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News, practice information and opinion on children and families social work and social care
Teenage girl looking at therapist in therapy session

Children, Social work leaders

Thousands of children risk losing access to vital therapy, claim support providers

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Family meeting in a hall

Children, Social work leaders

‘Substantial work’ needed to improve family group conference data, study finds

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Social worker assessing male carer and child in home setting

Children, Social work leaders

About the new standard of kinship care assessment

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One woman interviewing another for a job in an office

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Record numbers of children’s social workers in post but fewer holding cases, figures reveal

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agency word or concept represented by wooden letter tiles on a wooden table with glasses and a book

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Number of agency social workers falls for first time in seven years in children’s services

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Social Worker Talking To Mother And Children At Home

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Children’s social worker caseload average falls to lowest recorded level, according to DfE measure

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Children, Workforce

Practitioners split over non-social work qualified staff taking on child in need assessments, poll finds

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Post-it notes on a wall with the word 'workload' in the foreground

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Fall in proportion of Cafcass social workers holding more than 20 cases

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Social worker making notes in document while talking to mother and child on a sofa

Children, Social work leaders

‘Our finding that social care touches a quarter of children shows the need to tackle poverty’

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A poster for World Social Work Day 2025 showing a yellow figure bridging the gap between two mountains, alongside the words 'strengthening intergenerational solidarity for enduring wellbeing'

Adults, Children

Free learning on restorative practice for World Social Work Day 2025

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Yvette Cooper

Adults, Children

Child criminal exploitation and ‘cuckooing’ of vulnerable people to be made criminal offences

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Image of men with laptop, calculator and finance reports (Credit: lovelyday12 / Adobe Stock)

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Almost one in five councils granted ‘exceptional’ financial support to help balance books

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Isabella Jonas-Wheildon

Children, Social work leaders

Toddler’s murder shows need for cross-border child protection guidance, finds case review

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A typewriter with a page on which the following words are typed: 'The Monster at Night by Rosie R.'

Children

The Monster at Night: a poem about the struggles of a disabled child

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Social worker talking to an agitated couple

Children, Workforce

‘What I wish I had known about keeping safe during home visits’

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Children, Inform Children

Parental substance misuse: how to support children

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