About Luke Stevenson

Luke Stevenson is Community Care’s children’s social care journalist

Author Archive | Luke Stevenson

Children

Barriers to learning: Why social workers are struggling with child sexual abuse cases

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Children

Life after leaving care: ‘There’s always something to fight for’

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Baby P

Children, Your Say, Workforce

Baby P: The Untold Story ‘A shocking catalogue of cover ups’

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Children, Social care leaders

Building the ‘future model of children’s social services’

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Adult and child play

Children, Social care leaders

How one charity plans to reduce child maltreatment by 70% by 2030

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Children

Nominated officer sign off to be required before children placed in care voluntarily return home

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Children

Social workers could only need to visit children in long-term foster care placements twice a year

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Children

Life after leaving care: ‘There were times when I’ve rifled through bins’

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Baby P

Children

Baby P documentary claims police briefed journalists against social workers

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Children, Workforce

Birmingham’s new children’s services boss quits before starting

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Children

More than 1,700 girls and women treated for genital mutilation in September

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Baby P

Children

‘Baby P: The Untold Story’ TV documentary announced by BBC

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Children

Support for social workers is key to fixing failing services, says Slough’s new children’s commissioner

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Workforce

‘Social work in the Arctic? What were you doing, counselling penguins?’ Reactions to The Apprentice’s first social worker

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Workforce

Social worker sanctioned over Facebook posts reflects on feeling abandoned amidst a media storm

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Children

Leaving care services are “not working for the most vulnerable” warns Action for Children

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