Tag Archives | child protection

Social worker making notes in document while talking to mother and child on a sofa

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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Professor Marian Brandon wearing a black wool vest and a blue shirt, smiling at the camera.

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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Social Worker Talking To Mother And Children At Home

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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Woman social worker talking to girl. Child psychology, mental health.

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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A typewriter with a page that has the following words on it: 'The Sensory Narrative by Rosie R.'

Children

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

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Brid Featherstone wearing gray earrings and a gray blazer.

Children

‘We make mothers responsible, but don’t work with men’: Brid Featherstone on child protection

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David Howe smiling in front of a wall of purple flowers

Workforce

‘When I started, we’d be involved with a family for years’: David Howe on four decades in social work

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Children

Should parents have a right to advocacy during child protection cases?

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Social work academic Olive Stevenson

Children, Workforce

‘A true doyen of social work’: the life and influence of Olive Stevenson

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Children, Social work leaders

Project seeks to improve quality of child safeguarding reviews

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