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Andy McNicoll is Community Care’s news editor.

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Adults, Mental Health

Complying with landmark deprivation of liberty ruling would cost extra £1.5bn a year

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Mental Health

Approved mental health professionals set to strike over night shift row

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Adults, Mental Health

Deprivation of liberty: How long are BIAs taking to complete assessments?

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Adults

Government to reconsider Care Act funding allocations in bid to quash legal challenge

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Children, Workforce

What you need to know about private firms’ role in flagship children’s social care reforms

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Adults, Workforce

Support for Principal Social Worker networks among TCSW functions to be tendered out by government

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Adults, Workforce

Chief social worker for adults to hold ‘open forum’ for practitioners to raise issues

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Adults, Mental Health

Sending acutely ill mental health patients out of area ‘increases post-discharge suicide risk’

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Workforce

Bidders for Professional Capabilities Framework must meet ‘social work values’ test

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Adults, Children, Workforce

‘Badly led and rejected by the profession’: Emails reveal DfE’s damning verdict on College of Social Work

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Adults

Government shelves Care Act funding reforms until 2020

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Workforce

Faculty leads set out plan to protect College of Social Work resources

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Adults, Mental Health

Mental health patients sent hundreds of miles for beds as out of area placements rise 23 per cent

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Adults, Mental Health

Mental health beds crisis ‘driven by discharge delays’, finds report

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Deprivation of liberty: First thoughts on the Law Commission’s reform proposals

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Adults, Mental Health

Law Commission unveils proposals for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards replacement

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