Tag Archives | children in need

Rachel de Souza

Children, Social work leaders

‘Impossible’ to assess effectiveness of child in need plans, warns watchdog

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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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Teenager looking upset

Children

One in ten children known to social care missing half of school time, reveals DfE data

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Rachel de Souza

Children, Social work leaders

Postcode lottery in child in need support uncovered by Children’s Commissioner

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social work caseloads growing increasingly complex, research finds

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Social worker doing direct work with child

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Child in need cases opened up to non-social work staff despite risk concerns

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Social worker making notes

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection role poses workforce challenge for test-bed authorities

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investigations

Children, Social work leaders

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

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Social worker making notes

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils selected to test specialist child protection social worker role

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Social worker doing direct work with child

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Ofsted and BASW raise safeguarding concerns over allowing non-social workers to hold child in need cases

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

How social workers’ roles would change under Working Together overhaul

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immigrant child

Children, Social work leaders

Councils unable to safeguard children subject to immigration control, finds study

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Children, Social work leaders

Child protection enquiries reach record levels, reveal official figures

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