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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.
On 17 March 2020 a report by Clive Sheldon QC was published. He had been appointed by the FA back in December 2016 to carry out an independent review into allegations of sexual abuse by coaches and scouts working in youth football between 1970 and 2005.
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The Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 is due to come into force on 4 May 2021. It’s a snappy title but what exactly is it?
In June 2020 the University of Birmingham published a research briefing exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child protection practice.
Nazareth Care Charitable Trust which operates a care home in Bonnyrigg, Scotland, recently received a fine after a resident at one of its care homes suffered a fatal injury after falling down a flight of stairs.
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