Social work leaders

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Children, Social work leaders

Multiple and complex needs found in backgrounds of children deprived of liberty

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils able to recruit overseas social workers through £15m fund

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Adults, Social work leaders

CQC checks on council adult services still set for April 2023 start

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE pledges action on ‘excessive’ workload pressures for children’s social workers

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Adults, Social work leaders

More people face paying for care as means-test threshold is frozen for 13th year

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Adults, Social work leaders

Councils to face targets in return for adult social care funding

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Adults, Social work leaders

Cost of care analyses show councils lack funding to pay providers fair price, warn directors

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE backs early career framework but rejects national pay scales for children’s social workers

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE care review response: key points

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Agency social worker pay to be capped to that of permanent staff

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Care review lead Josh MacAlister

Children, Social work leaders

Care review lead: government must go further and faster in response

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE provides 15% of funding urged by care review in response

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection social workers to be piloted in DfE care review response

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Social Work England finds broad support for proposed expectations of new graduates

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Unions seek 12.7% pay rise for council social workers

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Children, Social work leaders

Children are in ‘extreme crisis’: top judge berates DfE’s six-year failure to tackle ‘gross’ lack of secure units

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