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Social care gets £13m for ICT |
A funding package worth £13m has been announced for social workers to use a range of ICT measures in their daily work. The technologies, which will include mobile devices such as laptops and PDAs, will enable the social care workforce to keep pace with demands in the sector.Government is tackling the problems faced by the sector through the Options for Excellence review, undertaken jointly by the Department for Education and Skills and Department of Health. The review informs policy developments relating to England's social care workforce in the short, medium and long term and highlighted a need for extra money for ICT. "Supplying social workers with mobile technology will result in significant time savings, allowing more flexibility. This will ultimately result in social workers spending more time having face to face meetings with the people they are there to support - society's most vulnerable children,” said Children's Minister Parmjit Dhanda, annoncing the capital grant. "Our vision for a modern, integrated social care workforce was set out in Every Child Matters, this £13 million grant will help the sector to continue adopting new and better ways of working." |
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