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Jacky Tiotto, chief executive, Cafcass

Children, Social work leaders

Cafcass issues new domestic abuse policy to tackle practice shortfalls

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Children, Social work leaders

Care leavers exempted from local connection requirement to access social housing

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Children, Workforce

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

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Portrait of Sad Crying Woman being Harrased and Bullied by Her Partner. Couple Arguing and Fighting Violently. Domestic Violence and Emotional Abuse. Rack Focus with Boyfriend Screaming in Background

Adults, Inform Adults

Coercive and controlling behaviour: tips for social care practitioners on supporting victims

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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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Adults, Children, Workforce

Not the role of social work courses to train students in specialist practice areas, say academic leaders

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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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Community Care

Working with perpetrators of domestic abuse: training social workers to have challenging conversations

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Overworked and frustrated young business woman in front of computer in office

Children, Social work leaders

40% of family support staff have personal experience of domestic abuse, finds survey

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Adults, Children

‘State of crisis’ for domestic abuse services because of cuts, warns commissioner

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Wall collage made by mothers at Jasmine Mother's Recovery Centre, including images of mothers and children, the words 'drug free', 'hard work' and 'safe place for kids;

Adults, Children, Inform Children

‘We’re not bad mums’: inside the rehab centre giving women a chance to keep their children

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Children, Social work leaders

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

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Children

Do social workers hold mothers entirely responsible for their children’s safety?

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Children

‘We must stop blaming mothers in child protection social work’

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