Children

News, practice information and opinion on children and families social work and social care
Teenage girl in care

Children, Social work leaders

More children in care placed far from home, increasing risk of poorer wellbeing, finds research

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Finley Boden’s death and Fatima Whitbread’s journey from care to the medal rostrum

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

What disabled children’s abuse inquiry means for social workers and councils

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Outdated’ law on social care for disabled children will be reviewed

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Safeguarding overhaul needed to better protect disabled children in care, says abuse inquiry

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Young social worker working remotely

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE should set expectation of face-to-face practice for children’s social workers, say directors

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2023 budget written on a piece of paper

Children, Workforce

Cafcass pay deal subject to 5% government ceiling

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John Pearce, ADCS president, 2023-24

Children, Social work leaders

‘You can’t reform a children’s social care system based on quicksand’

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Finley Boden

Children

Finley Boden: case review examining factors behind baby’s murder after return to parents

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: the vilification of social workers and Sunak’s ‘misrepresentative’ comments on profession

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Decision to shelve LPS ‘unacceptable blow to thousands unlawfully detained’

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Palliative care social work: ‘this is proper social work, this is what I trained to do’

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Young black man receiving a mental health assessment

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Home Office age assessment body opposed by BASW starts work

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Deprivation of liberty and the Mental Capacity Act – the way forward

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Suella Braverman

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Practitioners to be mandated to report child sexual abuse

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Social Worker of the Year Awards 2022, overall winners, pictured at parliamentary reception

Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Worker of the Year Awards open for entries

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