Social work leaders

Prevention plan written in a note pad and documents.

Social work leaders, Workforce

Social Work England bids to tackle systemic causes of fitness to practise issues in new strategy

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Older Man Wearing Extra Clothes With Hot Drink Trying To Keep Warm At Home In Energy Crisis

Social work leaders, Workforce

Social workers seeing increasing poverty and greater need on back of cost of living crisis, finds BASW

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Dr Muzvare Hazviperi Betty Makoni with a group of overseas social workers supported by her organisation, Social Care Empowering Training and Consultancy

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

World Social Work Day: the social workers crossing oceans to practise in the UK

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Rachel de Souza

Children, Social work leaders

Asylum bill passes first hurdle as commissioner issues stark warning over safeguarding of children

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Quarter of those who quit register last year had been on it for less than a year, reveals Social Work England

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Image of Ruth Allen, the Bristish Association of Social Workers chief executive (credit: BASW)

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

BASW urges social workers not to take jobs with Home Office age assessment body

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Jeremy Hunt

Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Hunt’s Budget boosts tax relief for foster and shared lives carers and support for care leavers

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Social work leaders, Workforce

175% rise in number of overseas social workers applying to work in England in past three years

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Young asylum seeker

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care bodies unite against asylum bill that ‘profoundly undermines Children Act’

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Unidentified young demostrator with megaphone and notebook protesting against austerity cuts

Social work leaders, Workforce

Unions threaten strike action over councils’ £1,925 pay offer

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Teenage girl in care

Children, Social work leaders

Councils referring more children from residential to foster care, report agencies

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Readers’ Take: should DCSs come primarily from a social care background?

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Image of book marked 'family court' and judge's gavel (credit: Vitalii Vodolazskyi / Adobe Stock)

Social work leaders, Workforce

Senior practitioner loses bid to keep court judgment that he abused ex-partner from Social Work England

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Jigsaw puzzle showing supply demand gap

Adults, Social work leaders

Rationing, not strengths-based practice, likely to explain fall in numbers receiving care, finds study

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

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Adults, Social work leaders

Government tells CQC to rate councils on adult social care performance

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