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Children, Workforce

Improvements at ‘inadequate’ council mean no children left at risk of harm as full reinspection looms

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Children

Council’s ‘unacceptable’ caseloads damaging quality of social work with families, Ofsted warns

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social work recruitment difficulties undermining practice at struggling council

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Quality of social workers ‘higher than ever’, says ADCS president

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Children, Workforce

‘I’ve had two heart attacks from the pressure to keep children safe’

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Caseloads bigger, more complex and harder to manage, say children’s social workers

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Workforce

Most social workers happy in role despite unpaid overtime, cuts and Covid mental health toll

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Children, Workforce

Children’s social workers: how big is your caseload?

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Acute’ social work staffing issues and ‘relentless’ workloads slow progress at new unitary authority

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Children, Social work leaders

Needs of children ‘secondary’ to parents’ in some cases, Ofsted finds during council visit

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Council improves to ‘good’ after increasing social worker numbers to cut caseloads

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Coronavirus, Workforce

Two-thirds of social workers experiencing deteriorating mental health because of work, finds survey

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Coronavirus, Social work leaders, Workforce

Omicron infections in wider workforce ‘adding pressure’ to ‘exhausted’ social workers

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Significant’ cut in social worker caseloads helps council rise to ‘good’

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Children, Social work leaders

DCS resigns as council with ‘significantly under-resourced’ social workers falls to ‘inadequate’

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Children, Social work leaders

Social workers ‘overwhelmed’ as practice deteriorates at council

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