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Workforce

Social work cartoon: ‘Case allocation’

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Mental Health

Funding for disability employment support schemes being misdirected, finds study

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Mental Health

Rise in complaints to ministers over access to mental health services

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Mental Health, Workforce

‘My social worker understood’: the difference social care made to one man’s mental health

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Mental Health

Mental health funding changes will put lives at risk, warn experts

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Adults, Mental Health

Thousands of people with mental health needs denied social care amid cuts

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Mental Health, Children

Rising caseloads and cuts hit acclaimed early intervention psychosis services

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Workforce

Social work cartoon: ‘The banker’

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Mental Health

CQC seeks mental health social workers to help ‘peer review’ services

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Mental Health

Cuts to benefits and services increasing pressure on mental health social workers

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Mental Health, Workforce

Stress among social workers in mental health teams hits record high

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Workforce

Jo Brand to star in new social work sitcom

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Mental Health

Social workers alert Lamb to ‘unsafe and illegal’ mental health crisis care in his constituency

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Mental Health, Workforce

‘Frontline-style’ fast-track scheme for adult social work set to focus on mental health

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Children, Mental Health

MPs pressure Lamb to address ‘intolerable’ failings in children’s mental health care

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Mental Health

This is what disjointed mental health, physical health and social care feels like

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