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News, practice information and opinion on children and families social work and social care
Labour leader Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves talking to residents in Great Yarmouth in 2023

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

No funded social care commitments in Labour manifesto

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties – research

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Ashley John-Baptiste, credit Cebo Luthuli

Children

Book review: ‘Looked After: A Childhood in Care’

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Adults, Children

Social work across the decades: the birth of the adults’/children’s divide

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Children, Social work leaders

No new funding for children’s social care reforms in Tory manifesto despite £2.6bn care review bill

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Adults, Children

How parents with learning disabilities lack support before, during and after care proceedings

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Children, Workforce

Frontline rebrands fast-track social work programme

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Mounting social care costs leave councils facing £6.2bn black hole over next two years, warns LGA

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A social worker sits on a couch across a teenage boy, both looking downcast.

Children

‘How admitting I disliked a child helped me grow as a social worker’

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materials used for all about me life story work: a cardboard box containing pens, stickers, alphabet letters, sellotape and glue

Children

How creative life story work puts care experienced children in control

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Jane Dunne smiling

Children

Award-winning manager on why family drug and alcohol court services need a secure future

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Children, Inform Children

How to write a court report

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Children

First map of adoption support services for birth families created by social workers

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Never stop learning written on a memo stick. Lifelong learning concept.

Adults, Children

Are you up to speed with the latest Mental Capacity Act 2005 case law?

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Adoption leaders bid to reform ‘institutionally racist’ system

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Children

Mandatory child sexual abuse duty plan dropped in pre-election legislation rush

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