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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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Janet Daby

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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Community Care cover from 1997, depicting the 1997 Labour election win

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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Sad girl hugging a teddy

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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Young woman receiving counselling

Adults, Children

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

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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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Brid Featherstone wearing gray earrings and a gray blazer.

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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