Sector bodies call for clarity over social workers’ position in Covid-19 vaccination priority list Calls come amid concern AMHPs might be bumped down the list due to a lack of understanding about the role
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Story updated 11 January
Sector bodies are calling for clarity over the position of social workers on the government’s Covid-19 vaccination priority list, with particular concern over when higher-risk groups like approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) will be immunised.
While frontline health and social care workers are in the second priority group – and frontline care home staff in the first – social workers are not mentioned by name in any government guidance, leading to concerns over when practitioners will be vaccinated.
Social Work England removes 256 practitioners from register for not meeting final CPD deadline
Regulator places removed practitioners on temporary register, enabling them to practise, and says overwhelming compliance with CPD requirement shows process was straightforward and manageable
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Social Work England has removed 256 practitioners from the register for not meeting the final deadline to submit a piece of CPD in order to renew their registration. The regulator said that the low figure – as a proportion of the 97,000 social workers who needed to renew this year – showed that its controversial requirement for practitioners to submit a piece of CPD in order to renew was “straightforward and manageable”.
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Adequate funding across spectrum of children’s needs ‘crucial’ to better outcomes and savings – DfE study
Innovation Programme review highlights importance of practitioner and service capacity, and warns initiatives proven to help families and save money may be unsustainable without long-term settelement
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Adequately funding children’s services to provide capacity across the spectrum of need and risk is “crucial” to improving outcomes for families and saving on costly interventions, a Department for Education-commissioned report has said.
This included making sure social workers and their departments had time to devote to delivering direct work, providing training and skilled supervision to properly embed practice models, and integrating multi-disciplinary support – especially around mental health – within teams.
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Rachael Wardell is taking over as the new executive director of children’s services at Surrey County Council this month following the tragic death of Dave Hill. Here she shares some first thoughts about the challenges.
“Dave and I were very different characters, but I liked him enormously. We both felt very fiercely about the same things in children’s services.”
Rachael Wardell still remembers the shock and sadness she felt when she heard of Dave Hill’s sudden death earlier this year. They had been colleagues over a number of years at the Association of Directors of Children’s Services.