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Community Care
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Average social worker caseloads have fallen to their lowest recorded level in local authority children’s services in England, according to Department for Education (DfE) figures. The rate is calculated by dividing the number of cases held by FTE children’s social workers and dividing this by the number of FTE practitioners.
Community Care
MARCH 4, 2025
Record numbers of children’s social workers are in post in England but there has been a fall in the number holding cases, Department for Education (DfE) figures have revealed. The proportion of FTE agency social workers in the workforce also fell, from 17.9% to 34,328.2, to 34,328.2, However, at 5,613.4 in 2022-23.
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Community Care
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
The number of agency children’s social workers in English local authorities has fallen for the first time in seven years, official figures show. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. to 11.6%, followed by the West Midlands, where it fell from 16.6% from 2023-24.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
Social workers would sit on three-person panels set up to review adults’ requests for assisted dying under a proposed amendment to the bill to legalise the practice. Though neutral on the question of assisted dying, the APCSW and the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) welcomed Leadbeater’s plan.
Community Care
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Record numbers of social workers have retained their right to practise following the latest registration renewal round, the regulator has reported. Social Work England said 102,888 practitioners renewed their registration following the 2024 renewal period, up from 100,495 last year.
Community Care
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Black, male and 40-plus social workers remain disproportionately represented in fitness to practise (FtP) cases, Social Work England data has confirmed. Unsurprisingly, the overrepresentation of black and male social workers and those aged over 40 remains, at multiple points of the FtP process.
International Federation of Social Workers
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Merve Deniz Pak Güre, the Liaison Officer for the Turkish Association of Social Workers, has provided an update on the local social work response to the devastating earthquakes. She […]
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