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Social Worker of the Year Awards 2022, overall winners, pictured at parliamentary reception

Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Worker of the Year Awards open for entries

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Readers’ Take: should a single word define the quality of social work services?

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: Paul O’Grady’s death, the strip searching of children and food insecurity for staff

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Image of computer key marked 'assessment' (Credit: momius / Adobe Stock)

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

BASW warns of ‘dilution of social worker role’ as DHSC plans more assessments by non-qualified staff

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Nurse helping woman rehabilitate in care home

Adults, Social work leaders

5% rise in nursing payments to care homes

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What are your thoughts

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Outstanding’ or ‘inadequate’: should a single word define the quality of social work services?

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: World Social Work Day, child poverty and Love Island

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Dr Muzvare Hazviperi Betty Makoni with a group of overseas social workers supported by her organisation, Social Care Empowering Training and Consultancy

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

World Social Work Day: the social workers crossing oceans to practise in the UK

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Manager and social worker talking about work over a computer

Adults, Children, Workforce

Social work training at your fingertips: one week to go until Festival of Learning 2023!

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An illlustration of a salary rise

Adults, Workforce

Pay boost on cards for NHS social workers as government and unions settle protracted dispute

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Jeremy Hunt

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Hunt’s Budget boosts tax relief for foster and shared lives carers and support for care leavers

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: regulation of care leaver accommodation and legal action over children in hotels

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Human rights card

Adults

Social workers’ role in promoting the human right to vote

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Jigsaw puzzle showing supply demand gap

Adults, Social work leaders

Rationing, not strengths-based practice, likely to explain fall in numbers receiving care, finds study

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

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Dial pointing at the word 'performance'

Adults, Social work leaders

Government tells CQC to rate councils on adult social care performance

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