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What are the biggest problems facing children in care?

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Children, Workforce

‘Changing your mindset as important as changing policy if you want to improve practice’

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Workforce, Children

Council with ‘oppressive’ culture no longer failing, inspectors report

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Children

Play written by residential child care worker explores social work and life in care

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Children

Nearly one in five councils do not have policies to support kinship carers, study finds

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Children

Beyond male role models in social care: What works when working with young men?

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Children

How social workers can achieve successful reunifications for children in care

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Children

Judge sends warning to councils after girl at risk of CSE is wrongly held in custody

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Children

Department for Education ‘alarmingly reluctant’ to improve outcomes for children

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Children

The Secret Foster Carer: ‘Social workers should consider why a family owns a dog’

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Children

England’s top family judge criticises social workers for acting as ‘guardians of morality’

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Children

Half of foster carers do not feel their role is valued by social work teams

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High Court fines council after high social worker turnover breached child’s rights

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Children, Wales, Workforce

Welsh social workers need more time for direct work with children, warn inspectors

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Children

Nearly two thirds of councils refuse to place children in ‘adequate’ rated homes

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Children

Nearly half of sibling groups are separated in care, finds report

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