Tag Archives | Independent Review of Children’s Social Care

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Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care reform delay will prolong ‘crisis’ and increase costs, charities warn

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Children, Social work leaders

Government confirms backing for family help model initiated by Conservatives

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Children, Social work leaders

No new funding for children’s social care reforms in Tory manifesto despite £2.6bn care review bill

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Eileen Munro on the legacy of her child protection review

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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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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 15% 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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