Directors of children’s and adults’ services from across the UK gathered in Harrogate this week to discuss the key issues facing social care. Here are the highlights:
Ed Balls tells social workers not to blame bureaucracy for failings
Reactions to the spat between Ed Balls and Hilton Dawson
Ed Balls: social workers are “barking up the wrong tree”
Personalisation: ‘Vulnerable will not have to manage budgets’
Andrew Lansley: Tories will not scrap attendance allowance
Adass president calls for taskforce for social care staff
‘Radical change needed to protect frontline services’
Phil Hope admits concerns over attendance allowance
Social care data service launched to boost performance management
Ofsted must rethink how it inspects children’s services
ADASS considers lobbying government on tax for care
Disabled people to keep disability living allowance
Loose Woman supports social care
To ring-fence or not to ring-fence
Government to appoint national clinical dementia lead
Why are so few BME social workers promoted to management?
Councils asked to ‘guarantee’ social care records for users
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 
Hampshire County Council 
Lincolnshire County Council 
Norfolk County Council 
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust 
South Gloucestershire Council 
Wiltshire Council 
Wokingham Borough Council 
Children and young people with SEND are ‘valued and prioritised’ in Wiltshire, find inspectors 
How specialist refugee teams benefit young people and social workers 
Podcast: returning to social work after becoming a first-time parent 
Podcast: would you work for an inadequate-rated service? 
Family help: one local authority’s experience of the model 
‘We are all one big family’: how one council has built a culture of support 
Workforce Insights – showcasing a selection of the sector’s top recruiters 
Facebook
X
LinkedIn
Instagram
Comments are closed.