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Adults, Children, Workforce

How long waits for secure care are harming children already in crisis

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Adults, Social work leaders

Why council was found to have breached Care Act needs duty after panel cut indicative budget

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Adults, Children, Workforce

‘Give AMHPs the therapeutic tools they need to underpin least restrictive practice’

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Adults, Children, Workforce

A social worker’s fond goodbye to a young person

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

‘Resource pressures’ behind decision to shelve LPS, says care minister

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Adults, Workforce

Four care staff convicted of mistreating people with learning disabilities at hospital

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

ADASS president: ‘If you see black women in leadership, you believe you can achieve that too’

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Raise pay, cut charges and provide rights to support: report for ADASS sets roadmap for ‘saving social care’

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Finley Boden’s death and Fatima Whitbread’s journey from care to the medal rostrum

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: the vilification of social workers and Sunak’s ‘misrepresentative’ comments on profession

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Decision to shelve LPS ‘unacceptable blow to thousands unlawfully detained’

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Palliative care social work: ‘this is proper social work, this is what I trained to do’

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Adults, Social work leaders

Making a success of DoLS in the wake of the Liberty Protection Safeguards delay

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Government drops pledge to invest in new social work training routes

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South Gloucestershire Council adult social care strike April 2023

Adults, Workforce

Social workers and OTs take strike action over pay inequalities

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Deprivation of liberty and the Mental Capacity Act – the way forward

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