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‘I have mixed emotions about re-entering the profession… I’m braced for a few sleepless nights’

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Strengths-based practice: the overlaps between improving social work and managing resources

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Social worker who copied and pasted reports which put other professionals ‘at risk’ struck off

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Ombudsman lambasts council for using ‘flawed assessment’ to cut disabled woman’s care by 60%

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Expected implementation date for DoLS replacement model announced by care minister

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Social worker involved with Penny Appeal awarded MBE in birthday honours list

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Social work sector must embrace technology or risk being ‘left behind’, says BASW chief

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Does social work need to rethink what counts as evidence-based practice?

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University halts social work master’s programme to focus on new degree apprenticeships

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‘This is real life social work, you should film this’ – practitioners on letting Panorama’s cameras in

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Service users left isolated as councils fail to meet eligible social support needs, say social workers

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‘We are fighting for funding’ – 15 examples from social workers of the impact of care cuts on people’s lives

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‘The council is making me more disabled by taking away support’

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What skills do social workers need for strengths-based practice?

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Ten staff members arrested following BBC Panorama footage showing abuse at learning disability hospital

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Hancock vows to tackle segregation of children and learning disabled adults failed by ‘broken’ system

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