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Children, Social work leaders

Independent trust takes over children’s services from council

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Coronavirus, Workforce

Watchdog to probe race inequalities in social care workforce exposed by Covid-19

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Workforce

Regulator moots registration of social work students to boost their professional identity

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Coronavirus, Workforce

Social workers: tell us about the coronavirus pandemic’s ongoing impact on your practice

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Children, Social work leaders

Adequate funding across spectrum of children’s needs ‘crucial’ to better outcomes and savings – DfE study

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Adults, Coronavirus

Covid-19 drive to clear hospital beds left some of those discharged with unmet needs and no support

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Adults

Court order removing disabled man from home breached human rights

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Children

‘Food is a marker of identity’: supporting foster children’s cultural heritage

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Children

Most families facing virtual family court hearings concerned about handling of their case, study finds

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Workforce

Over half of social workers yet to meet CPD requirement one month out from registration deadline

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Government launches review into council after auditors find repeated failure to control social care costs

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Adults

Mental Health Act detentions three times higher in most than least deprived areas, as race gap widens

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Adults, Workforce

Social care providers ‘disappointed’ as government rejects advisers’ calls to relax migration rules for sector

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Adults

When mental capacity assessments must delve beneath what people say to what they do

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Children

Unaccompanied children held for ‘far too long’ at intake unit and some sent to adult centres, say inspectors

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Adults

Council failed to meet disabled man’s eligible need to access community for 14 months

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