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

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Readers’ Take: should a single word define the quality of social work services?

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: Paul O’Grady’s death, the strip searching of children and food insecurity for staff

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

UPDATED: No evidence scheme placing social workers in schools reduces need for social care, says What Works

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Children

Where are the support services for families whose children are adopted?

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Children

‘The wrong people are running the care system – and getting it badly wrong’

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What are your thoughts

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Outstanding’ or ‘inadequate’: should a single word define the quality of social work services?

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: World Social Work Day, child poverty and Love Island

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Children, Workforce

‘Pandemic, pay cuts and poor press: is it worth staying in social work?’

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Dr Muzvare Hazviperi Betty Makoni with a group of overseas social workers supported by her organisation, Social Care Empowering Training and Consultancy

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

World Social Work Day: the social workers crossing oceans to practise in the UK

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social work training at your fingertips: one week to go until Festival of Learning 2023!

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Rachel de Souza

Children, Social work leaders

Asylum bill passes first hurdle as commissioner issues stark warning over safeguarding of children

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

BASW urges social workers not to take jobs with Home Office age assessment body

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Jeremy Hunt

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Hunt’s Budget boosts tax relief for foster and shared lives carers and support for care leavers

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: regulation of care leaver accommodation and legal action over children in hotels

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Children

Key messages for social workers from research into kinship foster care

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care bodies unite against asylum bill that ‘profoundly undermines Children Act’

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