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Andy McNicoll is Community Care’s news editor.

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Adults

Deprivation of liberty reforms postponed

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Children

Social workers ‘deeply concerned’ by Home Office guidance on assessing Calais camp children

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Adults

Council defies ombudsman with refusal to fund care for man with critical needs

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Adults, Mental Health

AMHP teams stretched as Mental Health Act detentions rise again

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Workforce

Social worker who Facebook messaged service user suspended

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Adults

Guidance for forensic social workers launched

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Adults

Government to scrap Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards inquests duty

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Children

Watch: ‘Unleashing the potential of every young person’

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Children

‘The best social work I’ve seen wasn’t about filling out forms’

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Adults

Landmark deal for private firm to run social work service approved

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Workforce

‘Leadership programme reignited my passion for social work’

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Adults

‘Underfunded and overstretched’: complaints about home care rise

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Adults

Virgin Care set to run social work service in unprecedented deal

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Children

Lords defeat government on plan for exemptions from social care law

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Workforce

DfE must act to mend ‘us and them’ split with social work

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Workforce

Social Work England – a quick guide to the regulator set to replace HCPC

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