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Workforce

Guidance a chance to improve NHS support for mental health social workers, say sector leaders

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investigations

Adults

Council failed to meet woman’s eligible need to maintain home

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Workforce

Two-thirds of social workers yet to upload CPD, eight weeks from registration renewal deadline

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Matt Hancock

Adults, Mental Health

Government to drop Coronavirus Act provisions weakening Mental Health Act protections

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A sign saying 'immigration' at an airport

Adults, Coronavirus, Workforce

Ending free movement poses ‘stark’ risks to social care without extra funding, warn government advisers

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Think Ahead

Workforce

Fast-track mental health social work course gets £18m boost to increase intake by 60%

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pay key on keyboard

Adults, Coronavirus, Workforce

Social care staff need new pay structure, on par with NHS, within months, government told

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The word 'recruit' spelt out

Adults, Workforce

Higher NHS pay for forensic social workers causing recruitment challenge for councils

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Mark Trewin, formerly mental health social work lead at the Department of Health and Social Care (Photo: Rethink)

Adults, Workforce

Mental health social work ‘must do better’ as study finds less staff diversity than in rest of profession

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Adults, Social work leaders

Council failed to consider human rights of couple it separated after 59 years together, says watchdog

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Human rights card

Adults, Coronavirus

Social care staff not given human rights training to deal with Covid impact, finds research

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mental health act

Coronavirus, Workforce

Covid-19: AMHPs’ protective equipment needs not sufficiently considered, warn sector leaders

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teenager

Adults, Children

‘Exploitation does not stop at 18’: chief social workers highlight gap in support for young adult victims

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Couple and domestic abuse with their son

Children, Coronavirus

Covid-19: increased isolation ‘risks worsening level and severity of domestic abuse’

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Louise Pashley, overall winner at the Social Worker of the Year Awards (centre), with (from left) chair of trustees Peter Hay, awards founder Beverely Williams, awards patron and presenter Lorraine Pascale and James Rook,, chief executive of headline sponsor Sanctuary Peronnel

Children

Social worker of the year on the transformation of once embattled Rotherham

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Rishi Sunak

Coronavirus

Budget: £5bn for coronavirus will help social care but government criticised for lack of sector funding

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