Community Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Joanne* recently completed the consolidation programme , a mandatory learning and development qualification for newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) in Wales. “It All social workers who qualified in Wales on or after 1 April 2016 must complete the programme during their first three-year registration period.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Lyn Romeo will step down as England’s chief social worker for adults in January after just over a decade in the post. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said Romeo was taking retirement.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

A record 100,495 social workers in England have renewed their registration with the regulator this year. Social Work England said 97.3% This is the highest proportion recorded in the four renewal rounds since it took over the regulation of social workers in England in December 2019. of those eligible to renew.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Councils have been urged to join a project to help curb the workloads of social workers in local authority children’s services departments. Fifteen authorities will scrutinise and test ideas and resources to tackle unnecessary burdens on practitioners in order to enable them to spend more time with children and families.

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OCTOBER 9, 2022

This sounds like the most politically incorrect thing you can say as a social worker. How can you not care as a social worker? How can you call yourself a social worker? I can’t be a social worker anymore. 5 months later, on 5 October 2021, I left as a social worker.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Local authorities’ use of agency social workers in adults’ services rose by a quarter from September 2022 to September 2023, official figures have shown. Councils employed about 1,900 locum adult social workers in September 2023, compared with around 1,500 a year earlier, according to Skills for Care figures.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Fast-track programme Think Ahead will train 320 more mental health social workers after the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) extended its contract up to 2027. A quarter of NHS mental health social workers were men, as of 2022. And that applies equally to people working with social workers.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social workers have spoken out about feeling ignored and undervalued by employers. At Brighton & Hove City Council, the strike was described as a “last resort” , following a two-year campaign for adults’ social workers to be given a 12.5% supplement – as received by their counterparts in children’s services.

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Community Care

MARCH 21, 2024

Social workers are significantly less likely to have high morale or to recommend the profession to friends or family than in 2020, research released this week has found. This rose to 72% among current and former children’s social workers, compared with 55% of current or former adult practitioners.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

The government has started its quest for a new chief social worker for adults, after Lyn Romeo announced her retirement after a decade in post. Qualifications that meet the requirements to register as a social worker with Social Work England. Experience of working in or with central government.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Advanced fostering practitioner Vivian Okeze-Tirado was working at home when she was crowned overall winner at this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards. Social Worker of the Year Awards winners unveiled. Better relationships with children’s social workers ‘key to tackling foster carer crisis’.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Pay is now the top motivator for social workers to change jobs, Community Care’s annual jobseeker survey has found. The jobseeker survey is the only annual piece of research into social worker job seeking behaviour. Three-quarters of respondents worked for councils, with 89% being qualified social workers.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2024

A ‘massive reduction’ in the care population, with many more children cared for at home or with extended family, will be the key measure of success for the Department for Education’s (DfE’s) social care reforms.

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

Chief social worker for adults Lyn Romeo and principal social workers have issued guidance on carrying out proportionate assessments under the Care Act 2014. The latter point prompted criticism from the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) England, which warned that it risked diluting the social work role.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Adult social worker numbers in local authorities hit a record high last year, official figures show. English councils increased their headcount of adult social workers, including agency staff, from 17,300 to 18,500 in the year to September 2023, a 7% boost, according to annual statistics released this week by Skills for Care.

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Community Care

JANUARY 11, 2024

The government will give councils funding to train more staff as social workers in adults’ services through apprenticeships. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will give councils and adult social care providers just over £20m between them to fund social work and nursing apprenticeships in 2024-25.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

High levels of social worker turnover undermined engagement with six young people with histories of social care involvement who were later convicted of violent offences, a review has found. Find out more from the contextual safeguarding team based at Durham University, headed by Firmin.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Social worker shortages are making an already challenging job ‘unsustainable’ for some practitioners, Ofsted has warned in its annual report, published today. of full-time equivalent local authority and children’s trust social workers left the statutory sector altogether in the year to September 2021, up from 7.2%

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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.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Pre-court meetings between children’s social workers and Cafcass guardians have the potential to improve the care proceedings process, a pilot study has concluded. Attend to understand what the courts expect from social workers and your priorities and responsibilities at each stage of the PLO, including through pre-proceedings.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Agency social worker pay in would be capped to the equivalent earned by permanent staff under government plans to reduce the use and cost of locums in statutory children’s services. ” “However, overreliance on agency social work resource has led to workforce instability, churn and high costs,” it said.

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Community Care

JUNE 22, 2023

By Nicole Weinstein Independent and agency social workers are more satisfied at work on average than permanently employed staff, a survey of almost 8,000 practitioners working in statutory services has found. These findings on workloads and support were reflected more starkly in responses to the questions on workplace experience.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Councils are employing record numbers of children’s social workers on the back of a 25% boost to recruitment last year, official figures have shown. A record 6,028 FTE social workers joined a new employer in 2022-23, up from 4,826 in 2021-22. The hike was driven by a 24.9% The hike was driven by a 24.9%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Councils will be able use a £15m international recruitment fund to source social workers from overseas to work in adults’ services, the government has confirmed. It said most had come from social workers from South Africa, Zimbabwe and India.

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Community Care

JANUARY 24, 2022

Home Office guidance for social workers assessing the age of young people arriving in Kent is unlawful, the High Court has ruled. These included not having an appropriate adult present or having the opportunity to know why their claimed age was being disputed by the social workers and to explain any inconsistencies in their account.

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Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Council leaders have offered social workers and other care staff in England and Wales a £1,925 pay rise for 2023-24, matching last year’s increase but well below unions’ claim. pay rise for council social workers What pay rises have social workers received in 2022-23? Offer worth up to 6.4%

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

Community Care’s Choose Social Work campaign aims to counteract the negative media coverage of the profession, and show the brilliant work social workers do every day. If anyone knows the impact that negative media coverage has on social workers, that person is Sharon Shoesmith. Why are social workers blamed?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

UNISON members have voted to back councils’ offer of a £1,925 pay rise for local authority social workers this year. The union – which represents an estimated 40,000 social workers – announced the move on Twitter earlier today. in favour of the offer. Real-terms pay cut.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Just over 4,000 social workers will no longer be able to in practise in England because they did not renew their registration this year, according to provisional figures. The number marks an increase on last year’s figure (2,869) and represents 4% of those who needed to renew, up from 3% in 2021, said Social Work England.

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JUNE 28, 2023

By Clare Jerrom Employers have been set standards to tackle the “poor support” received by the UK’s growing band of overseas social workers. Secondly, social workers from overseas often were not given the training and support needed to adjust to working in the UK, said Tran. In the wake of a 175.3% In the wake of a 175.3%

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Community Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Jeremy Hunt has scrapped plans to abolish the IR35 rules for agency social workers and other public sector staff working off payroll. The British Association of Social Workers and Association of Directors of Children’s Services responded cautiously to Kwarteng’s plan, saying they would await further details.

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Community Care

JULY 5, 2023

No agency social workers are left practising in Northern Ireland’s health and social care (HSC) trusts , says the region’s Department of Health (DoH). High quality social work services require stable and consistent social work teams, in which social workers feel valued.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

More than half of social workers had not completed the registration renewal process two weeks out from the 30 November deadline, Social Work England has revealed. “Social workers must apply to renew their registration before 30 November 2023, or risk being removed from the register. .”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Increasing numbers of children’s agency social workers are newly qualified, amid worsening staff shortages and rising demand, directors have warned. increase in referrals to children’s social care – in part, the result of the removal of lockdown restrictions – and a 9.6%

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

pay rise for council social workers and other local authority staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for 2023-24. to local authority social workers, a better deal than those accorded to NHS practitioners in England and Wales and Cafcass family court advisers (FCA). Unions are seeking a 12.7%

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Average pay for adult social workers is 57% higher in local authorities than in the independent sector, official data has revealed. The hourly pay gap was higher for social workers than for any other job role in adult social care, showed Skills for Care’s annual state of the adult social care sector and workforce report.

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