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

Multiple and complex needs found in backgrounds of children deprived of liberty

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE pledges action on ‘excessive’ workload pressures for children’s social workers

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Children

Child sexual abuse remains ‘very hidden’ despite increase in recorded case numbers, warns expert centre

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE backs early career framework but rejects national pay scales for children’s social workers

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE care review response: key points

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Agency social worker pay to be capped to that of permanent staff

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Children, Workforce

Independent reviewing officer role saved in DfE care review response

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Children, Social work leaders

Care review lead: government must go further and faster in response

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE provides 15% of funding urged by care review in response

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection social workers to be piloted in DfE care review response

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Children, Social work leaders

Children are in ‘extreme crisis’: top judge berates DfE’s six-year failure to tackle ‘gross’ lack of secure units

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Children, Social work leaders

Placements ‘do not exist’ for asylum-seeking children in hotels – ADCS

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Adults, Children

Mental health patient safety review launched in wake of abuse reports

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Children, Social work leaders

200 unaccompanied children still missing after disappearing from Home Office hotels

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Adults, Children

UPDATED: Scrap most community treatment orders, MPs and peers urge government

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Children, Social work leaders

Combine social work with scientific methods to boost reliability of age checks, experts advise government

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