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Adults, Children, Social work leaders
Cost of living crisis ‘severely’ hitting people accessing children’s and adults’ services, social workers warn
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‘Highly effective’ information sharing drives improvements to ‘inadequate’ council’s child protection services
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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce
‘Unsustainable’ reliance on agency care staff needs urgent government action, warns provider body
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Council to fund specialist CSE staff over long-term after inquiry heavily criticises past resourcing
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Case management system and heavy workloads hindering county’s ‘skilled’ social workers, Ofsted finds
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