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Rachel Carter is Community Care's adults social care journalist

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Adults

Council apologises after ‘chaotic’ safeguarding investigation

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Workforce

Social worker struck off after leaving diary at service user’s home

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Adults

‘Named social worker’ pilot opens for applications

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Adults

From war-torn Uganda to Wokingham: award-winning social worker reflects on career

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Adults

Scandal-hit care firm sees service placed in special measures

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Adults

Care Act 2014: Warning over ‘unnecessary’ costs of annual care plan reviews

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Adults

MPs launch inquiry into financial sustainability of adult social care

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Adults

Council criticised after assessment failings left service user overcharged for care

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Adults, Children

The under-threat project helping dads in prison connect with their children

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Donna Hartley and Mary Hastings, People2People

Adults, Workforce

Council becomes sole shareholder for ‘staff-led’ social work company

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Adults

The difference the Care Act can make to carers – and why too few benefit

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Adults

Coming face-to-face with the impact of social care cuts you’ve made: a director’s story

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Adults, Workforce

Social workers missing targets on care package reviews as backlogs build

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Adults, Workforce

Rise in care homes going out of business

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Adults

Government rejects service user plea for investigation into ‘Care Act breaches’

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Adults

Personal budgets changed my family’s life – but we had to fight hard to get them

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