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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Rules curbing councils’ use of agency social workers to come into force

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Children, Social work leaders

Inspectors to probe agencies’ response to child victims of domestic abuse

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils losing ground to NHS in competition for social workers, warns LGA

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Children, Social work leaders

Home Office age assessments for asylum seekers under inspection

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Children, Workforce

‘Social work, domestic abuse and coercive control: do we know what is going on and why?’

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Project to cut social work workloads to continue under Labour government

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Children, Workforce

More children at risk of extra-familial harm or reliant on food banks, say social workers

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Regions seeking to develop joint agreement on employing agency social workers

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Children, Social work leaders

Government to legislate to tackle ‘profiteering’ in children’s social care, says minister

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Children, Social work leaders

Regional care commissioning test-bed sites selected

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Adults, Children, Workforce

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

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Not the role of social work courses to train students in specialist practice areas, say academic leaders

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Children, Social work leaders

Response to neglect ‘slow and inadequate’ due to high thresholds and lack of services, finds NSPCC

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Children, Social work leaders

Ofsted to scrap single-word judgments of social care services

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Adults, Children

£2.3bn boost to social care spending in 2023-24

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Adults, Children

Half of Rape Crisis services expect to make cuts, despite growing demand from children’s social care

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