Staffordshire news and blogs Thursday 19 April 2018
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FOI
The Number of Individual Referrals to Childrens Social Care Services 
FOI request: Birmingham CC 16 Apr 18
Response by Birmingham City Council to Celia on 16 April 2018 .
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The Number of Individual Referrals to Childrens Social Care Services
FOI request: Cannock DC 11 Apr 18
Response by Cannock Chase District Council to Celia on 11 April 2018 .
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My deceased moms medical records
FOI request: Solihull MBC 11 Apr 18
Response by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council to SUSAN HAMPTON on 11 April 2018 .
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The Number of Individual Referrals to Childrens Social Care Services
FOI request: Dudley MBC 10 Apr 18
Request sent to Dudley Council by Celia on 10 April 2018 .
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The Number of Individual Referrals to Childrens Social Care Services
FOI request: Cannock DC 9 Apr 18
Follow up sent to Cannock Chase District Council by Celia on 9 April 2018 .
FOI
The Number of Individual Referrals to Childrens Social Care Services
FOI request: Cannock DC 6 Apr 18
Response by Cannock Chase District Council to Celia on 6 April 2018 .
FOI
The Number of Individual Referrals to Childrens Social Care Services
FOI request: Cannock DC 6 Apr 18
Response by Cannock Chase District Council to Celia on 6 April 2018 .
FOI
The Number of Individual Referrals to Childrens Social Care Services
FOI request: Birmingham CC 6 Apr 18
Response by Birmingham City Council to Celia on 6 April 2018 .
FOI
The Number of Individual Referrals to Childrens Social Care Services
FOI request: Birmingham CC 5 Apr 18
Request sent to Birmingham City Council by Celia on 5 April 2018 .
News
From a pub to social work: how a chance encounter led a principal social worker into the profession
Community Care 5 Apr 18
By Lauren Brown On the face of it, Adam Birchall’s route into social work wasn’t too uncommon.
News
Children’s outcomes “not maximised” despite improvement to ’inadequate’ service, Ofsted finds
Community Care 4 Apr 18
By Lauren Brown Ofsted inspectors have found progress in an ‘inadequate’ children’s services but expressed ongoing concerns about children’s outcomes.
News
Parents should be supported to rehabilitate with their children – not without them
Community Care 3 Apr 18
by Jadwiga Leigh and Lisa Warwick Adults who find they are struggling to parent often come from disadvantaged backgrounds and find themselves in situations where they face a number of different social, emotional, environmental and health related …
Business
Burntwood training business expands health and social care apprenticeship programmes
Lichfield Live 1 Apr 18
A Burntwood-based training firm is expanding its health and social care apprenticeship programmes.
News
Artificial intelligence in children’s services: the ethical and practical issues
Community Care 29 Mar 18
by Emily Keddell and Tony Stanley Predictive algorithms promoted and used by Hackney council to identify those most in need of scarce preventive services is an important issue for us to think more deeply about .
News
Oftsed criticises council where some social workers hadn’t had supervision for ‘months’
Community Care 26 Mar 18
Social workers have high caseloads, are working on evenings and weekends and in some case haven’t had supervision for “months”, an Ofsted inspection of Wakefield children’s services has found.
News
NHS commissioners face court action over cost-capping continuing healthcare policies
Community Care 23 Mar 18
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has threatened legal action against 13 clinical commissioning groups on the grounds that their continuing healthcare policies breach equality and human rights law and risk forcing people into care homes.
Blog comment
PHE Report says Water Fluoridation is Effective and Safe
Cllr Andrew James: Conservative - Mercian Ward 22 Mar 18
Public Health England (PHE) has today published its Water fluoridation: health monitoring in England 2018 report on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
News
Hunt hints at ‘Ofsted-style ratings’ for adult social care services
Community Care 21 Mar 18
Local authorities may be rated on the quality of their adult social care services to address variations in performance, Jeremy Hunt has suggested.
News
From India to Birmingham: A social worker keeping rights at the heart of her practice across continents
Community Care 20 Mar 18
Vidhya Biju, winner of the 2017 overall social worker of the year , is passionate about the service users she helps, and adamant that direct interaction with service users is the priority.
Council
Coventry health and social care leaders welcome CQC report findings
Coventry City Council PR 15 Mar 18
Health and social care leaders across Coventry have welcomed the findings of a review into how the two systems work together across the city.
News
Ofsted praises social workers with legislative ‘expertise’
Community Care 12 Mar 18
Social workers have been praised for work with care leavers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) in an improving local authority.
FOI
Social Care IT
FOI request: Wolverhampton CC 8 Mar 18
Follow up sent to Wolverhampton City Council by Sally Marsh on 8 March 2018 .
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Social Care IT
FOI request: Wolverhampton CC 7 Mar 18
Response by Wolverhampton City Council to Sally Marsh on 7 March 2018 .
NHS
Visit to UHCW by Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
University Hospitals Coventry & Warwick NHS Trust 2 Mar 18
On Thursday 1 March, Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, visited University Hospital in Coventry to speak to an invited audience of clinical and service management staff.
News
Health watchdog service to be reshaped
Tamworth Informed 2 Mar 18
A SERVICE that champions people’s health rights is being reshaped to ensure it continues to makes a real difference to the future of health and care.