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Community Care cover from 1997, depicting the 1997 Labour election win

Adults, Children, Workforce

Social work in the 2000s: New Labour’s focus on performance management

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A typewriter with a page that has the following words on it: 'The Sensory Narrative by Rosie R.'

Children

The Sensory Narrative: a poem on the cases that leave a mark

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a group of social workers looking at the camera in front of a green background

Employer Focus

Getting it right for practitioners: how one council shows its commitment to staff wellbeing

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Middle aged woman sitting on the couch (negative emotions). Upset mid-age woman sitting on sofa indoors. She is concerned about something or having headache.

Children, Workforce

‘A vocation, full of the best moments and some of the saddest’: a retiring children’s home manager looks back

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Man sat on a wheelchair holding on to another hand of a person that is off frame.

Adults, Workforce

Social work across the decades: how the disability movement reshaped social care

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Social Worker Talking To Mother And Children At Home

Children

‘Why parents in the child protection system need advocacy’

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Teenage boy wearing backpack looking at world map

Children, Social work leaders

‘How children are missing out on family care because councils fail to consider overseas placements’

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Wooden hexagon with text EXECUTIVE FUNCTION SKILLS

Adults

Why understanding executive function is critical when working with homeless people

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Family taking a selfie together looking happy

Children, Social work leaders

Fostering Families: a relationship-based alternative to separating them

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typewriter with a note writing 'Dear Social Worker by Becky Haasch'

Workforce

‘Dear social worker’: a poem to make practitioners feel seen

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Adults, Children

Social work across the decades: the birth of the adults’/children’s divide

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Research results post-it note on mouse

Adults, Children

How parents with learning disabilities lack support before, during and after care proceedings

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Folder with tabs headed 'high', 'medium' and 'low', above a post-it with the word 'priority' on it

Adults, Social work leaders

How prioritisation tool can help councils tackle their DoLS backlogs

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A social worker sits on a couch across a teenage boy, both looking downcast.

Children

‘How admitting I disliked a child helped me grow as a social worker’

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materials used for all about me life story work: a cardboard box containing pens, stickers, alphabet letters, sellotape and glue

Children

How creative life story work puts care experienced children in control

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A brown and white dog is standing in front of a wooden door

Workforce

Social workers’ encounters with dogs: addressing the evidence gap

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