Homeless older woman and social worker

Adults, Workforce

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

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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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Children’s North Locality Team members at South Gloucestershire during a practice workshop
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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Workforce

Will social workers fight or accept next year’s pay offer from councils?

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Home care worker speaking to older person

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

10% pay rise for thousands of care workers as government announces national living wage rise

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Senior man with social worker

Adults, Inform Adults

Tips for keeping assessment processes strengths-focused

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Workforce

Gestation, Gyration: a child’s turbulent entry into the world

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Kayleigh Rose Evans

Choose Social Work

‘I did not enjoy being new’: advice for young social workers

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Asylum-seeking child

Children, Social work leaders

15th consecutive rise in care population in England over past year, DfE data shows

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Adults, Social work leaders

Most councils rated good for adult social care in CQC pilot assessments

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Paul is flanked by Shared Lives carers Maurice (left) and Simone (right)
Dear Future Social Work

Choose Social Work

Find your ‘person’ and prioritise supervision: advice from a principal social worker

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