Tag Archives | social work caseloads
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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
Legislate to limit social workers’ caseloads, Senedd members tell Welsh Government
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Social work leaders, Workforce
Staff-to-service-user ratios ‘not safe’ in UK social work, say two-thirds of practitioners
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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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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
DfE pledges action on ‘excessive’ workload pressures for children’s social workers
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Case management system and heavy workloads hindering county’s ‘skilled’ social workers, Ofsted finds
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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
Over 40% of social work staff have faced abuse from public this year, finds survey
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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
Caseload limits proposed to ease burnout and support effective social work
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Council to keep children’s services for now as commissioner rules trust transfer risks ‘further deterioration’
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