Charlene Stapleton

    Workforce

    ‘She manages the Step Up to Social Work programme with grace and integrity’

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    Male social worker carrying out assessment of young man who may be unaccompanied asylum seeker

    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Inspectors criticise oversight of social work practice at Home Office age assessment service

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    Workforce

    Local government pay: inflation exceeds 3.2% deal for fourth month in a row

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    Workforce

    Social workers not confident they can tackle poverty, poll finds

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    Workforce

    Ask The Experts: 'I am scared to go back into frontline work'

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Regulator drops requirement for social workers to report gender identity

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Ruling that council racially discriminated against social worker upheld by appeal court

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    Children

    My Care Story: ‘I wish social workers had recognised my needs as a black child’

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Fitness to practise cases being concluded more quickly in Scotland

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    Workforce

    ‘She knew the families intimately and advocated for them with passion’

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Huge rise in fitness to practise concerns about social workers

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    Sad child covering his ears with hands during parents quarrel.

    Children

    ‘What I wish I had known when working with a child experiencing domestic abuse’

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    Angry mother and son locked in heated argument on living room sofa, exposing unhappy family relationship trouble indoors

    Adults, Social work leaders

    Tackling domestic abuse by adult sons against their mothers

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    Workforce

    Social workers brand 2025-26 local government pay settlement a ‘bad deal’

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    Children

    ‘Moving away from pseudoscience to give children in care the best-evidenced mental health treatment’

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Guidance issued on social worker-guardian disagreements over children’s best interests

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