Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2024

Champions of asylum-seeking children and anti-racist practice, respectively, were among social workers recognised in the New Year Honours. Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Lyn Romeo will step down as England’s chief social worker for adults in January after just over a decade in the post. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said Romeo was taking retirement.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A record 100,495 social workers in England have renewed their registration with the regulator this year. Social Work England said 97.3% This is the highest proportion recorded in the four renewal rounds since it took over the regulation of social workers in England in December 2019. of those eligible to renew.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Joanne* recently completed the consolidation programme , a mandatory learning and development qualification for newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) in Wales. “It All social workers who qualified in Wales on or after 1 April 2016 must complete the programme during their first three-year registration period.

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Community Care

MARCH 20, 2024

Most social workers have seen an increase in the number of experienced colleagues quitting their jobs in the past year, according to the British Association of Social Workers’ (BASW) annual survey. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Community Care

APRIL 26, 2024

The government has readvertised the chief social worker for adults position at a higher salary , six months after it started recruiting for a successor to Lyn Romeo. Having qualifications that meet the requirements to register as a social worker with Social Work England.

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Community Care

JULY 3, 2024

A council found by an employment tribunal to have racially discriminated against a social worker has lodged a second challenge to the decision after losing its initial appeal. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

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Save the Social Worker

OCTOBER 9, 2022

This sounds like the most politically incorrect thing you can say as a social worker. How can you not care as a social worker? How can you call yourself a social worker? I can’t be a social worker anymore. 5 months later, on 5 October 2021, I left as a social worker.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

A national support programme for the growing number of overseas social workers in the UK should be “seriously considered”, the British Association of Social Workers has said. BASW made the call after launching its own professional development scheme for new international recruits to UK social work.

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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

MAY 8, 2024

Hundreds of social workers in England are being “left in limbo”, often unable to work, because of long and increasing delays in fitness to practise (FTP) cases. Information that could clear the social worker was “not considered or overlooked” even when drawn to the attention of investigators, the bodies added.

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Community Care

MAY 9, 2024

Social workers and managers from 22 organisations are to help develop and test resources designed to cut workloads among children’s practitioners.

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Community Care

JUNE 25, 2024

Mental health social workers pose the greatest recruitment and retention challenge for adults’ services, a survey of councils has found. The LGA reported that: 87% of councils had found it very or fairly difficult to recruit mental health social workers over the previous three years: 60% very difficult and 27% fairly difficult.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Fast-track programme Think Ahead will train 320 more mental health social workers after the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) extended its contract up to 2027. A quarter of NHS mental health social workers were men, as of 2022. And that applies equally to people working with social workers.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Councils have been urged to join a project to help curb the workloads of social workers in local authority children’s services departments. Fifteen authorities will scrutinise and test ideas and resources to tackle unnecessary burdens on practitioners in order to enable them to spend more time with children and families.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The government has started its quest for a new chief social worker for adults, after Lyn Romeo announced her retirement after a decade in post. Qualifications that meet the requirements to register as a social worker with Social Work England. Experience of working in or with central government.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social workers have spoken out about feeling ignored and undervalued by employers. At Brighton & Hove City Council, the strike was described as a “last resort” , following a two-year campaign for adults’ social workers to be given a 12.5% supplement – as received by their counterparts in children’s services.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Pay is now the top motivator for social workers to change jobs, Community Care’s annual jobseeker survey has found. The jobseeker survey is the only annual piece of research into social worker job seeking behaviour. Three-quarters of respondents worked for councils, with 89% being qualified social workers.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Social worker shortages are making an already challenging job ‘unsustainable’ for some practitioners, Ofsted has warned in its annual report, published today. of full-time equivalent local authority and children’s trust social workers left the statutory sector altogether in the year to September 2021, up from 7.2%

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

Chief social worker for adults Lyn Romeo and principal social workers have issued guidance on carrying out proportionate assessments under the Care Act 2014. The latter point prompted criticism from the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) England, which warned that it risked diluting the social work role.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Specialist social workers will be appointed to lead child protection cases while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers, the government has said in its response to the care review.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Local authorities’ use of agency social workers in adults’ services rose by a quarter from September 2022 to September 2023, official figures have shown. Councils employed about 1,900 locum adult social workers in September 2023, compared with around 1,500 a year earlier, according to Skills for Care figures.

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Community Care

MAY 15, 2024

Social workers are doing more with less, seeing increased need and weighed down by administrative work, a survey of just over 7,000 practitioners has found. There was also a decline – from 75 to 72 – in the average score for whether social workers did not intend to leave their employer over the next 12 months.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Councils will be able use a £15m international recruitment fund to source social workers from overseas to work in adults’ services, the government has confirmed. It said most had come from social workers from South Africa, Zimbabwe and India.

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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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Council leaders have offered social workers and other care staff in England and Wales a £1,925 pay rise for 2023-24, matching last year’s increase but well below unions’ claim. pay rise for council social workers What pay rises have social workers received in 2022-23? Offer worth up to 6.4%

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Community Care

JUNE 22, 2023

By Nicole Weinstein Independent and agency social workers are more satisfied at work on average than permanently employed staff, a survey of almost 8,000 practitioners working in statutory services has found. These findings on workloads and support were reflected more starkly in responses to the questions on workplace experience.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2024

Social workers are significantly less likely to have high morale or to recommend the profession to friends or family than in 2020, research released this week has found. This rose to 72% among current and former children’s social workers, compared with 55% of current or former adult practitioners.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

The government will give councils funding to train more staff as social workers in adults’ services through apprenticeships. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will give councils and adult social care providers just over £20m between them to fund social work and nursing apprenticeships in 2024-25.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Adult social worker numbers in local authorities hit a record high last year, official figures show. English councils increased their headcount of adult social workers, including agency staff, from 17,300 to 18,500 in the year to September 2023, a 7% boost, according to annual statistics released this week by Skills for Care.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

Community Care’s Choose Social Work campaign aims to counteract the negative media coverage of the profession, and show the brilliant work social workers do every day. If anyone knows the impact that negative media coverage has on social workers, that person is Sharon Shoesmith. Why are social workers blamed?

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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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