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8 months ago
External news

Strengthening multi-agency leadership: grant determination letter

Letter detailing capacity funding to support the implementation of working together and the children's social care national framework...
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strengthening-multi-agency-leadership-grant-determination-letter
9 months ago
LSWC news

Compass Jobs Fair "really enforces how much I love my job"

The Compass Jobs Fair in London brought together social work professionals, local authorities, and various other stakeholder organisations for an enriching event that delivered valuable insights, workshops, and networking opportunities.
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9 months ago
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November's London Social Work recruitment events

Three London Boroughs are hosting social work recruitment events: Newham, Enfield, and Tower Hamlets
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9 months ago
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Compass Jobs Fair London, 20th November 2023

The Compass Jobs Fair returns to London, providing a platform for social workers to explore career opportunities
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9 months ago
LSWC news

Royal Greenwich Open New Children's Home

The Royal Borough of Greenwich have opened a new children's home, the Adolescent Assessment Resource and Residential Centre (AARRC).
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10 months ago
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Regulator calls for improvements in Sussex NHS trust’s children’s mental health services

The Care Quality Commission CQC has lowered the rating for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust's child and adolescent mental health CAMHS ward at Chalkhill following an inspection that found improvements were needed Chalkhill a -bedded mixed gender inpatient unit is a mental health facility in the grounds of a general acute hospital where young people...
https://socialcare.today/2023/11/07/regulator-calls-for-improvements-in-sussex-nhs-trusts-childrens-mental-health-services/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=regulator-calls-for-improvements-in-sussex-nhs-trusts-childrens-mental-health-services
10 months ago
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New online tool points parents towards personalised childcare support options

Parents can now visit an updated online eligibility checker to quicker discover what additional childcare support might be available to them The website www childcarechoices gov uk is intended to help parents and carers through the changes to childcare legislation that will come into force over the next year From April eligible working parents of two-year-olds will...
https://socialcare.today/2023/11/01/new-online-tool-points-parents-towards-personalised-childcare-support-options/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-online-tool-points-parents-towards-personalised-childcare-support-options
10 months ago
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Biggest independent children’s care providers make £300m profit – report

The biggest independent providers of children's social care brought in profits of more than m last year according to a report commissioned by the Local Government Association LGA It comes as councils face significant financial pressures in children's services as a result of rising numbers of children needing increasingly expensive care The report by Revolution...
https://socialcare.today/2023/11/01/biggest-independent-childrens-care-providers-make-300m-profit-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biggest-independent-childrens-care-providers-make-300m-profit-report
10 months ago
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Stunting in infancy linked to differences in cognitive and brain function – study

Children who are too short for their age can suffer reduced cognitive ability arising from differences in brain function as early as six months of age according to new research from the University of East Anglia UEA Researchers compared the 'visual working memory' -- the memory capacity that holds visual cues for processing -- in...
https://socialcare.today/2023/10/31/stunting-in-infancy-linked-to-differences-in-cognitive-and-brain-function-study/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stunting-in-infancy-linked-to-differences-in-cognitive-and-brain-function-study
10 months ago
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Flagship study finds a million children experienced destitution in the UK last year

The number of people experiencing destitution increased by percent from to with an even larger increase in the number of children experiencing destitution according to a major report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation The report is the fourth in a series of Destitution in the UK studies published regularly since by...
https://socialcare.today/2023/10/30/flagship-study-finds-a-million-children-experienced-destitution-in-the-uk-last-year/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flagship-study-finds-a-million-children-experienced-destitution-in-the-uk-last-year
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