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Adults

Covid-19 vaccine in 80-year-old care home resident’s best interests despite son’s objections, rules court

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Adults, Children

The ‘alarmingly weak’ evidence base for the ‘toxic trio’

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Coronavirus, Workforce

36 social workers of working age died from Covid-19 in 2020, official figures show

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Video assessments by AMHPs unlawful, High Court rules

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Children

Council failed to protect siblings who suffered ‘repeated unprovoked assaults’ by brother for three years

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investigations

Children, Social work leaders

Competition watchdog mulling probe into children’s social care market

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Children

Most care experienced people say they should have representation on leadership of care review

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Adults

Woman went 19 months without care after council wrongly stopped direct payments, says report

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Adults, Workforce

Nearly half of adult social care employers operating with or below ‘bare minimum of skills’, survey finds

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Children

Responding effectively to sibling sexual abuse

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Adults, Children

Mental Health Act overhaul will not tackle racial disparities without societal change, experts warn

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Children

Care review head defends appointment amid questions over his suitability

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Adults, Coronavirus, Workforce

Social care given £120m to relieve workforce pressures as new variant drives spiralling absence rates

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Coronavirus, Workforce

Many children’s social workers excluded from Covid-19 vaccine priority groups

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Children

Frontline chief appointed to lead children’s social care review

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Children

Why judgment in puberty blockers case should not obscure benefits of transition for some children

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