About Mithran Samuel

Mithran Samuel is editor of Community Care.

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Massive’ cut in care population is key success measure for DfE reforms, says chief social worker

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

Regulator urges TV industry to ‘change the script’ on how it depicts social work

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Minority ethnic social care staff face disproportionately high levels of bullying and disciplinaries – study

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Non-statutory placements make up over half of provision for students in Scotland, report reveals

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Children, Social work leaders

40% of family support staff have personal experience of domestic abuse, finds survey

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

DoLS: older people routinely having rights breached because of failure to tackle ‘huge’ backlog, warns charity

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Workforce

AMHPs to stage walkout as social work strike action hits sixth council within a year

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Fitness to practise delays set to rise further due to Social Work England budget pressures

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UNISON vice president Julia Mwaluke on the picket line with Barnet UNISON strikers

Workforce

Social workers to take nine more weeks of strike action as talks fail to resolve dispute

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils urged to test social work early career framework

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Adults, Workforce

Care home nursing fee gets 7.4% boost in ‘win for sector’

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Jeremy Hunt

Children, Social work leaders

Budget: Hunt finds £165m for children’s homes as part of public sector productivity drive

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Rachel de Souza

Children, Social work leaders

Postcode lottery in child in need support uncovered by Children’s Commissioner

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Workforce

Social Work England cuts timeframes for investigating staff alleged to be practising illegally

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

One in nine councils granted emergency support to balance books

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