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Choose Social Work, Workforce

To my practice educator: ‘You helped me build resilience during challenging times’

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social work in the 2000s: New Labour’s focus on performance management

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Not the role of social work courses to train students in specialist practice areas, say academic leaders

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Adults, Social work leaders

60% of community social care services have no or ‘outdated’ performance rating, analysis finds

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Adults, Workforce

‘Our clients were invisible until our team came into being’: leading a service supporting homeless people

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Workforce

UNISON opens strike ballot over local government pay offer

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Children, Social work leaders

Response to neglect ‘slow and inadequate’ due to high thresholds and lack of services, finds NSPCC

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Workforce

Podcast: do we need more men in social work?

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Workforce

How much does online misinformation affect social workers?

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Children, Social work leaders

Ofsted to scrap single-word judgments of social care services

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Adults, Children

£2.3bn boost to social care spending in 2023-24

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Workforce

Over half of councils signed up to scheme to tackle social care workforce race inequalities

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Workforce

Social work registration renewal period opens in England

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Adults, Children

Half of Rape Crisis services expect to make cuts, despite growing demand from children’s social care

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Workforce

Social worker numbers increase in Scottish councils

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Workforce

Social Work England to employ AMHPs and BIAs to inspect training courses

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