Social work leaders, Workforce

One in seven practitioners say they will leave social work over registration fee hike, poll finds

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Tackling racism in social work through practitioner learning

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Workforce

‘Without my practice educator’s patience, skill and humanity, I wouldn’t be a social worker today’

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Social work leaders, Workforce

‘High bar’ for taking fitness to practise action in relation to social workers’ online posts, says regulator

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Children, Social work leaders

Disabled children: national eligibility criteria needed to end ‘postcode lottery’, finds law review

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care reform: extra £18m allocated for family help and child protection changes

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Workforce

‘Bridging the theory-practice divide: how theatre can enhance social work education’

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Children, Social work leaders

Record numbers of adoptive families under ‘great strain’ from ‘severe challenges’, finds survey

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Workforce

‘What I wish I had known about fathers’ impact on their children’

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Adults, Social work leaders

70% of community social care services have no or ‘outdated’ CQC rating, analysis finds

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Workforce

‘She consistently advocates for us, the course and the future social workers enrolled with us’

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Children, Social work leaders

Inspectors to probe CSA practice following ‘alarming decrease’ in number of child protection plans

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Children

Baroness Lola Young: ‘Just surviving shouldn’t be our best hope for children in care’

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Adults, Social work leaders

UK government to intervene in Supreme Court deprivation of liberty case

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Workforce

40% of social workers have known of colleagues illegitimately doing multiple jobs, finds poll

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Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

Children, Social work leaders

‘Safeguarding in the context of adoption and special guardianship – why families need ongoing support’

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