Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay.

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APRIL 19, 2023

The government should set an expectation that frontline children’s social workers carry out face-to-face practice, in the light of concerns about the rise of remote working. “If a social worker is able to work remotely then the mandatory ‘cool off’ period will have little impact.

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Community Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Welsh councils must be legally required to set maximum manageable caseloads for their children’s social workers and to take all reasonable steps to maintain them. Social work caseloads ‘too high’ “Overwhelmingly, we heard that children’s services social workers’ caseloads are too high,” said the report.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

The British Association of Social Workers England has warned of the risks of diluting the social worker role after the government unveiled plans for more assessments to be carried out by non-social work qualified staff. At the same time, the vacancy rate for council adult social workers rose from 9.5%

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Community Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Advanced fostering practitioner Vivian Okeze-Tirado was working at home when she was crowned overall winner at this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards. Social Worker of the Year Awards winners unveiled. Better relationships with children’s social workers ‘key to tackling foster carer crisis’.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The government has pledged action to tackle “excessive” workload pressures on council children’s social workers as part of its response to the care review. a year earlier, according to an Association of Directors of Children’s Services survey.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Increasing numbers of children’s agency social workers are newly qualified, amid worsening staff shortages and rising demand, directors have warned. increase in referrals to children’s social care – in part, the result of the removal of lockdown restrictions – and a 9.6%

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Community Care

APRIL 12, 2023

Scottish services are losing experienced social workers, leaving newly qualified practitioners without support and putting the quality of services at risk. “SASW are pushing government to urgently act to ensure the workforce is better supported.”

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Community Care

MARCH 30, 2023

A scheme placing social workers in schools does not reduce children’s need for statutory social care services, one of the largest ever randomised controlled trials carried out in the sector has found. No impact on social care outcomes It found that the rate of section 47s was 5.5%

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2023

Frontline will face tougher targets on qualifying and retaining social workers after winning the right to continue delivering fast-track training for aspiring children’s practitioners in England. This is above the 85% target it is currently measured against, but in line with its performance in recent years.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Just over 4,000 social workers will no longer be able to in practise in England because they did not renew their registration this year, according to provisional figures. The number marks an increase on last year’s figure (2,869) and represents 4% of those who needed to renew, up from 3% in 2021, said Social Work England.

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Community Care

MARCH 16, 2023

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has urged its members, and other social workers, not to work for a new Home Office agency established to assess the ages of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

pay rise for council social workers and other local authority staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for 2023-24. to local authority social workers, a better deal than those accorded to NHS practitioners in England and Wales and Cafcass family court advisers (FCA). Unions are seeking a 12.7%

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Average pay for adult social workers is 57% higher in local authorities than in the independent sector, official data has revealed. The hourly pay gap was higher for social workers than for any other job role in adult social care, showed Skills for Care’s annual state of the adult social care sector and workforce report.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Department for Education (DfE) is drawing up a plan to address the use of agency social workers in England, according to a leading director. Crocker, who in July called for social work agencies to be regulated or banned outright , said that he “can’t announce what that is, but there’ll be something that comes out”.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2023

Recent Social Work England (SWE) figures showed that the number of international social workers applying to work in England had risen from 611 in the 2019-20 registration year to 1,684 in 2021-22 – a 175.3% The values of social workers I work with are second to none,” adds Armstrong.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

UNISON members have voted to back councils’ offer of a £1,925 pay rise for local authority social workers this year. The union – which represents an estimated 40,000 social workers – announced the move on Twitter earlier today. in favour of the offer. Real-terms pay cut.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Jeremy Hunt has scrapped plans to abolish the IR35 rules for agency social workers and other public sector staff working off payroll. The British Association of Social Workers and Association of Directors of Children’s Services responded cautiously to Kwarteng’s plan, saying they would await further details.

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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. These practitioners, roughly 1% of those who were expected to renew, are now unable to practise as social workers.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The number of frontline children’s social workers employed by English councils or children’s trusts has tumbled by 8% since 2020, official data shows. DfE workforce census 2022: key numbers 31,600 full-time equivalent (FTE) children’s social workers were in post in English councils as of September 2022.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2022

Home Office guidance for social workers assessing the age of young people arriving in Kent is unlawful, the High Court has ruled. These included not having an appropriate adult present or having the opportunity to know why their claimed age was being disputed by the social workers and to explain any inconsistencies in their account.

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Community Care

JANUARY 20, 2023

Most English councils are struggling to recruit and retain social workers, with finding and keeping children’s practitioners the biggest challenge across the workforce. One in six roles (16.7%) filled by agency social workers as of last June, up from 15.6%

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Community Care

JUNE 6, 2022

Local government unions have called for an 11% pay rise for social workers and other council staff in response to the mounting cost of living. ” Stagnation in social work pay. The pay claim follows longstanding stagnation in social work pay and deepening work pressures.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The number of children’s social workers quitting their posts annually has risen by 40% in five years, Department for Education figures have shown. Though the size of the workforce increased over that time, this was only by 11%, from 28,496 to 31,634 FTE social workers.

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Gary Direnfeld

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

What’s the difference between a psychologist, psychiatrist and a social worker? The social worker looks at the problem of the individual in a broader context, such as one’s relationship, family, community, society. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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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.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Council social workers are receiving a 1.75% pay increase this month, back paid from April last year, after unions agreed a deal with employers. million local authority employees – including social workers. Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving council roles, government figures show.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Looked-after children are being denied their right to a family because of councils’ lack of data on potential overseas placements and “stretched” social workers’ difficulties in exploring them, a charity has warned. Social workers ‘stretched beyond imagination’. Conducting international social work during Covid-19.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Social worker pay at Cafcass will be “uncompetitive” in many places unless the government gives the family courts body more freedom to set salaries, its chief executive has warned. Social workers need at least three years’ post-qualifying experience to join Cafcass as an FCA. Pay freeze. Unions had asked for a 3% rise.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Our findings (consistent over the last five years) indicate that agile working models in Scotland are failing to meet the needs of social workers.”

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Community Care

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Council social workers and care staff in Scotland will no longer have to pay registration fees after unions agreed a pay deal with employers. Council workers will also gain an extra day’s leave. Social workers to have registration fees paid. These are currently £80 a year for social workers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

There has been a sharp rise in the number of social workers sharing data on their protected characteristics with the regulator. Social Work England said the proportion of registrants sharing this data had reached 52% (52,431) as of 1 November, up from 8% at the end of July and 29% at the end of September. Related articles.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

Children’s social workers’ caseloads are bigger, more complex and harder to manage, taking a toll on their mental health and family life and leaving some contemplating quitting. A third of social workers said their caseloads had increased “a lot” over the past year, while a further 36% said they had risen “slightly”.

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Community Care

MARCH 29, 2023

The number of overseas social workers applying to work in England has almost tripled in the past three years, but are they getting the support they need to get settled? A Community Care poll, which amassed 565 responses, found that social workers were also concerned about the support in place.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The number of social workers leaving children’s posts in English councils or trusts has spiked to its highest point in at least five years, according to Department for Education figures. The number of FTE agency workers increased by 3% on the year to 5,977, a fourth consecutive annual rise.

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Community Care

MARCH 24, 2023

Social workers are seeing more poverty and greater need for their support on the back of the cost of living crisis, with some resorting to supporting people from their own resources. of FTE children’s services posts were held by agency workers, up from 15.5% At the same time, 17.6% as of September 2021. a year earlier.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Just over 5% of social workers have met continuing professional development registration requirements as the three-month renewal period opens. Social Work England said 5,478 practitioners had submitted two pieces of CPD, detailing learning from reflecting on one of the pieces with a peer, equivalent to 5.5% No CPD grace period.

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