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@hscwru
10 months ago
RT @policyjo: 🚨There's still time to register for Thursday's seminar! 🩺We'll hear from @lgoodbu and Jake Murkin about the new #NHS care pa…
External news
1 year ago

Cafcass staff may be balloted on industrial action amid absence of pay offer, says union boss

Cafcass staff may be balloted on industrial action if the ongoing absence of a pay offer for - persists or they are presented with too low an increase a union chief has warned...
@CareReviewWatch
10 months ago
RT @JoeEHanley: Very excited to be part of this upcoming (OpenAccess) book "Teacher Education in Crisis" edited by @viv_ellis Our chapter…
External news
1 year ago

Specialist placements needed to reform a care system not working for teenagers, finds review

The government must invest in specialist placements to reform a care system not working for vulnerable teenagers and protect them from exploitation That was a key message from a -month review into preventing vulnerable young people from being drawn into...
@nasw
10 months ago
National Survey from Ipsos finds 80 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Social Workers Learn more:… https://t.co/iqVGowhJdk
External news
1 year ago

Three-quarters of large councils planning to tighten eligibility for adult social care, finds survey

Almost three-quarters of England's biggest councils plan to tighten eligibility for adult social care over the next two years due to high inflation and mounting demand a survey has found Over half of County Councils Network members also...
@AoCPPtweet
10 months ago
The latest issue of our journal, @Child_Abuse_Rev, is now available to read. Edited by Professor @BhattiKish and D… https://t.co/qy8XD3O8aN
External news
1 year ago

Removing children’s services from council ‘would distract from improvement’, adviser tells DfE

Removing a council's 'inadequate' children's services would distract from its improvement and its new leadership team should be given the chance to make progress the government has been advised Sefton's Department for Education-appointed commissioner Paul Moffat has recommended that the...
@bycLIVE
10 months ago
The brand new Sustainable Futures Youth Advisory Group had a brilliant day meeting for the first time in person! Th… https://t.co/3PTIp1sFfS
External news
1 year ago

Two-year delay to cap on care costs on cards, amid fears reform will be dropped altogether

Story updated The government will delay the introduction of the cap on care costs for two years in chancellor Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement next week The Times has reported The measure is designed to contribute to government plans to make...
@actnforchildren
10 months ago
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CSWM news
1 year ago

Wakefield Council wins double at the national Social Worker of the Year Awards

Wakefield Council has won two awards at the national Social Worker of the Year Awards
@The_HCPC
10 months ago
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CSWM news
1 year ago

Hull wins digital transformation in social work award

The award highlights Hull’s young people-led work on listening to children who are looked after, and responding to their voices and priorities creatively, using digital technology.
@PauseOrg
10 months ago
RT @Agenda_alliance: NEW: Our final #TransformingServices report with @ChangingLives__ shows the cost of women with multiple unmet needs be…
External news
1 year ago

Councils unable to safeguard children subject to immigration control, finds study

Councils in England are failing to protect children subject to immigration control including by rarely recognising their poverty as a safeguarding issue a study has found In many of the serious case reviews SCRs analysed practitioners did not understand...
@Ofstednews
10 months ago
RT @hmpps: Prisoners who take any form of learning activity have a significantly lower re-offending rate on release from prison. That’s wh…
External news
1 year ago

‘Five things we can learn from the voices of 10,000 children in care’

By Linda Briheim-Crookall Coram Voice For almost a decade our Bright Spots programme in partnership with The Rees Centre at the University of Oxford has worked with children and young people in care to explore what they feel makes life...
@YorkSCP
10 months ago
Safeguarding is Everyone's Business. Got a concern about a child? Don't ignore it, report it. Multi-agency Safegu… https://t.co/ZbW8ACWsx6
External news
1 year ago

Chief social worker pays tribute to fellow practitioners after one suffers serious injury in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland's chief social worker has paid tribute to fellow practitioners after one was seriously injured in the line of duty last week Aine Morrison made the comments following an incident in Dungannon County Tyrone last Thursday November after...