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The Social Work Reform Board has set out what is expected of social workers at every stage of their career in the profession’s first ever proposed national standards framework, set out in its report, Building a Safe and Confident Future: One Year On
Once in place these standards will be relied on in professional negligence claims as the benchmark against which social workers’ practice will be assessed by claimant lawyers.
They will take some implementing. Furthermore, internet comments make it clear that practitioners are concerned that the standards will be used as benchmarks against which to manage and assess their own performance, but that local authorities face no real sanctions if they fail to meet their obligations to their employees and by extension, their service-users.
The framework is not set in stone yet. The consultation period finishes on 31 March 2011 and anyone interested in commenting on the proposals can visit the reform board’s website for more details.
As has been widely reported this week, some 3,000 UK workers are taking part in a six month trial to assess the viability of a four-day working week without any reduction in their normal pay.
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From 6 April 2022, right to work checks on all migrant or settled prospective employees must be online and checks on British or Irish nationals will be manual (free) or digital (charged for).
The long-awaited draft Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, including the Liberty Protection Safeguards (“LPS”), has landed.
Since 11 November 2021, workers in regulated care homes in England have been required to be vaccinated against Covid-19, unless they are exempt in accordance with the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
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