DfE seeks Social Work Teaching Partnerships
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 [...]
NHS to run social care services in Trafford
NHS will take responsibility for delivery of children’s and adult social care
The NHS is to run social care services in Trafford from this month, the council has announced.
Pennine Care NHS Foundation will take lead responsibility for children’s services in the borough while retaining their existing responsibilities for delivering adult services. Both organisations will continue to [...]
Local authority failed to prove a family move to Syria
Unnamed local authority failed to make a case that a family was trying to move their children to Syria
A local authority “wholly failed” to make a case that a family had abandoned their homes to take their children to live in an area of Syria controlled by Islamic state, Sir James Munby has said.
In a [...]
Care order applications at all-time high in 2015/16
Cafcass statistics show 12,741 care order applications involving 21,666 children were made in 2015/16,
Applications for care orders hit an all-time high in 2015/16, Cafcass figures reveal.
Statistics released by Cafcass show that 12,741 care applications involving 21,666 children were made between April 2015 and March 2016.
These figures are the highest ever recorded by the organisation and [...]
No tax crackdown on agency social workers yet, but change is afoot
New duty on public sector to check contractors' tax status and umbrella company employees to lose out on expenses from this month.
Predictions that agency social workers could be targeted by an HMRC drive to root out ‘false self-employment’ have proven unfounded, but change is afoot in the wake of March’s Budget, experts have [...]
First joint inspection carried out with ‘deep dive’ focus on CSE
Inspectorates inspect multi-agency response to CSE and missing children at South Tyneside
Too much social work time is spent gathering key information about children at risk of Child Sexual Exploitation due to the quality of referrals from partner agencies, an inspection has found.
The first joint inspection of the multi-agency response to abuse and neglect in South [...]
