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It has been reported that from 1 August the Health and Care Professions Council will be expecting social workers to meet standards relevant to their area of practice. The standards can be found here . It’s a 20 page document, setting out the 15 key expectations of social workers from being able to “practise safely within their scope of practice”, to “be able to establish and maintain a safe practice environment”.
You can bet your bottom dollar that it’ll be used as a benchmark in negligence claims to challenge the quality of social work practice.
In practice, although we often find that claims might succeed where information is not shared or properly looked at in the round, as often as not the issue is not the quality of social work practice, but the lack of social workers to whom cases can be allocated.
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).
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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.
Following the Supreme Court decision in CN & GN -v- Poole Borough Council [2019] and other subsequent cases, it is now established law that the mere fact that various steps are taken by local authorities in the discharge of its child protection functions is not enough to give rise to an assumption of responsibility.
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