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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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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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Children, Social work leaders

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

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Children

Guidance on LADO role to be issued for consultation in 2025

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Children, Social work leaders

Agencies not equipped to protect children from sexual abuse in family, find safeguarding leaders

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Crackdown on excessive profits’ pledged as government unveils children’s social care reforms

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Children, Workforce

Lessons from two decades analysing serious case reviews

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Children, Social work leaders

Social work practice changes urged to promote direct contact between adopted children and birth families

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care case numbers fell last year, show official figures

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘A spokesperson for social work’: Ray Jones’s 50-year career in the sector

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Children, Workforce

Social workers don’t feel supported to work with fathers, poll finds

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Children, Social work leaders

Inspectors to probe agencies’ response to child victims of domestic abuse

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Children, Workforce

‘Social work, domestic abuse and coercive control: do we know what is going on and why?’

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Children, Social work leaders

Response to neglect ‘slow and inadequate’ due to high thresholds and lack of services, finds NSPCC

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Children

The Sensory Narrative: a poem on the cases that leave a mark

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