Children

News, practice information and opinion on children and families social work and social care
Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

Children, Social work leaders

Children staying longer in care due to inequalities in kinship carer payments, says report

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Children, Social work leaders

Care leavers exempted from local connection requirement to access social housing

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Children, Inform Children

Practice tips for undertaking life story work

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE seeking ‘more cost-effective’ alternative to children’s trusts for struggling services

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘A spokesperson for social work’: Ray Jones’s 50-year career in the sector

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Children, Social work leaders

Councils warned charging parents for children in care will undermine safeguarding and increase costs

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Children

‘Why children with social workers need a dedicated pathway to access CAMHS’

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Caseloads fall at Cafcass but social workers still struggling with work pressures, finds survey

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Children, Workforce

Social workers don’t feel supported to work with fathers, poll finds

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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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Woman social worker talking to girl. Child psychology, mental health.

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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