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Council social workers’ real pay down 13% in three years
Council social care workers have seen their headline pay rates fall by 13% in real terms over the past three years due to a combination of wage freezes and rising inflation. Council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were last awarded an annual pay rise in April 2009 and, in the subsequent three years, [...]
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Reablement success leads to social work job cuts
A council is cutting social work jobs off the back of its success in helping service users regain independence through reablement. Seventy three full-time equivalent posts, including 22 registered social workers’ jobs, are to go in Hertfordshire Council’s locality older people and physical disability teams because of cuts to caseloads attributed to the county’s reablement [...]
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Work-related stress up 40% in recession
Economic downturns typically see one in four workers taking time off due to job stress and such stress increases by 40% in such period. This is according to a new study in the journal Occupational Medicine,undertaken by researchers at The University of Nottingham and University of Ulster, which also urges that more attention be paid [...]
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