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Andy McNicoll is Community Care’s news editor.

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Care Act

Adults

High Court allows legal challenge over Care Act wellbeing principle

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Workforce, Children

Birmingham partners Frontline scheme in bid to improve ‘inadequate’ children’s services

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Adults, Mental Health

Government to face legal challenge over deprivation of liberty safeguards funding

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Workforce

Shooting the messenger or protecting the profession: should HCPC act over social worker’s secret filming?

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Workforce

Dispatches undercover social worker referred to HCPC over secret filming

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Adults, Workforce, Children

Isabelle Trowler on practice, professionalism and private influence in social work

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Workforce, Children

Social workers at ‘best performing’ children’s services will be first to face accreditation

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Workforce, Children

‘Discredited’ serious case review model to be scrapped

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Workforce

Does the social work bill actually create new offences for social workers?

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Adults, Mental Health

Best interests assessor role could be axed to cut costs of deprivation of liberty system

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Workforce, Children

Government is treating vital scrutiny of its social work reforms as a distraction

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Workforce

Government bill paves way for criminal offences for social worker misconduct

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Workforce

New legislation opens door to direct government regulation of social workers

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Workforce

Police release CCTV footage of gunmen who shot at social work offices

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Adults, Mental Health

How one area’s mental health teams are tackling the ‘scandal’ of out-of-area care

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Mental Health

More mental health patients sent hundreds of miles for care due to local bed shortages

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