HCPC re-registration for social workers
The window of time to sort HCPC re-registration opens on 1 September.
This will be the first time social workers have renewed in the new system since the registration and regulation of social workers in England changed on 1 August 2012, when the Health and Care Professions Council took over responsibility for the social care register.
This [...]
Councils 'unaware' of how many children 'neglected'
Councils 'unaware' of how many children 'neglected'
Research by Action for Children has found that most local authorities have no system for counting the number of neglected children
Most English local authorities do not have systems in place to identify how many children are being neglected, according to research by Action for Children.
Freedom of Information requests carried [...]
Half of councils fail to secure sufficient free childcare places
Half of councils fail to secure sufficient free childcare places
More than half of local authorities will be unable to provide all disadvantaged two-year-olds with access to free childcare when the government’s flagship scheme expands next month, CYP Now can reveal.
On 1 September, the number of two-year-olds eligible for 15 hours of free childcare a week [...]
SEN shake-up receives positive feedback
SEN shake-up receives positive feedback
Parents of children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) are largely positive about changes being introduced by the government to give them more choice over the services they use, a report has found.
Under the Children and Families Act 2014, from 1 September, children and young people with SEN, and their [...]
Social worker suspended after ‘flawed’ risk assessment of knife incident
Social worker suspended after ‘flawed’ risk assessment of knife incident
The HCPC suspends social worker who failed to call police when contacted by mother about knife-weilding daughter.
A social worker who made a “flawed” risk assessment of a situation where a daughter attacked her mother with a knife has been suspended from practice.
The decision [...]
New civil prevention orders could improve child safeguarding practice
New civil prevention orders could improve child safeguarding practice
Councils and Local Safeguarding Children Boards described as best places to enforce new and improved civil prevention orders.
Councils have been urged to establish new arrangements between family courts and police to better protect children from sexual harm.
In a research article published by respected journal [...]
