Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The government will provide £44m for kinship and foster care in this week’s Budget, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. The funding will enable up to 10 areas to test providing kinship carers with allowances to cover some of the costs of care, encouraging more family members or friends to come forward. It will also lead to the extension of regional fostering recruitment hubs to all council areas, to help them recruit more carers.

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The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 27, 2024

“My Rite of Passage takes place in the midtown Social Security office.” The poem “Entry Level” is excerpted from Jane Seskin’s book Older, Wiser, Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65 (2024).

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Union group urges chancellor to better fund health, social care and childcare to get staff back to work and boost productivity UK businesses are losing staff working time because of waits for healthcare or caring duties due to underfunded public services, according to a poll of managers before Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget. More than half of 500 UK business leaders polled for the TUC said workers had to take time off in the last year because of problems accessing public services.

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