Mithran Samuel
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Fitness to practise caseloads up by a third in Scotland (opens the original)
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Fitness to practise caseloads rose by a third last year in Scotland due to spike in referrals, the regulator has reported. The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) said it had 2,437 open FtP cases as of 31 March 2026, up 31.2% on the year before, when the total stood at 1,857, and the highest end-of-year figure since 2021. This was driven by a 15.8% rise in the number of referrals received by the regulator in 2025-26 (5,584), compared with the year before (4,836), according to its annual snap
Care workers to get national pension scheme, says minister (opens the original)
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Adult social care workers will benefit from a national pension scheme to provide them with "dignity" in older age, health and social care secretary Yvette Cooper has announced. The promise to set up a collective pension scheme for care staff follows comes on the back of lobbying by UNISON, which has warned that low pay and widespread part-time work have left workers with inadequate pension pots. Though Cooper did not provide details of the scheme, it would likely involve employees and employers
ADCS: inspection reform risks more far-off child placements (opens the original)
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More children would be placed far from home, with others facing longer stays in hospitals or police cells, if Ofsted implements a plan to penalise councils for using children's homes. That was the warning from the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) in a stringing response to the inspectorate's consultation on reforming social care inspections, which closed recently. The ADCS said that Ofsted's plan to downgrade councils on their leadership performance for using unregistered h
Burnham vows to fund national care service from pensions (opens the original)
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Andy Burnham has pledged to fund his planned national care service by ending the "triple lock" on the state pension. In his speech to the Labour Party conference today, the prime minister confirmed that the party would fight the next election - due by 2029 - on a plan to bring in a social care system free at the point of use. Burnham announced the plan in an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, but in his speech today he set out, in part, a plan to pay for it. Currently, the stat
Think Ahead to close with end of fast-track training scheme (opens the original)
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Social work charity Think Ahead will close next summer when its government-funded fast-track training programme comes to an end. The organisation has not been able to secure sufficient income from other sources to be able to continue operations beyond its final cohort's completion of the two-year programme, in 2027. In a statement on LinkedIn, it said it was now focused on delivering for the cohort and ensuring learning from the programme - which has trained 1,270 practitioners to work in adult
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