Tag Archives | Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Support worker comforting teenager in an office

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Children’s home staff paid over 20% more by councils than private sector, research reveals

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Social worker reassuring a young person

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Mental healthcare for looked-after children ‘inadequate and unevidenced’, warn experts

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Ray Jones holding a copy of his review of children's social care in Northern Ireland

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Ray Jones: a critique of the DfE’s children’s social work reforms

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Rise in secure children’s home placement numbers following long decline

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Social worker with two young children

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Family support spending recovers following years of stagnation, data shows

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Legislation, Office Binder on Wooden Desk. On the table colored pencils, pen, notebook paper

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Corporate parenting duty to be placed on government departments and public bodies

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‘Substantial work’ needed to improve family group conference data, study finds

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Record numbers of children’s social workers in post but fewer holding cases, figures reveal

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Social work team discussing a case

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DfE to quiz councils on balance of social workers and other practitioners in family help teams

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Katharine Sacks-Jones, chief executive of the children's charity Become,

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‘How the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill can be improved for care-experienced young people’

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MPs back plan to regulate agency staff use in children’s services

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Social worker talking to father and upset daughter

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Safeguarding reforms at risk from shortage of home education staff, warns ADCS head

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Bridget Phillipson standing in front of a union fla

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Children’s social care reform bill clears first parliamentary hurdle

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The Houses of Parliament in London

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The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill explained

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Agencies to be required to set up multi-agency child protection teams, under social care reform bill

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Rachel de Souza

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

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