‘1,000 appeals’ expected over probation jobs
Up to 1,000 probation officers are expected to appeal against jobs assigned to them under a shake-up of the rehabilitation service in England and Wales. A total of 119 of
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Former enterprise minister to lead workplace review
An independent review of workplace policies involving trade unions, businesses, academics and government is to be led by a former enterprise minister. Jim Mather will chair the review which will
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Social services management ‘tendency to blame care workers for errors’
Birmingham social services management and other children protection agencies have been accused of having a ‘tendency to blame social workers’ when things go wrong in a review of the city’s
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Social care workers pay lagging behind in London
Two thirds of London boroughs are yet to be accredited as London Living Wage employers; of the third that are accredited there has been slow progress in applying fair wages
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Norfolk social worker shortage could be tackled through ‘academy’
The bid to improve Norfolk’s children’s services department could be boosted by the creation of an ‘academy’ to produce social workers at the University of East Anglia. The council says
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Choice Support staff vote to strike over changes to salary levels
Members of the union Unison at the social care charity Choice Support have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over changes to pay. Sixty-eight of 80 Unison
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Imagining the Future
What might social services look like in 2025? In 2013 IRISS ran a series of workshops to help us understand the technical, medical and cultural forces that will shape
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Enforcement of compulsory registration for social care Workers
Legislation to enforce compulsory registration for the current phase of compulsory workforce registration is now in effect. Employers should be aware that under these Regulations, it is an offence for
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Care UK revamps benefits offering with launch of online portal
Care UK has revamped its benefits offering with the launch of an online portal to give nurses, carers and remote workers easy access to its employee reward scheme. The health
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Scottish public sector workforce at new low
The proportion of workers employed in the public sector is at its lowest level since 1999. New figures from the Scottish Government showed that in the third quarter of this
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