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Children, Coronavirus

How virtual family group conferences have fared under Covid-19

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Adults, Children

How the government proposes to reform the Mental Health Act

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Adults

Council breached Care Act guidance by setting arbitrary limit for funding woman’s live-in care

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Adults, Children

Long-awaited Mental Health Act overhaul bids to empower patients and tackle racial disparities

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Children

Minister gives council a year to show it can keep control of children’s services following improvements

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Adults, Coronavirus, Workforce

ADASS urges emergency workforce plan as NHS pressures and staff gaps risk ‘overwhelming social care’

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Adults

How Black and ethnic minority mental health patients’ cultural needs frequently go unmet

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Coronavirus, Workforce

Sector bodies call for clarity over social workers’ position in Covid-19 vaccination priority list

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Workforce

Social work leader who chaired Covid taskforce knighted in New Year’s Honours

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Adults

Study finds Care Act knowledge gaps among social workers and lack of impact of supervision

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Coronavirus, Workforce

Thinking the unthinkable to support social work students in this third lockdown

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Workforce

Councils selected to pilot equality standard to tackle ‘institutional racism’ in social work

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Workforce

Social Work England removes 256 practitioners from register for not meeting final CPD deadline

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Children, Coronavirus, Social work leaders

Should virtual child protection conferences become the new normal?

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Coronavirus, Workforce

Almost 5,000 social workers removed from register now able to practise to bolster Christmas capacity

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Children

Inspectors condemn secure centre for ‘ignoring’ concerns over children locked in rooms for two weeks

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