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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection role poses workforce challenge for test-bed authorities

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Children, Social work leaders

Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

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Janet and Lizzie

Children, Choose Social Work

‘She’s been a mother figure to me’: a care leaver and social worker’s story

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Rachel de Souza

Children, Social work leaders

Councils breaching guidance by not taking homeless teenagers into care, suggests Children’s Commissioner

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Children

‘We must stop blaming mothers in child protection social work’

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Good social work basics’ key to year-on-year children’s services improvements – Ofsted

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Children, Social work leaders

15th consecutive rise in care population in England over past year, DfE data shows

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

DHSC rejects experts’ plan to curb ‘inhumane’ solitary confinement of disabled people in hospital

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Children, Inform Children

Responding to children’s disclosures of domestic abuse: a three-step approach

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Children, Social work leaders

Number of foster care households shrinks for second consecutive year

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Shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Labour pledges to reform Mental Health Act if elected

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Jacky Tiotto, chief executive, Cafcass

Children, Social work leaders

‘Caseloads are the vital sign of social work health’ – Cafcass chief

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Children, Workforce

Families missing out on social work support because early help staff given overly complex cases – report

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Mental Health Act reform ditched, King’s Speech confirms

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Mandatory reporting: government not expecting hike in child sexual abuse referrals

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Children, Social work leaders

Rising children’s social care costs deepening councils’ financial woes, finds study

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