Social work leaders

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Children, Social work leaders

Can systemic practice improve how early help staff support families?

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Adult social worker numbers hit record high on back of funding rise

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Children, Social work leaders

How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

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Adults, Social work leaders

More people face self-funding care as means-testing thresholds frozen for 14th consecutive year

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Elaine James, with her social justice advocate award at the 2023 Social Worker of the Year Awards ceremony

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

The social worker advocating for people with learning disabilities

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Beverley Barnett-Jones

Children, Social work leaders

Ethnic disparities in care proceedings: what the data says

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Supporting early career social workers: lessons from Wales

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils to be able to exceed agency social work price caps under planned locum rules

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

400 additional social work apprenticeships on cards as councils invited to bid for £12m fund

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Children, Social work leaders

Leaders must foster professional curiosity and challenge to improve child protection, finds review

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Mental Health Act detention numbers fall for second year but significant racial inequalities persist

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social work caseloads growing increasingly complex, research finds

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Gove finds extra £500m for social care following last-ditch calls to ease council pressures

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Children, Social work leaders

55,000 on waiting lists for child sexual abuse support services, estimates research

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s trust to be disbanded as council takes services back in-house

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Children, Social work leaders

Family reunification hampered by lack of specialist teams, strategy and resources, finds study

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