All press releases
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GSCC finally agrees Lisa Arthurworrey can practice (08/03/2010)
In a landmark decision, the General Social Care Council has finally agreed to implement the decision of the Care Standards Tribunal that Ms Lisa Arthurworrey can be placed on the professional social work register.
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Aspect welcomes Social Work Taskforce proposals (01/12/2009)
Aspect welcomes Social Work Taskforce proposals – and calls for funding guarantees
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Schools White Paper under the spotlight (15/07/2009)
The government’s new white paper Your Child, Your Schools, Our Future: Building a 21st Century Schools System comes under the spotlight when the annual conference of the Association of Professionals in Education and Children’s Trusts meets in Leeds
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Practical advice for hard-pressed social workers (05/07/2009)
Aspect – the Association of Professionals in Education and Children’s Trusts – is publishing today much-needed practical advice for social workers and their managers.
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Education professionals call for quality assurance (29/06/2009)
“The devolution of school improvement budgets raises questions of quality assurance in the future support of schools and the challenge to raise standards.
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Quality call by education professionals (26/06/2009)
Delegates to the national Early Childhood Education conference in Salford this weekend heard calls for a sharper focus on quality in early years education.
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Key European pedagogue to speak at early childhood conference (12/06/2009)
Professor Dr. Ferre Laevers – who directs the Centre for Experiential Education at the Universiteit Leuven in Belgium – is a key speaker at the 2009 Aspect early childhood education conference.
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Aspect welcomes children’s social work proposals (05/05/2009)
Aspect, the children’s services union today welcomed the direction taken by the government’s in its response to Lord Laming’s children’s social work proposals.
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Close the credibility gap say EYP leaders (23/04/2009)
Raising pay levels and full professional equality with teachers is the minimum needed to close the credibility gap that is undermining the government’s EYP strategy said union leaders today.
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Aspect calls for rights for specialist foster carers (12/02/2009)
In the wake of the Norfolk adoption case, Aspect calls for rights for specialist foster ca
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Tackle staffing shortages in children’s social services (14/01/2009)
Aspect today called for urgent action to tackle staffing shortages in children’s social services.
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Aspect welcomes children’s workforce initiative (10/12/2008)
Aspect, the children’s service union will tomorrow welcome new government proposals to strengthen the children’s workfo
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Specialist foster carers deserve employment rights. (03/12/2008)
Children’s services union Aspect today called for a new employment deal for frontline childcare workers.
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Tackle children and families social work problems (20/11/2008)
ASPECT calls for early action to tackle children and families social work problems
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Aspect calls for early action to tackle childrens and families social work problems (12/11/2008)
Aspect calls for early action to tackle childrens and families social work problems
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ASPECT meets DCFS over Early Years Professionals’ pay and conditions (27/07/2008)
ASPECT meets DCFS over Early Years Professionals’ pay and conditions
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ASPECT welcomes ‘fruitful dialogue’ on EYP career development (17/07/2008)
Aspect meets with the CWDC
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ASPECT calls for more powers for children’s trusts (22/06/2008)
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Early years education specialists focus on special needs (23/05/2008)
Top specialists in the fields of special needs education, in the Vygotskyian approach to early years education, and in child development and education feature at Aspect’s Early Childhood Education group annual conference in June this yea
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Early years professionals call for parity and a national pay structure (11/03/2008)
Union leaders representing Early Years Professionals have called for a national pay framework and are to lobby the government for guarantees that their status is genuinely equivalent to Qualified Teacher Status.
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ASPECT issues new guidance on Structured Professional Assessment pay points (07/01/2008)
Aspect has issued new guidance on Structured Professional Assessment pay points (SPA) for members employed in local authorities and related organisations under Soulbury Committee terms and conditions of employment.
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Soulbury Agreements: ASPECT publishes new pay spine (07/01/2008)
Aspect has issued a document detailing the new pay spine for education improvement staff employed under Soulbury Committee terms and conditions of employment.
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ASPECT welcomes 'tough demands' in children's plan (11/12/2007)
The Association of Professionals in Education and Children's Trusts today welcomed plans to strengthen and integrate children's services and raise the standard of early years education and care, announced today by Children and Schools Secretary Ed Balls.
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Urgently tackle staffing shortages in children’s social services (12/01/1970)
Aspect today called for urgent action to tackle staffing shortages in children’s social services.
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Aspect acts on workers’ rights for foster carers (12/01/1970)
A specialist foster carer who was denied basic rights at work is to take Norfolk County Council to an employment tribunal. Backed by children’s services union Aspect Sandra Bullock is seeking to establish her legal status as ‘ a wor
