Sep. 13 2024
Source Page: Correspondence and financial data on Ipsos and polling companies: FOI releaseFound: )11Progressive Partnership (GB)11Pye Tait Consulting (GB)11Rocket Science (GB)11Scottish Centre for Social
Jun. 27 2024
Source Page: National Care Service: factsheet: Easy Read versionFound: NCS will cost ................................ ...................... 12 How the NCS will affect workers
Correspondence Apr. 26 2024
Committee: Public Services CommitteeFound: Families and Wellbeing to Baroness Morris of Yardley, Chair, Public Services Committee on Children's Social
Aug. 12 2024
Source Page: UK REACH authorisation for TCL Manufacturing Ltd, 3 July 2024Found: At the site, workers are directly exposed to Cr(VI) via inhalation when performing tasks described
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to tackle shortages in family social workers.
Answered by David Johnston
Social workers play a valuable role in supporting the most vulnerable in society and the department is committed to ensuring there is an excellent child and family social worker for everyone who needs one. The department recognises the ongoing challenge facing local authorities across the country in recruiting and retaining child and family social workers, with reasons for social workers leaving the profession varied and complex.
On 2 February 2023, the department published the care reform strategy, ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’, which set out proposals to help stabilise the workforce. This includes supporting the recruitment of up to 461 social worker apprentices, a new Early Career Framework that will set out the development plans for a social worker’s first five years, proposals to reduce the overreliance on agency social workers, and setting up a National Workload Action Group to tackle unnecessary workload drivers which keep social workers away from direct time with children and families.
Every year, through the department’s fast track and development programmes, the department trains an average of 800 new social workers and provides professional development for around 4,000 others.
The number of full time equivalent child and family social workers in post at 30 September 2023 was 33,100. This is the highest figure we've seen since gathering this data. The statistics show that the department’s £50 million average yearly investment over this Spending Review on recruitment and training child and family social workers, alongside the hard work of local authorities is generating positive results.
Jul. 25 2024
Source Page: Integration in youth justice services in England and WalesFound: o Think of the teams who help support children – like youth justice workers, social workers, youth
Sep. 05 2024
Source Page: South Gloucestershire Council v Ms Pavandeep Hundal: [2024] EAT 140Found: There were two other agency workers on the Westgate Team whose placements might have been terminated
Apr. 23 2009
Source Page: Working to put people first: the strategy for the adult social care workforce in England. 60 p.Found: Working to put people first: the strategy for the adult social care workforce in England. 60 p.
Aug. 15 2024
Source Page: Flu and COVID-19 Seasonal Vaccination Programme: autumn/winter 2024/25Found: clinical risk group, as defined in tables 3 and 4 of the COVID-19 chapter of the UK Health Security Agency
Oct. 11 2024
Source Page: Improving practice with children, young people and familiesFound: to S afeguard Children was central to the first phase of this, including: • strengthening multi -agency