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Children, Social work leaders

40% of family support staff have personal experience of domestic abuse, finds survey

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

DoLS: older people routinely having rights breached because of failure to tackle ‘huge’ backlog, warns charity

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Fitness to practise delays set to rise further due to Social Work England budget pressures

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils urged to test social work early career framework

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Social work leaders, Workforce

‘I believe in the value of social work’: launch editor looks back as Community Care turns 50

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Jeremy Hunt

Children, Social work leaders

Budget: Hunt finds £165m for children’s homes as part of public sector productivity drive

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Rachel de Souza

Children, Social work leaders

Postcode lottery in child in need support uncovered by Children’s Commissioner

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

One in nine councils granted emergency support to balance books

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils employing record number of children’s social workers on back of 25% recruitment boost

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Use of agency social workers up 25% year on year in adults’ services

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Four in five apprentices gained social work qualification in first cohort, figures show

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Children, Social work leaders

Pre-court social worker-guardian meetings have potential to improve care proceedings, finds study

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Mounting demand for AMHPs and unmet need masked by fall in number of detentions, say leads

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s practitioners face duty to report sexual abuse

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social worker changes undermined engagement with children later convicted of violent crimes – review

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