consultation on introducing return to practice requirements similar to those in England and Wales.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Course providers, meanwhile, reported that practice educators’ lack of workload relief meant that students were commonly used as “an extra pair of hands”, resulting in some feeling “broken” before they even registered as social workers. Fair and consistent remuneration for practice educators.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption support agencies. The DfE said there were currently providers working under contract who did not register, as required, which was unsatisfactory.

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Community Care

APRIL 10, 2024

Employers, who must be registered with the adult social care workforce data set to access funding , will be able to claim reimbursements through an online claims service, run by the NHS Business Services Authority and launched this summer.

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Community Care

MARCH 13, 2023

While 611 practitioners from abroad applied to register in England from 1 December 2019 to 30 November 2020, 1,684 did in the 2021-22 registration year, the regulator said in its State of the nation 2023 report , published last week. This was reflected in the composition of the registered population by nationality.

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The Guardian

APRIL 13, 2024

Observer investigation finds that private companies made £105m despite not being registered with Ofsted Hundreds of extremely vulnerable school-age children in England are being sent to illegal, unregulated homes every year because of a chronic shortage of places in secure local authority units. Continue reading.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Currently unregulated services for 16- and 17-year-old children in care and care leavers would be inspected a third as often as children’s homes, once requirements for them to register with Ofsted come into force next year, under government plans. No requirement for management qualification. The consultation runs until 16 January 2023.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This means those who fail to do so will be removed from the register. Social workers do not need to renew if they joined the register after 1 September this year or have applied for voluntary removal. Full guidance on renewing registration is available on the Social Work England website.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

Having qualifications that meet the requirements to register as a social worker with Social Work England. Having significant knowledge and experience of national policy development and implementation and, ideally, working in or with central government.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

“Social workers must apply to renew their registration before 30 November 2023, or risk being removed from the register. While the 101,217 practitioners who were on the register before the renewal period started on 1 September must complete all three steps, the 2,419 who have joined since need only pay the registration fee.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

All social workers who want to continue in practice must renew by midnight on 30 November (next Wednesday) or be removed from the register. Social workers who joined the register after 1 September this year still need to renew and pay the annual £90 fee but do not need to complete the application form or meet CPD requirements.

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Community Care

JUNE 28, 2023

rise in the number of overseas applications to register in England from 2019-20 to 2021-22, the British Association of Social Workers’ Diaspora Social Work Special Interest Group has produced the standards to improve recruitment and induction. In the wake of a 175.3%

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Applicants must be qualified social workers – though need not be currently registered – and be able to provide a “frontline perspective on policymaking” – though most of the essential criteria for the role concern leadership and policy experience and expertise (see box).

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Community Care

MAY 26, 2023

of social workers on the register. The 46 social workers will all have their CPD reviewed again following the next renewal round later this year, should they wish to stay on the register. That was the message from Social Work England after the annual assessment of CPD submitted by a randomly selected sample of 2.5%

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

The study, from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel , came in response to “very serious abuse and neglect” of children – mainly autistic or with learning disabilities – at three residential special schools registered as children’s homes in Doncaster, from 2018-21.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Return to social work scheme ‘largely effective’ A GEO evaluation , published in March, found the programme had been “largely effective”, with 184 of the 199 starters completing the training and 133 returning to the register. How to return to social work in England.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Just over 1,000 social workers have been removed from the register despite paying the £90 fee and meeting continuing professional development (CPD) requirements in this year’s renewal round. To return to practice, they must apply for restoration to the register , which costs £135. 135 fee to return to practice.

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Community Care

MAY 11, 2022

Providers welcomed the increase, which came as Skills for Care figures revealed that the vacancy rate for registered nurses working in adult social care had reached 18.5% , up 7.9 percentage points on March 2021. What is NHS-funded nursing care. This funding is vital to supporting their role in planning and providing care.”

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Community Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It is vital that providers register to ensure that our most vulnerable children are only being placed in suitable settings. That is why we recently published guidance to make the legal position absolutely clear.”

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Community Care

APRIL 8, 2022

Among roles, 18% of registered nursing posts were vacant, up 8.4 percentage points over the previous year, with registered manager vacancies at 13.4% Vacancies continue to be worst in the home care sector, reaching 13% last month, up from 12.8% in February and 7.6% in May 2021. and care workers 12.2%.

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Community Care

JULY 25, 2023

From 28 October 2023, councils will no longer be able to place 16- and 17-year-old looked-after children or care leavers in unregulated provision, with fully independent settings banned outright and providers of semi-independent services having to register these with Ofsted as “supported accommodation” to continue operating.

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Community Care

AUGUST 24, 2023

As part of this, she said authorities should explore all available options within foster care, supported accommodation and children’s home provision, including by encouraging providers to open homes that were registered with Ofsted, but not currently operating.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Call to reinstate national adoption register. The committee also called on the DfE to reinstate the national adoption register, which adoption agencies were previously required to refer unmatched children within 90 days of their adoption plan being approved.

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Community Care

MARCH 29, 2023

The FNC funds either the provision of care, or the planning, supervision or delegation of such care, by registered nurses in care homes. Standard funded nursing care (FNC) weekly payments will rise from £209.19 from 1 April, with the very few residents on the legacy higher rate seeing an increase in their payments from £287.78 to £302.25

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Community Care

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Overall, social workers expressed more dissatisfaction and lower morale than care staff and social care managers, who were also polled for the study, the first comprehensive survey of the registered workforce in Wales. of the registered population (6,157) – in an online survey, which ran from March to May 2023.

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2023

.” This was being exacerbated by higher rates of cases going to hearings – which determine whether a social worker’s fitness to practise is impaired and what, if any, sanction should follow – and hearings taking longer.

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Community Care

JULY 7, 2023

However, Social Work England said it could not ease requirements for students to have formally graduated from their courses before registering with the regulator. “Anyone wishing to practise as a social worker in England must be registered by law.” days of teaching on the subject.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As of last month, councils have been barred from placing young people in independent settings and must only use semi-independent provision registered with Ofsted as supported accommodation. However, councils have warned that the introduction of regulation may exacerbate the existing shortage of placements.

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The Guardian

APRIL 13, 2024

Harrowing court video hearings reveal plight of those unable to find a place in secure, registered accommodation The judge sitting in the family division of the high court can barely hide his concern and frustration as he listens to a barrister acting for Kent county council update him about the plight of a vulnerable 14-year-old girl in an unregistered, (..)

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Community Care

MARCH 15, 2024

While council-employed practice educators are registered with SSSC, by virtue of their social work roles, the report raised concerns about there being no requirement for self-employed independent practice educators to be so. “Thus, there are no CPD requirements or other regulatory processes in place,” said the study.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This included speeding up the development of a national practice framework for children’s services and asking the Care Inspectorate Wales to carry out a rapid review into structures and processes around decisions to add or remove a child from the country’s child protection register. Two months on child protection register.

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