Nov 17, 2024 · The government has set limits on increases in council tax in 2025-26. English local authorities will be able to raise core council tax by 3% and the adult social care precept – which is ring-fenced for the sector – by 2% – the same limits that have applied over the past two years.

Jan 8, 2025 · Agencies to be required to set up multi-agency child protection teams, under social care reform bill ‘Crackdown on excessive profits’ pledged as government unveils children’s social care reforms Government to legislate to tackle ‘profiteering’ in children’s social care, says minister Number of children’s homes up 44% since 2020 as fostering sector shrinks

May 21, 2024 · MacAlister’s 2022 Independent Review of Children’s Social Care was the first review of children’s social care since Munro’s.. It has also led to the most significant reforms the sector has seen in years, through the DfE’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy, which is currently being implemented.. Yet, while being sympathetic to the process of conducting a …

Dec 18, 2012 · Social care practitioners can be unclear about what is meant by using the “least restrictive option” to support people under the Mental Capacity Act. In this article, reproduced with kind permission from the English Community Care Association newsletter, Rachel Griffiths explains how they should apply this principle.

Jul 21, 2008 · Government and council leaders plan to launch an adult social care "intelligence service" next year to provide practitioners in England with tailored information to support decision-making and service planning.

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Nov 27, 2017 · Strengths-based questions for social work assessments: quick tips It takes practice and confidence to be good at asking questions, but practitioners should always try and find better ways of having conversations

Aug 14, 2024 · Reflective practice is more myth than reality? No? This was the view of Schon in 1986 and the forms of words used or ‘thought-forms’ (Laske) to describe what’s written more accurately are missing in the references cited; is the desire to fill the emptiness or void a proof that social work has a formulation of what reflection, is, and that such-a-thing-in-itself exists, …

Sep 12, 2023 · There is increasing understanding that traumatic events can seriously impact individuals’ psychological and physical health and wellbeing. Being trauma-informed means understanding that those in most need of services may also be the hardest to reach and least likely to engage effectively with services.

Jan 23, 2024 · Should the person refuse any action being taken, it would be helpful to reflect on this very important section from 39 Essex Chambers’ Mental Capacity Guidance Note: Assessment and Recording of Capacity: ‘… If you have proper reason to think that the person may lack capacity to take a relevant decision, especially if the consequence of what they are …