Tag Archives | child protection

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
Specialist child protection role poses workforce challenge for test-bed authorities

Child protection enquiry total hits new annual high but proportion finding abuse continues to shrink

Probation service failing to carry out necessary child protection and domestic abuse checks, finds inspectorate

Practitioners ‘will not get into trouble’ for sharing information to protect children, says data watchdog

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
Councils selected to test specialist child protection social worker role

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
Ofsted and BASW raise safeguarding concerns over allowing non-social workers to hold child in need cases

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce
How social workers’ roles would change under Working Together overhaul

Children, Choose Social Work, Social work leaders, Workforce
Sharon Shoesmith: how social workers can get their professional pride back
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