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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce
10% pay rise for thousands of care workers as government announces national living wage rise

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

Adults, Children, Social work leaders
DHSC rejects experts’ plan to curb ‘inhumane’ solitary confinement of disabled people in hospital

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce
Cap on care costs: significant risks around plan to deliver delayed reform by 2025, says watchdog

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce
Fast-track programme to train 320 more social workers in £19m contract extension

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