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Social work leaders, Workforce

PSWs urge social workers to ‘let go of frustrations’ over regulator’s decision to not check CPD sample

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Social workers on strike in Barnet

Adults, Workforce

Legacy of a social work strike: ‘We walked out for 81 days and the service is as unsafe as it was before’

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Nurturing management key to building NQSW confidence, say social workers

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Children, Inform Children

Understanding online child sexual exploitation

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

New directors’ training programme extended to help tackle DCS turnover

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Workforce

Quarter of social workers in Wales experiencing financial difficulties, finds survey

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Children, Social work leaders

Cafcass issues new domestic abuse policy to tackle practice shortfalls

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Adults, Inform Adults

Learning hub on supporting people with executive dysfunction launched

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Adults, Workforce

Labour ‘just another government failing social care’, say social workers

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Adults, Children

Review of carer’s allowance overpayments announced

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Assessors’ lack of social work experience among criticisms of CQC council checks in damning review

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Workforce

Social work in the 2010s: surviving a decade of austerity

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Social worker with kinship carer or adoptive parent and child

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils handed guide to what works in supporting kinship families

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Adults, Workforce

Fall in number of personal assistants ‘a significant concern’, warns sector body

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Janet Daby

Children, Social work leaders

Government confirms backing for family help model initiated by Conservatives

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Employment Rights Bill: government to create body to set adult social care pay and conditions

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