World Social Work Day 2019 on the 19th March highlights ‘Promoting the Importance of Human Relationships’. World Social Work Day is the key day in the year that social workers worldwide stand together to celebrate the achievements of the profession. They take the theme message into their communities, workplaces and to their governments to raise […]
The latest social work news, updates, and events including what’s happening in the world of children’s social work.
A damning public accounts committee report says that the government needs to "get to grips" with the issues "struggling" councils are facing in supporting increasing numbers of looked-after children. ...
Latest analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) suggests council spending on children centres has fallen by £156.7m over the past four years.
While in 2014/15 councils were spending £637.3m...
As humans we can be quick to answer without always taking the time to consider the bigger picture. As a social worker, the questions we ask can encourage others to pause to think and look at life through the eyes of others, and this has the potential to make more of a difference than we often realise.
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The money will be used to meet a commitment, made by the government in December, to increase the number of newly-trained educational psychologists from 160 to 206 each year. The extra funding starts in...
The government's 2016 Childhood Obesity Plan proposed a healthy schools rating scheme to show how well schools are supporting children's health.
But nearly three years on and the scheme has yet to get...
The update is among a number of findings published in the National evaluation of the Troubled Families Programme 2015-2020, which also reports reduced numbers of juveniles receiving custodial sentences....
The advice for councils and partnership services is intended to help them make the most of resources amid increasing funding pressures and demand for children's services.
The Local Government Association...
Experiences of the Practice Supervisor Development Programme suggest that it is having a significant impact on how the participants are finding their feet and developing more secure footings in their new roles. In this blog, Gillian Ruch provides a facilitator's perspective of the programme so far.
The inspectorate has downgraded the department to "inadequate" for overall effectiveness, after finding a raft of child protection failures during an inspection in February.
Ofsted also rated leadership,...
The parents brought the case over the council's 2018/19 budget, which highlighted possible savings totalling £21m to its schools and special educational needs and disabilities funding.
They claim the...