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Children, Social work leaders

Cafcass starts prioritising London private law cases to ‘maintain safe workloads for social workers’

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Children, Social work leaders

Children more likely to be reunified when parents are referred to family drug and alcohol courts – research

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Positive signs’ on reducing number and length of care proceedings, says family court head

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Adults, Children

‘Substituted parenting’ risk used to justify removing children without evidence base, finds study

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Children, Workforce

Cafcass pay deal subject to 5% government ceiling

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: regulation of care leaver accommodation and legal action over children in hotels

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Senior practitioner loses bid to keep court judgment that he abused ex-partner from Social Work England

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Children, Social work leaders

Multiple and complex needs found in backgrounds of children deprived of liberty

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Children, Social work leaders

Children are in ‘extreme crisis’: top judge berates DfE’s six-year failure to tackle ‘gross’ lack of secure units

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Cafcass ‘imposes’ 2.5% pay deal on staff without agreement, say unions

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Children, Workforce

Cafcass staff overwhelmingly reject 2.5% pay offer but government says no scope for improved deal

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Children, Social work leaders

Target needed to cut length of care proceedings with durations far in excess of 26-week legal limit – peers

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Children, Social work leaders

Supervision orders face overhaul to improve effectiveness in supporting family reunification

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Children, Workforce

Cafcass staff offered ‘insulting’ 2.5% pay rise with inflation at 11%

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Cafcass staff may be balloted on industrial action amid absence of pay offer, says union boss

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Children, Social work leaders

Almost 250 deprivation of liberty applications for children in first two months of national DoLs court

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