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Adults, Coronavirus, Social work leaders

Government finds additional Covid social care cash at 11th hour with services on ‘financial cliff edge’

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Workforce

‘We want measurable change’: a call to action to end systemic racism in social work

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Adults, Children, Coronavirus, Workforce

Supporting social workers in 2021

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Social worker Guy Oscroft, who died in January 2021

Coronavirus, Workforce

‘A tragic loss to the profession’: colleagues pay tribute to social worker lost to Covid

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Coronavirus, Workforce

‘You can’t verify injuries over Zoom’ – remote social work under Covid-19 in the UAE

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Coronavirus, Workforce

‘In its own little bubble from the world’ – a year of social work in Covid-free New Zealand

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Coronavirus, Workforce

‘People are struggling economically and socially’: social work in Canada during Covid

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Adults

Council had no regard for man’s human rights in leaving him in care home for five months, report finds

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Inform Adults, Inform Children, Mental Health

How social workers can work with domestic abuse, substance use and mental ill health

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Children

11% increase in Cafcass social worker numbers in past year as caseloads reach record levels

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Children, Social work leaders

Regulator to probe whether profit comes at expense of quality in children’s social care market

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Adults, Social work leaders

Budget cuts planned for social care as councils count cost of pandemic, public spending watchdog finds

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Children, Social work leaders

‘An inspirational social work leader’: tributes paid to children’s director who died after contracting Covid

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Government opens migration route for some overseas care staff but providers say more must be done

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Children, Workforce

Children’s social workers: tell us about your caseloads

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Adults, Social work leaders

People denied entitlement to continuing healthcare because of assessment backlog, experts warn

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