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2 years ago
DfE proposes law change to improve adults’ access to adoption therapy
The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption...
External news
2 years ago
Care home discharge plan risks inappropriate placements and neglects causes of crisis – sector
Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals to care homes risk inappropriate placements and neglect the root causes of the acute pressures on the health service That was the warning from social care leaders today after the...
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
£200m for NHS to buy short-term care placements to speed up discharge
The government will give the NHS an extra m to buy short-term care placements to help relieve the pressures on its beleaguered emergency care system Integrated care boards ICBs will be able to use the money to buy beds in...
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2 years ago
Teaching Partnership Professors among Top 100 in the World
Yorkshire Urban and Rural Teaching Partnership would like to congratulate of our Social Work professors Following a recent global study on career impact in the profession two professors from University of Huddersfield have been recognised for their contributions to Social Work The study provides the first empirical picture of leading social work scholars from...
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2 years ago
‘Mixed picture’ on tackling racism on ASYE programmes, finds analysis
There is a mixed picture in relation to tackling racism on assessed and supported year in employment ASYE programmes the latest analysis of children's services schemes has found While there had been a general improvement in discourse around racial diversity...
External news
2 years ago
Putting Pathway 1 into practice
Recently we caught up with Donna a social worker based in Essex Donna has been a social worker since and during that time has maintained her passion for helping children and families upon hearing about the Pathways Programme she jumped at the chance to apply Find out about Donna's experience of the first Pathway residential below...
External news
2 years ago
Social care staff worst hit by long Covid, figures reveal
Social care staff have been worst hit by long Covid among occupational groups in the UK figures have revealed An estimated of sector staff reported long Covid symptoms in the four weeks up to December having first...
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2 years ago
Pause ‘disruptive’ National Care Service plan to tackle funding shortfalls, councils urge ministers
The Scottish Government must pause its 'disruptive' plans to remove social care from council control in order to shore up local authority services that face real-terms cuts in - That was the message this week from the Convention of Scottish...
External news
2 years ago
Social care leaders hailed in New Year Honours
Social care leaders from across local and central government and provider bodies have been recognised in the New Year Honours as the sector battles one of the toughest winters in many years Leaders of two of the main provider organisations...