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Adults

Distress, uncertainty and frustration: nearest relatives’ experience of Mental Health Act assessments

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Children

‘Resident protests against children’s homes are a microcosm of an uncaring care system’

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Children

Age assessment overhaul to go ahead as planned after peers withdraw opposition

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Children

‘She was heartbroken – and no amount of love was going to fix that’: how fostering is not what you think

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Vital but not fit for purpose’: parents’ views on supervision orders

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Mental Capacity Act

Adults, Children

Guide to the draft MCA code of practice

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Children

Like a bomb going off in the family: supporting parents whose children experience sexual abuse

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Adults, Children

‘What being a parent of a child with Down syndrome taught me that social work could not’

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

How the government plans to implement the Liberty Protection Safeguards

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Children, Social work leaders

What ending physical punishment of children in Wales means for social work

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Children, Workforce

Children’s social workers: how big is your caseload?

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Children

‘Why did no one ask me?’ The question no child sexual abuse victim should ever have to ask

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Children

From parental blame to partnership with families: how to transform children’s social care

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Careers Zone

Tips to organise your social work life

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Workforce

Social work diary: ‘I wonder how much longer I can go on like this’

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Children, Coronavirus

‘Gains for care leavers must not be lost post-pandemic’

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