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Adults, Coronavirus

Social care staff not given human rights training to deal with Covid impact, finds research

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Workforce Insights

Asylum-seeking children: ‘Here you feel people care’

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Workforce

Four in ten social workers anticipate quitting profession within five years on back of high stress and caseloads

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Children

Teachers to be embedded within children’s social work teams in new What Works trial

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Children, Social work leaders

Revised social work evidence template consulted on following concerns over use in urgent cases

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Children, Coronavirus

Government confirms most lapsed children in care duties will be restored, before latest legal hearing

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Workforce

How social work’s ’50th birthday’ illustrates importance of practitioners shaping the profession

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social work registration period opens with just over one-fifth having completed CPD requirement

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asylum

Children, Social work leaders

Councils may be mandated to share responsibility for unaccompanied children

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Workforce

Pay deal agreed for council social workers

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The Royal Courts of Justice

Children, Coronavirus

Bid to scrap removal of children in care duties goes to Court of Appeal

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Hospital discharge meeting

Adults, Coronavirus, Social work leaders

Continuing healthcare assessments resume following Covid suspension with backlog of 25,000 to clear

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Sign up for free learning on anti-racism, Covid, trauma and more at Community Care Virtually Live

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Children, Workforce

‘Culture of fear’ in children’s services where leaders unilaterally overrode practice decisions, finds probe

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Children

Trial testing impact of school social workers on referral volumes extended to 21 areas

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Children

Sexual abuse of South Asian children: what social workers need to know

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