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Lemn Sissay

Children, Social work leaders

Lemn Sissay: ‘All care stories should be successful ones’

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Jenny Molloy, who writes under the pseudonym Hope Daniels, signing her book 'This Isn't Love' at Community Care Live 2024.

Adults, Children

Book review: ‘This Isn’t Love’ by Hope Daniels

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pay key on keyboard

Children, Workforce

Cafcass pay deal for 2024-25 agreed

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Yvette Cooper

Children, Social work leaders

Government orders national audit of child sexual exploitation by gangs

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Sue Williams (right) with Isabelle Trowler (left)

Children, Choose Social Work, Social work leaders, Workforce

A tribute to Sue Williams by Isabelle Trowler

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Young mother looking stressed in foreground with baby in cot in background

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Babies at increased risk of harm due to growing parental needs, say councils

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Children, Inform Children

How to conduct confident direct work with children

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Woman looking depressed next to a cot, suggesting post-natal depression

Adults, Children

‘We are failing women who have their newborn babies removed: that needs to change’

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Mother With Son Trying To Keep Warm By Radiator At Home During Cost Of Living Energy Crisis

Children, Social work leaders

Poverty and homelessness driving demand for children’s social care, directors warn

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A social worker talking to a young person

Children, Workforce

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

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Bridget Phillipson standing in front of a union fla

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care reform bill clears first parliamentary hurdle

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The Houses of Parliament in London

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill explained

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A man's pointing hand next to the inscription mandatory on yellow background

Children, Workforce

Child sexual abuse: professionals to be under duty to report

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The word 'advocate' spelt out in blocks

Adults, Children

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

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Person placing a wooden block with the word 'budget' written in black on it on top of a similar block with the word 'gap' written on it

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

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

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Team manager leading meeting

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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