Community Care

AUGUST 30, 2023

It has launched the consultation in the wake of the government’s decision in April to delay introducing the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) – its planned replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) – beyond the next election, due in 2024.

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Community Care

JUNE 1, 2023

Children will not get the protection they deserve from the government’s response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), its chair has warned. The government said it would introduce a redress scheme following “extensive engagement” on the nature of the scheme, though without setting a timeframe for this.

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Community Care

JANUARY 14, 2022

We also know that retaining enough experienced social workers is a big challenge and ADCS urges the government to use this opportunity to develop a national recruitment and retention strategy to encourage more people into the profession, and crucially to want to stay. We look forward to working with the department in the coming months.”.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Dedicated funding for adult social care in England will rise by just over £1bn next year, according to government plans. The funding was set out in a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) policy statement on the local government finance settlement for 2025-26 , published last week.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The government is not expecting a significant rise in social care referrals from introducing a duty on professionals to report child sexual abuse. The Home Office consultation runs until 30 November 2023. However, these differ in significant respects from those put forward by IICSA. To respond, complete this online questionnaire.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The government will create a register of children who are not in school following longstanding safeguarding concerns around home education. The decision, following a consultation carried out in 2019, comes amid evidence of increasing numbers of children being educated at home.

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Community Care

JUNE 25, 2023

By Nicole Weinstein The government has sought to address “confusion” among practitioners that is preventing them from sharing information to safeguard children at risk. The DfE will update the information sharing advice on the back of the consultation, which ends on 6 September.

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Community Care

APRIL 30, 2024

The government has proposed overhauling a key disability benefit in the face of its “spiralling” caseload and costs, in a move labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” by charities. to 2.8m (29%). But after years of dire cuts and reforms, it has been torn apart.”

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The government pledged to increase the social care grant – which is ring-fenced for adults’ and children’s services in England – by 880m, in its provisional local government finance settlement for 2025-26, published on 18 December 2024. The MHCLG has launched a consultation on this reform.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Jahnine Davis’s role will involve supporting and challenging councils to improve practice, amplifying children’s voices and those of under-represented groups and championing kinship care within government policymaking.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

The way ordinary residence is determined for mental health aftercare remains unsettled, despite the government winning a court ruling relating to its radical new approach to the issue. Learn about the government’s new approach. High Court rules against government… . The second ground was not raised in the appeal.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The government has no plans to scrap single-word judgments of local authority adults’ services, despite the decision to ditch the approach for children’s social care. The Local Government Association today urged ministers to end overall ratings of council adult social care performance by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2024

Experts are predicting that more councils will declare ‘bankruptcy’ after the government rejected calls for extra social care funding for authorities in 2024-25. Authorities must continue to meet their statutory duties, meaning social care spending is largely protected. This is up by almost £4bn on 2023-24, a rise of 6.5%

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

The government has reinstated a change to the cap on care costs that will reduce its benefit to less wealthy people. “The government believe[s] that the fairest version of the cap would be based on what people contribute towards their care, rather than our counting local authority contributions as well,” he said.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Government as a whole therefore needs to prioritise legislative time and investment for these children.” Sector bodies have roundly criticised the DfE for providing one-fifth of the funding recommended by MacAlister – £200m over two years as opposed to £2.6bn over five – to reform the system.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The government is examining how councils can place more social work students to meet its ambitions to increase numbers coming into the profession. It added: “The government plans to invest in new and existing training routes for people who want to become social workers.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

The draft updated Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, was published for public consultation on 17 March. The government has decided to produce one overarching code to ensure the principles of the MCA are embedded in the LPS from its introduction. Consultation ends on 4 July. By Tim Spencer-Lane, legal editor, CC Inform.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Social work assistants would be regulated in Scotland under plans issued for consultation. Regulator the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is also consulting on adding adult day centre supervisors, practitioners and support workers, and offender accommodation managers, supervisors and practitioners to its register.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The government should find £500,000 to help 200 former practitioners return to social work in its forthcoming autumn statement, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. The LGA made the same call for the government to fund a return to social work scheme last year, on the grounds it would alleviate workforce pressures.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The government is pressing ahead with the use of scientific age assessments of asylum-seeking young people in the face of severe criticisms. It has issued regulations that would permit the use of specified scientific methods to inform age assessments of asylum-seeking young people.

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Community Care

JULY 18, 2024

The government needs to boost funding for social work bursaries, placements and apprenticeships to attract more people into the profession and tackle persistently high vacancy and turnover rates.

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Community Care

MARCH 2, 2023

The government will “strongly encourage” councils to appoint social work leads for special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision, it said today. In the improvement plan, the government said the role would “provide the capacity and expertise” to improve social care input into SEND provision.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

JANUARY 5, 2024

On 18 December the project had a one-day Expert consultation workshop on ‘Co-creating spaces and empowering tribal communities’ aimed to promote cooperation and knowledge exchange among organizations who engaged in the sphere of education, health, and livelihood. The chief guest for the programme was Mr. Vithal Nadkarni.

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Community Care

MARCH 26, 2025

Published for consultation last week, the suggested PQS are designed to work in tandem with the proposed social work induction programme (SWIP). Respond to the consultation You can respond to the consultation on the PQS, which also covers the proposed social work induction programme, by answering this online survey.

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Community Care

MARCH 24, 2025

The consultation runs until 6 June 2025. However, the term “psychologist” is not legally protected, meaning that “both fully qualified and experienced psychologists and people who are not qualified in psychology at all can legitimately refer to themselves as any kind of psychologist”, according to the BPS.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The planned date was revealed in a report to today’s Social Work England board meeting and represents a six-month delay to the government’s previous internal target for bringing in the replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. The consultation closed in July this year and the departments are yet to respond.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is certain to be delayed again, with the government yet to consult on how to put the scheme into practice. However, the government is yet to confirm that it will need to delay LPS again. However, the government is yet to confirm that it will need to delay LPS again.

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Community Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

It hasappointed consultant Peter Dwyer, a former director, as a commissioner to oversee improvements. Currently, children’s social care services are run outside of council control in 11 of the 152 English council areas, either because of voluntary decisions by councils or through government imposition.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

The local authority is required to nominate someone with experience in education in relation to children and a social worker with experience in relation to children, and may appoint other appropriate individuals after consultation with safeguarding partners.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers. ” .” ”

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Peers have overturned a government change to the cap on care costs that would reduce its benefit for less well-off people, and also voted to bring forward its implementation date from October to April 2023. The government has estimated that the Lords change would cost £900m a year compared to its favoured approach.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In calling for a shift to much more direct contact, the group – which included representation from local government, Cafcass, the law, academia and the adoption sector – recommended significant practice changes for both adoption and child protection social workers.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2022

The government’s adult social care funding reforms will increase demand for assessments, reviews and the case management of people needing care and support by bringing more existing self-funders into the system. We call on the government to address this as a matter of urgency.” ” Related articles. More follows.

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Nicole Clark Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

The board of directors is a governing body for an incorporated organization, consisting of individuals that provide strategic governance and support to an organization’s leader, staff, and stakeholders. appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting. Have a question you’d like to be featured? Let me know.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Staff and volunteers working with children will face a duty to report child sexual abuse they are aware of, the government announced yesterday. Government mandatory reporting plan The Home Office said that it would introduce mandatory reporting of CSA through amendments to the current Criminal Justice Bill.

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Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The federal government will also soon issue regulations requiring CSWs and other health providers to provide GFEs to commercial or government insurers when the patient has insurance and plans to use it. “Substantially exceeds” means an amount that is at least $400 more than the expected charges listed on the GFE. Future Action.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Specialist social workers will be appointed to lead child protection cases while a new framework will be introduced to support practitioners at the start of their careers, the government has said in its response to the care review. The DfE consultation on the social work workforce, published later today, will set out its proposals.

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