About Kirsty McGregor

Kirsty McGregor is Community Care's workforce editor, responsible for our coverage of social work pay, conditions and conduct.

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Children, Workforce

We must stand by social workers and recognise they’re making complex decisions, says safeguarding board chair

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Workforce

Universities strongly committed to improving qualifying social work programmes, report shows

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Workforce

Birmingham reveals plans to cut 1,000 jobs and warns it may have to stop delivering some frontline services altogether

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Workforce

Two-thirds of newly qualified social workers would recommend the assessed year, finds first evaluation

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Health and Care Professions Council sign

Workforce

Social workers in England to pay higher registration fees from April 2014, regulator confirms

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Workforce

How to reduce stress among social workers; what managers can do to help

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Child on swing

Workforce, Children

MPs report on the pressures facing social workers

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Workforce

Social workers more likely to turn to food than to managers as way of coping with stress

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Workforce

Inspections, restructuring or a challenging job market: what is behind the rise in agency social workers?

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Workforce

More than 2,400 UK care workers owed £340,000 in arrears because their employers breached minimum wage laws

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Fitness to practise hearing

Workforce

Social worker involved in drunken domestic disputes is banned from practice for a year

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Workforce

Ten things you can do to make your social work practice placement a success

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Workforce

Southwark council commits to changing its commissioning practices to improve conditions for home care workers

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Workforce

Number of social work education programmes in England fell last year, with work-based learning hardest hit

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Shadow of an adult and child

Children

How to banish the blame culture in children’s social work: lessons from Flanders

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Fitness to practise hearing

Workforce

Newly qualified social worker who complained of high caseload suspended for putting service users at risk

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