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Pile of books on a wooden desk with the words 'advice', 'assistance', 'guidance' and 'help' on the spines

Choose Social Work, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social workers advice: 'Take care of yourself first - it's not selfish, it's necessary'

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Teenager looking upset

Children

Private fostering: ‘the potentially vulnerable children going under the radar of services’

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Children, Choose Social Work

Choose Social Work: ‘They helped me escape the life I was living as a teenager’

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Choose Social Work

How negative perceptions of social workers are reinforced in the media

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Workforce

A social worker’s take on the Barbie speech

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Choose Social Work

‘It doesn’t always feel like it – but being a social worker is a privilege’

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Social worker on home visit

Children, Choose Social Work

‘We never hear about the children social workers help’: a day in the life of a social work team

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Social worker talking to boy

Children

Sibling sexual behaviour: helping social workers assess risk and support families

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Diverse group of staff having a meeting

Children

Working with children experiencing neglect: challenges and solutions

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Children

Discharge of care orders: filling the evidence gap

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Islamophobia image

Workforce

‘I was called “Mr Taliban” by a colleague’: one social worker’s experience of Islamophobia

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Pile of books on a wooden desk with the words 'advice', 'assistance', 'guidance' and 'help' on the spines

Adults, Social work leaders

UPDATED: Guide to determining ordinary residence for aftercare under the Mental Health Act

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Typewriter with note writing "Fight or Flight by Rosie R."

Children

Fight or Flight: a poem on children’s courage

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Ray Jones holding a copy of his review of children's social care in Northern Ireland

Children, Social work leaders

Seven lessons for practitioners from the review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland

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Supreme Court

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Legal analysis: the Supreme Court’s verdict on ordinary residence and mental health aftercare

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social worker speaking to two teenagers during a visit

Workforce

‘How to leave home visits on time – and when not to’

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