Children

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

‘What I wish I had known as a young newly qualified social worker’

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care reform bill clears first parliamentary hurdle

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill explained

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Children, Workforce

Child sexual abuse: professionals to be under duty to report

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Adults, Children

‘How parent advocacy can rebalance the power dynamics of the children’s social care system’

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Extra £200m for social care in council settlement ‘wholly inadequate’, warn sector heads

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Agencies to be required to set up multi-agency child protection teams, under social care reform bill

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Children, Inform Children

Safeguarding disabled children: practice tips

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Children, Social work leaders

Council to vote on bringing children’s services back in-house

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Children, Social work leaders

Practitioners struggling to respond to extrafamilial harm to children, finds analysis of serious cases

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Sara Sharif

Children, Social work leaders

Sara Sharif case review begins after father and stepmother convicted of murder

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Children, Workforce

Step up to Social Work bursary to increase after decade-long freeze

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Families first for children’ model to be rolled out to all councils, says chief social worker

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Children

DfE plans will curb profiteering but not without cutting care placement supply, say social workers

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Children

Podcast: the legacy and impact of life story from a parent’s perspective

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Jahnine Davis

Children, Social work leaders

Case reviews ‘silent’ on racial bias in child protection decision making

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