0 60 Sir Gary Streeter South West Devon Department for Education Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter Education 5148 Education false Social Services: Training To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to ensure staff working within local government children's social care receive training to understand the potential altruistic motivation of potential (a) foster and (b) adoptive parents of faith. 2023-12-05 2023-12-12T16:56:04.253Z Wantage David Johnston false 2023-12-12 Biography information for David Johnston <p>Local authorities are responsible for the continuous professional development of their workforces, including social workers.</p><p> </p><p>Social workers are critical to the functioning of the wider children’s social care system. They must meet the professional standards set by Social Work England to practise as a social worker. In relation to the altruism of those seeking to foster and adopt, the standards recognise the importance of family and community networks, requiring social workers to work in partnership with these.</p><p> </p><p>To support child and family social workers to continuously improve their practice, the department funds professional development for around 4,000 social workers each year. The new Early Career Framework for child and family social workers will significantly extend the training and support they receive in the early stages of their career, helping to equip them with the knowledge skills they need to support children and families.</p> 5147 1 House of Commons 60 1 2023-12-05 Sir Gary Streeter Education Education 5147 Social Services: Training 2023-12-12T16:56:04.207Z Wantage David Johnston false 2023-12-12 <p>Local authorities are responsible for the continuous professional development of their workforces, including social workers.</p><p> </p><p>Social workers are critical to the functioning of the wider children’s social care system. They must meet the professional standards set by Social Work England to practise as a social worker. In relation to the altruism of those seeking to foster and adopt, the standards recognise the importance of family and community networks, requiring social workers to work in partnership with these.</p><p> </p><p>To support child and family social workers to continuously improve their practice, the department funds professional development for around 4,000 social workers each year. The new Early Career Framework for child and family social workers will significantly extend the training and support they receive in the early stages of their career, helping to equip them with the knowledge skills they need to support children and families.</p> 5148 South West Devon To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that staff working within children's social care receive training to understand the potential altruistic motivation of potential (a) foster and (b) adoptive parents of faith. Department for Education false 17 1 Health and Social Care false 2022-09-29T09:46:58.863Z Harborough Neil O'Brien false 2022-09-29 Biography information for Neil O'Brien <p>There have been no specific discussions. Access to e-learning for health is accessible for all health and care staff.</p> Health and Social Care Department of Health and Social Care To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had discussions with NHS England regarding sharing community health training resources with social care staff. 2022-09-20 Biography information for Karin Smyth 51755 Karin Smyth Social Services: Training Bristol South 17 Social Services: Training 1 Health and Social Care 2022-06-13T12:12:20.803Z Chichester Gillian Keegan false 2022-06-13 Biography information for Gillian Keegan <p>We will invest £500 million over the next three years to support and develop the workforce. We will produce a sector-wide Knowledge and Skills Framework and a linked learning and development offer to fund qualifications and training to improve skills and support the workforce to develop further expertise and progress within roles and the sector.</p><p>Later this year we will be setting out our plans on dementia for England for the next 10 years, including a focus on dementia training.</p> 2022-06-08 Biography information for Rachael Maskell 14523 York Central To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the £500 million of funding over the next three years to support the development of social care staff includes specific training on Parkinson's-related dementia; and what plans his Department has for the delivery of training under that funding. Health and Social Care Rachael Maskell Department of Health and Social Care false To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of funding allocated to the consultation on the National Assessment and Accreditation System for social workers was spent on (a) private sector consultants and (b) local authorities in 2018-19. 2019-07-11 Social Services: Training 1 Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck false Department for Education 276203 60 Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck Education 2019-07-19T14:00:55.13Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-07-19 Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi <p>In total the government has spent £18.4 million on the consultation, preparation and introduction of the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) for child and family social workers.</p><p>These costs can be further broken down into:</p><ul><li>£4.6 million in preparation costs, which includes money spent on the proof of concept phase, the preparation of assessment materials and standard setting;</li><li>£4.1 million up to June 2018 on the introduction of assessments, of this £3.5 million has been in grants made to local authorities to support Children’s Services Departments and individual social workers prepare for the assessment;</li><li>£3.7 million from July 2018 to May 2019 was spent on running assessment centres and paid to private consultants to deliver this service; and</li><li>a further £6 million in 2018-19, which has been in grants to local authorities.</li></ul><p>The department has spent no funds on consultation. The consultation and programme development of the NAAS has been resourced directly by the civil service who have engaged widely with both local authorities and individual social workers.</p><p> </p> 276201 Education South Shields 255348 Health and Social Care 2019-05-16 17 Social Services: Training false To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of training and support provided to those employed in the care sector. Melanie Onn Health and Social Care 2019-05-21T13:10:48.103Z Gosport Caroline Dinenage false 2019-05-21 Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage <p>The Government is working alongside stakeholders in the adult social care sector to ensure there is the right number of people, with the right skills, knowledge and values to meet increasing demand, and deliver high quality, person-centred care and support.</p><p>The Department’s delivery partner, Skills for Care, monitors levels of qualifications and training and works to improve standards and increase uptake of training and qualifications for those working in adult social care. This includes distributing £12 million a year through the Workforce Development Fund to support employers fund training.</p><p>We know that there is more that we can do, and the Government will publish a Social Care Green Paper at the earliest opportunity setting out proposals for reform to ensure the social care system is sustainable for the future. It will include a vision for the workforce, and proposals to boost recruitment, retention, and workforce development in the longer term.</p> Biography information for Melanie Onn Department of Health and Social Care Great Grimsby 1 212382 South Shields 2019-01-24 Social Services: Training false 60 2019-02-01T12:07:25.05Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-02-01 <p>​For the period from July 2018 up to and including March 2020, the government has allocated a maximum of £18.5 million (rounded) for funding phases 1 and 2 of the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS). This excludes piloting and set-up costs incurred prior to July 2018.</p><p>This is broken down as follows;</p><ul><li>£4.2 million for the operation, continuous improvement and evaluation of NAAS in phase 1.</li><li>£7.42 million for the operation, continuous improvement and evaluation of NAAS in phase 2.</li><li>£6.85 million grant funding for an additional 34 local authorities to join phase 2.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The cost per social worker of assessment under the NAAS varies according to the stage of development of the programme, the throughput of social workers in each local authority and the cost and capacity of a particular assessment venue. Therefore, at this stage we are not able to attribute a cost per social worker. The programme is being developed in an agile manner and through the first phases we have appointed an independent evaluator to collate financial and benefits data, the evidence from which will inform the future rollout approach.</p><p> </p><p>For national rollout of NAAS, delivery and cost modelling is currently underway and the cost per social worker will depend on the delivery model(s) selected. It is anticipated that a significant proportion of NAAS investment made during phase 1 and phase 2 will support future delivery of NAAS on a national basis.</p> 212379 Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck 1 To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the cost per social worker of assessment under the National Assessment and Accreditation Scheme (a) including and (b) not including piloting and set-up costs. Education Department for Education Education false 1 2019-01-24 Education 60 To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has allocated to phase (a) 1 and (b) 2 of the implementation of the National Assessment and Accreditation System. Education 2019-02-01T12:07:25.003Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-02-01 <p>​For the period from July 2018 up to and including March 2020, the government has allocated a maximum of £18.5 million (rounded) for funding phases 1 and 2 of the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS). This excludes piloting and set-up costs incurred prior to July 2018.</p><p>This is broken down as follows;</p><ul><li>£4.2 million for the operation, continuous improvement and evaluation of NAAS in phase 1.</li><li>£7.42 million for the operation, continuous improvement and evaluation of NAAS in phase 2.</li><li>£6.85 million grant funding for an additional 34 local authorities to join phase 2.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The cost per social worker of assessment under the NAAS varies according to the stage of development of the programme, the throughput of social workers in each local authority and the cost and capacity of a particular assessment venue. Therefore, at this stage we are not able to attribute a cost per social worker. The programme is being developed in an agile manner and through the first phases we have appointed an independent evaluator to collate financial and benefits data, the evidence from which will inform the future rollout approach.</p><p> </p><p>For national rollout of NAAS, delivery and cost modelling is currently underway and the cost per social worker will depend on the delivery model(s) selected. It is anticipated that a significant proportion of NAAS investment made during phase 1 and phase 2 will support future delivery of NAAS on a national basis.</p> 212382 Social Services: Training Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck South Shields Department for Education 212379 To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the funding allocated to the consultation on the National Assessment and Accreditation System was spent on (a) private sector consultants and (b) local authorities. South Shields Department for Education Education 2019-01-29T17:34:08.397Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-01-29 <p>In total the government has spent £8.7 million on the consultation, preparation and the introduction of the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) for child and family social workers.</p><p> </p><p>These costs can be further broken down into £4.6 million in preparation costs, which includes money spent on the proof of concept phase, the preparation of assessment materials and standard setting.</p><p> </p><p>A further £4.1 million was spent up until June 2018 on the introduction of assessments. Of this, £3.5 million has been in spent in grants made to local authorities to support children’s services departments and individual social workers to prepare for the assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The department has spent no funds on consultation. The consultation and program development of the NAAS has been resourced directly by the civil service who have engaged widely with both local authorities and individual social workers.</p> 212378 false Social Services: Training Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck 212380 60 2019-01-24 Education 1 Education 212378 South Shields Department for Education Social Services: Training Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck Education 2019-01-29T17:34:08.33Z Stratford-on-Avon Nadhim Zahawi false 2019-01-29 <p>In total the government has spent £8.7 million on the consultation, preparation and the introduction of the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) for child and family social workers.</p><p> </p><p>These costs can be further broken down into £4.6 million in preparation costs, which includes money spent on the proof of concept phase, the preparation of assessment materials and standard setting.</p><p> </p><p>A further £4.1 million was spent up until June 2018 on the introduction of assessments. Of this, £3.5 million has been in spent in grants made to local authorities to support children’s services departments and individual social workers to prepare for the assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The department has spent no funds on consultation. The consultation and program development of the NAAS has been resourced directly by the civil service who have engaged widely with both local authorities and individual social workers.</p> 212380 60 false 1 To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on the (a) consultation on (b) preparation for and (c) introduction of the National Assessment and Accreditation Systems for social workers, social work supervisors and leaders. 2019-01-24 16 10 1