Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The government has pledged to “crack down on care providers making excessive profit” in children’s social care reforms unveiled today. The overhaul also includes empowering Ofsted to investigate companies running multiple children’s homes and requiring councils to establish multi-agency safeguarding teams. Ministers also said that, underlining their reforms, would be a rebalancing of the system towards early intervention in order to keep families together, with the care p

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International Federation of Social Workers

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

On 15 November 2024, a fruitful meeting between the International Federation of Social Workers Asia-Pacific Region (IFSW-AP) and the Korea Association of Social Workers (KASW) took place at the Japan […]

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Government says wide-ranging reforms will end ‘neglect’ in system that leaves young people behind Labour ready to show it is serious about changing children’s social care Excessive profiteering by unscrupulous private companies charging sky-high fees for substandard placements for vulnerable children will be clamped down on as part of a major overhaul of children’s social care in England.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The government has set limits on increases in council tax in 2025-26. English local authorities will be able to raise core council tax by 3% and the adult social care precept – which is ring-fenced for the sector – by 2% – the same limits that have applied over the past two years. Authorities generally made full – or near full – use of this limit in 2024-25.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The crossbench peer grew up in care and went on to become an actor, an academic and one of the first black women in the House of Lords. Now she has written a memoir documenting her remarkable story In March 2012, Lola Young, who sits as a crossbench peer in the House of Lords, clambered on to the rush-hour bus that would take her from the children’s social care office in Islington, north London, to her home.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Details are still lacking, but initial suggestion is that many of the MacAlister report’s findings will be enacted Two years ago a government-commissioned report laid bare the crisis affecting children’s social care in England and called for an urgent multibillion-pound overhaul to reform a system that it said was spiralling out of control. The author of the report, Josh MacAlister, warned that a continued failure to tackle major problems in children’s services would lead to record numbers of yo

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

It’s difficult to face the fact that those who call themselves Christian can abuse, and hard to believe anyone thought silence was the right response It has been an unprecedented 10 days for the Church of England. The Makin report into abuse by John Smyth, barrister and Church lay reader, was leaked and landed a week ahead of its scheduled date, but still more than four years behind the original timetable.

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