Children

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

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care gets fifth cabinet minister of 2022 while facing significant policy shake-up

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Rebekah Pierre

Children

‘I wanted to go back and stand up for the little girl that I was’

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE intervenes in council after finding lack of improvement to children’s services

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Children, Social work leaders

Training gaps leave too many practitioners unable to identify and respond to CSA, warns expert body

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Professionals must face duty to report child sexual abuse, says inquiry

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Care review lead Josh MacAlister

Children, Social work leaders

MacAlister appointed to co-lead merged evidence body for social care and early intervention

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

‘There is no fat left to trim’: social care leaders warn Jeremy Hunt against further rounds of cuts

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Jeremy Hunt

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Hunt U-turns on IR35 reform for agency social workers

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Simplistic and optimistic’ approach to domestic abuse evident in serious cases, warns national panel

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Children, Social work leaders

Outsourcing of children’s home placements linked to poorer council Ofsted ratings, suggests study

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Children

‘How social workers can better support Polish families’

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Herefordshire County Council offices

Children, Social work leaders

‘It is very serious’: commissioner warns ‘inadequate’ council it must improve ‘at pace’

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Children, Social work leaders

How social workers can improve support for the ‘silent and unheard majority’ of kinship carers

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Children, Social work leaders

Pre-mobile infant bruising should not automatically prompt section 47s, say government advisers

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Children, Social work leaders

Almost 250 deprivation of liberty applications for children in first two months of national DoLs court

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Children

How social workers can help schools address harmful sexual behaviour

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