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Children

‘Advocates and independent visitors made me feel listened to – but too many children in care lack this’

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Claire Coutinho

Children, Social work leaders

Care review response delayed until 2023

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ADCS president Steve Crocker

Children, Social work leaders

DfE working on plan to restrict use of agency social workers, says ADCS president

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Claire Coutinho

Children, Social work leaders

Fourth minister for children’s social care of 2022 appointed

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Children, Social work leaders

Child protection enquiries reach record levels, reveal official figures

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Gillian Keegan

Children, Social work leaders

Children’s social care gets fifth cabinet minister of 2022 while facing significant policy shake-up

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Care review lead Josh MacAlister

Children, Social work leaders

MacAlister appointed to co-lead merged evidence body for social care and early intervention

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Liz Truss outside Downing Street

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Liz Truss appoints cabinet ministers for social care

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Care review lead Josh MacAlister

Children, Social work leaders

DfE appoints MacAlister to advise on care review implementation

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Brendan Clarke-Smith

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Minister: ‘national scandal that social workers are overlooked for doing jobs so well’

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Children, Social work leaders

Remove IROs from councils, urge half of Community Care readers

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Children

Staffing pressures limiting children’s homes’ ability to respond to rising council demand, finds study

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Children, Social work leaders

Lower caseloads – not expert units or staff – best way to improve safeguarding, say social workers

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Children, Social work leaders

Should the IRO role be abolished?

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Care review proposal that all social workers do 100 hours’ practice a year labelled ‘out of touch’

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Children, Social work leaders

Regional care commissioning ‘risks greater costs, bureaucracy and remote decision making’

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