Social work news
@barnardos
4 months ago
RT @lynnanneperry: I’m really pleased to see a cross governmental lead role for care leavers - this is exactly the sort of focussed intent…
External news
9 months ago
Adult social workers’ pay down over past decade amid hike in vacancies
Note There is a poll embedded within this post please visit the site to participate in this post's poll Average pay for council adults' social workers in England has fallen in real terms over the past decade annual workforce data...
@Ofstednews
4 months ago
RT @WandsworthCPD: Great turnout for session one of the Ofsted Early Years Curriculum Roadshow on the education inspection framework (EIF)…
External news
9 months ago
Social Work England to research profession’s recruitment and retention challenges
Social Work England is commissioning research into the profession's mounting recruitment and retention challenges particularly in councils It has issued a tender of up to for researchers to examine the key drivers of high vacancies and help it identify...
@childrensociety
4 months ago
Fatima is a care leaver who's campaigning for a council tax exemption for care leavers aged 18-25, reducing the lev… https://t.co/Hk2BYn6R8E
CSWM news
9 months ago
Do you have what it takes to ‘Step Up’ to social work?
The Step Up to Social Work programme is a unique opportunity to receive support while you are training to start a new career in social work
@actnforchildren
4 months ago
RT @EndChildPoverty: We have just watched @KimJohnsonMP give a passionate speech on the need to abolish the 2-child limit to benefit paymen…
External news
9 months ago
‘It’s about being creative, to make a difference to that child’
I came into this job to have really close contact with children and make things change -- it was a no-brainer Emma Hibberd is discussing her motivations for accepting the role of lead manager -- residential care at Hampshire County...
@childrensociety
4 months ago
"Once you fall through that net, there's not many people there to catch you," he says. The current care system just… https://t.co/veBLXMQmDd
External news
9 months ago
‘It’s about being creative, to make a difference to that child’
I came into this job to have really close contact with children and make things change -- it was a no-brainer Emma Hibberd is discussing her motivations for accepting the role of lead manager -- residential care at Hampshire County...
@childrensociety
4 months ago
EastEnders star #JoeSwash has spoken out about what care leavers have to face when they leave foster care. His moth… https://t.co/oB4994FuHB
External news
9 months ago
Does the DfE’s care review response address the pressures behind social workers leaving their jobs?
In its long-awaited response to the care review the Department for Education DfE highlighted the urgency of addressing social work's increasing workforce challenges Evidence points to a need to act now to attract higher numbers of people to join rejoin...
@actnforchildren
4 months ago
RT @AfC_Policy: 🔔 Urgent action is needed to address the impacts of the benefit cap on vulnerable families. We stand with @savechildrenuk i…
External news
9 months ago
‘There’s a real sense of family – everyone understands the pressures and supports each other’
In Jayne came to a crossroads in her social work career Having always worked in permanent roles during an almost two-decade career she decided to take an agency post I didn't know if I wanted to remain in social...
@actnforchildren
4 months ago
RT @IcelandCharity: Our Trustees @TarsemDhaliwal @pdhaliwal31 @icelandrichard with our NEW @IcelandCharity branded delivery vans!!☺️🚚
We're…
External news
9 months ago
Multiple and complex needs found in backgrounds of children deprived of liberty
The multiple and complex needs of children made the subject of deprivation of liberty DoL orders have been laid bare in an analysis published last week The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory Nuffield FJO found that children had on average...
@actnforchildren
4 months ago
@IcelandCharity @TarsemDhaliwal @pdhaliwal31 @icelandrichard @AlzResearchUK @ProstateUK @BrainAppeal @UKSepsisTrust @sascampaigns ❤️ this! 🤩
External news
9 months ago
Children’s Social Care Social Workers
https jobs communitycare co uk job children-s-social-care-social-workers...
@NSPCCLearning
4 months ago
The Department for Education has published a policy paper on information sharing which explores the barriers and po… https://t.co/NTzTNdxU88
External news
9 months ago
Councils able to recruit overseas social workers through £15m fund
Councils will be able use a m international recruitment fund to source social workers from overseas to work in adults' services the government has confirmed The Department of Health and Social Care DHSC said that though the focus of the...