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Children, Workforce

Councils get £1.5 million to set up national social work centre

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Children, Workforce

Norfolk children’s services told to speed up improvements

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Workforce

Fears over plans for ‘politically controlled’ social work regulation

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Adults

Care firm fined £190,000 after ‘avoidable’ death of disabled man

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Adults, Mental Health

Ruling on privately-funded care adds to deprivation of liberty caseloads

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Workforce

Social workers recognised in Queen’s birthday honours

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Children, Workforce

Judge criticises police for flawed evidence gathering from children in abuse case

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Inform Children

Top tips for preparing balance-sheet evidence

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Adults

Care Act ‘failing to deliver’ as carers face long waits for assessments

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Children, Workforce

Court backs care for children after mum tried taking them to Islamic State

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Stand Up For Social Work, Adults, Workforce

‘A social worker saved my life’

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Children, Workforce

Top tips to improve analysis and decision-making

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Children, Stand Up For Social Work, Workforce

‘Thanks to our social workers, I spent my first Christmas in my own flat with my little girl’

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Workforce, Children

Children’s social workers and compulsory accreditation: what we do and don’t know

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Workforce, Children

One in four new children’s social workers will train on fast-track schemes by 2018

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Workforce

Will social workers be forced to become accredited?

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