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Andy McNicoll is Community Care’s news editor.

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Adults

Council’s ‘disregard’ for Care Act triggers user-group complaint to CQC

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Adults, Mental Health

Councils step up support for mental health social workers

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Care Act

Adults

Care Act ‘increasing tensions’ with NHS trusts over social worker integration

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Adults, Workforce, Children

Social work’s new regulator will cost millions. Who will foot the bill?

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Workforce

Funding cut for generic social work training as fast-track routes gain favour

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Workforce

Government ‘looking at’ scrapping social work bursaries

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Workforce, Children

Trowler: ‘Social workers will get say on mandatory accreditation’

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Adults, Workforce, Children

Social work must challenge Cameron’s reforms with a critical eye and an open mind

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Adults, Mental Health

Supreme Court ruling triggers 16-fold rise in deprivation of liberty cases in Wales

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Adults

Specialist autism training for social workers declined in year before Care Act reforms

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Workforce

BASW unveils new chief executive

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Adults

Council drops controversial plans to limit personal budgets

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Care Act

Adults

Social workers urged to review practice given low Care Act advocacy case numbers

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Adults

Social services told to agree local targets to cut delayed discharges

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Adults

Councils cut ‘vital’ emergency welfare payments for food, heating and clothing

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Adults, Mental Health

Withdrawing social workers from NHS will ‘boost Care Act compliance’, claims council

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