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    Children, Social work leaders

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

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    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

    The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill explained

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    Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

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

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Government to create new type of accommodation for children at risk of deprivation of liberty

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    ‘Chronic’ DoLS backlogs leaving many without human rights protections, warns CQC

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Care proceedings delays reduce but 26-week target still missed in most cases

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    DoLS referral numbers hit new record but practitioners cut backlog and average case timeframes

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    Children, Workforce

    ‘A vocation, full of the best moments and some of the saddest’: a retiring children’s home manager looks back

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    Adults

    Deprivation of liberty court application numbers hit record high

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    Adults, Social work leaders

    How prioritisation tool can help councils tackle their DoLS backlogs

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    Adults, Children

    Master the Mental Capacity Act with the help of leading legal experts

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    Adults, Children, Social work leaders

    Deprivation of liberty: the legacy of Cheshire West, 10 years on

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    Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

    DoLS: older people routinely having rights breached because of failure to tackle ‘huge’ backlog, warns charity

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Ethnic disparities in care proceedings: what the data says

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    Adults, Children

    Mastering the Mental Capacity Act

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    Children, Social work leaders

    Courts to stop monitoring regulation of unregistered placements for children deprived of liberty

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