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Social Worker Support and Safeguarding

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Children, Social work leaders

Budget includes £44m for kinship and foster care

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Word blocks spelling out 'outsourcing' being changed to 'insourcing'

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s services return to council control as trust is wound up

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Social care likely to be hit by cuts across most councils next year, finds survey

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Children, Inform Children

Understanding online child sexual exploitation

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Children

Team Manager – Family & Friends Assessment and Support

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

New directors’ training programme extended to help tackle DCS turnover

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Jacky Tiotto, chief executive, Cafcass

Children, Social work leaders

Cafcass issues new domestic abuse policy to tackle practice shortfalls

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Adults, Children

Review of carer’s allowance overpayments announced

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Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils handed guide to what works in supporting kinship families

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Janet Daby

Children, Social work leaders

Government confirms backing for family help model initiated by Conservatives

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Jahnine Davis

Children, Social work leaders

Adultification bias expert appointed national kinship care ambassador

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Children, Workforce

DfE agency rules will have no impact on locum use, say social workers

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Young black man and woman, who is a wheelchair user, talking in a hotel lobby

Children, Social work leaders

Self-reported disability rate among care leavers double that recorded by councils, finds research

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Children, Social work leaders

Care proceedings delays reduce but 26-week target still missed in most cases

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils given £1,125 each to meet agency social worker data burdens

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