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Children

Family justice overhaul bids to limit number of care proceedings

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Coronavirus, Workforce

‘Before, there were peaks and troughs – with Covid, it’s relentless’: social work eight months into the pandemic

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Teenager/adolescent in shadow

Inform Children

Podcast: Child to parent violence and abuse

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Supreme Court

Adults, Children

Parents may not consent to detention of incapacitated young people, Supreme Court finds

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Supreme Court

Children

Supreme Court rules councils can be found negligent if they fail to protect children from harm

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Children, Workforce

How to comply with court rulings on section 20

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Workforce

Social worker reflection eclipsed by managers’ concerns in supervision, survey finds

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Workforce

‘I used to be scared of talking to students’: inside a social work teaching partnership

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Workforce

What do you really get out of supervision?

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Inform Children

Tips to make supervision more effective

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Workforce

Social worker who blamed ‘excessive’ caseload for shortcomings struck off

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Workforce

New qualification for social work support staff to be piloted in Wales

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Children

Council improving children’s services but care plans ‘poor’ – Ofsted

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Children

Never use the word ‘attachment’ again

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Royal Courts of Justice

Children

Court orders rehearing of case where social workers ‘misunderstood’ case law

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Workforce

Social worker used case files to vent anger at IT system

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