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Award-winning author Jenny Molloy speaking at Community Care Live 2023

Adults, Children, Workforce

Register now for Community Care Live 2024!

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Adults, Inform Adults

End-of-life care: tips for communicating with carers

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Labour leader Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves talking to residents in Great Yarmouth in 2023

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

No funded social care commitments in Labour manifesto

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Image of book marked 'family court' and judge's gavel (credit: Vitalii Vodolazskyi / Adobe Stock)

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties – research

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Adults, Children

Social work across the decades: the birth of the adults’/children’s divide

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Adults, Social work leaders

Conservative manifesto pledge to implement cap on care costs is unfunded, warns think-tank

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Adults, Children

How parents with learning disabilities lack support before, during and after care proceedings

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Folder with tabs headed 'high', 'medium' and 'low', above a post-it with the word 'priority' on it

Adults, Social work leaders

How prioritisation tool can help councils tackle their DoLS backlogs

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Mounting social care costs leave councils facing £6.2bn black hole over next two years, warns LGA

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Never stop learning written on a memo stick. Lifelong learning concept.

Adults, Children

Are you up to speed with the latest Mental Capacity Act 2005 case law?

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Rishi Sunak

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

What the 2024 general election means for social care

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Compass dial pointing to word 'performance'

Adults, Social work leaders

Good ratings for first three council adult services assessed by CQC

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Adults, Children, Inform Adults, Inform Children

Working with Gypsy and Traveller communities: tips for positive practice

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The front cover of the Care Act 2014

Adults, Social work leaders

Ten years of the Care Act 2014: ‘the right legislation, undermined by a lack of funding’

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Care minister Helen Whately

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Revised MCA code of practice ‘still under discussion’ two years after consultation on changes

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Care worker or nurse looking stressed

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

DHSC launches £16m fund to tackle exploitation of overseas care staff

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