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    Adults, Workforce

    Invest in mental health social work to meet key NHS objectives, government told

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    AMHPs voice safety concerns over police withdrawal from mental health incidents

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    £1bn boost to adult social care funding ‘not enough to cover costs’, warn leaders

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    Adults

    Get up to speed with the law on adult safeguarding

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    Adults

    Assisted dying bill clears first parliamentary hurdle

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    Adults, Workforce

    Do social workers support assisted dying?

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    Councils to receive delayed £22.6m in adult social care innovation funding

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    Adults, Workforce

    Assisted dying: social work role proposed to safeguard those going through process

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    Protect social care from ‘catastrophic’ national insurance increase, ADASS tells government

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    Providers to cut care and jobs on back of Budget, finds survey

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    Placing social workers in mental health trusts can help tackle out of area placements, says report

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    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    Social care providers face £2.8bn bill from wage and tax rises next year, analysis finds

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    Adults, Children, Social work leaders

    Government sets limit on council tax rises in 2025-26

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    An older couple having a consultation with a doctor

    Adults

    The bill to legalise assisted dying explained

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    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    ‘Social care buy-in for fair pay plan at risk after Budget tax hike’

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    Adults, Children, Social work leaders

    How the government plans to reform the Mental Health Act 1983

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