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Person putting jigsaw piece with word 'quality' written on it on to space with 'assurance' written on it

Adults, Social work leaders

Councils need more funding to manage CQC adult services performance checks, leaders warn

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Homeless older woman and social worker

Adults, Workforce

Homelessness social work role valuable but rare, isolated and temporarily funded – study

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Home care worker speaking to older person

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

10% pay rise for thousands of care workers as government announces national living wage rise

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Senior man with social worker

Adults, Inform Adults

Tips for keeping assessment processes strengths-focused

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Adults, Social work leaders

Most councils rated good for adult social care in CQC pilot assessments

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Graph showing increasing workload

Adults, Social work leaders

Social care staff carrying out tasks previously undertaken by NHS, without extra funding, say directors

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Human rights card

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

DHSC rejects experts’ plan to curb ‘inhumane’ solitary confinement of disabled people in hospital

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Shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Labour pledges to reform Mental Health Act if elected

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Victoria Atkins

Adults, Social work leaders

Adult social care gets fourth cabinet minister in two years

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Cap on care costs: significant risks around plan to deliver delayed reform by 2025, says watchdog

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Houses of Parliament

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Mental Health Act reform ditched, King’s Speech confirms

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Blocks spelling out the word 'ineligible'

Adults, Social work leaders

Councils rationing adult social care through ‘subjective’ eligibility judgments, finds think-tank

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A black social worker looking contemplative while working at laptop

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Fast-track programme to train 320 more social workers in £19m contract extension

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Barnet mental health social workers striking outside the council's offices.

Adults, Workforce

Inside a social work strike: the staff fighting for a ‘safe service’

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strike

Adults, Workforce

City council latest to face social worker strike over pay inequalities between adults’ and children’s staff

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UNISON vice president Julia Mwaluke on the picket line with Barnet UNISON strikers

Adults, Workforce

Social workers to take 26 days’ further strike action in pay and staffing dispute

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