Children

News, practice information and opinion on children and families social work and social care

Children, Workforce

Should councils be able to exceed agency social work price caps?

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s practitioners face duty to report sexual abuse

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social worker changes undermined engagement with children later convicted of violent crimes – review

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Children, Social work leaders

Can systemic practice improve how early help staff support families?

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Children

How social workers can help kinship carers manage impact of tougher benefit rules

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Children

A day in the life of a safeguarding team manager

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Children, Social work leaders

How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

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Adults, Children, Inform Children

‘We’re not bad mums’: inside the rehab centre giving women a chance to keep their children

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Children, Inform Children

Parental mental illness and the role of stigma: key practice points

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Children

Get up to speed with the relaunched Public Law Outline

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Children, Social work leaders

Ethnic disparities in care proceedings: what the data says

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils to be able to exceed agency social work price caps under planned locum rules

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Children, Workforce

Are social workers given adequate support after traumatic events at work?

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Children, Social work leaders

Leaders must foster professional curiosity and challenge to improve child protection, finds review

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Mental Health Act detention numbers fall for second year but significant racial inequalities persist

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social work caseloads growing increasingly complex, research finds

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