Reports on our findings of social services in Wales 2005

In 2005-2006 the Welsh Assembly Government approved Social Care Workforce Development Programme (SCWDP) grants totalling £6,250,000 as a 70% contribution to a total approved expenditure of £8,928,570 and 99.9% of the final grant approved was taken up.

This document sets out non–statutory guidance on best practice for those who work within or under contract to NHS or local authority social services authorities operating in Wales concerning confidentiality and the consent of patient and social care service users to the use of their health an ...

The Guidance Circular (NAfW 10/2005) issued on the 25th April 2005 dealt with the application arrangements to this Special Fund. It also made reference to the ‘Additional Component’, a further £1 million made available by the Welsh Assembly Government to social services authorities for 2005–2 ...

This circular sets out the arrangements for the Social Care Workforce Development Programme for the personal social services. It announces indicative grant allocations, and invites local authorities to apply for the grant by 31st March 2005. Please read the whole of this circular carefully. The cir ...

In January 2001, the Minister for Health and Social Services set up a Task and Finish Group on Workforce issues in Social Care to report to her with a strategic framework to take forward workforce issues in the sector. One of the key themes considered by the group was the reform of social work trai ...