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Workforce

What do you look for in a social work job?

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Choose Social Work

Choose Social Work: free resource pack to inspire future social workers

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Workforce

Community Care celebrates 50 years’ reporting on and supporting social work

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Children

Leaving care, mental illness and recovery: ‘There is always the possibility of a better future’

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Workforce

2,500 social care staff join free Community Care webinar to mark World Social Work Day

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

‘You have lifted my spirits after a very difficult day’: how Choose Social Work has supported the sector

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Choose Social Work

Incompetent or child-snatchers: how media coverage of social work impacts the profession

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Choose Social Work, Social work leaders

‘Stick with social work’: senior leaders share their best advice

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

Jenny Molloy: ‘Social workers have been so important in my life’

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

Choose Social Work: join our campaign to champion your profession

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The winners of the BASW Social Work Journalism Awards 2023

Workforce

Community Care among winners at BASW social work journalism awards

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Three-quarters of councils allow flexible working for all children’s social workers

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Careers Zone, Coronavirus, Inform Adults, Inform Children

Social work podcasts to support you through and beyond Covid-19

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Retention bonuses paid by half of children’s services departments, research finds

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Safe, supported and happy to go to work: how local authorities can retain their social workers

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Inform Children

Podcast: Neglect, poverty and affluence

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