Dear Future Social Work

Choose Social Work, Workforce

‘Being comfortable with the uncomfortable is social work’

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Care worker putting a bandage on a man's arm in his home.

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Government bar on overseas care staff bringing over families sparks workforce concerns

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John Pearce, ADCS president, 2023-24

Children, Workforce

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

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Community Care Live delegates

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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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection role poses workforce challenge for test-bed authorities

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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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Janet and Lizzie

Children, Choose Social Work

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

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Children’s North Locality Team members at South Gloucestershire during a practice workshop
Homeless older woman and social worker

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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