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Five million people in England and Wales are unpaid carers, census shows

The Guardian

give more than 50 hours a week, as care system struggles with rising demand Five million people – including children as young as five – provide unpaid care to people with long-term health conditions or problems related to old age, census data for England and Wales has revealed. Figures show 1.5m of the population to 4.7%.

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Quality of social workers ‘higher than ever’, says ADCS president

Community Care

According to figures from the government’s children in need census last year , referrals to children’s social care and child protection plans fell sharply and the number of children in need also fell, from 2020-21, during the first year of coronavirus restrictions in the country.

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ADASS president: ‘If you see black women in leadership, you believe you can achieve that too’

Community Care

“If I was being flippant, I would say I hate commuting,” she jokes before referring to the “vibrancy and diversity of the community”, 43% of which is non-white, according to the 2021 census. Tarka referred to the formative nature of this experience in her presidential speech at the spring seminar.

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Carers Week 2023: crunching the numbers.

Social Care

The YouGov research, using a poll of 4,000 adults across the UK, found 50 percent of the population has had some sort of experience of providing unpaid care, either now (20 percent of the population) or in the past (30 percent). We asked how long it took people to identify as a carer and anything they missed out on as a result of delay.

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Social Work Recap: soaring vacancies, social care users left in debt and Shamima Begum

Community Care

ShamimaBegum — Rob Mitchell (@RobMitch92) February 22, 2023 Social worker Rob Mitchell has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Shamima Begum’s battle to regain her UK citizenship, which suffered a setback this week when she lost an appeal against the decision. Every other single decision should flow from that premise.

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‘I’m one of the lucky ones, I’m financially OK’: welcome to ageing Britain, where pensioners outnumber children

The Guardian

Nearly one in five people in England and Wales are 65 or over – some are thriving, some struggling. How are we coping with the social, cultural and political change this brings? As an hour-long exercise class in Cromer’s parish hall culminates in a triumphant ribbon routine, irrepressible instructor Annamarie Sterne addresses the group.

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When and How Video Games Can Be Good

Society of Clinical Psychology

According to recent gaming census information, there are close to 2.3 Prior to taking up this position Aisling completed postdoctoral research positions in the University of Limerick and the University of Liverpool, UK. Indeed, video games reach a much wider population than the lonely male gamer of the vignette given above.