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Rachel Carter is Community Care's adults social care journalist

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Adults

Coroner warns social workers: check service users have smoke alarms

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Adults

Autism service at centre of police investigation to be shut down

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Mental Health

‘Overwhelming but exciting’: inside social work’s latest graduate scheme

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Adults

Care cuts: ‘If it meets needs and costs less then we have no choice’

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Adults

Care home placed in special measures after residents left ‘at risk of financial abuse’

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Children

Judge praises social worker’s ‘unstinting commitment’ in radicalisation case

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Children

‘My social workers know we climb out of the difficult times together’

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Adults

Care minister role downgraded in government reshuffle

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Adults

Time pressures compromising social work practice at council, finds review

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Adults

Home care provider pulls out of council contracts over fee row

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Three days left to enter Social Worker of the Year Awards

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Adults

Council rapped for refusing to fund care for man with critical needs

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Adults

‘Social work is about human rights, not assessing the life out of people’

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Adults

Care minister will resign before next government reshuffle

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Adults

Council moves social care services to trading company to avoid closures

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Adults, Children

Vulnerable hit ‘disproportionately’ by UK austerity measures, UN warns

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