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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Councils selected to test specialist child protection social worker role

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Little known’ about which practice models work best amid ‘huge variation’ in approach – evidence body

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Children, Social work leaders

Are regional care co-operatives the answer to care placement challenge?

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE pledges action on ‘excessive’ workload pressures for children’s social workers

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE backs early career framework but rejects national pay scales for children’s social workers

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

DfE care review response: key points

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Agency social worker pay to be capped to that of permanent staff

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Children, Workforce

Independent reviewing officer role saved in DfE care review response

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Care review lead Josh MacAlister

Children, Social work leaders

Care review lead: government must go further and faster in response

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE provides 20% of funding urged by care review in response

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection social workers to be piloted in DfE care review response

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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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ADCS president Steve Crocker

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Care review response will start to address mounting social work pressures, says ADCS president

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Fivefold rise in number of social workers hired through agency teams in past year, report directors

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

One in five children’s social work posts vacant in wake of rising stress and workloads, finds research

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Children, Social work leaders

Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board to close this month

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