Social work leaders

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care reform bill clears first parliamentary hurdle

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill explained

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Social work leaders, Workforce

One in three practitioners would recommend social work as a career, finds regulator

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Baroness (Louise) Casey

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Commission on adult social care reform announced by government

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Social work leaders recognised in 2025 New Year Honours

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Extra £200m for social care in council settlement ‘wholly inadequate’, warn sector heads

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Agencies to be required to set up multi-agency child protection teams, under social care reform bill

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Children, Social work leaders

Council to vote on bringing children’s services back in-house

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Children, Social work leaders

Practitioners struggling to respond to extrafamilial harm to children, finds analysis of serious cases

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Sara Sharif

Children, Social work leaders

Sara Sharif case review begins after father and stepmother convicted of murder

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Families first for children’ model to be rolled out to all councils, says chief social worker

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Social work leaders, Workforce

97% of social workers retain right to practise following latest registration renewal round

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Adults, Social work leaders

AMHPs voice safety concerns over police withdrawal from mental health incidents

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Adults, Social work leaders

£1bn boost to adult social care funding ‘not enough to cover costs’, warn leaders

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Jahnine Davis

Children, Social work leaders

Case reviews ‘silent’ on racial bias in child protection decision making

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Children, Social work leaders

Sevenfold increase in number of children placed in unregistered homes over past three years

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