John Pearce, ADCS president, 2023-24

    Children, Workforce

    Social work monopoly on asylum age assessments should end, says sector leader

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    Adults, Children, Workforce

    Would you like to speak at Community Care Live 2024?

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    Councils need more funding to manage CQC adult services performance checks, leaders warn

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Do social workers feel valued by senior management?

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

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    Workforce

    The pros and cons of being a young social worker

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    Children, Choose Social Work

    ‘She’s been a mother figure to me’: a care leaver and social worker’s story

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    Adults, Workforce

    Homelessness social work role valuable but rare, isolated and temporarily funded – study

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    Pay now top motivator for social workers to change jobs

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    Rachel de Souza

    Children, Social work leaders

    Councils breaching guidance by not taking homeless teenagers into care, suggests Children’s Commissioner

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    Workforce

    Pay deal to go through in Scotland as UNISON members give assent

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    Young social worker working remotely

    Inform Adults, Inform Children, Workforce

    How CC Inform can boost your CPD and help you stay in social work

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    Children

    ‘We must stop blaming mothers in child protection social work’

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    Social work leaders, Workforce

    More than half of social workers still to renew two weeks out from 30 November deadline

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    Yvette Stanley

    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    ‘Good social work basics’ key to year-on-year children’s services improvements – Ofsted

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    Choose Social Work, Social work leaders, Workforce

    How to take action and improve the public’s perception of social work

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