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Why I want to be a social care manager - to celebrate life
17 May 2013
Social work is more than just child protection
17 May 2013
Green light for legal challenge against council cap on care packages
17 May 2013
Gove’s rhetoric about ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ social workers masks the complexity of this high-risk job
17 May 2013
‘Social worker silence and fear is propping up this broken mental health system’
17 May 2013
‘Do we need care homes for older people in 2013? Regrettably, yes’
17 May 2013
Munro adviser who transformed children’s services in Hackney named chief social worker
17 May 2013
Summer school for children’s social workers given official government backing
17 May 2013
'In 2013, do we still need residential care for older people?'
16 May 2013
Zero-hour contracts and unpaid travel time wrong approach for reablement staff
16 May 2013
Foster care in a digital world: ‘Secret mobile phones and re-child-proofing the Kindle’
16 May 2013
‘Listen to social workers, service users…and start Tweeting’: your to-do list for the adult chief social worker
15 May 2013
The lesson from the Oxford abuse case is (again) about social work relationships
15 May 2013
Government reveals identity of England’s first chief social worker for adults
15 May 2013
‘I’ve been my son’s key worker, advocate and manager…but now he’s 18 I sometimes feel redundant’
15 May 2013
Clinical supervision with a psychologist offers me a safe space to discuss social work’s pressures
15 May 2013
Social worker tip-off on guinea pig ‘suffering’ leads to court charges
15 May 2013
Quick guide to the social work bursary reforms for 2013-14
15 May 2013
Oxford sex abuse case highlights social work and police failings
15 May 2013
Radio 4 coverage of mental health bed pressures and impact on social workers
15 May 2013
Social work evidence to carry greater weight with Court of Protection
15 May 2013
Eighteen social workers struck off or suspended in England since January
15 May 2013
Community Care Live: A Tweeter’s guide to #cclive13
15 May 2013
The College of Social Work condemns 'unworkable' children's bill
15 May 2013
‘A gifted social work manager who can make you feel “not alone” when you’re struggling is fantastic but rare’
14 May 2013
What to expect from the new conduct system if your social work practice is questioned
14 May 2013
Fostering as a single man: ‘If there was prejudice it was never visible’
14 May 2013
‘Care Bill offers little to help social workers combat abuse of vulnerable adults’
14 May 2013
How payment by results can improve reablement services
14 May 2013
Third of agency social workers worry about meeting registration requirements
14 May 2013
Lamb issues plan to integrate health and social care for all by 2018
14 May 2013
‘My attempt to get support for my own mental health was met with a blank stare and rising caseload’
13 May 2013
Social workers feeling mentally unwell need support, not more cases
13 May 2013
Social workers failing adults with autism due to training gap, warns charity
13 May 2013
Home care diary: ‘I have to start getting people ready for bed at 5.30pm’
13 May 2013
College to campaign to amend Care Bill to include safeguarding power of entry
13 May 2013
Foster children split from siblings and moved too often due to carer shortage
13 May 2013
Headlines slamming ‘police failings’ on mental health are only part of the picture
10 May 2013
Adult social workers face assessment and safeguarding overhaul
10 May 2013
If leaving home is too scary for many, what hope do our care leavers have?
10 May 2013

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