Community Care

1 week ago | communitycare.co.uk | Mithran Samuel

Do you use generic or dedicated AI tools for daily social work tasks? Parents are increasingly making covert recordings of social workers in child protection cases due to a lack of trust or for use in subsequent court proceedings, family justice leaders have warned.

1 week ago | communitycare.co.uk | Mithran Samuel

Do you use generic or dedicated AI tools for daily social work tasks? The government has boosted Social Work England’s budget by 25%, which it will use in part to tackle fitness to practise (FTP) backlogs. Its revenue budget for 2025-26 is £26.7m, up £5.2m on the 2024-25 figure (£21.5m), with the increase coming entirely in the form of additional funding from the Department for Education (DfE). DfE grant is one of the regulator’s two sources of income, alongside social worker registration fees.

1 week ago | communitycare.co.uk | Gemma Balmford

This article provides advice and tips from Community Care Inform’s guide on working with and supporting parents with learning disabilities. Updated in March 2025, the guide is written by Beth Tarleton and Danielle Turney and looks at how to identify and assess parents with learning disabilities, as well as supporting them to learn new skills. Inform Adults subscribers can access the guide here and Inform Children subscribers can access the guide here.

1 week ago | communitycare.co.uk | Mithran Samuel

Do you use generic or dedicated AI tools for daily social work tasks? There has been a 25% fall in the number of child death or serious harm cases involving suspected abuse or neglect or related to looked-after children reported by English councils annually, Department for Education figures show. Authorities made 338 serious incident notifications, down from 405 in 2023-24 and 456 in 2022-23, meaning the number has fallen by 25% over the past two years.

2 weeks ago | communitycare.co.uk | Mithran Samuel

What impact has the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard had on your workplace? I'm not aware of the SC-WRES. It hasn't been implemented in my workplace. It has been implemented and has had a positive impact on tackling racial inequalities. It has been implemented but has had no impact. It has been implemented, but it's too early to tell.