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Mithran Samuel is editor of Community Care.

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Adults, Social work leaders

Councils need more funding to manage CQC adult services performance checks, leaders warn

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection role poses workforce challenge for test-bed authorities

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Children, Social work leaders

Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

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Adults, Workforce

Homelessness social work role valuable but rare, isolated and temporarily funded – study

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Pay now top motivator for social workers to change jobs

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Rachel de Souza

Children, Social work leaders

Councils breaching guidance by not taking homeless teenagers into care, suggests Children’s Commissioner

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Workforce

Pay deal to go through in Scotland as UNISON members give assent

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Inform Adults, Inform Children, Workforce

How CC Inform can boost your CPD and help you stay in social work

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Social work leaders, Workforce

More than half of social workers still to renew two weeks out from 30 November deadline

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Good social work basics’ key to year-on-year children’s services improvements – Ofsted

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

10% pay rise for thousands of care workers as government announces national living wage rise

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Children, Social work leaders

15th consecutive rise in care population in England over past year, DfE data shows

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Compass dial pointing to word 'performance'

Adults, Social work leaders

Most councils rated good for adult social care in CQC pilot assessments

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Adults, Social work leaders

Social care staff carrying out tasks previously undertaken by NHS, without extra funding, say directors

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

DHSC rejects experts’ plan to curb ‘inhumane’ solitary confinement of disabled people in hospital

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Children, Social work leaders

Number of foster care households shrinks for second consecutive year

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