New tender wants partnerships to deliver “gold standard” training to social workers to improve recruitment and retention
The Department for Education is looking for partnerships to deliver “gold-standard” training for social workers.
The Department wants to support an approach where teaching partnerships match universities with councils to deliver high quality training for social workers and is looking for Social Work Teaching Partnerships.
Government wants to “raise standards and support councils in recruiting and retaining the best social workers and giving them greater control over the hiring of frontline professionals,” the Department said.
“This will improve the recruitment, retention and development of social workers and the overall quality of practice,” it added.
Social Work Teaching Partnerships are defined as an accredited collaborations between HEIs and employers which delivers high quality training for social work students and qualified practitioners and equips them to practise to specified standards in statutory settings.
“The expansion of the teaching partnership programme marks a long term commitment to academic rigour and valued research. Making sure practice is at the heart of all that we do is the key focus of this Government's social care reform strategy,” the statement added.
The tender said the funding would cover the period from April 2016 – March 2018 and applications should cover the whole of this period and be submitted by May 23 2016.
Further details of the tender are available here.
New Deprivation of Liberty court launch for children
A National Deprivation of Liberty Court dealing specifically with applications relating to deprive children of their liberty has been announced by Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family division.
The court will deal with applications seeking authorisation to deprive children of their liberty and will be based at the Royal Courts of Justice under the [...]
Independent review into CSE in Oldham finds child protection procedures were not followed
Some children have been failed by the agencies that were meant to protect them because child protection procedures had not been properly followed, an independent assurance review into historic child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Oldham has found.
Evidence of poor practice was attributed to a structural flaw the review team found in the multi-agency system [...]
Sixty Second Interview with Chloe Bach
Find out more about our Business Administrator Chloe Bach who has been with WillisPalmer since 2009.
Tea or coffee?
Coffee (oat milk latte)
What 3 things would you put in Room 101?
Migraines, slugs and war
What is your favourite place in the world?
Wherever my family is (but I do love New York)
If you were on death row what [...]
A Mackman Group collaboration - market research by Mackman Research | website design by Mackman