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Workforce

Social work cartoon: ‘Overtime’

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Adults, Children

Can practitioners unintentionally sabotage the desired outcomes of service users?

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Children

All ‘children’s homes’ should be regulated to keep children safe

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Adults, Children

Do we think enough about love for children in care?

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Workforce

Social work cartoon: ‘Hot desking’

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Adults

‘If he doesn’t answer the door within ten seconds – something is wrong’

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Children

‘We have to get serious about child-on-adoptive-parent violence’

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders

What good social work case recording looks like and how existing practice can improve

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Children

No reports, time limits, or meeting tables: how we redesigned assessments around listening

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Workforce

‘Now I understand why social workers split up my family’

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Children

Duties to report restraint in schools must now be brought into force

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Children, Workforce

Ofsted criticises council where some social workers have caseloads of over 50

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Children, Social work leaders

Stable leadership, a clear practice model and empowered staff: how one council went from ‘good’ to ‘outstanding’

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Felix Ngole

Workforce

Legitimate free speech or views incompatible with social work: an analysis of the Felix Ngole case

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Adults, Workforce

Social work diary: ‘I explain he will sign a form, the handcuffs will be removed, and the officers will leave’

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Workforce

Why small ideas to boost wellbeing – like free coffee for social workers – need to be tested

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