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Are you a fan of our social work diary series? We've published our first ever Kindle e-book with a collection of tales from frontline professionals.

Children

Timpson challenges social workers and announces legal change for care leavers

Children's minister tells Community Care Live he intends to 'challenge and champion' social workers to improve standards of care and safeguarding

‘Advocacy in child protection will not replace social workers’

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Foster care in a digital world: 'Secret mobile phones and re-child-proofing the Kindle'

"The ever-expanding digital landscape can be a terrifying area for foster carers to navigate, but there are many less-reported positive sides to this too, writes the secret foster carer"

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Adults

Personal budgets improve outcomes but still held back by bureaucracy

Survey of 3,400 personal budgets recipients and carers finds personal budgets have greatest impact when councils reduce red tape for practitioners and families.

Cap on care costs risks more complexity and complaints for social workers

Flagship government policy to reform care funding will be highly complex to implement and increase workloads for council practitioners, warns report from the King's Fund.

'Help me address the desperate crisis in UK care homes'

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Workforce

Chief social worker: ‘Together, we can drive improvements in adult services’

Social worker who moved in with vulnerable service user struck off

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Munro adviser who transformed children's services in Hackney named chief social worker

Former assistant director Isabelle Trowler, who advised Professor Eileen Munro on the redesign of children and families social work in England, has been chosen by the Department for Education to lead reform in the profession.

Events

Community Care Live 2013: Register for free now

The biggest and best social work event of the year is back on 21-22 May

Rising to the Dementia Challenge

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Safeguarding Adults at Risk in the Community

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Mental health

Radio 4 coverage of mental health bed pressures and impact on social workers

'Social worker silence and fear is propping up this broken mental health system'

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A quick guide to mental health payment by results and its impact on social work

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Failings in police, social work and NHS joint working 'contributed to' mental health deaths

Inform

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Guide to the new Working Together 2013 guidance - how it affects your social work role

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Guide to race equality and safeguarding

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Your say

Inspiring excellence in social care: how Community Care is changing

Social work cartoon: 'Work/life balance'

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Life on the social work frontline: buy the groundbreaking e-book

Ex-social worker's short stories 'grapple with complexity of working in volatile environments'

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Elsewhere on the web

Elsewhere on the web

Fitness-for-work tests unfair on people with mental health problems, court says - The Guardian

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Social service changes could raise costs, Welsh councils warn - BBC

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Social worker who cared for disabled people sues NHS after a bungled hip operation left him permanently paralysed - Mail Online

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The challenge of saying 'no' as a newly qualified social worker - Guardian

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Promoting the social inclusion of adults on the autistic spectrum

Legal

Council breached equality duty in setting care home fees

Research

How the latest research on safeguarding disabled children should inform social work

Social care leaders

Our new group provides senior managers with news and analysis on the chief policy and practice issues they face

Care work

Zero-hour contracts and unpaid travel time wrong approach for reablement staff

Practice

How social workers can help bring learning disabled people home

How much should social workers disclose about themselves to clients?

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Recruitment & retention

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