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Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay

Adults, Social work leaders

Social care secretary back in post as government mulls delay to cap on care costs

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Gillian Keegan

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care gets fifth cabinet minister of 2022 while facing significant policy shake-up

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Two professionals in discussion regarding a young woman

Workforce

Social work with interpreters: lessons from research

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Woman absorbed in thoughts looking out the window

Children

‘How social workers can better support Polish families’

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Happy grandmother hugging her grandson

Children, Social work leaders

How social workers can improve support for the ‘silent and unheard majority’ of kinship carers

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Image of girl talking to male social worker (credit: Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse)

Children

How social workers can help schools address harmful sexual behaviour

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Portrait of sad lonely girl at home looking through window.

Adults, Workforce

Why live-in care staff are at high risk of modern slavery

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Teenager looking upset

Children

‘Social workers should do everything to help children in care maintain the relationships that matter’

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Human rights card

Adults, Children

Archived: the proposed Bill of Rights and social work

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Young black man receiving a mental health assessment

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Archive: guide to the draft Mental Health Bill

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help

Children, Social work leaders

Surviving Ofsted: a team manager’s story

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Why the evidence does not support multi-agency child protection units’

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Close up interviewer interview candidate apply for job at meeting room in office

Social work leaders, Workforce

Employers failing to advertise part-time social work roles, finds study

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Regional policy key on keyboard

Children, Social work leaders

Regional care commissioning ‘risks greater costs, bureaucracy and remote decision making’

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The word 'recruit' spelt out

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Reforms would require ‘unfeasible’ boost to social work numbers without system change, says report

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Picture with a postit note that reads 'I quit!'

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Twenty per cent rise in children’s social workers quitting sector last year, suggest government figures

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