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

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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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Social workers should be core part of community alcohol services, says proposed treatment guidelines

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CQC delivers initial verdict on council adults’ services under new assurance system

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Minister sidesteps question on whether government will proceed with Mental Health Act reform

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Social care inequalities deepening due to cost of living crisis and squeezed council budgets, says CQC

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Qualification levels and average pay have fallen for care workers, official data shows
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