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A typewriter with a page that has the following words on it: 'The Sensory Narrative by Rosie R.'

Children

The Sensory Narrative: a poem on the cases that leave a mark

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Children

‘We make mothers responsible, but don’t work with men’: Brid Featherstone on child protection

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Yvette Stanley

Children, Social work leaders

‘Worrying’ number of children wrongly placed in supported accommodation, says Ofsted chief

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Children, Workforce

‘A vocation, full of the best moments and some of the saddest’: a retiring children’s home manager looks back

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Children, Inform Children

How to develop critical reflection in your practice

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

ASYE failure rate falls but racial gap persists, reports Skills for Care

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Children

Should parents have a right to advocacy during child protection cases?

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Adults, Children

‘You don’t just sign section papers’: project to evidence value of AMHP role starts work

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social worker shortage set to increase over next decade, says DfE

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Social work academic Olive Stevenson

Children, Workforce

‘A true doyen of social work’: the life and influence of Olive Stevenson

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Children, Social work leaders

Project seeks to improve quality of child safeguarding reviews

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James Timpson, at the time minister for prisons, standing in front of a union jack

Children, Workforce

Minister highlights prison social workers’ role in helping female inmates maintain relationships

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Aman Basi, from Sandwell Children's Trust, and Dr Tarsem Singh Cooner, of the University of Birmingham

Children

The virtual reality social work training programme enabling relationship-based practice

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Award-winning author Jenny Molloy speaking at Community Care Live 2023

Adults, Children, Workforce

Learn from lived experience to enhance your social work practice

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Adults, Children, Workforce

How confident are social workers in the Labour government?

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Children

Councils offered £15,000 to take in unaccompanied children from Kent

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