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Team manager leading meeting

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Review proposals to ‘axe’ child protection conference chairs a ‘massive concern’, warns BASW

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Care review lead Josh MacAlister

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Care review urges national social work pay scales to reward expertise and boost retention

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Why only specialist child protection teams will tackle the annual child death toll’

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Bootle Town Hall

Children, Social work leaders

Council’s lack of social work capacity leaving children inadequately protected, finds Ofsted

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Skyline view of Hull Guildhall (credit: Paul Lakin / Wikimedia Commons)

Children, Social work leaders

Ofsted hails ‘inadequate’ council’s progress in latest visit

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Image of Leeds town hall and skyline

Children, Social work leaders

Council recovers from performance dip to maintain top Ofsted grade

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woman looking downcast

Children

‘Social workers judged me without knowing me’: tackling the criminalisation of care-experienced girls

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Image of child's hand in grandparent's (credit: Ole_CNX / Adobe Stock)

Children, Social work leaders

‘Why social work needs to become more skilled in kinship care’

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Middle-aged son comforting retiree terminally ill father, suffering pain, care

Adults

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

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Young man looking sad talking to professional

Children

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

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Young asylum seeker

Children

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

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Image of female child holding female adults' hand (credit: Chinnapong / Adobe Stock)

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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upset parents talking to social worker

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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