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3 years ago
MacAlister appointed to co-lead merged evidence body for social care and early intervention
Care review lead Josh MacAlister has been appointed to co-lead a new merged evidence body for children's social care and early intervention with children and families The ex-Frontline chief executive will become executive chair of the organisation merging What Works...
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3 years ago
Cap on care costs: government reportedly planning delay of a year
Council leaders have welcomed reports that the government will delay implementing its cap on care costs for a year but warned that the funding allocated to the reform should be retained by authorities The Times reported today behind paywall that...
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3 years ago
‘There is no fat left to trim’: social care leaders warn Jeremy Hunt against further rounds of cuts
Seeking further savings from social care after a decade of austerity is fanciful and deeply worrying sector leaders have warned after chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced government departments would need to deliver more efficiencies In his statement to Parliament yesterday --...
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3 years ago
Hunt U-turns on IR35 reform for agency social workers
Note There is a poll embedded within this post please visit the site to participate in this post's poll Jeremy Hunt has scrapped plans to abolish the IR rules for agency social workers and other public sector staff working off...
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3 years ago
Shifting the social work stigma
England's largest social work charity Frontline warns that negative news stories are having a detrimental effect on the public perception of social workers following new independent research...
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3 years ago
Social Worker (Localities)
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3 years ago
Service Manager – Children’s Support & Safeguarding Service
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3 years ago
‘Simplistic and optimistic’ approach to domestic abuse evident in serious cases, warns national panel
National safeguarding leaders have identified an overly simplistic and optimistic approach to domestic abuse and its impact on children in a study of serious cases Most practitioners used the term domestic abuse without understanding its nature and impact while there...
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3 years ago
Outsourcing of children’s home placements linked to poorer council Ofsted ratings, suggests study
Councils with a greater proportion of looked-after children placed in profit-making children's homes tend to receive worse Ofsted ratings research has found For every additional percentage point of for-profit children's home provision a council had lower odds of being...
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3 years ago
Delay cap on care costs by a year to tackle social work recruitment challenge, councils urge DHSC
The government must delay its adult social care funding reforms by a year in order to tackle the social work recruitment challenges they entail amid significant financial pressures That was the warning from a County Councils Network CCN report that...