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Andy McNicoll is Community Care’s news editor.

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Mental Health

Mental health patients facing ‘unacceptably long’ waits for talking therapies

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Mental Health

Mental health bed pressures making AMHP role ‘untenable’, warns BASW

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty

Deprivation of liberty: Social workers, lawyers and carers on the impact of a landmark Supreme Court ruling

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Mental Health

How mental health teams that are key to crisis prevention have been cut back

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Adults, Mental Health

Government orders review of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

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Adults, Mental Health

DH moves to tighten scrutiny of best interests assessor training standards

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Workforce

Social work cartoon: ‘The IT system’

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Adults, Workforce

Details of integrated health and social care personal budgets scheme revealed

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Adults, Workforce

Make social care free at point of use for critical needs, says commission

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Adults, Mental Health

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards caseloads rose 10% ahead of Supreme Court ruling

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Adults

Council rapped over ‘unacceptable’ delays in allocating social worker and personal budget

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Mental Health, Workforce

Podcast: A crash course for social workers on changes to the Mental Health Act code of practice

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Adults

Five ways social workers want the Care Act guidance strengthened

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Mental Health

CQC report highlights impact of mental health bed pressures on patient care

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Children, Mental Health

Lamb: Children’s mental health system ‘not fit for purpose’

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Workforce

Did BASW’s statement on the Gaza conflict go too far?

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