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Workforce

Local government pay offer for Scotland will be implemented despite planned strike

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Children, Social work leaders

Adultification bias expert appointed national kinship care ambassador

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Children, Workforce

DfE agency rules will have no impact on locum use, say social workers

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Adults, Social work leaders

Overdue £22m adult social care innovation funding ‘risks disappearing’, warns charity

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Workforce

Podcast: celebrating a long career in social work

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Social work leaders, Workforce

8% of social workers had completed key registration tasks by end of first month of renewal period

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Future of Social Work, Workforce

AI could be time-saving for social workers but needs regulation, say sector bodies

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Children, Social work leaders

Self-reported disability rate among care leavers double that recorded by councils, finds research

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Half of councils given funding to recruit adult social work apprentices

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

The social work assistant who became ‘the glue that holds the team together’

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Workforce

Social Work England will not review sample of CPD records following current registration renewal period

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Children, Social work leaders

Care proceedings delays reduce but 26-week target still missed in most cases

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils given £1,125 each to meet agency social worker data burdens

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Adults, Social work leaders

10% drop in section 136 detention numbers linked to policy limiting police response to mental ill-health

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Adults, Social work leaders

Watchdog increasingly finding fault with councils on social care assessments and plans

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Workforce

Social work apprenticeship to be launched in Scotland

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