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Adults, Social work leaders

Why council was found to have breached Care Act needs duty after panel cut indicative budget

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Children, Social work leaders

How social workers can better support families affected by online child sexual abuse

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Adults, Children, Workforce

‘Give AMHPs the therapeutic tools they need to underpin least restrictive practice’

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Social work leaders, Workforce

‘What Ramadan means to me as a social worker – and how I shared this with colleagues’

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Workforce

The Job: a poem on social work

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Workforce

‘Why we need an award for social work journalism’

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Adults, Social work leaders

Making a success of DoLS in the wake of the Liberty Protection Safeguards delay

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Deprivation of liberty and the Mental Capacity Act – the way forward

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Children

Where are the support services for families whose children are adopted?

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autism

Workforce

‘On the spectrum’: how autism has affected my career

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Children

‘The wrong people are running the care system – and getting it badly wrong’

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Children, Workforce

‘Pandemic, pay cuts and poor press: is it worth staying in social work?’

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Children

Key messages for social workers from research into kinship foster care

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Adults

Social workers’ role in promoting the human right to vote

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Workforce

‘Why do we do social work, when it takes us away from our own children?’

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Social work diary: ‘Why I introduce myself as a social worker, not a manager’

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