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Photo of Luke Rodgers, director of strategy for The Care Leaders

Children, Choose Social Work

‘It was wonderful to have somebody show me they really cared’: Luke Rodgers on the power of social work

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Children's minister David Johnston

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care gets fifth minister in two years

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Typewriter with note writing "Fight or Flight by Rosie R."

Children

Fight or Flight: a poem on children’s courage

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Ray Jones holding a copy of his review of children's social care in Northern Ireland

Children, Social work leaders

Seven lessons for practitioners from the review of children’s social care in Northern Ireland

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Teenager looking upset

Children, Social work leaders

Inspectors to probe agencies’ response to serious youth violence

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Gillian Keegan

Children, Social work leaders

Government urges councils to take in unaccompanied children after court rules hotel placements unlawful

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Supreme Court

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Legal analysis: the Supreme Court’s verdict on ordinary residence and mental health aftercare

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Social Worker of the Year Awards trophies

Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Worker of the Year Awards 2023 finalists announced

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upset parents talking to social worker

Children, Social work leaders

‘Why we’re providing therapy for parents in pre-proceedings’

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crying toddler being comforted by mother

Children, Inform Children

Attachment theory: assessing parental mentalization

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A sad little girl with Down syndrome looking down at home.

Adults, Children

Self-harm and learning disability: the role of grief

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Image of book marked 'family court' and judge's gavel (credit: Vitalii Vodolazskyi / Adobe Stock)

Children, Social work leaders

Children more likely to be reunified when parents are referred to family drug and alcohol courts – research

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Picture of a man reading his newspaper with the logo 'Social Work Recap' on top

Adults, Children

Jacob Crouch: action taken to protect babies following case, says safeguarding body

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Woman reading a newspaper

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social work’s public image ‘pushing people out of frontline roles and making families distrustful’

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Royal Courts of Justice

Children, Social work leaders

Home Office placing asylum-seeking children in hotels unlawfully, rules High Court

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Notebook with list of rules and pen on yellow background, flat lay

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Agency social work is a response to demand and a flexible choice for staff – so rules curbing it won’t work’

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