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News, practice information and opinion on children and families social work and social care
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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family court

Children, Social work leaders

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

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Blocks spelling out the word 'funding'

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

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

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Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

Children, Social work leaders

Children staying longer in care due to inequalities in kinship carer payments, says report

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teenager

Children, Social work leaders

Care leavers exempted from local connection requirement to access social housing

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A teenage girl looks at a photo book at Christmas.

Children, Inform Children

Practice tips for undertaking life story work

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Dial pointing at the word 'performance'

Children, Social work leaders

DfE seeking ‘more cost-effective’ alternative to children’s trusts for struggling services

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘A spokesperson for social work’: Ray Jones’s 50-year career in the sector

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Father with his teenage son at meeting with social worker,

Children, Social work leaders

Councils warned charging parents for children in care will undermine safeguarding and increase costs

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Research results post-it note on mouse

Children

‘Why children with social workers need a dedicated pathway to access CAMHS’

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Overtime, Office Binder on Wooden Desk. On the table colored pencils, pen, notebook paper

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Caseloads fall at Cafcass but social workers still struggling with work pressures, finds survey

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Children, Workforce

Social workers don’t feel supported to work with fathers, poll finds

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